Aims of blog and what you can do

I’ve already had some positive feedback thank you!

I do understand that everyone has busy lives, that the information on this blog may be unpleasant, easy to put off reading, or listening to the radio interview to "when you may have more time" and easy to forget. To some, from feedback I've had, it's "Shocking".  If you haven't yet listened to Camila's radio interview on the second post ("Its not climate change we should be worrying about") please please do.

In my view of our world we are one big family and need to take care of all children, not see them as someone elses responsibility

I'd like to clarify my aims in creating this blog;

1. To help publicise and hopefully make more common knowledge what is happening for many children – especially (but not only) in many cities in the UK, (e.g. lack of care from parents & services letting them down).  Many people are under the illusion that social services will take care of children when needed and are surprised to learn that this is not always the case.
2. To get support for calls for more (not less!) funding for early years and child support.
3. To suggest the simple low cost preventative measure of infant massage classes as part of health care that every parent (ideally if possible both parents, not just one of them!) would get, along with a return of more antenatal care. Currently a lot of funding for this has been, or is being cut.
4. To encourage people to take action write to your MP, support calls for better funding for early years and childcare support along with health care. - To show members of parliament that adults of voting age do care!  It seems so very wrong to me that so much childcare and support is provided by and relies on charity!
   Child line was set up 25 years ago to give children a voice! It is currently run by the NSPCC.  The following shocking facts are from the NSPCC website from 2011!
   On average, every week in England and Wales at least one child is killed at the hands of another person.
   Children under one are the age group most at-risk of being killed at the hands of another person.
   Source: London Home Office (2011) Smith, Kevin (ed.) et al (2011) Homicides, firearms offences and intimate violence 2009/10: supplementary volume 2 to crime in England and Wales 2009/2010.
5. To promote learning and understanding of brain development in the hope that it will support ending discrimination against people with mental health difficulties. To show the general public that mental health difficulties mostly (if not totally, we don't know everything) comes from how a person was nurtured (or not) as a young baby or child. To encourage the understanding that someone with what is labelled ‘mental illness’ is not ‘at fault’ and what will most likely aid recovery and why this can take time (very simply put; we generally learn quickly as a child because the brain grows quickly when we are young , for adults relearning is slow because the brain develops much more slowly when we are older).
6. To support and aid my own personal growth, to inspire others that they too can make a difference, replacing apathy with hope.