Agency Confident That Shifting Responsibility to Children Improves Outcomes
London
British social services has announced a revolutionary child protection strategy: informing children experiencing abuse, neglect, or crisis that they should “resolve their own issues” and that social services cannot help, essentially shifting responsibility for child protection from institutions to children themselves.
“We’ve determined that children are resilient,” a social services official explained. “Rather than providing protective services, we’ll inform children they’re responsible for protecting themselves. This empowers them.”
The strategy involves: when children report abuse or neglect, social services responds with: “That sounds difficult. You should address this yourself. Social services cannot help you.”
Child protection requires institutional intervention in abuse and neglect situations because children lack agency and resources to protect themselves. The agency apparently believes children should resolve protection independently.
“A ten-year-old experiencing parental abuse should simply address the situation independently,” officials explained. “That teaches them problem-solving skills.”
Implementation shows predictable results: children experiencing abuse remain in abusive situations because they lack power to change their circumstances. The agency celebrates: “The children are developing resilience through exposure to crisis.”
One social worker reported: “I tell abused children they need to solve their own problems. I watch them return to abusive homes with no support. I’m apparently empowering them through abandonment.”
Child abuse research documents that children require protective intervention because they cannot protect themselves from adults. The agency has apparently abandoned this principle.
“We’re not responsible for child protection,” officials noted. “The children are responsible for their own protection. We’re simply delegating responsibility.”
Child harm cases have increased under this strategy. The agency attributes this to: “Children not developing sufficient resilience. We’re considering even harsher delegation of responsibility.”
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