{"id":148,"date":"2007-08-17T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2012-05-05T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T08:42:50","slug":"the-welfare-of-the-child-is-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"The welfare of the child is paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a quote from a piece of legislation that is the centrepiece of English and Welsh childcare legislation: The Children Act (1989) as updated in 2004 under the Every Child Matters guidance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Children Act (1989) sets the legislative\u00a0framework for a number of\u00a0childcare policies that were already established case-, statute- or common-law.<\/p>\n<p>It brought together and formalised a number of assumptions regarding\u00a0childcare rules\u00a0&#8211; and went on to establish\u00a0diverse standards that would\u00a0be applied within a regulatory framework.<\/p>\n<p>What was new was the one simple statement which became a pivotal, doctrinal mantra for childcare: &#8216;The welfare of the child is paramount&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this statement of imperative has been continually eroded since it was enacted; as if it were a large block of cheese persistently nibbled by an ever growing mischief of mice <em>(details on request).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But one Rotherham-based GP &#8211; Dr Matt Capehorn &#8211; wants to put the welfare of the child back at the forefront of parental and legal thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Capehorn, who runs a paediatric obesity clinic, feels that parents who allow their children to become obese should be removed from the job.<\/p>\n<p>Have their children taken in to care.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Capehorn argues that obesity is a child protection issue; believes that parents who allow their children to become obese are killing them slowly.<\/p>\n<p>But obesity is a growing problem.<\/p>\n<p>So shouldn&#8217;t we be treating the <em>cause<\/em> of the problem?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n<p>How about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Reinstituting competitive sports in schools<br \/>\n* Putting phys ed back on the compulsory timetable<br \/>\n*\u00a0Forming a national programme of sporting disciplines<br \/>\n*\u00a0Ensuring children have six-monthly weight checks (not BMI, that system is plainly broken)<br \/>\n*\u00a0Compulsory six-monthly fitness examinations for children<\/p>\n<p>Yes, let&#8217;s start there.<\/p>\n<p>Of course then we&#8217;ll have to deal with the parents who think feeding crap to their children is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Off with their heads?<br \/>\n<strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quote from a piece of legislation that is the centrepiece of English and Welsh childcare legislation: The Children Act (1989) as updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}