Parents told ‘control your children or face fines and eviction’ – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d35vyyj04o
Posted by CasualSmurf
Parents told ‘control your children or face fines and eviction’ – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d35vyyj04o
Posted by CasualSmurf
11 Comments
Interesting to see if this is enforced and effective as cant make people homeless
Nothing new, I lived on a council estate in Hampshire for a few years in my teens back in the 00s, my friends parents were regularly threatened with eviction over my friends miscreant behaviour..sounds cruel I know and it is, but so can the effects of the kids behaviour
Wish it wasn’t just in Nottingham, but it does sound like they have it particularly bad
Works a treat
Back in the 2000-10 days, I worked for council enforcement
Although the bar was much higher than I let on. The amount of local chavs that cooled down their shit, once I’d explained to the parent(s) that I would s21 them was amazing
I’ve always said fines should be put on parents, as in my experience, these are the only two ways to change their behavior
And once one is evicted, the rest of the estate chavs fall into line pretty much
It’s the only way you’re going to get parents to do their job otherwise they’ll leave their kids to be everyone elses problem. Letting your little ferals run wild should be treated as a crime, same as you’d be held accountable if your dog ate someone.
Just across the map make this the baseline if your caught being a dick at other people’s expense then your mum and dad get a fine as well as possible jail time. I get you can just blame the parents but as the only people in those kids lives (hopefully) that can control them they should also be held responsible for the shit they get upto. Then hopefully when they have their own kids they will teach them from the lessons they learnt.
Can’t evict people who have mortgages though sadly
This is a good policy and should be expanded nationwide if it isn’t already. We need to stop pandering to scumbags.
Used to call Kent Police knobheads because of their helmets.
Homelessness is awful but we really need to start coming down hard on antisocial behaviour and this might actually have a proper impact. A minority of kids are tearaways from decent families, however most are just kids whose feckless parents are just not hands-on enough to actually tackle their child’s behaviour and let them get away with anything. They do nothing until there are tangible consequences and homelessness is arguably the ultimate consequence for these people. The only problem is what happens once the family is made homeless? I doubt that is going to do anything to improve the kid’s behaviour and will only lead to disenfranchisement and a loathing towards society (because they will not blame themselves for their situation).
Good!
We have a lot of these sorts of problems around here.
Do I believe that parents know **everything** that their kids get up to? Ofcourse not.
However, if, for example your “little darling” is in and out of the house on an electric motorbike all ballied up a dozen or so times a day – does this not suggest something is up?
I have managed to get one problem family evicted for outright criminality in the area. It’s just a shame that the powers that be don’t work harder to go after the rest!
There are an entire litany of tenancy breaches that I see on a daily basis – yet the council won’t lift a finger. Why must the majority suffer due to the actions of a few scumbags?