Child Protection Failures...

Child Protection Failures...
by ~Automutt

Child Protection Failures... by ~Automutt
Literature / Prose / Non-Fiction / Articles & Interviews
©2010 ~Automutt

It is unfortunate that it would seem paedophilia has a
lot to do with religion, sad really, but it would also seem
that repression of individual sexuality instituted brings
about perversion.


Failure of Some Department of Child Protection Offices to uphold Government Mandate (Cabinet Endorsed) and Minister endorsed Mission.

The Outlined Departmental services include;
Supporting individuals and families at risk or in crisis.

Failure of the department and Duty Manager to ascertain risk or crises in context of their families or communities pursuant to Government mandate endorsed by Cabinet and in response to the Ford Review. A further failure of departmental staff and primary representatives to alert the Duty Manager of any previous contact or information in regards to individual cases, whether it be lack of accurate record keeping or communication bottlenecks and breakdowns affecting the overall outcome of individual cases. A failure of the Duty Manager to liaise effectively with departmental staff or other agencies may also be involved in this matter.  

   Mandate (Cabinet endorsed response to the Ford Review)
Secondary and tertiary level services, identifying and supporting children and young people, in the context of their families and communities.

Department for Child Protection Role Clarity White Paper Points of Order
DRAFT 7.4.08
Failure of the department in regards to this below;

An erroneous expectation that other agencies will now assume welfare responsibilities that they have not had transferred to them.

Further more to the core business of the department, a huge failure of the ability to ascertain or investigate properly the reasons for and leading to crises or the intervention of Police or other agencies. The Massive Failure of the established after hours Crises Care Unit to liaise effectively with Police at point of intervention and the department later and further more with the Duty Manager given the role of case management and resolution. These failures are foreseeable as the Duty Manager resolves the case with little or no reason or information for the crises or Police or Crises Care involvement. A failure of the Duty Manager to liaise effectively or at all with interested parties or complainants in regards to the current case before them. Even though these parties may have initiated contact with the department or Police or Crises Care.   

Referral, liaison and consultation, with other agencies and departments in regards to individual cases is lacking from the (Departmental Office) Department and the Duty Manager

Memoranda of Understanding at the local service delivery level are to be established with key services managing issues that impact on departmenal core business. To cover referral, liaison and consultation.

Drug and alcohol services
Mental health services
Department of Housing and Works

Failure of the Duty Manager to ascertain or investigate effectively in a limited communication base of just talking to the referred client of the Crises Care Unit only. Resolutions to cases made without consultation with Police or Interested Parties.

No referral, liaison and consultation, with other agencies and departments in regards to individual cases or follow up, or resolution to the causes of crises. Clients being dumped on the streets of (Departmental Office) with no accommodation or referral or follow up to other departments.


The name of the department being misinterpreted to exclude service 3, individual and family support,

An erroneous expectation that other agencies will now assume welfare responsibilities that they have not had transferred to them,

A further failure in this matter regards the clients mental state and wellbeing. Signs and symptoms of disorder where ignored by the department which has as its role liaison, consultation and referral as its core business practices. Complainants were given no chance to voice their opinions or details regarding these matters, evidence of dealings were not given the hearing needed for assessment regarding the criteria of the government mandate and ministers interaction. That being the interaction or context within family and communities. A failure to ascertain risk or disorder, patterns of disordered behaviour or a lack of insight from the client hinder the effective help that can be offered from the department or staff. Referral to other departments or consultation with professionals was not offered or expressed.  

Failure of the Department at (Departmental Office) and the Duty Manager in their role and procedures are clearly apparent and have been determined in the case now before the Official Complaints Department.


DRB
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Acedia Allover Earth...

For sure as the meek do seek; and as so many by the wayside
Of Acedia I do now speak, and to which I shall never Abide.
For the levels are so astounding as the sorrows of the world
And so many worketh death with the theme of war unfurled.

Negligence in action; bound to the depression and the giving in,
Temptation here from ourselves own inward expressions sowing sin.
Our apathy the bed of our thoughts as we lullaby our own suicides
The vice that stalls the progress as our own deliverance now hides.

DRB


Department for Child Protection
Role Clarity White Paper Points of Order
DRAFT 7.4.08
Mandate (Cabinet endorsed response to the Ford Review)
Secondary and tertiary level services, identifying and supporting children and young people, in the context of their families and communities.

