Britain's broken families

[Pinkpinot]

Is anyone watching?
Has this been on before
I'm shocked

I don't think it is possible now to break the cycle unless we were to take draconian measures which we will never do.

I have just finished watching this, and I actually feel quite optimistic about Robbie and Brandon and their parents. I think there is a fair chance that they will keep up the improvements.

Sharon really looked as if she had completely given up. I don't know how you go about giving her back some sense of purpose or motivation, and some backbone.

I am a lot less hopeful about Sian. My impression was that she was going through the motions, so she could convince social services she is fit to keep her baby - but if she succeeds, and does keep the child, she will immediately stop trying, and it will have no future at all.

watched on catch up.

words flipping failed me
the f.i.p. workers seemed woolley and ineffectual.
and the families - yes i know they were on camera and these programmes are heavily edited- but spare a thought for that baby . poor little soul.

and i know it takes 2 to tango but sian is 14 . that boy would have his arse in court before he could say 'knife'

excuse the dodgy one handed typing.

The programme was heavily edited, there was enough footage taken for a series, not just one episode.
The FIP team takes families that cannot be managed by social services, so whilst there is overlap in qualifications their job title is not 'social worker' it may not seem much but it's important, these families have been through the SS system already, they may not trust SS.
FIP can only act on information disclosed to them, not gut feelings, regardless of whether any of us believe Sian should be using contraceptives (and I do believe that) it is her choice, not a decision to be made by the FIP team.
These families are the tip of the iceberg that FIP deal with, they are the 'good' families, with parental engagement if not necessarily parenting skill, they deal with a whole lot worse, stuff that really would make you vomit.
The FIP team work extremely hard, they regularly face abuse and threats in their day-to-day work, it is absolutely not easy and believe me 'woolly' isn't tolerated. It's not easy, they're restricted by funding, access to accommodation/facilities/etc that would improve the standard of living for their clients, their workload is massive (fancy calling a client every day during your holiday as one of them did?) but they put their all into trying to improve the lot for these families rather than splitting them up. (And no, before anyone asks, I'm not anything to do with FIP, but I am very familiar with their work)