Britain's "caring" social worker bitches again

Mother of disabled daughter told they would take her into "care" if she doesn't take away her daughter's toys. Putting "care" into the hands of government employees is a sick joke

A mother is distraught after being told her disabled daughter could be taken into care if she does not take away her collection of toys. Maureen Wright was sent a letter by the council telling her to make "significant adjustments" to the way she looked after daughter Michelle. Among these adjustments was an order to move Michelle's collection of soft toys out of reach in case she "ingests fibres".

She was also told to be more accommodating to her daughter's three full time carers, who spend up to 21 hours a day with Michelle, 38, who suffers from genetic condition Cri du Chat syndrome. The letter was sent by the team leader of the council's joint community learning disability team, Linda Lines.

In the letter Ms Lines wrote: "I am aware that you are keen for Michelle to remain living at home. "This is something that the local authority will support provided Michelle's care needs are being fully met. "In the event that Michelle's needs are not fully met we have been advised to make an application to the Court of Protection, which may result in Michelle being moved to residential accommodation. "Unless significant adjustments are made now ... it is likely that she will have to be moved into residential care."

Maureen, 65, says the letter has left her feeling like a bad mother, despite providing many years of loving care for her daughter. It also asked her to ensure Michelle is fed a varied diet including fresh vegetables - even though Maureen claims she already does this. She said: "I'm extremely angry and very upset. I just don't know what to do about it. "Of course I don't want Michelle to go into care but if they keep writing me letters and making demands I don't know how I can keep up with it." She says she will abide by the council's demands but has been left distraught at the insinuation she is not providing her daughter with everything she needs.

Maureen, of Queens Road, Thornton Heath, said: "Michelle is so happy at home. She wouldn't survive in care. "She's 38 now and I've been looking after her since she was born. "I know what to do. I'm her mother."

A spokeswoman for Croydon Council defended the letter being sent out. She said: "The council has a responsibility to safeguard the wellbeing of all disabled people living at home with carers and this is always our number one priority. "We have been working closely with Mrs Wright and her daughter to ensure that Michelle's welfare and wellbeing comes first in any decisions or changes as regards her care." [What a mealy-mouthed hypocritical bitch!]

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Virulent new strain of anti-Semitism rife in UK, says Chief Rabbi

Britain is in the grip of a “virulent” new strain of anti-Semitism, according to the Chief Rabbi. Sir Jonathan Sacks told The Times in an interview that in January the number of anti-Semitic incidents reached the highest level since records began. Jews have been physically attacked, schools targeted and cemeteries desecrated.

“I was in the synagogue a few months ago when one of the members came in visibly shaken: somebody had just shouted at him, ‘It’s a pity Hitler didn’t finish the job’,” the Chief Rabbi said.

Although the new “mutation” was different from the anti-Semitism promoted by Hitler, it was dangerous because it was international, he said. “The internet means that we no longer have national cultures; we have global cultures and the new anti-Semitism is very much a phenomenon of the global culture.”

Whereas in the past, hatred was focused against Judaism as a religion or Jews as a race, the focus this time was on Jews as a nation. The rise in the number of attacks in January took place at the same time as Israel’s assault on Hamas in Gaza. “It begins as anti-Zionism — but it is never merely anti-Zionism when it attacks synagogues or Jewish schools,” Sir Jonathan said. “In the post-Holocaust world the single greatest source of authority is human rights — therefore the new anti-Semitism is constructed in the language of human rights.”

In a new book, Future Tense, he describes a “virulent new strain of anti-Semitism”. A worrying alliance had developed between radical Islamists and anti-globalisation protesters, he said. [i.e. the extreme Left]

The UN had also fanned the flames. At the World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001, he said, “Israel was accused of the five cardinal sins against human rights — racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. So the old myths are recycled they are alive and well but they are done in a new kind of vocabulary.”

The media should also be more careful in coverage of the Middle East: “I do think too little of the history has been set out and people don’t really understand what’s at stake, so the Jewish community has felt quite vulnerable because of that.” Asked whether he thought the BBC had shown anti-Israeli bias, he replied: “No comment.”

Sir Jonathan said that the mood had changed after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. His daughter, who at the time was studying at the London School of Economics, “had gone to an anti-globalisation rally which quickly turned into a diatribe against Israel and Jews. She came home weeping and said, ‘Dad they hate us’. I never expected that to happen in the 21st century,” he said. “There had been after the Holocaust a kind of taboo and that began to break. Within 24 hours of 9/11 people said it was ‘Mossad wot done it’.

“Then the anti-Semitism went viral and it became very worrying. There started to be synagogue desecrations, cemetery desecrations and Jews attacked on the street. We had a rabbinical student who was on the top floor of a bus in Stamford Hill quietly studying the Talmud. Somebody stabbed him many times — he was lucky to live. The guy who was convicted said, ‘Israel is persecuting us so I decided I had to persecute him’.”

Mark Gardiner, of the Community Security Trust, said that the number of attacks in January — 250 — was double the highest previous monthly total and the level had stayed well above average. Figures began to be compiled in 1984. “We have repeatedly seen a surge of anti-Semitic attacks every time there is turmoil in the Middle East,” Mr Gardiner said. “It’s a ridiculous situation that British Jews should feel vulnerable in relation to a conflict thousands of miles away.”

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