Council not intrested who do you contact

Pollycat

I wonder what exactly the arrangement was between the couple and their friend?

Did they tell him specifically he was expected to stay at the B&B?
It would seem so:

He agreed, and the night before the Johnsons left, they showed him the room they'd made up for him and his wife, and ran through the basics of taking care of their paying guests, as well as Henry, who knew the couple well.

I can't believe that anyone with even a modicum of sense would think it acceptable to agree to look after a B&B and a 12 year old boy and not plan to spend the night there.


I bet that if the OP was a neighbour of this couple, she'd have been on the phone to the council and police the minute their taxi to the airport was out of sight.

JReacher1

Pollycat wrote: »

I wonder what exactly the arrangement was between the couple and their friend?

Did they tell him specifically he was expected to stay at the B&B?
It would seem so:

I can't believe that anyone with even a modicum of sense would think it acceptable to agree to look after a B&B and a 12 year old boy and not plan to spend the night there.


I bet that if the OP was a neighbour of this couple, she'd have been on the phone to the council and police the minute their taxi to the airport was out of sight.

Are you criticising or praising the OP here? You start off by saying it's unacceptable to leave a 12 year old child on his own overnight, but then you seem to be critical of the OP as they would have phoned the council and police if they were aware of this happening.

Reading your post it appears your approach is it's not ok to leave a child on their own overnight but if someone does you shouldn't do anything about It.

It's a sad endictment of how people are in the 21st century.....

Pollycat

JReacher1 wrote: »

Are you criticising or praising the OP here? You start off by saying it's unacceptable to leave a 12 year old child on his own overnight, but then you seem to be critical of the OP as they would have phoned the council and police if they were aware of this happening.

Reading your post it appears your approach is it's not ok to leave a child on their own overnight but if someone does you shouldn't do anything about It.

It's a sad endictment of how people are in the 21st century.....

I was being sarcastic about the OP who seems to be a busybody based on her inability to answer reasonable questions put to her. Hence my comment about her phoning the police & council.
She has been asked several times to explain how far this girl has to walk and what the route is like so that posters can assess the level of risk but has declined to provide an answer.

These are 2 different things:
a 7 year old girl walking to and from the bus stop
a 12 year old boy being left alone overnight on 2 occasions

I know what I think is acceptable.
I know what I would have done if I had known that a 12 year old child was in a B&B without an adult responsible for his welfare.

It 'appears' that you have misunderstood my post.
No surprise there, then.

JReacher1 wrote: »

It's a sad endictment of how people are in the 21st century.....

No, it's a sad indictment of how you think people are in the 21st Century.....

Mupette

OP

if the child is your child's class then why don't you do the taking to the bus and collecting until mother is home.

Perhaps mother works (god forbid, she should be home and claim benefits) and is unable to be home at the same time as child.

Unless you are that nosy that you know all about the family, i would suggest rather than slate the mother, offer support instead.

JReacher1

Pollycat wrote: »

I was being sarcastic about the OP who seems to be a busybody based on her inability to answer reasonable questions put to her. Hence my comment about her phoning the police & council.
She has been asked several times to explain how far this girl has to walk and what the route is like so that posters can assess the level of risk but has declined to provide an answer.

These are 2 different things:
a 7 year old girl walking to and from the bus stop
a 12 year old boy being left alone overnight on 2 occasions

I know what I think is acceptable.
I know what I would have done if I had known that a 12 year old child was in a B&B without an adult responsible for his welfare.

It 'appears' that you have misunderstood my post.
No surprise there, then.

No, it's a sad indictment of how you think people are in the 21st Century.....

You weren't talking about the 7 year old girl. You were talking about the 12 year old boy case and made a dig at the OP because they would have phoned the police if they were aware of this.

It was unpleasant posting behaviour, especially as you agree leaving a 12 year old boy overnight is unacceptable.

There was no need to reference the OP in that case. It was just nasty.

You should take a long hard look at yourself.

Pollycat

JReacher1 wrote: »

There was no need to reference the OP in that case. It was just nasty.

And this is not nasty?
Really?

JReacher1 wrote: »

Thanks for that Bob. I'll miss you when you kill yourself

JReacher1 wrote: »

You should take a long hard look at yourself.

Just done that.

Yep, I'm fine.

How about you?

JReacher1

Pollycat wrote: »

And this is not nasty?
Really?




Just done that.

Yep, I'm fine.

How about you?

Good deflect.

I was just responding to an insult from a man who has "suicide" as his name. You on on the other hand decided to make an unprovoked attack on the OP who had done nothing to you.

Glad you feel fine about being that sort of person....

suicidebob

JReacher1 wrote: »

Good deflect.

I was just responding to an insult from a man who has "suicide" as his name. You on on the other hand decided to make an unprovoked attack on the OP who had done nothing to you.

Glad you feel fine about being that sort of person....

It wasn't an insult. It was a fairly acccurate comment based on the manner in which you have represented yourself in this thread.

Seems a few folk share a similar viewpoint.

marleyboy

samsung_laptop wrote: »

Their is a girl by me who lets her 7 year old daughter walk on her own to and fro from the school bus and nothing is said by the driver or escort. I've contacted the council and they haven't done anything about it so I contacted my local councillor and he just said phone the council.


So who would you contact next as anything could happen to the girl.

A psychiatrist maybe. Feel free to wrap your own kids in bubble wrap, but leave the majority of parents who no longer have to treat their infants as babies well alone.

Money-Saving-King

What good does wrapping kids up in cotton wall do to them? All I can see is it'll try to teach a fear of the world and encourage them always to take the safe options.

It's interesting to see how Richard Branson was brought up. This is a true story from his autobiography. Once on the way home from a shopping trip to a nearby village, Richards mother stopped the car about three miles from home and let Richard out. ‘You will now walk home. You will have to talk to people to find your way home,’ she told him.” According to Branson’s story, which is recounted in Richard's 1999 autobiography, Losing My Virginity, it took about 10 more hours for the youngster (aged around 7 or so,) to finally arrive home. She did this to encourage confidence in him.

What's going to happen to children if their mothers teach the opposite?