Kids Company

We have no idea of how some people live and get by day to day. 
With the closure of Kids Company, a charity which fed a need for street children and young adults who have no real home life and had become reliant on the Charity as a home and an environment in which people cared for them  their future is very bleak.
The damage which the 24 hour, 7days a week, single parent, and over stressed married parents unable to play the crucial part of being parents, devolve to the children who are lost in a jungle.


The social welfare system which is being asked to take up the slack is unable to cope with the problem. Its bureaucratic, box ticking, 9 till 5 approach falls far short of the needs of a youngster who has no one to rely on other than the gang or a pimp.
The social welfare is organised like the NHS it does not treat patents, patents are simply an entry in the system, sometimes the list of ailments are treated as if they belong to separate bodies, unconnected to the person who's name is at the top of the form.
The Kids  Company picks up the pieces of an ailing society. 
Young people who have never known the security of proper home life and they become the natural kindling for a life of crime or prostitution. Its here that the charity seeks to provide a semblance of home and gives the guidance of a parent.
The Ministers and the Civil Servants who have been the conduit for funding have been all over the place in their pronouncements. On the one hand they say the the charity "does a marvellous job" and then cut off funding because "the money has not been well spent".
And so we have the age old conflict between the desire for a conventional business model, with that of running the desperately uneven business of providing for damaged youngsters, who it should be acknowledged, are the responsibility of a society which has become so distorted by economic need, fuelled in the first place by the ease of credit and the artificial manufacture of a 'consumer driven society'.
The money involved in Kids Company is minuscule when compared to the  ordinance  dropped on civilians in the Middle East or the bonuses paid to bankers and footballers. The wastage on government IT systems makes the running of Kids Company like a drop in the ocean but then this is the skewed set of values we now have, as government back off from any of the roles which I for one feel the government should be a front row player.