Abuse scandal victims still awaiting for psychological help

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 54831.html

Rotherham abuse scandal victims are still waiting for psychological help

Girls abused by sex gangs are being denied the psychological help they need to help overcome their trauma because of a lack of resources, according to the author of the report that exposed such abuse in Rotherham.

Professor Alexis Jay said many of the 1,400 children abused over a 16-year period by gangs of largely Asian men in the city have harmed themselves, suffered mental-health problems or developed alcohol or drug addictions.

But the therapeutic services required to help victims are not widely available – as budget cuts create what campaigners claim is a “national crisis” in children’s mental health.

Five months on from the publication of her Rotherham report, Professor Jay said many young people are struggling with guilt and self-loathing and some have even attempted suicide. Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other English cities, beaten and intimidated.

The report said there had been “blatant” collective failures by council and police leaders.

Speaking to The Yorkshire Post, Professor Jay, a former senior social worker, said: “Many [victims] are filled with guilt and self-loathing and some self-harm or even attempt suicide. Others may be addicted to drink or drugs, as a result of how they were groomed into exploitation and abuse. There are simply not enough resources across the country to give these young victims the type of support and therapeutic help which many of them will need.”

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A big part of the problem, is the phrase "taken into care".

If social workers had to apply to take children into "a hazardous system with virtually no care whatsoever" they might make more realistic decisions, and the press might make less clamour when some kid is done in by it's parents.

The real choice is often between abusive parents, and a highly abusive system.
Now the social workers cover their own backs, after a few of them have been crucified after kids were killed by parents. They opt for the abusive system, rather than the abusive parents. At least then, they are protected from being the scapegoat when something goes wrong.