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UK to give up child rights opt-outs 00:17am on 24 Sep 2008 "Yes. They claim to have come from countries where they claim they feared for their lives, so you would think they would regard this as a minor inconvenience, but no..."

Hours without food for a 4 month old baby is not a minor inconvenience.
UK to give up child rights opt-outs 02:05am on 23 Sep 2008 If I can indulge the blog audience once more in the small hours tonight, I'd like to add a link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7575681.stm
Check the dates of the 'see also' links on the right. It is horribly both shocking and unsurprising how long this situation has been allowed to continue.
Map of the week: Economically inactive - other 02:01am on 23 Sep 2008 #22 hear hear!

I'm in favour of paying the parent(s)-in-residence a set amount a month, the same per child for everyone like a larger Child Benefit. The parents then get to use it on nurseries if they wish to, or not. And this could continue right the way through childhood giving parents genuine choice in educational provision too.

Let's allow parents to be parents, their way. Not the one-size-fits-all Government way.
UK to give up child rights opt-outs 01:47am on 23 Sep 2008 #43 Why do children have more rights than adults?

Uhm because on the whole they have less power than adults, and therefore if they are to be defended from those who would wish to wield such power over them, they need rights enshrined in law that the relevant authorities can refer to in order to maintain the child's welfare when those who should be doing that anyway, aren't.

That's not to say that I believe, like the current government appear to (an article on the consultation document for statutory guidance on children at risk of not receiving a suitable education, and one on the issue of statutory guidance in general, if such articles don't already exist) that parents and guardians are guilty of incompetence, neglect and abuse until proven innocent, far from it.
UK to give up child rights opt-outs 01:38am on 23 Sep 2008 Oh for goodness sake. This article is about *children.* BABIES. Babies and young children left for hours and hours without food and medications because Yarls Wood doesn't have the facilities and the staff to cater for their needs.

Not to mention the fact that these people have come here and worked, mostly in jobs that British people have turned their noses up at, and earned and gathered possessions and found homes and then they're swooped on, which should be illegal anyway, they're not allowed to take more than a bagful with them and they're detained for so long that their house is no longer their's and anything in it is basically looted by the local authority.

THAT is the criminal matter.

The ignorance and NIMBY-ism shown here makes me ashamed to be British. Will someone please tell me which country is founded on a basis of generally being nice to each other? Because I'm sick of living somewhere where people are so unpleasant on a vast scale, I want to move there, and if I find it I'll gladly leave my house for the family of Baby C and others like them. If societies are judged by how they treat children, then Britains should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
London bans plastic water bottles 11:29pm on 31 Aug 2008 how is a cistern 'by definition' open to the atmosphere? my toilet cisterns aren't
London bans plastic water bottles 01:23am on 29 Aug 2008 Oh and also, yes our water up here in the Pennines is really nice, but I prefer it with the chlorine filtered out...
London bans plastic water bottles 01:22am on 29 Aug 2008 I have 4 children too :-) I chose a long time ago to not contribute to water pollution by continuing to use hormonal contraceptives. (Oh and back when I did they made very little difference to my PMS!) There are two sides to every coin, aren't there?

I do use a mooncup now that ecological, full-term breastfeeding no longer stops my menses (I sell cloth pads too but I'm not here to spam ;-) ) Other options include the 'Jam Sponge' www.jamsponge.co.uk

Totally OT for this blog but I would be much more impressed if every government body, local, regional, whatever, subscribed to the Nestle boycott...
Pop goes my drinks choice 10:09pm on 21 Aug 2008 I had similar thoughts regarding separating waste today while packing up my stall on the local market. In a council-run facility there were no facilities for separating waste at all, it all went in the dumpsters outside. Grim and aggravating.
Toothy grin? 7:40pm on 13 Aug 2008 Idontmuchbut...

I don't like mango ;-)

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