To be disturbed by the Ch4 'Forgotten Children' trailer?

[MamaHobgoblin]

I have no idea what the series is about other than what they're saying on the trailer, but the imagery is bloody horrible - terrified children being sucked through cracks in the pavement, etc. If I'd seen that as a child - the trails are on at teatime - I'd have been freaked out.

Or am I being a bit precious and 'The children were startled!' (aka The Now Show) ?

Sounds scary. I was freaked out by those public information ads as a child though.

I said the same to DH - can imagine kids being scared of falling through the pavement!

it freaks me out too. Horrible imagery!

i saw this last week, it looked horrifying!

assume programme isn't about children eating pavements

I think its about children in care.

Just bloody Ch4 sensationalising again... I'm sure the documentary is worthwhile and of interest, but they always have to push it with their publicity.

When is it on? I want to watch it.

I nearly started a thread with the exact same title!

It's freaky, I have to look away.

YANBU those ads are really upsetting and horrible.

The only thing I can think of where children are literally disappearing is where they have been trafficed into the country and run away back to the people who brought them in/are taken back... but that doesn't run into the "thousands" I think the ad mentions...

And in some areas there are children disappearing from classrooms quietly, being sent abroad for arranged marriages.

But I don't think the program will be about either of those things.

The advert is shocking but so it should be.

Children in care are forgotten.
I have watched children scream and shout as there are sucked into the looked after system with little hope of escape.
Terrified does not begin to describe the reality for a child of being left in a residential care unit or a foster home.

So think yourselves lucky you have the option to look away.

it has got our attention raindrop so we'll watch.

YANBU to be disturbed but I am glad it got your attention IYSWIM.

My DS2 was very nearly one of those kids who just disappear into the system only to be vomited out at 16-19.

I have the greatest respect for foster carers but I think most would admit that the system is imperfect at best and abusive at worst.

Kids are moved around so much they become 'lost' in so many ways.

My darling boy wouldve been shifted around a lot due to his circumstances and his chances of being adopted would have been minimal. I cannot bear to think too much about what almost happened to him. We didnt know he had been born, found out, found out he was about to go into care, were told he could come to us, were told he was going to foster carers, got them to change their minds - all within 5 days

He is one of thousands. Those cute little baby Ps that become agressive 8 year olds and then violent 17 year olds.

I am really hoping that this programme does these kids justice and is not just a lurid shock fest.

As a student social worker I'm used to these 'shock' tactics and find that the topic is sad enough without Ch4 having to use such outlandish images.

It makes it seem like the care system is taking random children off the streets and vanishing them into thin air. That is not the case!

Yes, the care system has many faults, but overall it's trying to help children who need helped... (I don't want to get into a big debate about care systems though)

Ch4 did what it set out to do: catch people's attention.

It does look like it could be an interesting documentary, I just hope it does so fairly.

YANBU it's creepy and yes, disturbing.