Whats wrong with the Badman Report?
You can find the report here.It might be more reasonable to ask what is right with it. Erosion of Human RightsThe report recommends that local authorities be given right of access to private homes and right of access to children for private interviews without a parent (or other adult) present. This is discriminatory to the point of indecency. Families should not be expected to put up with this level of interference unless there is a damn good reason, criminal activity, for instance. The Badman Report polarises the rights of the parents and the rights of the child as though they are at opposite ends of some invisible spectrum. It is the duty of the parents to uphold the rights of the child. It is not the duty of government to ride roughshod over parental rights in order to offer children lip-service. Mr Badman uses the UNCRC to justify his recommendations and undermine parents, yet fails to include the parts which really empower the child to see that his rights are observed by the state
