Comments on: Joseph Muscat promised the vulnerable parents of disabled children ‘care in the community’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1117687 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:32:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1117687 Andrew Farrugia is right. Here we’re not talking about kids with physical disability, but young adults (20 year olds!) with e.g. with autism, who are physically strong and who whilst having challenging behaviour may be physically aggressive, thus possibly hurt the other students. Please let’s not make a political issue out of this. This is a question of safety for the other students who may be at risk.

[Daphne – Oh come on. This is unbelievable.]

]]> By: Don't talk if you do not know what is going on https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1116994 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:07:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1116994 Nobody is saying to chuck these children in the streets. And if the parents are on an errand they will wait for them. What happens if the child doing a huge violent tantrum hurts your child? Or you who are working there? This policy was made to ensure the safety of the workers there, other students who attend the centre and also the student themselves. Where are the rights of the LSAs??

]]> By: Don't talk if you do not know what is going on https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1116976 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:55:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1116976 I suggest all you people shut up and don’t talk unless you work at Wardija!!! I read the policy mentioned. The police will be called if the parents fail to go pick up their kids and their behaviour is threatening to themselves or of to those around them. These students are usually driven home in a van full of students with only 2 or 3 escorts. If a student is doing a tantrum and is hiting biting etc how do you suggest they take him home? The police will be there to ensure the safety of the staff and the fellow students..

]]> By: andrew farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1116243 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:03:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1116243 What about the other students present who may be at risk from the disturbed behaviour being mentioned!! Shouldn’t they be considered too?

]]> By: Selit https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113857 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:58:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113857 police
Pronunciation: /pəˈliːs/
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Couldn’t help looking up policeman in http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/police.
Guess Manwel needs to send them an addition to their definition, which is “provide catering services to the high society” and “taxi services for unruly children” .

]]> By: Ghoxrin Punt https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113491 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:17:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113491 Is this Mallia’s way of making sure the competition do not supercede him?

You know, with policemen acting as chefs, waiters and babysitters, who is going to catch the criminals that feed the lawyers?

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113342 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:56:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113342 In reply to Antoine Vella.

She is Alison Bezzina, another Times MLP-leaning and anti-Gonzi columnist who voted on a single issue, due to her disabled brother.

This week I met another set of parents in Mellieha who were staunch Nationalists and voted MLP as a result of the promises made personally by Muscat to them. They have a disabled son. Mind you, they had to parade their son and themselves on Super one prior to the election.

The father was transferred to work at the Mellieha sendo residents’ home by the evil PN government so that he could work close to his home, just in case his son needed attention.

I am not sure whether to dismiss these people as being subject to blind faith or desperate straw-clutching, or to feel sorry for them for being used so unethically.

]]> By: Tracy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113250 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:45:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113250 This Government has no mercy at all.

]]> By: zunzana https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113195 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:16:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113195 If the police can be ordered to work as cooks and waiters, they could also be asked to work as taxi drivers.

]]> By: Min Jaf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/joseph-muscat-promised-the-vulnerable-parents-of-disabled-children-care-in-the-community/#comment-1113144 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:39:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33644#comment-1113144 Care in the community = Chuck the vulnerable out from care centres onto the street.

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