1) Become a health & safety inspector.
2) Knock at my door.
At the moment, this is only aimed at the breeders but, as Niemöller may have put it, first they came for parents, and I didn’t speak out, because I wasn’t a parent.
This egregious pecksniffery came to light briefly in a Daily Mail article that disappeared a week or so back.
Now the Sunday Times is running with it:
Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.
Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.
The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.
*sigh* how many times.
THIS ISN’T THE NANNY STATE – IT’S THE TECHNOCRATIC JACKBOOTED BULLY STATE
Onwards…
Nice also recommends the creation of a new government database to allow GPs, midwives and other officials who visit homes to log health and safety concerns they spot.
Ah good. ANOTHER database helps the creep towards a complete and merged state dataset. For some cunt from KPMG to leave on a train.
The proposals have been put out to consultation and, if approved, will be implemented next year.
Yes indeed they have. Took me a little while to find the consultation, but here it is.
You can respond to the NICE consultation until 2 December 2009.
Make your voice heard, or lose your right to complain when one of these cunts comes to your door.
AJ
UPDATE: The cunts responsible for this shit are:
NICE project team
- Executive Lead: Professor Peter Littlejohns
- Lead Analyst: James Jagroo
- Project Manager: Patricia Mountain
- Associate Director: Simon Ellis
- Director: Professor Mike Kelly
- Public involvement Lead: Jane Cowl
- Implementation Lead: Caroline Matenga
- Coordinator: Melinda Kay
- Guidance Development Group: The Public Health Intervention Advisory Committee (PHIAC) oversees the development process.
But wait… It seems that you don’t get to have your say after all. You have to be a ‘registered stakeholder’. Well that doesn’t stop you sending your message to Unintentionalinjurychildrenhome@nice.org.uk
It’s hard to say precisely, then, why we’re paying Jane Cowl to be ‘public involvement lead’. They don’t publish her email, but the usual possibilities exist:
jcowl@nice.org.uk, cowlj@nice.org.uk, janecowl@nice.org.uk, jane.cowl@nice.org.uk, jane_cowl@nice.org.uk
Anyway, these are the registered stakeholders. Try to spot just one who would say ”hang on a minute”. I’ve highlighted my own personal WTFs in red, among them road safety groups, anti-smoking groups and the randomest quangos. Oh and try to find just one of these stakeholders that you and I are not fucking paying for:
Access Matters
Action for Children
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Association of Catholic Nurses England and Wales
Association of Lawyers for Children
Association of Play Industries
Association of Public Health Observatories
Audit Commission
Baby Milk Action/Baby Feeding Law Group
Barking and Dagenham PCT
Bedfordshire PCT
Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust
Bournemouth and Poole tPCT
Bradford & Airedale tPCT
Brake
Breastfeeding Network
British Orthopaedic Association
British Society for Orthopaedic Surgery
Buckinghamshire PCT
Cambridgeshire PCT
Camden PCT
Canterbury Christ Church University
Centre for Excellence in Outcomes
Centre for International Public Health Policy
Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA)
Child Accident Prevention Trust
Children’s Fire and Burns Trust
City of Bradford MDC
City of Bradford MDC – Bradford Early Years, Child Care and Play
College of Occupational Therapists
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT
Council for Subject Associations
Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring
Coventry City Council
Croydon Council
CTC, the National Cyclists Organisation
Cycling England
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Department for Transport
Department of Health
Derbyshire County PCT
Devon PCT
East & North Herts PCT & West Herts PCT
East Lancashire PCT – Accident Prevention Team
East Midlands Strategic Health Authority
Eastern Region Public Health Observatory (ERPHO)
Edge Hill University
Electrical Safety Council
Equalities National Council
fasawareuk (east branch)
Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service
Government Office for the East of England
Great Western Ambulance Service
Healthcare Commission
Heart of Birmingham tPCT
Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust
Horizon Health Care
Hull City Council Children & Young Peoples Services
Hull Partnership
Independent Schools Council
Institute of Home Safety
Knowsley PCT
Learning through Landscapes
Leeds City Council
Lifeskills – Learning for Living
Lincolnshire County Council – Lincolnshire Healthy Schools Programme
Liverpool PCT
London Borough of Hounslow
London Home & Water Safety Council
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN)
Merseyside Fire and Rescue
Middlesbrough PCT
National CAMHS Support Service
National Centre for Excellence in Residential Care (NCERCC)
National Healthy Schools Programme
National Obesity Observatory
National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS)
Newcastle PCT
NHS Bournemouth and Poole
NHS Direct
NHS Health Scotland
NHS Islington
NHS Warwickshire
Northumberland Care Trust
Northumberland Care Trust
Nottingham City PCT
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue
NSPCC
Ofsted
Oldham PCT – Community Health Services
Oxford Ratcliffe Hospital NHS Trust – Injury Minimization Programme for Schools (IMPS)
Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Play England
Practice Improvement Associates
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
RoadPeace
Royal College of Midwives
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Saving Faces
Sefton NHS
Sheffield PCT
Skincheck Limited
SmokeFree North West
Solihull Care Trust
South Staffordshire PCT
South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO)
Southwark Council
Stockport Council
Stockport PCT
Sunderland PCT
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
Sustainable Development Commission
Swansea University
Telford & Wrekin PCT
The 1990 Trust
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
Together for Children
Unite/CPHVA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
University of Glasgow – Dept of Child Health
University of Glasgow – Dept of General Practice and Primary Care Unit
University of Greenwich
University of Plymouth
University of the West of England
Welcare
West Cheshire PCT
West Midlands Public Health Observatory
West Midlands Strategic Health Authority
Western Health Action Zone, Public Health Agency
York Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Fuck me.
