Got sent the link today.
Scary stuff.
Make up your own minds.
on the up
Got sent the link today.
Scary stuff.
Make up your own minds.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
e mare libertas
One way or the other, your link there will probably bump CYFSWATCH's PageRank an order of magnitude during the next Google spider run.
Nice.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
on the up
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
e mare libertas
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
One, two free, floor!
$2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details
Forum whore
Well, if they are, it's not working.Originally Posted by riffer
One, two free, floor!
Of course if you're really keen put a link to it in your signature... it'd be 1000's of inserts - in a heartbeat!
$2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details
Would you like some CANDY!?!?!
Apparently cyfs have asked google to do something about it. 'It' being the internet.
on the up
ten miserable characters...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Hardcore Biker
Well I had trouble finding it initially. Read a couple of stories and that was all I could take. If they are true the CYF's staff or some are shockers on power trips. I guess some of their decisions will have subjective elements but there was one where a mum smacked not in anger doing no harm (sounded not too bright) but felt bad due I s'pose to anti smacking publicity so turned herself in. Result was psyc assessment. Finding was that she was fine. Social worker kicked her out of her house and prevented contact with her family / husband for months. When she returned it was with all these dumb restrictions. OMGNo stay night, no driving kids etc Story sounded genuine 'nuff.
Deus ex ukulele
1. CYFS is a government department. It operates within the mandate set by the Government.
2. Staff are subject to scrutiny and review from various sources, including Parliament and the general media. As agents of Government policy they should not be individually ridiculed or lambasted for deficiencies in Government social policy or New Zealand's general blase attitude to domestic violence.
3. CYFS cannot solve New Zealand's obsession with domestic violence, abuse and neglect. It is, at best, an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff.
4. Web sites like the CYFS blog are a bit like the Snapt site -- titillation for ranting voyeurs and outraged "experts".
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Easily ammused
22 actually.
Some things are worth dying for, living is one of them.
Bastard By Choice
Hitcher,you have such a lovely way with words & its all truth!!
"The road to Hell is really grippy with loads of run off & some wicked lefthanders"
Forum whore
I'm not so sure about that bit. Inevitably, given the personal nature of its activities, they are not readily amenable to media scrutiny. It is only when something goes horrendously wrong in a very public way that 'public good' is sufficent to outweigh the policy of confidentiality (which some could re-express as secrecy). And very few government departments are really subject to the scrutiny of Parliament. Any invigilatory activities of Parliament went the way of the dodo at least 100 years ago.
One objection raised by the contributors to the site is the lack of any effective appeal mechanism. Purportedly those that apparently exist, such as the Commissioner for Children, do not have resources to investigate indidual cases, unless they are indicative of systemic issues.
That seems unsatisfactory. Given the profound effect of the decisions of the department on people's lives there should be rigorous and accessible appeal processes. Certainly the degree of discretionary power allowed to officials appears very great indeed (far more than that enjoyed by the police) , and the checks and balances that one might expect to see are not markedly visible. Moreover, in such matters, time is often of importance. Justice delayed may well be justice denied, and appeal processes that drag on for years do not commend themselves.
Whether such a forum is likely to achieve that objective is another matter.
I should add that I have never had any dealings whatsoever with the department, nor do I know anyone who has, so any coment I make must necessarily be based on report and general principle. But neither the department nor the Minister seem to have refuted the question of inadequacy in the appeal process.
Psyclepath
Compare and contrast....just like the Plod CYFS have a lot of power that they can wield without much in the way of checks and controls...stories of Cops and their abuse of power are thick on the ground on this site.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
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