Would This Have Been Allowed To Happen If The Other Way Round?

[youngmafbog]

What an absolute disgrace, but would you expect any difference from abbots constituency?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4831134/MP-anger-Christian-girl-forced-Muslim-foster-care.html

[dannyk13]

No, as exampled here:-
//In 2009, a Christian foster carer was banned by her local council after a Muslim teenager in her care converted to Christianity//

[naomi24]

Utterly shameful.

[anotheoldgit]

An absolute disgrace this poor little girl is not only at risk than just culturally and religiously, taking into account what some Muslins think of white girls.

Interesting to note however that it is just Tory MPs who are concerned, why are the Labour MPs quiet over this?

[New Judge]

Just a point of order but this did not take place in Dianne Abbot's constituency. She is the MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. This was in Tower Hamlets. Abbot's constituency contains comparatively few Muslims at around 14%. The Tower Hamlets figre is approaching 50%.

[Zacs-Master]

Oops.

[youngmafbog]

My mistake NJ, thanks for pointing this out.

Tower Hamlets is the labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick then?

[ladybirder]

The fact it's happened at all, no matter in whose constituency, it's still disgraceful. Poor child, I hope the situation has been put right now and she is happy in her next foster home.

[New Judge]

Tower Hamlets embraces two Parliamentary constituencies. Poplar & Limehouse (MP Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour) and Bethnal Green & Bow (MP Rushanara Ali, Labour).

Yes this matter is an absolute disgrace. The child is with a family where the women walk about masked up and (if the reports are correct) little English is spoken. This, of course, is nothing to do with the MPs (other than the fact that the care of such children is, for some inexplicable reason, devolved by the Westminster government to local authorities). Local Authorities have no business getting involved in the serious matter of fostering children. They should concentrate on emptying the dustbins (a simple task with which most of them seem to demonstrate incredible inadequacies and ineptitude). That is equally important but at least it is not jeopardising the welfare of vulnerable children.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Is the OP suggesting that women in burkas and their husbands are not suitable foster-parents for non-Muslim five year old girls?

[naomi24]

^I do hope so.

[ummmm]

Not in the case the OP linked to.

[naomi24]

What are you reading, ummmm?

[Mamyalynne]

It shouldn't occur whatever way round.

Children should be placed with carers which best dovetail with their background and upbringing so far.

Exceptions for short term emergency care is understandable but otherwise as above.

[ummmm]

I'm saying the Muslim foster parents in the link clearly are not suitable to foster non Muslim children.

[Mamyalynne]

I understand you Ummmm.

[Islay]

It shouldn't have happened but I know from experience that sometimes homes are so short SS pop children anywhere that's free. in my own experience my parents would take abused children but not abusers also not drug addicts this is because she still had young children at home.
But on several occasions SS place children there that broke my mothers rules because they had nowhere else to place them.

[naomi24]

Ah, right. Now I understand, ummmm.

[vetuste_ennemi]

2017 Ofsted report on Tower Hamlets children's services:

https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/local_authority_reports/tower_hamlets/051_Single%20inspection%20of%20LA%20children%27s%20services%20and%20review%20of%20the%20LSCB%20as%20pdf.pdf

Apparently it is worse now than when it was inspected in 2012.

Part of which says:

"26. The operational response and practice to tackle child sexual exploitation are weak. The child sexual exploitation coordinator’s work is separate from mainstream social work practice. Social workers and managers do not have sufficient understanding of sexual exploitation, and too many have not had essential training. Managers do not always comply with actions proposed by the child sexual exploitation coordinator. This results in continued risk to children.
27. At the time of the inspection, 18 children were reported to be living in private fostering arrangements. Inspectors found a lack of understanding of what constitutes a private fostering arrangement. Superficial assessments had failed to consider whether children had been trafficked or abandoned by their parents. Basic safeguarding checks had not been conducted in most cases. The private fostering panel, designed to review all private fostering arrangements, had not met for 12 months. As a result, the risks to children were unknown, leaving children in potentially harmful situations...."

And 133 children are, according to the report, at risk of FGM.

What was Naz Shah's advice to the victims of the grooming gangs?

"Lie back and think of Diversity"?

[marval]

This is all wrong, they don't even speak English to her.

[sp1814]

Are we now saying that it's preferable for children to be placed with families of their own racial background?

I ask because previously, the constraints that were in place were described as 'ridiculous' here on AB.

The times they are a-changing.