“The Challenging Behaviour Foundation”
Well named…
Comment by JuliaM — November 15, 2009 @ 4:28 pm |
Actually, I think:
1. Fuck the fact that I’m going to take a bath on my mortgage, it’s time to fucking go.
2. If my daughter gives birth, ever, in this shithole, I will kill her.
Comment by Obnoxio The Clown — November 15, 2009 @ 4:36 pm |
Only if the MRSA doesn’t get her first.
Comment by Al Jahom — November 15, 2009 @ 4:41 pm |
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I think the road safety people are involved because the scheme has five parts and this one of the others pertains to road safety directly:
“This is one of five pieces of NICE guidance currently in development on how to prevent unintentional injuries among children and young people aged under 15. The others will address: road design and modification; education and protective equipment to prevent road injuries; outdoor play and leisure; and strategies, legislation, regulation, enforcement, surveillance and workforce development.”
Comment by Simon Gibbs — November 15, 2009 @ 8:23 pm |
Hmmm death rates are 13.1 times higher for the unemployed than they are for managers. Sounds like a great reason to abolish the minimum wage. Do it for the children!
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/333/7559/119
Comment by Simon Gibbs — November 15, 2009 @ 10:40 pm |
WTF!!!!!!!!
From the nice stakeholder page
“For practical reasons, local patient/carer and professional groups cannot register as stakeholders, and nor can individuals”
What are ‘practical reasons’?
Comment by Derek — November 16, 2009 @ 8:24 am |
Individuals do have a say. All of these organisations have people (staff, members, management etc.) I know people at various levels in several of the organisations listed (in one case the highest) and this is what you do. You don’t need violence or even hostility, you blank them and cut them off from your circle and you tell them why you have done so. You tell them how disgusting the activities of ‘their’ organisations are; you become indignant; you tell them you are having a party and that they are not welcome and you tell them why; you tell them that what they are involved in is an affront to decent, civilised human beings.
I have done this with people I know, some of whom are family and others who were friends. They are no longer my friends because I will not cooperate, support or give aid to anyone who does, whatever their motive.
When they stop cooperating I will allow them back into decent society.
Comment by Twisted Root — November 16, 2009 @ 1:57 pm |
With you 100% on this, TR.
However, as 99.999997% of humanity is pre-screened and rejected for other more fundamental reasons, I don’t actually know any of these sorts.
If I did, however, I’d make my feelings as plain as I did when a close mate of mine told me he was considering becoming a copper. I said I’d never speak to him again. His wife said she’d divorce him. The notion was shortlived… lol.
Comment by Al Jahom — November 16, 2009 @ 2:45 pm |
…but children might die if we don’t do this. Don’t you care you evil person!
Comment by Simon Cooke — November 16, 2009 @ 2:54 pm |
If just one extra child dies, my work here is done.
Comment by Al Jahom — November 16, 2009 @ 3:11 pm |
No doubt all of these organisations will be receiving a bribe from the government, courtesty of the taxpayer.
In other words, we’re paying for the destruction of family life.
Please, God or Allah, will you direct all inspectors to Al Jahom’s home to meet with summary justice. And please let Al Johnson, when he is turfed out of office, be one of them.
Comment by Fausty — November 16, 2009 @ 3:13 pm |
Is there any way to get free window and door locks to protect one’s self from the nefarious night time activities of other people’s children?
Comment by V For Value — November 16, 2009 @ 11:38 pm |
Terrifying
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