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Listed below are comments made by jacksonchris between Saturday, 8th March 2008 and Monday, 27th April 2009.

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Time to bring back children's homes? 4:51pm on 27 Apr 2009 There is plenty of evidence that if you train and then provide good support to foster carers to look after teenagers in particular and you fund them appropriately, that it is far better for the teenagers to be in a foster home as opposed to a Children's home. It is also more cost effective. Foster carers will fight for the kids to get the best support.

What is truly awful is that young kids, some only 7 or 8 years old, are being placed into children's homes with older teenagers with really difficult behaviour. These homes are then poorly staffed (in terms of staffing levels) so these young ones can end up being neglected if a situation arises which means one of the older ones needs constant monitoring. Institutions cannot parent.

Does no one recall the 12 year old who disappeared from a children's home in Wigan and then came to light on a British Airways flight from Heathrow? Had he been missed?

To be honest, if I had a magic wand, I would close all of the children's homes down as they do not meet children's needs in an acceptable way.
Children in detention at Yarl's Wood 4:37pm on 27 Apr 2009 What is really depressing is that this situation has been going on for several years. I am particularly disgusted that health care and particularly access to medication is so poor. I believe in 2008 a number of MPs signed an early day motion to protest at this.

Families with young children make very soft targets for immigration officers. They are easy to find as they don't tend to move very often. It's an easy way to boost their statistics. I cannot imagine how frightening this experience must be for the families and for the children.

I thought that we had a national strategy called 'Every Child Matters'?
Men who face domestic abuse 12:52pm on 11 Feb 2009 These new statistics don't surprise me at all. However whenever I've tried to challenge the stereotype of women being the victims of domestic abuse only, I get told that 95% of domestic abuse is male on female. I have worked for 2 men who have been affected by this and both were stabbed by their partners. Both men would never have dreamed of raising a hand to their wives, they were gentle giants. I hope that their awful experiences will now be taken seriously. How would a man feel about approaching Women's Aid, I know they would be very sympathetic but it does epitomise how we see women as the victims in this. As a woman, I find it shaming that the Zero Tolerance campaign didn't address the issue of men affected by domestic violence. Domestic violence happens in all sorts of relationships, including between siblings. We need to look at how we address this issue in many more contexts than we do at present.
White Girl 11:08pm on 08 Mar 2008 I also recall the documentary, what stuck in my mind was the fact that the boys hadn't settled well in the area and that the girls were extremely happy there. It was also clear that the oldest girl was genuinely interested in Islam and got a lot from her faith. I remember thinking that for the youngest girl it was a social event and she enjoyed dressing up but clearly thoroughly enjoyed going to the children's classes at the mosque. I'm saddened that because of the times we now live in, that the TV play appears to see this ending in tragedy, after all, White British Muslims do exist! I'd be interested to know how the family in the documentary are doing now, in particular
whether the boys are happier with their situation.

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