Let the state step in and look after your kids

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Scottish minister just interviewed on telly about the whole Cummings debacle.

She says that in the situation of one parent falling ill, the other suspecting that they might be ill you should stay put and call on Social Services if you can't look after your child.

Do they REALLY think people are going to do that? Send your kids into foster care - because that's what they are talking about - with absolute strangers, rather than moving to be close-ish to relatives in case you get sick?

The world has gone MAD.

It’s just point scoring tbh as if you would put your child with a stranger rather than a family member ...

This is madness.
DC is a prize cunt and the govt are trying to gaslight us on a massive scale- but what i see here is an absolute crisis of critical thinking.

This is about RISK. The guidelines were published to manage RISK.

So if you’re symptomatic, and your partner is symptomatic / you’re a lone parent and unable to look after your child, no court IN THE COUNTRY would pursue a prosecution of someone who arranged for the care of a child with a family member- who would of course need to self isolate etc for 2 weeks in case of becoming symptomatic etc.

The absolute absence of any kind of common sense being applied here in any direction is mad.

The Cummings issue actually isn’t about the “rules” the issue is it appears they KNEW they were infected (if indeed they were- I have my doubts) and the course of action they chose could have spread the virus to hundreds of others.

If you are alone, ill, with a young child and one person comes to your home, collects child, then they and their household self isolates for 2 weeks whilst caring for said child, you may pass the virus To 3 or 4 others say. Which is probably the same as if they went into foster care. So foster care is a straw man here.

Honestly honestly honestly I could spit with rage at the depths of dullness to which this country has been pushed by successive governments who have sidelined critical thinking in schools.

Seems pretty normal for the Scottish Government. They have form in assuming that the state can look after your child better than you can.

The point is that Cummings and / or his wife were capable of looking after a child,
because
driving 4-5 hours requires a much higher degree of capability than providing banana, cereal, toast and turning on the TV for said kid

And of course, like many parents, they had other relatives and friends nearer than 4-5 hours away

So SS would not come into it for the Cummings' or for most other parents

Being a totally incapable father is no reason to call SS;
surely he or any of the other deadbeats we read on MN could manage to keep a kid fed & alive for a few days

DM single parent, has multiple mental health issues that caused a lot of hospital visits/A&E and as such we were often in and out of foster care - typically just for the day. Relatives were never contacted once despite living on the same street - but there are reasons for that .

But tbh on an average day I just got on with it even at 4 years of age - I imagine most children would manage fine for a couple of days unless parent totally bedridden or incapacitated .

Been told since by social services that would be not that unusual that children are taken into emergency FC because parent is ill . Usually they would check with family first though .

That all said if DC could drive/sit in a car for 260 miles he obviously wasn’t that ill in the first place !!