By Charlotte Webster-
Any idea that teachers should be held accountable for violent crimes will be flawed.News that teachers, NHS workers and police officers in England and Wales could be held accountable for failing to spot violent crime among young people only adds more strain to already burdened teachers, and does not solve the problem.
The government says its plan is intended to “help spot the warning signs that a young person could be in danger, such as presenting in A&E with suspicious injury, to worrying behaviour at school or issues at home”.
A consultation launched by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to assess whether there is a “public health duty” to report concerns over children at risk misses the true root causes of violence that has made the streets of Britain a death den for teenagers. The government needs to look at the increasing discipline in schools, and discouraging the wide spread existence of single parent homes in Britain.
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There is no automatic cure for single parent homes, and there are many single mothers who have raised brilliant children who are a treasure to society. The fact remains that most children from single parent homes lack the benefit of having two parents present to guide their development and create a supportive environment for their children.
Children from two parent homes can also suffer huge psychological disadvantages, especially where domestic violence is rife, or the emotional needs of the child is not adequately met. Children from broken homes are still generally disadvantaged because of the general limited resources available to them and the stress to the single parent(usually the mother, but not always) of dealing with the challenges and nuisance behaviour that comes from raising children on their own.
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Schools also struggle to discipline children enough because of the lack of sufficient legal force to do so. Some schools have managed to develop their own stringent policies that address bad behaviour, by setting rules that lead to the suspension or expulsion of very badly behaved children. Those schools do what needs to be done to send the message home that bad behaviour will not be tolerated, but even when necessary, this does not always address the root problem.
Children need to be taught how to develop healthy relationships, assess potential partners long and carefully enough, and not loosely engage in sex, just for the sake of physical attraction. Learning how to select and maintain a healthy relationship is not taught enough in schools , but is a useful way of reducing the prospect of single parent homes in the generations ahead.
CONCERNS
Unions for teachers and NHS staff have strongly objected to the plansDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: “Neither the blame for, or the solution to, violent crime can be laid at the door of schools or front-line hospital staff.”
She said schools already had “strong safeguarding practices in place” and added: “The problem is what happens after issues of concern have been identified.”
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