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The source materials with any accompanying comments are my husband's, who had 30 years, mainly Senior Experience on the 'front lines' so to speak, of both Local & Central Government Authorities: this includes both Tax/Revenue Collection, Recovery and Prosecution - also including Social Services Child related Matters/Cases - he being no stranger to having perpetrators incarcerated!
He was instrumental in Publishing & Distribution of the Joint Home Office/Dept of Health Government White Paper, 'Dangerous & Severe Personality Disorder Offenders', and its subsequent response collation.
He later went onto the Ministry of Justice., where he retired.
Whilst at the Home Office it was found that due to factors outside Ministerial & Senior Servant Control that there were many overlapping projects of Work.
It was decided that a new system needed to be introduced to combat that, so that there should no longer be this duplication of work & effort and so something called 'Sharepoint' was introduced to the Departmental working Practices.
It was a system where workers could enter key words and have access to others' work on the subject and make use of it and not spend hours researching etc!
Its additional benefit was document version control so one could Historically view the subsequent periodic amending of the original & its version amending Author.
My husband, being one who was one of those in charge of Documentation Control & Archiving became part of its Project Board.
The ultimate aim was to have everything on any specific subject open to all, to use/copy/reproduce in similar fashion, so all were effectively working from the same page: if a serious change were required, for whatever reason, then the original/subsequent document owner could be liaised with for a Final Agreed Draft!
What we both found in our dealings with those involved with Child Abuse (And worse!) was that there was such a terrible overlap of work; one official hand not knowing what its counterpart was doing; important work impacting on others not being passed on to the responsible people; those not realising their responsibility to others in the same (investigatory/evidentiary often prosecutional) side; the lack of training in all the before; the lack of resource AND its not being made known to others so time frames for response would be delayed; work just left whilst officers were on leave, with no deputy being made known; no central liaison contact point in authorities; no dissemination of updates to the child's, or the abusive parent(s) situation.
There are others but you can appreciate the minefield and if one is ignited, inadvertently or not, then BANG an important link in the investigatory/evidentiary/prosecutional process is broken.
In all the above the work is utterly time responsive critical, as examples quoted will show even a day can mean one life less, if the bullet is not bitten immediately!
NB A possible addendum/update of the two Chapters on the aspect of modern (Black) culture k/a Drilling - outside there might be its own difficulties, but inside the likes of Feltham Youth Offender Institution the Governor has introduced a innovative, wider Music Appreciation: attempting to wean them off Drilling and with it the emphasis on violence & misogyny! An Incarcerated case of 'Small (Musical) Steps? EH?
We can but hope/wait & see?
