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1984 is coming closer and closer for the English Public

category international | miscellaneous | other press author Tuesday August 04, 2009 08:56author by Ronoc Report this post to the editors

More CCTV cameras on the way in the UK

Its seems the vision that George Orwell had in 1984 is coming closer and closer for the English Public. There is already more CCTV cameras in the UK than there is in the rest of Europe, and now The Childrens Secretary has set out £400 million for plans to put 20,000 of the worst families under 24hour CCTV supervision in their own homes....

"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."

By Alison Little

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736

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author by Paulpublication date Tue Aug 04, 2009 09:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"The mistake you have made is to take anything written by the Daily Express at face value. Perhaps it is a while since you were in the UK, but you should be aware that they print total and utter bollocks most of the time.
Firstly this story is at least a year old (and the trial scheme started in 1995), and secondly the most restrictive regime (with the monitors etc) is for a very small handful of families (not 2000) who cause extensive and very real misery to the lives of people around them and who have been escalated through the system. These are the real families from hell, “known” to social services, the police, the courts, just about everyone.
There are a small number (about 5 or 6) semi-secure units in the country (called “core residential units”) which house these extremely difficult families and are used as part of behaviour management programme. The most extremely disruptive families are moved to these units.
Most families that are part of these family intervention projects are dealt with by a combination of key workers and use of sanctions. They do not have CCTV installed in their homes
The alternative to these family intervention projects is jail - so this is a better regime than that.
http://www.respect.gov.uk/news/article.aspx?id=10318
http://www.respect.gov.uk/members/article.aspx?id=8678"

 
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