Should The Children Of Islamic Radicals Be Taken Into Care?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571818/Children-Islamist-radicals-care-suggests-Boris-Mayor-London-warns-hundreds-risk-turned-fanatics-extreme-parents.html

One may not particularly like Boris or his politics, but can anyone disagree with him over this?

[emmie]

there are i am pretty sure, many more cases that don't get the air time, or newsprint that those cases have, that the underbelly of life for children can be hard, harsh, abuse, physical, sexual, we see the cases of very young girls being passed around like nothing, used for others fun, vile i know taking children into care must be a difficult thing to balance, but i do think going on some of the social workers i have come across, they are too young, little experience, and that they are left with too many cases, without being properly supervised.

[chrisgel]

Sp1814 - //unless there is clear proof that a child is in danger, social services are loathe to remove a child from its family.//

I wish that were true but unfortunately, possibly as a knee jerk reaction to cases like Baby P, Social Services seem to be all to keen on removing children from their homes at the slightest excuse.

Just google "children removed by social services" for examples.

[sherrardk]

In this small village alone, over the last five or so years, the children from three families have been taken into care (one at birth). It makes me really sad to think how many neglected children are off the radar.

[LazyGun]

I do not know quite how people working in social services find the strength to continue, frankly.

If they err on the side of the parents and family, and leave children possibly "at risk" with their family, on the basis that taking them away is too draconian and does more harm than good, we get cases in the media like Baby P, or Victoria Klimbie.

On the other hand, if they are more rigorous in exercising their authority, deeming the immediate danger to the child a greater threat than leaving them with the family, we get stories of families "being ripped apart" by Social Services,and often you get analogies to SS and Nazis and all of that.

They cannot win, it seems.

As to Boris's suggestion, it sounds perfectly reasonable on the surface - but the question must arise - how do you enforce it? How would you gauge whether a child is indoctrinated or not? Who makes the decision on taking the child away?

Just sounds too woolly and ill-defined to me, and very difficult to enforce.