THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.
The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.
They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.
Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far.
But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.
Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.
Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them.
He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”
But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little, much too late.
“This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.”
halls120 wrote:Wow. George Orwell is turning out to be quite the prophet, isn't he?
PlymSpotter wrote:Why don't we just go the whole hog and send these problem families to concentration camps where they can be 'improved'
Arniepie wrote:PlymSpotter wrote:Why don't we just go the whole hog and send these problem families to concentration camps where they can be 'improved'
Better yet, why not put them on some isolated island and make it a supersafe prison with extensive external control and no communication and involvment to/from outside, no food, no medication, no nothing, let them sort out there problems for themselves without bothering the rest of us.
jpetekUA777 wrote:Don't give the religious right any ideas!!
Tornado82 wrote:jpetekUA777 wrote:Don't give the religious right any ideas!!
Religious right? Hell your side is already dumping silicone down the oil crankcases of cars they deem too polluting, and determining who can get medical coverage and when.
halls120 wrote:And last time I checked, it was the very liberal Labor Party in charge of the UK government, not the Tories.
Spicoli wrote:They dislike each other because they are so similar.
Spicoli wrote:They dislike each other because they are so similar.
Spicoli wrote:Jpete is quick to trash the religious right (like Goldwater, I'm no fan of them either), while trying to paint his side as the side of freedom, when they are anything but. It's pretty amusing.
Tornado82 wrote:jpetekUA777 wrote:Don't give the religious right any ideas!!
Religious right? Hell your side is already dumping silicone down the oil crankcases of cars they deem too polluting, and determining who can get medical coverage and when.
halls120 wrote:And last time I checked, it was the very liberal Labor Party in charge of the UK government, not the Tories.
ANCFlyer wrote:And last time I checked, it was the very liberal Labor Party in charge of the UK government, not the Tories.
again.
What am I supposed to come back with, look at those Saudi Arabian conservatives? Come on guys..
jpetekUA777 wrote:ANCFlyer wrote:And last time I checked, it was the very liberal Labor Party in charge of the UK government, not the Tories.
again.
Christ, my comment was a half joke to start off with. I sure must agree with everything Labour does too.
or or 
jpetekUA777 wrote:Saudi Arabian conservatives
