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Stigma of a life in care
• LONDON district judge Nicholas Crichton made some interesting points in his opinion piece (Salma, and why we must find right balance in family courts, September 28).
It is encouraging to read that at long last Camden Council is backing a pilot project particularly aimed at trying to help the children of drug and alcohol misusing parents remain within their birth families rather than taking them away to languish in care.
I am cautiously optimistic that this initiative will be a success, but it will be particularly galling to the increasing number of children who have been taken into care in recent years that the political will was not there to support them then to stay with their family.
The statistics on outcomes of children in care confirm that the state makes a very poor parent and the majority will be stigmatised until well into their adult life as well as being emotionally and psychologically less well developed than if they had stayed with their family.
Further measures of support to keep families together are needed if we are to proclaim ourselves a civilised society when it comes to protecting vulnerable children.
TREVER JONES
Parents Against Injustice
Hanley Road, N4
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