I have been warning and warning and warning that the Big Data Social Investment fascism would lead to an eruption of uplifts from a weaponised OT.
And it begins…
Government Coy On Police Plan To Target ‘At Risk’ Children For Social Investment
Police want ‘at risk’ children as young as nine to be targeted for social investment to prevent them becoming criminals.
It is one of two ideas nominated by police for inclusion in the government’s social investment work programme, ministerial documents released to RNZ under the Official Information Act show.
In a May briefing to Police Minister Mark Mitchell, police floated the idea of “targeted prevention support to 9 to 12-year-olds to prevent them entering the youth justice system”.
Social investment involves using data and evidence to identify people with the greatest needs and was first championed in 2015 by former Prime Minister Bill English, who believed early intervention could save the government money over a person’s lifetime, and it is back on the agenda, driven by Finance and Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis, who once worked for English.
The briefing, ahead of the first ‘Social Investment Ministers Group’ meeting on 22 May, said three-quarters of youth crime was carried out by the “10 percent of young people who have the greatest exposure to hardship and disadvantage”.
These children were most likely to have been exposed to family violence, poverty, had contact with Oranga Tamariki, and have parents who had experienced drug or alcohol addiction, poor mental health, or had been in prison, the paper said.
“We propose targeting support to 9 to 12-year-old children experiencing hardship and disadvantage to ensure they are on track to succeed and prevent them entering the youth justice system in the next five years.”
Police could identify these children through family harm incidents they attended, or because they were siblings of children and young people who had already offended, the paper said.
It suggested that targeted support could reduce the likelihood of offending, increase school attendance, improve long-term outcomes and reduce long-term social costs such as ‘justice system cost and benefit dependence.”
Police themselves would not implement such a programme – that would be left up to another government agency – but could support the approach by identifying and referring children they thought would benefit, NZ Police said in a statement.
…let’s be clear.
The Big Data Social Investment model is about intervening to stop a problem child from costing the state downstream.
That means OT needs to have its uplift function weaponised once the Wellington Bureaucrats switch the Big Data model on.
That means uplifting kids at the drop of a hat.
The danger of removing Section 7aa from OT was that 7aa forced OT to negotiate with Iwi service providers before uplifting a child.
Removing 7aa means OT can uplift at will with zero negotiation with Iwi stakeholders.
Now the State is focused on using Big Data against children, it will see a tsunami of uplifts.
The State taking a child from a parent is the most extreme power imbalance we have in a liberal progressive society. If we uplift children into State care where they statistically stand to be abuse more than if they had been left in the community, you have a very damaged and broken system that requires more oversight, not less!
What the Social Investment Model intends to do is unapologetically supercharge the uplift process and weaponise it against those Orac warns us will cost the State more money down stream.
We need more oversight here, not less and the willingness of this Government to embark upon this radical yet invisible welfare experiment should be ringing alarm bells everywhere.
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The briefing, ahead of the first ‘Social Investment Ministers Group highlights three-quarters of youth crime was carried out by the “10 percent of young people who have the greatest exposure to hardship and disadvantage.
So instead of calling for the Government to directly address hardship and disadvantage, the police call for big data child uplifts?
But isn’t it widely known that kids in state care are more likely to end up in jail?
And cost the state far more going foreword due to the damage they incurred in state care?
This doesn’t sound like a very well thought-out solution.
Further, wasn’t it also established that giving families the right to refute allegations in court was the answer that is lacking rather than forcing OT to negotiate with Iwi service providers before uplifting a child?
While I share your concerns about social investment the blind belief by many that everyone can just do what seems right to them is the obvious cause of the faults in society. Targeting 9 to 12 year olds would be 9 to 12 years too late going on what I have observed over the last 60 years.
The recent death of a baby from domestic violence and others injured in Hamilton along with the police officer killed in Nelson are just some of the signs that our society has lost its way and that our feelings are not the most reliable guide for making life’s decisions.
‘Society has lost its way’
I think many would agree with that statement, Bonnie.
Therefore, isn’t identifying the changes that have resulted in society losing its way and reversing them the real solution?
We can’t expect the broken to be fixed while doing nothing to fix the society that broke them in the first place.
Team of Commandos at North Pole storm Santa’s headquarters and grab his naughty and nice lists( after all the fat red one has centuries of surveillance on children).
Major embarrassment when said lists reveal why most National Party members are on naughty list.
To think that my dad would have been classed as an ‘at risk’ child. His father(my grandfather) used to regularly give him and all family members unsolicited boxing lessons.
Instead of being taken into care so he could be buggered by priests or welfare experts twelve year old father responded to a kick up the arse by decking grandfather, leaving home and getting a job(in those days they had jobs for twelve year old boys).
According to the smartarse, self-appointed judges of families that regularly contribute to this blog, Dad should have perpetuated ” a circle of violence’ to his wife and children.
In fact he did the exact opposite. Loving and caring husband and father who did not use violence or even threaten it – except on that one occasion when we had a pommy teacher from somewhere in the North of England who used to smack us around the ears because we could not understand him – but personally I do not count pest control as violence.
Think of what my father missed out on by not being handed over to the loving care of priests.
So why do we need to have a special way of dealing with Maori children than those of any other race . All cases should have the same appraisal . I have friends in education who say they can identify those children who will grow into troubled adults very easily. It has to be excepted some people make poor parents and the state needs the power to try and change their future..We cannot allow these children to fail because we are afraid of being called racist by those that will use any opportunity to try and make this government look bad.
Bomber, love the Blakes People, our another youth detention cantre is on the roof reaching for the sky, and takeaways.
Caren, her, knowing care, is not knowing, to these others, what, no takeaways, just water blast them off the roof. then seg and and then add how many not months years.
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