nothing special to say at the minute, really. very busy with the start of college at the moment. but this did catch my eye.

...A new bill, piloted by Louise Casey, dubbed the "coordinator of respect" by the Home Office, will propose that parents lose access to council housing if they fail to control their children. It will also suggest that problem families be moved to forms of secure accommodation, as already happens in a pilot project in Dundee

leaving aside the obvious humour in the moronic title "coordinator of respect", there seems to be some presumption within the policy that troublesome children will only occur where the parents are in, or intend to be, state-owned housing. whilst the defenders of this will probably claim that it is for the protection of others who have to live on the estates, it looks to me as if it is framed from the perspectives of the owner/occupier class. what sanctions will there be against parents who own their own houses? nothing seems to be mentioned about that, or maybe ownership really does make you a better person, and parent.