I give below the text of what I intended to say on Baroness Butler-Sloss’s Amendment 56 to the Immigration Bill. In the event the amendment was carried by 282 votes to 184.
“There is an existing system for coping with trafficked children, whether from overseas or coming from the UK. This tries to comply with our international obligations. There are nationwide components, such as the national Referral Mechanism and the Children’s Commissioners. At operating level there are Immigration and Police Officers, prosecutors and courts, while Local Authority social workers do much of the case-work, helped by a range of NGOs. At central government level, at least four major departmaents are involved, all sending out guidance from time to time.
This is fine in theory, but in practice it is highly complicated and diffuse. It is hardly surprising that some children fall through the gaps, for example those who abscond from Local Authority care, or who are privately fostered, or are just placed in households where they become domestic slaves. That is why I support the Amendment.
Trafficked children need more than just an advocate, who may speak for them at particular hearings. This is HMG’s proposal. However, the pilots would only cover a small number of Local Authorities. They deserve an indivdual guardian who will follow their case through all its stages if necessary to adulthood.”
It is all so, Lord Hylton;
yet we lag, largely unwittingly, behind the necessary practical-wellbeing-building by and for All;
and we need to be both mindfully-aware of, and ‘bodyfully’ progressing in,
both our own personal
and our collectivised
learning and practising
of the foundation enablements and abilities in [individual] human-development,
as already adequately introduced, explained, practically guidelined, and being affordably published,
by Somatics researchers and ‘new’ educators;
which listings and curricula should include Thomas Hanna; Moshe Feldenkrais; Mary Bond; Rudolf Laban; Mabel Todd; Caroline Dweck; William Powers; Bersin, Bersin & Reese [whose excellently foundational and lifelong-healthy-movement supportive work “Relaxercise” has been dismissed by The Church of England as being “not Christian”];
and Hendricks G, Hendricks K, Roberts & Wills [whose longstanding co-educational activities for both children and adults including parents and teachers can still be followed straight from their publications “The Centering Book”, “The Moving Center”, and “The Second Centering Book” {my jsdm only’improvement’ request to these latter would be to replace the term “Centering” by “Self-Balancing”: this on account of the special senses of “Centering” as the second of the seven [divinely-innate] human-energies
Grounding(Baptism); Centering (Communion); Boundarying (Confirmation); Bonding (Marriage); Sounding (Confession); Facing (Ordination); Spacing (Unction) }.
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Thereto, therefore, we each and all, as well as specificly here “Trafficked Children” needing both advocates and guardians, need major-lifetimeframed generic & individual human-soma-enabling
peers and peer-groups/associations,
mentors, educators,
and expert remedialists for those ‘special’ times when we fall into injury, impairment or disability, or simply ‘behind’.