Child Protection Professionals Too Posh to Protect
Heather Payne is a paediatrician who pens quite well. The problem with Heather like all paediatricians involved in child protection is this - we have seen them all being battered down by the anti msbp group. We have seen this anti msbp group implement the necessary ammunition to overturn court verdicts in child protection cases. We have seen this group have a negative UK wide effect on child protection cases. The domino effect is the current situation - a child protection emergency. Yet, the paediatricians do not speak for the children, they do not speak for their protection and neither do they speak to educate the public regarding their work. Many of them spend their time wallowing in their own medical hovel, self congratulating themselves and engaging in polite debate. This is of course why Heather is writing on the BMJ. Had she been braver, she would have publicly blogged about the issues, raised the media interest on the subject and reached people in the UK. Heather though won't because Heather like many others prefers to stay in her safety zone.
In short for a decade, Heather Payne and her colleagues have sat and debated. They have not mounted a media onslaught to correct the misinformation regarding child protection. They have not told the world what a horrific situation child abuse is. They have not provided the world with the reality of child abuse. Now, Child P has. It has provided the graphic imagery of the reality of child abuse. They want to remain blameless for the current situation. They aren't blameless at all. The pattern for child protection professionals is polite debate but very little in the way of effective campaigning action.
The issue has deflected back on the work of the professional where there has to be "enough evidence" to ensure they are 100 percent right. By then, the child maybe dead.
It is of course a myth within the older child protection professionals - that being in the BMJ means that the world reads it. Of course, the world doesn't. Only the professionals read it, a few interested parties read it and thats that. In the decade or more where these doctors have written polite articles and debated about how unfair the system is, none have achieved the protection of children by changing the system flaws. This is because as people they are frail, they are weak and they are concerned for their livelihoods. This is a normal reaction to the onslaught against them. As Dr Nigel Speight once said " Safety in Numbers". Personally, I am not interested about how flawed/imperfect doctors are and how no doctor can get it 100 percent right. That isn't the issue here. The issue is a far broader and wider one. It is about a failing system. This is a system they have done nothing about - save for writing very polite debates. Then we know since the days of Harvey Marcovitch, they have always written polite debates. That is why they have got themselves into this proverbial mess.
Child P shows the catastrophic failure of child protection professionals to educate the media, to educate the public and finally to protect children - not by their work - but by other means. I hate saying this but if Penny Mellor were to divert her energies to protect children, she would achieve more than the group PACA in a fraction of the time. Sadly, her enormous ability and energies have been harnessed by the Scientologists to carry out their work against child protection. We ask ourselves why is child protection in such a dire emergency in the UK? The concept of Scientology infiltration has escaped most people but in time the issue will be of interest. Child P is just the first child to die, there will be more because the problem is much more serious than the media would have us believe.
It is a sad fact of life that the child protection doctors are far more interested in flaunting their own sufferings rather than provide a dynamic and effective means of protecting children ie by effecting change through publicity. They have never been able to defeat the anti child protection campaigners and they have never been able to protect children. That is the true extent of their failings because each has been too fearful to challenge the system or to improve it. They have allowed themselves to be demonised. They have failed to convince the public of the importance or seriousness of the work they do. Essentially, Child P's death can be blamed on many people - essentially it has to be blamed on an unaccountable system and an ineffective medical profession. A profession that has done nothing for the legions of human rights abuses that occur UK wide. A profession that considers the safety of their own life to be far more important than that of abused children. And that is what it really comes down to.
So, we are now in for another decade of debate. This time, they can develop their BMJblogs and ensure all their child protection friends post comment. In the end, the public don't know about Heather Payne nor do they know the work of a child protection doctor. This is why no one is listening to them because they don't shout and scream like Penny Mellor does. They don't demand to be listened to.
Child protection for them is now a polite debate held in polite company. Child abuse is a dirty crime with no current protection. Polite debate is no defence against a dirty crime.