The Department's mission (Minister endorsed)
Provide for the protection and care for children and young people and support at-risk individuals and families in resolving crises.
An erroneous expectation that other agencies will now assume welfare responsibilities that they have not had transferred to them
  Department services
Supporting individuals and families at risk or in crisis.

The Department for Child Protection was created as a result of the Government's response to the Ford Review [PDF, 1mb] (Recommendations [PDF, 58kb]), the independent review of the old Department for Community Development.  
The Department's major focus is on meeting the needs of vulnerable children and families.  It is responsible for protecting and caring for children, and supporting people at risk of crisis.
The Department needs to be clear and appropriately strategic about its role – provider of specific crisis responses, always a responsive collaborator and sometimes leader of broader multi agency strategies.
Memoranda of Understanding at the local service delivery level are to be established with key services managing issues that impact on departmenal core business. To cover referral, liaison and consultation.
Drug and alcohol services
Mental health services
Department of Housing and Works

Department for Child Protection
Role Clarity Paper


Mandate (Cabinet endorsed response to the Ford Review)
Secondary and tertiary level services, identifying and supporting children and young people, in the context of their families and communities.
The Department's mission (Minister endorsed)
Provide for the protection and care for children and young people and support at-risk individuals and families in resolving crises.
Department services
Supporting young people and children in care of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Protecting young people and children from abuse.
Supporting individuals and families at risk or in crisis.


Individual and family support
While the department's responsibility for children in care and child protection services is clear, the individual and family support service has potential to be unclear due to:

The name of the department being misinterpreted to exclude service 3, individual and family support,
An erroneous expectation that other agencies will now assume welfare responsibilities that they have not had transferred to them,

Family support being a strategy to achieve protection of children, and
The reality that the provision of individual and family support can compete for priority with urgent and more forensic child protection services.

Therefore, while the Department has a clear responsibility for individual and family support services, the role will vary with the issue, the other resources that can be engaged and the immediacy of the response that is necessary.
The Department's role may need to be clarified internally and with other agencies in the given circumstances. It will vary between:
Delivering a crisis response to individuals and families,
Providing support to families to prevent more serious risk to children,
Collaborating in a multi-faceted or broader strategy for families and/or communities, or
Leading a multi-faceted or broader strategy.

Acedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acedia (also accidie or accedie, from Latin acidĭa, and this from Greek ἀκηδία, negligence) describes a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. It can lead to a state of being unable to perform one's duties in life. Its spiritual overtones make it related to but distinct from depression.[1] Acedia was originally noted as a problem among monks and other ascetics who maintained a solitary life.


Description

The Oxford Concise Dictionary of the Christian Church [2] defines acedia as "a state of restlessness and inability either to work or to pray". Some see it as the precursor to sloth - one of the seven deadly sins. In his sustained analysis of the vice in Q. 35 of the Second Part (Secunda Secundae) of his book Summa Theologica, theologian Thomas Aquinas identifies acedia with "the sorrow of the world" (compare Weltschmerz) that "worketh death" and contrasts it with that sorrow "according to God" described by St. Paul in 2 Cor. 7:10. For Aquinas, acedia is "sorrow about spiritual good in as much as it is a Divine good." It becomes a mortal sin when reason consents to man's "flight" (fugam) from the Divine good, "on account of the flesh utterly prevailing over the spirit." (ST, II-II, 35, 3). Acedia is essentially a flight from the world. It leads to not caring even that one does not care. The ultimate expression of this is a despair that ends in suicide.

Aquinas's teaching on acedia in Q. 35 is rendered fully intelligible when read in light of his prior teaching on that to which the vice is directly opposed, charity's gifted "spiritual joy," which he explores in Q. 28 of the Secunda Secundae . As Aquinas says, "One opposite is known through the other, as darkness through light. Hence also what evil is must be known from the nature of good." (ST, I, 48, 1). The demon of acedia holds an important place in early monastic demonology and psychology. Evagrius of Pontus, for example, characterizes it as "the most troublesome of all" of the eight genera of evil thoughts. As with those who followed him, Evagrius sees acedia as a temptation, and the great danger lies in giving in to it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia