I wish I was joking. I can't even go 'it's those crazy yanks', because we slashed domestic violence services as a first point of call, and ensured that the link between working and surviving was broken, so that mothers would find themselves a man.
Social workers have been screamin for months that the thresholds of risk for the children they work with, are getting higher and higher. Those in teams for over 11s, where the thresholds of risk were already unacceptably high so that use of expensively provided private placements was avoided mighgt have thought it couldn't get much worse for their kids. THey are now dropping off the radar altogether.
To thunderous silence and while our political parties and their supporters go out of their way to pretend these women and children don't exist.
The world over, women and children hit first, because the silly wee boys playing politics and war can't see them.
http://lisaansell.posterous.com/domestic-violence-no-longer-to-be-prosecuted
