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- Title: Some Children Matter More Than Others: Issues Prompted by Roy Parker's Study of the Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 (Report)
- Author : Adoption & Fostering
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 283 KB
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At Stormont, the Northern Ireland parliament, many years ago, after a presentation about youth justice, an Ulster MP asked me for some advice. He sat on the board of a training school, a residential establishment for young offenders. When a boy absconded a hooter was sounded. Generally speaking the runaway would be apprehended but the elderly in the surrounding community became distressed. Was it a good idea to have a hooter, asked the politician? What did the evidence say? The conversation reflected one of many absurd collusions that dog children's services. It was evident then, and is well known now, that placing young offenders in closed groups does not deter antisocial behaviour; in fact it generally makes it worse. It was well known that most absconders would run home to their parents, so there was no real need for a hooter. A collusion manufactured a question not intended for answer. It diverted attention away from the fundamental issue of why invest in the manifestly absurd proposition of detaining young offenders in closed groups.