singular_me
9th February 2015, 05:04 AM
not only in the uk but throughout europe.... also reminds of prison Inc in america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeG1ysNLBdk
Published on May 26, 2013
"ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer continues her reporting on the United States foster care system with a new series of reports -- "Generation Meds." Following a year-long investigation, Sawyer and Sharyn Alfonsi uncover a startling reality: many foster children, even as young as one-year olds, are being prescribed powerful mind-altering drugs at alarming rates — up to 13 times higher than that of other children. As part of its investigation ABC News was given a first look at a groundbreaking two-year study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) which finds that the federal government has not done enough to protect America's foster children from being over medicated with these powerful drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52edzID_CwA
PS: 2nd vid just got 6+K hits in almost 2 years, not many seem to care
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Texas CPS underreported 655 children killed under its ‘care’ February 08, 2015
‘Child Protective Services (CPS) in Texas is under serious scrutiny these days as investigative reporters dig deeper into findings that the agency significantly faltered in their duties to help protect and save children.
It’s simple. The job of CPS is to analyze and tend to every single neglect and abuse report it receives.
However, reporters from the Austin American-Statesman have discovered that the majority of some 779 reports were ignored completely.’
Loopholes, lies and unreported cases
It was found that almost half of the children who died were already on CPS's radar, with the agency even having contact with one family 20 times before the child passed away. Just as shocking was the discovery that, for years, over 50 CPS workers have been caught lying to prosecutors, providing false information on state records and ignoring court orders. To make matters worse -- and this is a key problem identified by the reporters -- Texas has not publicly reported several hundred abuse- and neglect-related child deaths every year, despite having an awareness of mistreatment situations prior to their death.(1)
The underreporting and seemingly blase attitude is concerning for Austin American-Stateman reporter Eric Dexheimer, who has been involved in uncovering these details.
"Obviously, we all want the agency... to act as best they can. We want them to do their job more efficiently. We want them to do it better," Dexheimer says in a Statesman.com video. "We don't want any child to die, so the more that they can use this information to better prevent childhood abuse and neglect deaths, the better off that everyone will be."(1)
At the same time, he acknowledges that the amount of cases CPS receives is overwhelming and that there's a delicate balance that must be managed.
"Texas literally looks at tens of thousands of cases every year," he says. "CPS has, effectively an impossible job. Parents have the right to be parents and so you violate their rights if you take kids away too quickly. If you take them away too slowly, the results can be catastrophic."(1)
more
http://www.naturalnews.com/048548_Child_Protective_Services_deaths_abuse.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeG1ysNLBdk
Published on May 26, 2013
"ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer continues her reporting on the United States foster care system with a new series of reports -- "Generation Meds." Following a year-long investigation, Sawyer and Sharyn Alfonsi uncover a startling reality: many foster children, even as young as one-year olds, are being prescribed powerful mind-altering drugs at alarming rates — up to 13 times higher than that of other children. As part of its investigation ABC News was given a first look at a groundbreaking two-year study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) which finds that the federal government has not done enough to protect America's foster children from being over medicated with these powerful drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52edzID_CwA
PS: 2nd vid just got 6+K hits in almost 2 years, not many seem to care
=========================
Texas CPS underreported 655 children killed under its ‘care’ February 08, 2015
‘Child Protective Services (CPS) in Texas is under serious scrutiny these days as investigative reporters dig deeper into findings that the agency significantly faltered in their duties to help protect and save children.
It’s simple. The job of CPS is to analyze and tend to every single neglect and abuse report it receives.
However, reporters from the Austin American-Statesman have discovered that the majority of some 779 reports were ignored completely.’
Loopholes, lies and unreported cases
It was found that almost half of the children who died were already on CPS's radar, with the agency even having contact with one family 20 times before the child passed away. Just as shocking was the discovery that, for years, over 50 CPS workers have been caught lying to prosecutors, providing false information on state records and ignoring court orders. To make matters worse -- and this is a key problem identified by the reporters -- Texas has not publicly reported several hundred abuse- and neglect-related child deaths every year, despite having an awareness of mistreatment situations prior to their death.(1)
The underreporting and seemingly blase attitude is concerning for Austin American-Stateman reporter Eric Dexheimer, who has been involved in uncovering these details.
"Obviously, we all want the agency... to act as best they can. We want them to do their job more efficiently. We want them to do it better," Dexheimer says in a Statesman.com video. "We don't want any child to die, so the more that they can use this information to better prevent childhood abuse and neglect deaths, the better off that everyone will be."(1)
At the same time, he acknowledges that the amount of cases CPS receives is overwhelming and that there's a delicate balance that must be managed.
"Texas literally looks at tens of thousands of cases every year," he says. "CPS has, effectively an impossible job. Parents have the right to be parents and so you violate their rights if you take kids away too quickly. If you take them away too slowly, the results can be catastrophic."(1)
more
http://www.naturalnews.com/048548_Child_Protective_Services_deaths_abuse.html