Baby ASBOs
ASBOs have failed. Rather than deterrents, they have become badges of honour among young thugs. So what is the government’s response? To roll them out over young potentials as well:
Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, will tomorrow announce a £218 million expansion of Family Intervention Projects - a scheme which tackles potential troublemakers by signing them up to good behaviour contracts.
The orders will be issued to about 1,000 of the country’s worst-behaved children. Failure to stick to the contract could lead to a criminal record.
Police could issue a “baby Asbo” following a complaint from a teacher that a child was skipping lessons or concerns from a neighbour about poor parental behaviour. (The Telegraph)
So they just haven’t learnt from their mistakes, have they? Handing out “baby ASBOs” to even younger children - especially those who haven’t even done anything very bad at all.
The name of the scheme that is to to deal with this just sums up Labour’s entire style of government: Family Intervention Projects. Why do they feel that they have the right to intervene in out lives?
When this comes alongside the proposal to put young children who “exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life” on the DNA database. I mean, WTF? Since when has being a behaving badly ever been a good enough reason for your DNA to be added to their Big Brother database?
Have we finally abandoned the idea of innocent until proven guilty? Do you no longer actually have to commit a crime before you can be convicted for it?
Baby ASBOs and adding disruptive children’s details to the DNA database will not prevent them feom becoming criminals, but the opposite - pushing them in to a life of crime, since that seems to be what is expected of them!
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Labour have gone way beyond ‘helping’ children and are now obsessed with ‘labelling’ them instead.
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