How this is still not, a problem of JUST one thing, but a collective of how things that are connected, that lacked normal functioning, and what needed changing, IS the systems, but it doesn't change, because, it takes way too long, for the systems to change, and, in the meantime, children are still, MURDERED, left and right! These needed changes just don't come, fast enough…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The one-year-old young boy, Kai-Kai was abused to DEATH by a certified nanny last year, the Department of Health & Social Welfare didn't discuss or evaluate the matter for three whole months, until the case was disclosed by the funeral home, and got onto the newspapers, then, the Department of Health & Social Welfare started carrying forth with the evaluations. This major case of child abuse, had it not been found out by the public, it would've gotten, swept, underneath the rug too easily. The Taipei Social Services Department and the Central Government started scapegoating each other, accused one another for not hosting the evaluation discussions, that a young life got lost because of it, the head of Social Services, the head of the Central Agency, for the sake of keeping themselves in their offices, became, too calculating, showing how coldblooded they all, are.
the work of social services, this is only the "elderly portion"...illustation from online
The Department of Health & Social Welfare set up the "Prevention of Major Cases of Child and Adolescent Abuse". Demanded that the local government to immediately host the discussions of "prevention of serious children and adolescent abuse"; the social services of Taipei also set up the plans to handling the major cases of child and adolescent abuse guidelines, which allows the officials to review over the facts of the cases, then, report back to the protections department of the Department of Health & Social Welfare.
But, after the social services department of Taipei had, inquired the agencies, it'd not hosted the evaluation discussions on its own; while the organizations responsible in oversees cases of child abuse, and the agency overseeing the nursery care of young children, they'd started, scapegoating the case on one another. Even the head of Department of Health & Social Welfare, Shue admitted that the system of communication is flawed. The local offices are slow to act, the central government, losing its function, the evaluations of what happened became hindsight, and yet, the holes of net of social security, if they don't get patched up, there are bound to be the next lives that became, sacrificed under the systems.
helping parents to learn the parenting skills...photo from online
After the case came out to the open, the communities, the organizations all called out to the government, to remember the lessons taught to the world by this boy who was, abused to death. This is, such a, burdensome lesson, from the source, the Department of Social Welfare, to the social services of the city of Taipei, the social policy systems, all lacked, the proper, functionality, the bad nanny passed the evaluations, and, without any justifications of the law, the social workers can't barge in to check, it becomes too easy, for the nannies to hide the fact of child abuse, these systematic lacking, under how the government's inability to change, and to shoulder the responsibilities, when the tragedies happen, the social workers became, scapegoated by the, public.
And so, this is how the systems, failed in its, functioning, and it's still from the top, down, because there's no rules that are set up correctly, those who work underneath don't know what to go by, and, this was what's caused the death of this young boy, who'd been, abused to death. There's definitely that need for a stricter background check, the frequent home visits by the social workers, but, the social workers are still, overworked, with how many cases per social worker, and they're, overworked, and, paid too little, and this causes the quality of care to drop to, subpar.
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