The built in fail rate of compulsory licensing
Another thing to add to the long list of problems with compulsory licensing. It will disadvantage the poor, the disabled, single parents and anyone else in the least bit vulnerable. Why? Because if you employ a bunch of people to monitor and judge they WILL fail some families to justify their own continued employment. It doesn’t matter if those people deserve to be failed or not, it’s the nature of the system, some will be sacrificed so LA staff can keep their jobs. Naturally the staff involved won’t want to go head to head with the kind of parents with the money, contacts and education to make things difficult. No, they’ll pick off the low hanging fruit. So much for removing barriers to social mobility!
Katherine Said on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:54 am quote
Well - 50% ‘fail’ rate is build into the legislation. They need to find 50% of children to get extra visits so will need to pick them apart to justify it.