tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984159410366033967.post3464039570886751246..comments2023-03-31T23:33:13.973-07:00Comments on Simon Bellwood - The Whistleblower: My Story - Part 5 (The day I blew the whistle)Simon Bellwood - The Whistleblowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15560953683214156817noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984159410366033967.post-6027682319935924512008-05-12T13:16:00.000-07:002008-05-12T13:16:00.000-07:00Grand Prix is just another name forPindown, the fo...Grand Prix is just another name for<BR/>Pindown, the following is taken from Wikepedia.<BR/><BR/>Pindown was a method of discipline used in children's homes in Staffordshire in the 1980's<BR/>Pindown was named after the notion<BR/>that it would "pindown the problem" relating to a particular "difficult" child.<BR/><BR/>It involved locking children<BR/>in rooms called "pindown rooms", sometimes for periods of weeks or months.<BR/><BR/>An inquiry into the practice, "The Pindown Inquiry" held in 1990/1991<BR/>by Allan Levy QC. It took 75 days of evidence from 153 witnesses and examined 150,000 pages of documents including 400 log books of events in children's homes. A 300page report was produced after almost a year.<BR/><BR/>The report's findings were that the practice was decidedly outside<BR/>anything that could be considered as good child care practice. In the view of the inquiry it was unethical, unprofessional and unacceptable practice, and unlawful.<BR/><BR/>References<BR/>Levy A, AND Kahan .B.(1991) "The Pindown Experience and the Protection of Children; The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984159410366033967.post-30326946854165327322008-05-10T23:16:00.000-07:002008-05-10T23:16:00.000-07:00The JEP is quoting Bailhache's shameless use of th...The JEP is quoting Bailhache's shameless use of the word "remorseless," speaking not in regards to the child abuse and care scandals, but to describe the outside press!<BR/><BR/>Isn't that consistent with suspicions that what happened to you is all part of an entrenched, systematic Jersey political philosophy of avoiding all scrutiny?<BR/><BR/>This dark rot flows through all levels of the system as seen clearly in the written evidence you have laid out. It is clearly a form of third world style patronism which depends upon absolute certainty that no one will even try to expose anything unflattering.<BR/><BR/>What the establishment cannot ever forgive you or Stuart for is the brighter sunlight now shining upon their darkest corners. Your exposures, forcing open windows to a closed world are downright revolutionary.<BR/><BR/>They might have prevented so much of Jersey's humiliation by appearing to be just a wee bit humble, and avoided much of their own ugly self exposure had they honestly looked at themselves in the mirror. <BR/><BR/>The ironic enemy of the corrupt elite in famously fair weathered Jersey now seems to be the bright sunlight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984159410366033967.post-31848864033020161522008-05-10T03:11:00.000-07:002008-05-10T03:11:00.000-07:00I hope all the people mentioned will be made accou...I hope all the people mentioned will be made accountable for their actions when we have this "independent"review.Keep strong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com