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The pandemic isn’t all that is happening.
I’ve been sent a March 2020 Productivity Commission Study Report-
Expenditure on Children in the Northern Territory.
Whatever the undoubtedly significant expenditure on creating this doozy, in my opinion it is worthless.
From pages 317-327 incl. Annexure B of this 344 page report is a Case Study-Yuendumu.
Rather than bore you with an in depth analysis of Annexure B, I’ve gone to the trouble of counting the almost hundredfold use of the word ‘services’ (not including the 70 times ‘service provider’ is used). The word ‘funding’ and derivatives such as ‘funded’ ‘funding agencies’ ‘funding bodies’ ‘funding providers’ occur more than 50 times. The word ‘clients’ appears more often than the word ‘children’.
No need to read these extracts from Annexure-B, skip to the bottom for a translation:
The co-location of service providers can also be a barrier to access if that co-location is between child protection and other services. Some community members are distrustful of child protection and are concerned that if they seek help from a service provider in the same location, child protection workers may be notified or intervene, as has occurred in this community in the past. Recently, the NT Government relocated its child protection service to the Child and Family Centre, without consulting the community or other service providers. This resulted in some community members feeling uncomfortable attending the facility. Some providers suggested that co-location of services should not occur without consultation with the community to ensure that it does not reduce access to other services.
And in a section sub-titled ‘Operationalising the Child and Family Centre’:
the previous Child and Family Centre manager had approved for Territory Families, family support services to operate out of the Child and Family Centre. When Territory Families recently merged their operations, the child protection staff commenced operating out of the facility. There is a perception from some people in the community that the presence of these workers has made some families unwilling to visit the facility due to the perceived threat of child protection intervening.
Translation:
People are shit scared of the ‘welfare mob’ stealing their children.
保持安全
Frank
Archie Roach-Took the Children Away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywDT6yHMmo
Plus a song from Paraguay sung by a child:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07P4etSwfc4