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Kantor on 24 November 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/9700321/Council-defends-taking-foster-children-away-from-UKIP-members.html

Council defends taking foster children away from UKIP members

A council has refused to back down over its decision to remove three children from their foster parents because their membership of the UK Independence Party meant that they supported “racist” policies.

 

The husband and wife, who have been fostering for nearly seven years, said they were made to feel like criminals when a social worker told them their views on immigration made them unsuitable carers.

The decision by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has provoked widespread criticism, with campaigners representing foster parents describing the decision as “ridiculous” and warning that it could deter other prospective foster parents from volunteering.

 

 

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I think this is atrocious. You can't take children away from a loving family (and as the article states later on, it was a loving family) because you perceive their political beliefs as meaning that they hate all ethnic minorities.



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radishhead on 24 November 2012

It's not like UKIP are even an extremist group - I'm sure there are millions who would vote for them as an alternative to the Conservative Party



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Slimebeast on 24 November 2012

The West has become a self-hating culture.



Immortal on 24 November 2012

Given that this party appears to be almost mainstream and the parents seem quite adequate, this is indeed unacceptable. Mind you, since this is the only source I'm looking at, I obviously can't be entirely sure these are true.
This does bring up the larger question, though: is it alright to put children into the hands of foster parents who are very caring, but are likely to brainwash them into hateful ideologies?



 

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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 24 November 2012

I don't know a lot about the UKIP except the fact that they don't like the European Union, but from what I have heard they are not even close to promoting racist policies. Needless to say this is ridiculous.


Yet another sad day for democracy.



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kitler53 on 24 November 2012

wow, in a bad way.



SecondWar on 24 November 2012

Saw this on the BBC. Could understand if they were members of a far-right party (even then it could still be called into question), but not UKIP. Seeing as half of the Conservative party seems to be Eurosceptic, on this basis they should declared ineligible to be foster parents as well.

Totally ridiculous.



Immortal on 24 November 2012
kowenicki said:
Immortal said:
Given that this party appears to be almost mainstream and the parents seem quite adequate, this is indeed unacceptable. Mind you, since this is the only source I'm looking at, I obviously can't be entirely sure these are true.
This does bring up the larger question, though: is it alright to put children into the hands of foster parents who are very caring, but are likely to brainwash them into hateful ideologies?


How wold you know? I doubt a family who would promote hateful ideologies would like to foster. Its also a dangerous precedent, are we to take children away from birth parents if we feel they don't conform to current thinking on certain subjects.  It's a natural progression surely.

I realise these children will be under the court of protection and so society has a say in how hey they are raised, but this family was normal and political ideologies should not even be under scrutiny.


No need to get particularly passionate about this with me; I'm just asking a question.

Anyhow, I don't see why it's necessary that a family with hateful ideologies would be unwilling to foster. I mean, a lot of what we would call hateful used to be the norm at some point not too far back, did it not? And it's a bit unfair to say that old-fashioned people would be unwilling to foster. As such, I'd say it's easily possible for some over-conservative but good-natured people to want to be foster parents.

Of course, whether or not society should stop fringe ideologies from being propagated by foster parents at all is the bigger question here. While most people would agree that, past a certain point of deviating morally from the norm, we should try to stop them (neo-nazis, for example, should certainly not be allowed to be foster parents, I'm guessing), this whole idea seems to have a very over-controlling government air to it.

As I said before, though, from what I see in this article, this particular case is entirely unjustified.



 

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Kasz216 on 24 November 2012

It reminds me of the US when there are lobbying and advocacy groups who try and make it so white people can't adopt children of color... even if it means years in the system rather then going to a loving family.

 

My god too... and the people they took them from... a nurse and someone who works with the mentally disabled?

What, were their no foster parents that were a Kitten Surgeon and Children's Cancer Therapist?



Kasz216 on 24 November 2012

Hah looks like the big boss of the department isn't happy to say the least either.



Mr Gove, who heads the Government department responsible for children's services and who was himself adopted as a child, today described Rotherham's decision as "indefensible".

He said social workers had made "the wrong decision in the wrong way for the wrong reasons" and that he would be personally investigating and exploring steps to "deal with" the situation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/9700632/Michael-Gove-blasts-council-for-taking-foster-children-away-from-UKIP-members.html