英伦广角 2009-11-01 小彼得案之后更多的小孩受到
There's never been so much attention focused on keeping our children safe. In the wake of the baby Peter Case, care referrals have soared 1, so much so the courts can't keep up, leaving many children lost in the system.
Sara Miles knows how that feels. She’s spent twelve years on child tending care.
I feel like a puzzle. I once described it as if I feel like a big glass in the puzzle. Every time I got move around because it was all broken inside, that was how I was feeling, broken inside, like a paining glass. Every time I got move it around that’ll be a big glass of me when, a piece of me when.
Recently there has been a 47 percent rising care of referrals, a backlog 2 is building and many are blaming Cafcass----the children and family court service. They say it's an organization in chaos 3 failing to employ sufficient staff.
There are currently 4 over 12,300 cases going through the system, with a backlog of 721 cases waiting to go through the courts. And it takes on average 60 weeks for a decision to be made on a child's care case.
The boss of Cafcass admits the system’s under strain but denies it’s in melt-down. And even with an extra 1.6million pounds from the government, he says funding remains 5 an issue.
We would love to have more but we're in the real world of difficult financial budgets for public services, and demand rising, we simply have to cut it off accordingly. But I would say that most children get pretty good service.
Sara now works with children in the care system. There is always a balance to strike between deciding on a case quickly and ensuring the right decision is made. She fears though it's ultimately 6 the children who end up caught in the middle.
Laura Bundock, Sky news.
- The bird soared high, with outspread wings. 鸟儿展翅高飞。
- The rocket soared skywards. 火箭呼啸着朝天上飞去。
- It will take a month to clear the backlog of work.要花一个月的时间才能清理完积压的工作。
- Investment is needed to reduce the backlog of repairs.需要投资来減轻积压的维修工作。
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
- Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience.那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。
- Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.缺乏维生素C最终能道致坏血病。