Another terrible case of child cruelty was reported in the newspaper today. A child had been starved to death by her parents. There were, as usual, social work 'failures' in the case. No doubt someone will soon say that lessons have been learned. The trouble is, they won't be learned. After a few months the lessons will be forgotten.
You see, we are in a recession. There must be spending cuts and cost cutting. So there won't be the money for adequate staffing of social work departments. So the same mistakes will happen again.
How did this recession start? Oh, yes, it was the bankers. And what's happened to them? Let me see, according to recent reports they are distributing bonuses to themselves worth billions of pounds.
What we all can't understand is, why isn't that money being ploughed back to the government? Then, just maybe, 'lessons learned' today will be remembered tomorrow.
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