The man who did protect children has deserted the shores of England and headed for Africa. That man is David Southall. His talk to the Royal College of Paediatricians has never seen the light of day. The public again have never seen the reality of child abuse and the catastrophic system failure. David Southall has deserted everyone - particularly those children who have no voice and the ones he worked so hard to protect in the past. He has already lost because he never stood by those who needed him most when it counted. No matter what victories may be in his path, the real battle was always lost.
This is why the situation has not moved forward. For the child protection professionals, it is more comfortable for them to remain in their safety zone in fear of the GMC and provide polite debate like the flies on the child protection wall.
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In short for a decade, Heather Payne and her colleagues have sat and debated. They have not mounted a media onslaught to correct the misinformation regarding child protection. They have not told the world what a horrific situation child abuse is. They have not provided the world with the reality of child abuse. Now, Child P has. It has provided the graphic imagery of the reality of child abuse. They want to remain blameless for the current situation. They aren't blameless at all. The pattern for child protection professionals is polite debate but very little in the way of effective campaigning action.
The issue has deflected back on the work of the professional where there has to be "enough evidence" to ensure they are 100 percent right. By then, the child maybe dead.
It is of course a myth within the older child protection professionals - that being in the BMJ means that the world reads it. Of course, the world doesn't. Only the professionals read it, a few interested parties read it and thats that. In the decade or more where these doctors have written polite articles and debated about how unfair the system is, none have achieved the protection of children by changing the system flaws. This is because as people they are frail, they are weak and they are concerned for their livelihoods. This is a normal reaction to the onslaught against them. As Dr Nigel Speight once said " Safety in Numbers". Personally, I am not interested about how flawed/imperfect doctors are and how no doctor can get it 100 percent right. That isn't the issue here. The issue is a far broader and wider one. It is about a failing system. This is a system they have done nothing about - save for writing very polite debates. Then we know since the days of Harvey Marcovitch, they have always written polite debates. That is why they have got themselves into this proverbial mess.
Child P shows the catastrophic failure of child protection professionals to educate the media, to educate the public and finally to protect children - not by their work - but by other means. I hate saying this but if Penny Mellor were to divert her energies to protect children, she would achieve more than the group PACA in a fraction of the time. Sadly, her enormous ability and energies have been harnessed by the Scientologists to carry out their work against child protection. We ask ourselves why is child protection in such a dire emergency in the UK? The concept of Scientology infiltration has escaped most people but in time the issue will be of interest. Child P is just the first child to die, there will be more because the problem is much more serious than the media would have us believe.
It is a sad fact of life that the child protection doctors are far more interested in flaunting their own sufferings rather than provide a dynamic and effective means of protecting children ie by effecting change through publicity. They have never been able to defeat the anti child protection campaigners and they have never been able to protect children. That is the true extent of their failings because each has been too fearful to challenge the system or to improve it. They have allowed themselves to be demonised. They have failed to convince the public of the importance or seriousness of the work they do. Essentially, Child P's death can be blamed on many people - essentially it has to be blamed on an unaccountable system and an ineffective medical profession. A profession that has done nothing for the legions of human rights abuses that occur UK wide. A profession that considers the safety of their own life to be far more important than that of abused children. And that is what it really comes down to.
So, we are now in for another decade of debate. This time, they can develop their BMJblogs and ensure all their child protection friends post comment. In the end, the public don't know about Heather Payne nor do they know the work of a child protection doctor. This is why no one is listening to them because they don't shout and scream like Penny Mellor does. They don't demand to be listened to.
Child protection for them is now a polite debate held in polite company. Child abuse is a dirty crime with no current protection. Polite debate is no defence against a dirty crime.
The man who did protect children has deserted the shores of England and headed for Africa. That man is David Southall. His talk to the Royal College of Paediatricians has never seen the light of day. The public again have never seen the reality of child abuse and the catastrophic system failure. David Southall has deserted everyone - particularly those children who have no voice and the ones he worked so hard to protect in the past. He has already lost because he never stood by those who needed him most when it counted. No matter what victories may be in his path, the real battle was always lost.
This is why the situation has not moved forward. For the child protection professionals, it is more comfortable for them to remain in their safety zone in fear of the GMC and provide polite debate like the flies on the child protection wall.
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Onmedica - Child P
Jigsaw of Child Protection.
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