User talk:Peshay23

The Department of Community Services and Wrongful removal

There are many times when the removal of children is not done and there are many when the removal is wrong. How do we get a better result and save lives and save much anguish when there is removal for the wrong reasons. With more and more children dieing people and media want to see DOCS act quicker. No one can know which step to take in the one hour that it takes DOCS to decide.

So too, a foster carer should not be approved after 2 or three hour assessments.

154 children died this year in high risk and medium risk homes. How can these child deaths be prevented without being adverse reactive and jumping in too soon?

One solution would be to divert the hundreds of thousands of Legal Funding (either private or Legal Aid) that is spent on the Children's Court Process, which almost entirely revolves around the opinions of the DOCS case workers, who have higher standing than that of such medical experts as Psychologists and GP's Pediatricians and even Psychiatrists! The money spent on the farce that is called the children's court process. I say a farce as after days and months of Legal battle and sometimes crucial evidence against what DOCS have said and up to half a million dollars later, the court does whatever it is that DOCS recommend. The simple fact is the money could be put to much better uses.

For instance temporary housing that accommodates and educates as well as the all important supervision that DOCS should have done before removal and on the flip-side non-removal. A facility that houses families together where the factors such as drugs, mental health,abusive partnerships, teen behavioral issues, and parental disciplinary behavior is being questioned.

In such an environment the family would be under the utmost scrutiny and the Department would see if there is a real possibility that the accusations that are often made by the breakdown of family relations like where the mother in-law or ex partner/family have made allegations of abuse or neglect, many of which are false.Unfortunately the reality is the hardcore abusers children die before school age. If the child goes through school without the child's school seeing abuse or neglect it is likely as not, that there is no neglect/ abuse at all!

Specialists will always state that if a child is thriving they are generally sufficiently cared for. DOCS however tend to overlook such things.