I am backing Paxman. We need to rescue the BBC from the cowards and incompetents.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/11/newsnight-insiders-fear-survive-scandal

"It remains to be seen when – or even if – he will return to the programme after his statement, unprecedented for a serving BBC presenter, issued through his agent, Capel Land, late on Saturday night.

"George Entwistle's departure is a great shame. He has been brought low by cowards and incompetents," said Paxman.

"The real problem here is the BBC's decision, in the wake of the Hutton inquiry, to play safe by appointing biddable people.

"They then compounded the problem by enforcing a series of cuts on programme budgets, while bloating the management. That is how you arrive at the current mess on Newsnight. I very much doubt the problem is unique to that programme. I had hoped that George might stay to sort this out. It is a great pity that a talented man has been sacrificed while time-servers prosper. I shall not be issuing any further statements or doing any interviews.""

The old bully and coward has become a potential hero. Paxman spoke out to remind us that the real crisis for the BBC came with its demolition by Blair and Hutton.

Greg Dyke gave it independence from the Government status quo. Blair removed him and replaced him with cowards and incompetents.

They could not even make a stand against Jimmy Saville.

I am very much afraid that the enemies of freedom integrity and democracy have used poor Mr Meesham as a stick to make sure the BBC does not dare to dig out the abusers in high places.

They did not dare see where things were going with Saville.

Now they will dare even less to seek the rapists in high places. 

What we need is an unstoppable internet campaign to bring the focus back to the abusers of power and away from covering up for cowards and incompetents.

Who cares? Parents, the state and the abuse or neglect of children

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20226345 Just as more news comes out about the failure of the state to care for the children it "looks after," a report comes out suggesting the state should take over the lives of more children. Since the baby Peter case there has been a vast increase in care proceedings. There are monsters out there still in charge of children in the community. It was also monstrous that the state should have ignored and overlooked the needs and care of baby Peter. That case happened in spite of all the boxes that the Government set up as a way of taking care of the Nation's children. In that case the ticking of boxes should have helped. That it did not was down to the failure of the professionals involved. Ultimately, no tick box system will ever ensure the well being of children. It is a way of covering your back not covering your client's needs. We have a professional system that moves people away from direct and continuous contact with children as they become more qualified. The more qualified you become the less you are involved with care and the more "managing" you do. We recruit young inexperienced unqualified people to take care of children. They are poorly paid, which means the professionals with experience, knowledge and mortgages to pay do not take on the jobs. A child who comes out of the care system has much worse life chances than those outside care. This need not be so. The Scandinavian countries show that it can be done well. They spend the money and recruit quality staff. In a time of hardship this country is not going to spend the money on this most vulnerable of client groups. Children's homes are targets for politicians sexual proclivities. The latest news on past abuse in North Wales Children's Homes http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=north%20wales%20children's%20homes shows that the rights of children are not being defended against the holders of power, even when there is an inquiry. Even now it is doubtful that the abused will dare to tell it like it is, or was. It is a while since I worked with children's home staff. I was consultant to four homes in London years ago, and worked with staff in a training role for many more. That was thirty years ago, though. Ten years ago I worked for a training company with staff from PLC's organized to make profits. I was appalled at the cost cutting measures they employed, so that staff remained on call during training. At one point half my course were called away to chase children who had run wild round the streets of Margate because the supervision was inadequate. It was a course on supervision, where many of the course members were supposed to learn to supervise before they had had any experience of being supervised themselves. They could not bare to explore any feelings. At the end of the course the staff had a box ticked which made them supervisors. When I protested about this they tried to withhold payment. Procedures ensure nothing. Ticking boxes ensure nothing. We should have learned that by now. It works at McDonalds. It doesn't work for taking care of vulnerable people. The whole system needs to be changed. I have much personal experience of how the state can fail in its attempts to take care of children. They are documented here; http://blairyengland.blogspot.co.uk/ When the people in charge are war criminals we should not be surprised when head teachers over step their marks. It was scant satisfaction to prove that the care we provided was much better than that provided by the school. Even forcing the resignation of the head was scant satisfaction. Nor was it any satisfaction at all when a potentially good social worked lost hos job for breaking procedures with us. All this new stuff emerging about child abuse reminds me of my own experience of school. We were so vulnerable sent away to boarding school at seven. Rumours have it my pre-pep school head was eventually sacked for abuse. There was one boy who was being very regularly beaten by the head. He used all manner of weapons, the cane, the belt, the salted gym shoe, being his favourites. A lifetime of therapy has helped me resolves much of my problems. But it has taken a very long time to recover from institutional attempts to control my way of being. There is something that is still compulsive about my non comformism.