understanding health failings
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Safeguarding and protecting a child is everyone's 'business'.
The traditional proverb, "It takes a Village", originates from the Bantu Language or from the ethnolinguistic grouping of the Bantu People in (Africa) - a grouping of some 500-700 languages that apply this proverb to raising, protecting and keeping safe their children. [There is no clear etymology.]
Nevertheless, the proverb is pertinent here; Janet Willicott is African by birth and understands Ubuntu's true and holistic value. Ubuntu is also of Bantu origin and coined/first used in ca. 1846 [Hare, H.H. et al.], meaning: 'Human Quality' - more modern usage is referred to as the ability to relate to each other [Goodness Ncube] or "A person is a person through other people", or "One’s humanity is recognised through recognition of an "other" that is despite their uniqueness and difference." [Michael Onyebuchi Eze].
Children, Young People, The Disabled, The Infirm, The Vulnerable, The Minorites and those with a variety of complex and perplexing health needs - all need support, and all need the village to support them. Yet, they are 'unintentionally' forgotten in favour of 'we see no issue' - therefore, the issues do not exist.
We all make mistakes, and to 'err is human' - [Pope, 1711] - So why do Medical, Clinical, Psychological, Therapeutic and Educational Professionals err? Or why are these Professionals erring so frequently, and why is Fii on the rise?
Paediatricians, especially 'designated community safeguarding leads' / Social Workers, GPs/ Police, SENDCo's and the very few honorary specialists, all purport to know and understand the theory. Yet, no one has ever challenged them or the theory/origin of Fii.
"The Institute of Medicine report ‘To Err is Human’, health services and agencies around the world have increasingly focused on improving the safety and quality of health care. Historically, the commitment by health care professionals to ‘First do no Harm' has produced a focus on the absence of interventions that may cause adverse outcomes.
This clinical approach links to the Hippocratic Oath, which includes the promise "to abstain from doing harm". The Oath reminds clinicians to first consider the possible harm that any intervention might do. This approach to interactions with patients leads to an emphasis on the ‘absence of harm’ rather than a focus on the ‘creation of health’.
To improve the care of patients, a paradigm shift is required in the health care services from a ‘disease-based intervention’ model to a supportive ‘health’ model. Just as ‘health’ is not the absence of illness or disease, preventing patient harm is not simply avoiding interventions. To ‘first do no harm’ health services need to actively improve their focus on health and the entire patient experience." [Karen Luxford - Clinical Excellence Commission]
So, if Professionals are to improve or focus on the entire patient experience, why do they fail?
Why are Parents (Women, Mothers), Carers and Grandparents, those from Domestic Violence pasts and or the LGBTQ+ community, or those who 'think' - accused of harming their children?
The harm stems from allegedly having a 'Fii situation' aka (Erroneous Beliefs) (ASD) (Rigid Thinking) (Being Dr Google) (Being too Disabled) (Medically Seeking) (Inventing Illness) (Fabricating Symptoms) (Wanting to Home Educate Children) (Not 'forcing' children into attending School enough)?
Were only one of these ('criteria'' flags) to 'pop up' a few times. All it takes is one 'professional' to determine a possible Fii matter - a s.47 is enacted upon (Child Protection) with possible s.37 (Family Court) Proceedings. [The Children Act 1989]
Usually, anywhere between 1 to 30 professionals 'gather' to vote in a (strategy meeting) to determine whether the Parents are harming the child (typically single mothers). The 'factual decision' is often made by a medical professional who has not read the entire medical history or has no legal remitted capacity to determine/diagnose Fii. Depending on the secret strategy meeting, the majority of the time, it is off to the Family Court to be found guilty/not guilty of harm or neglect.
Whatever the court decides, children can be removed from parental care or left in the ’harmful’ care of their parents, who then have special orders placed upon their person, preventing them from supporting their children correctly. Often, Parents may be coerced/forced into taking the latter to 'reduce trauma', placed upon children" through the process. Medical / health treatment is often removed, with detrimental outcomes.
Doctors who do not know the Children or who have never met them write repurposed reports submitted to the Family Court that 'factually' determine the alleged 'harm' caused by their parents.
Legal teams argue 'facts' and cross-exam experts who have only ever been given ⅛ of the actual bundle of facts. The Judge decides on only the evidence before them. It does not matter if half of the legal bundle contains factually inaccurate falsehoods or if the evidence is entirely missing or criminally altered.
The Paediatrician et al. [NHS], Local Authorities [UK Gov] and Judiciary [UK Gov] - spend hundreds of millions of pounds, pretending to know actual harm from misinterpreted harm. Yet no one professional has unpicked the ‘bundle’ of evidence highlighting truth from fiction. Most of the time, all the evidence is always contained within the bundle, but it’s not forensically pieced together. The Theory of Fii or the ‘Lie’ or rather professionally speaking the as-of-yet unfounded unethical diagnosis, can be summarised as follows:
'If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.' based on:
'Never admit a fault or wrong - blame them for everything that goes wrong; people will
believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will
sooner or later, believe it.'
Whatever happens to Ubuntu - it takes a village to raise and protect a child? Parents and Mothers have become empowered to think for themselves and understand their children’s lives more than ever. The Suffragettes fought for women’s rights, yet 100 years on, Mothers are still being accused of caring for their children 'too much'. Motherly instinct should never be dismissed.
