Lowering the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Cindy Kiro speaks her confused mind on lowering the age of criminal responsibility: “But not locking them up, not punishing them, but instead looking at how we get them to own up to the offending and basically get in there before things get too out of control.” “Before they get out of control” – hm,…

A Conversation…

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a… health worker, who I thought might be able to tell me a bit about a CYFS “situation” that had happened in her area. The reaction was interesting. It was quite clear from body language that the person was disgusted with CYFS. She looked like she…

CYFS Social Worker Gets a Thick Ear

Seems our judges might just be reading CYFS watch: A Northland social worker is to apologise to the courts after a judge accused him of “sabotaging” the sentencing of a teenager. The teenager, who killed two people when a stolen Mercedes he was driving crashed, was due to be sentenced in the North Shore Youth…

False Alarm on Kidnapping

This morning a child threw a wobbly when asked to get in the car by their parent. Someone saw this, and called the Police, who treated this as a kidnapping. Sergeant John Hicks praised the man for memorising the car’s registration. At the end of the day, we’re after the welfare of the child. We…

CYFS Watch Kicked off WordPress Too

CYFS Watch has been deleted by the WordPress.com admins. They have posted an explanation on Blogger (their original space). This is pasted below. I have not yet digested it fully myself, I just wanted to get a copy and read it in case it was taken down. From first glance, it looks like WordPress was…

CYFS Watch

The following comment has been placed on a rather old CYFS Watch post on this blog: The majority of CYFS social workers work long, hard hours with uncooperative clients and family members, to blame the problems of low-socio-economics on the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff is outrageous. Look in your own backyard before…

Children’s Commissioner: “We are the CYFS Watchdog”

What a joke. According to CYFS Watch, our friend Cindy is now saying she is the watchdog for CYFS. I agree with their call: provide us an example. Show us you’ve disagreed with CYFS, show us where you have asked for a social worker to be disciplined. So many things wrong with that claim. Let’s…

CYFS – Child Services don’t just fail in NZ

Warning, this story from the UK is graphic. Selected quotes: He said the parents, who showed no remorse for what they had done, tortured a “loving and affectionate” child in a case made all the worse by the fact they knew they were “under the eye of social services and had every reason to show…

CYFS Watch

Quite by accident, I just stumbled across another copy of the CYFS Watch web site, right here on wordpress.com. I was looking at my dashboard, and in the “recent postings” listings, there it was. Moral of the story: it’s not just about Google any more. Not that this development should surprise anyone.

CYFS

I was talking to a teacher friend the other day. She told me her observations of CYFS staff, some of whom she knows personally. Too many have had no normal family life themselves – they’ve come from the same broken communities, and that’s why they were hired. Also, few have had children. There’s no way…