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Originally Posted by freezin
Yes it's an assessment centre. Watching people with CCTV cameras is just a bit too Orwellian for my tastes. I think assessing a child's happiness and general demeanor ought to be enough to assess his or her parents abilities. Certainly putting a camera in their bedroom went too far.
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It's not enough though, not by any stretch of the imagination.
These centres aren't used for normal parents, they're used for parents with disibilities that can effect how they look after their children, especially those with severe learning difficulties. You cannot tell from a young childs demeanor how good their parents are at looking after them. If you could then Baby P would never have happened.
You also have to be aware that these centres actually give the parents a chance to keep their children. In many cases if they couldn't be assessed like this then their child would be taken away from them and taken into care at birth.
It wasn't THEIR bedroom, it was a bedroom at the assessment centre. One that in many cases is probably also used for young babies in cots in the same room as the parents. It wasn't a case of "we'll put a camera in here to see how well they sleep" it was a case of them being put in a room that happened to have a camera in there, due to what the room is used for.