rights over children's needs
The gothic abuse endured by children in the Western Isles of Scotland was known, could have been prevented, and yet was inevitable. This paradox is not to do with those particular children or that particular place; it is everything to do with the politics of child protection, and the protracted denigration and disempowerment of professionals.
Not that you'd know it from the way the Social Work Inspection Agency report into the Western Isles (An inspection into the care and protection of children in Eilean Star) has been covered in the press, which has encouraged a sense that this was just another Orkney, just another weird child abuse controversy, with innocent, wronged parents, and children kidnapped by the state. A failed prosectution led people to think there was no problem, no crime, rather than that the investigation itself was the problem.
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