C C Smale Family Lawyer

At the fag end of the previous government the former Department of Children Schools and Families were publishing guidance at a rate of fifty or sixty publications per  month – thousands of pages each month at the cost of millions of pounds.

Separately, the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was set up. This required over 11 million people to register their fitness to work with children or vulnerable adults.

One justification of the ISA is that if it saved one child from abuse it would be worth it. The “if” is quite a a big “if”. You could provide thousands of mosquito nets at five pounds a time to save many children from death from Malaria. Far less cost than the cost of the ISA which would doubtfully save one child.

We are obsessed in this country by paedophilia and too little concerned with thinking objectively. This is the reason I like Lenore Skenazy’s Free Range Kids website.

There is going to be a massive cut in government spending.

I  think that we have to dismantle the whole idea that normal life is a threat to children’s safety. No! Forcing children away from normal life is the reason they cannot keep themselves safe, they suffer from health problems, emotional problems and failure to cope.