Silent Screams

Not the most exciting of days having spent most of it creating a training manual on "adult protection" i.e. abuse and how to deal with it. Now having had more than my fair share of issues relating to this in the recent past it was interesting to compare my experiences as the "accused" with the stuff that you're meant to do to protect the "victim"
Suddenly you start to realise that adult protection is not about protecting the vulnerable at all. Instead it's about making people guilty on arbitrary evidence considered by lay people and with no recourse to a fair hearing. Almost a case of trial by ordeal in fact. Who's the victim now?

But then this is the culture of Blair's Britain all over isn't it? Style over substance time and time again. Must be seen to be doing something to soothe the troubled minds of the public and avoid media criticism. And it doesn't matter that what becomes law is about as useful than a soap herring so long it's made. Take for example the recent case of the woman criminalised for reading out a list of those service personnel killed in Iraq too close to Downing Street, yet MPs appear to be able to get away with all kinds of crimes against the electorate and we are not able to hold them to account. And then they claim that British Justice is the best in the world. Well that's one less vote for the ruling Ba'aath Party and Saddam Blair.