UK to install cameras in 20,000 homes

[CaptainChewbacca]

God, I hope it's a joke

THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.

The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.

They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far.

But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.

Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.

Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them.

He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little, much too late.

“This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.”


Mr Balls also said responsible parents who make sure their children behave in school will get new rights to complain about those who allow their children to disrupt lessons.

Pupils and their families will have to sign behaviour contracts known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, which will set out parents’ duties to ensure children behave and do their homework.

The updated Youth Crime Action Plan also called for a crackdown on violent girl gangs as well as drug and alcohol abuse among young women.

But a decision to give ministers new powers to intervene with failing local authority Youth Offending Teams was criticised by council leaders.

Les Lawrence, of the Local Government Association, said they did “crucial” work and such intervention was “completely unnecessary”.

And to think, earlier today a poster on this very board chastised me for exaggerating the extent to which Britain employs the use of cameras in surveiling the public. This is... its just scary.

[Bounty]

Ah, Chinese whispers and gutter press combine in a perfect storm of ridiculousness to trick the clueless.

Step One: UK government announces more funding for a broad family-assistance project aimed at counselling and assisting families so they don't slip into crime and violence. This includes such draconian measures as:

* undertake annual consultation with local communities on what reparation work young offenders should undertake in their area
* ensure parents take proper responsibility for the poor behaviour of their children, including making sure that there is an assessment of parental need for all children being considered for an ASBO and introducing mandatory parenting support when a child breaches an ASBO
* change the way front line practitioners work with parents, so they don’t take no for an answer when a parent refuses support
* continue £900m investment from Aiming High for Young People which is providing positive activities, facilities and resources for young people across the country at all times but especially on Friday and Saturday nights
* increase the drive to bear down on serious youth violence, including on knives and gangs, with £5m of additional investment in the Tackling Knives Action Programme in 16 areas
* give further support for young victims of crime backed by new investment in priority areas.

Step Two: The Telegraph reports on the statement and adds a (non-defined) "24 hours' supervision", which you can graciously call a bastardization of the original proposal's intent to provide continuous support:

Under the Government scheme, members of "Shameless" families are given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

Step Three: The Express, a fine brand of toilet paper masquerading as news, gets hold of the article and, masturbating furiously, declares that 20.000 innocent families will have cameras forcibly installed in their bathrooms.

See what happened there?

[Rye]

Hi, I'm chewie and I accept everything on face value. Even the fucking Express article doesn't explain where the cameras come in. It just pulls the cameras and numbers out of its ass. Those two things never come up again in the rest of the text.

[Vendetta]

God, I hope it's a joke.

For future reference, the Daily Express is from the same publisher as such august journals as Reader's Wives.

[Bounty]

Remember when they taught kids critical reading?

[[R_H]]

And to think, earlier today a poster on this very board chastised me for exaggerating the extent to which Britain employs the use of cameras in surveiling the public. This is... its just scary.

How is this scary, these are the "THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday." What's the problem if it takes cameras to get negligent scumbags to turn their lives around?

[General Zod]

And to think, earlier today a poster on this very board chastised me for exaggerating the extent to which Britain employs the use of cameras in surveiling the public. This is... its just scary.

How is this scary, these are the "THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday." What's the problem if it takes cameras to get negligent scumbags to turn their lives around?

Personally I'm a bit puzzled how anyone can think more stringent monitoring of chavs is a bad thing.

[[R_H]]

And to think, earlier today a poster on this very board chastised me for exaggerating the extent to which Britain employs the use of cameras in surveiling the public. This is... its just scary.

How is this scary, these are the "THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday." What's the problem if it takes cameras to get negligent scumbags to turn their lives around?

Personally I'm a bit puzzled how anyone can think more stringent monitoring of chavs is a bad thing.

And the monitoring isn't for the sake of monitoring itself, or outsourcing government jobs to India or any bullshit like that. It's so that chavs take care of their fucking children, and hopefully their children don't end up like them...or as disfunctional as them.

[Intio]

This story has been doing the rounds on Alex Jones, David Icke etc., so I was surprised to see someone on this board get swept up in the synthesized outrage.

At least most saw through it.

[Bounty]

Personally I'm a bit puzzled how anyone can think more stringent monitoring of chavs is a bad thing.

It becomes a problem when someone unscrupulous extends the definition of "chav".

The big problem, however, would not be the monitoring as such but the idea of such a proposal getting through without any sort of debate or without anyone of the MP's stirring up a shitstorm. If this had been real, I'd have been very worried about the amount of oversight not of problem families, but of the agencies and politicians who oversee them.