TV: Protecting Our Children
Post categories: BBC Two
|15:56 UK time, Monday, 30 January 2012
Shaun - one of the contributors in Protecting Our Children - with his baby.
Over on the BBC TV Blog series producer Sacha Mirzoeff tells how the new series of Protecting the Children came about and highlights some of the difficulties programme makers face when working in intensely sensitive subject areas:
It took months of hard work to try and persuade people to take part to show the real nitty gritty of the actual cases with families.
In the meantime all we could do was film the more straightforward parts that we knew would provide the 'glue' to make all the programmes piece together, like shots of the city, simple meetings amongst the social workers.
What was key was that everyone got used to us being around with our cameras, so when real action happened later we could film it, unhindered.
How do you even ask a family who are probably in the worst place of their lives whether they would like to consider taking part in a television programme?
Read the rest of Sacha's post on the BBC TV Blog
- Protecting Our Children begins on BBC Two on Monday, 30 January at 9pm
- Read After Baby P, what is life like for a social worker? on the BBC News website.
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At 23:38 6th Feb 2012, chrissiek wrote:Im enjoying the serious, hopefully the public will also be given an idea of the mounds of paperwork social workers have to complete along side the visits, meetings etc
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At 07:05 14th Feb 2012, ian josephs wrote:No other European country steals children from loving parents and threatens those parents with prison if they complain publicly !The father in the TV, SIAN described all social workers as "slimy" and who are we to disagree? The mother in the last programme whose baby was given to her own mother was allowed only ONE visit per week and that under "supervision" ; WHY? The National fostering agency founded by social workers was recently sold for around £130million! The number of children taken into care for fostering or adoption has doublred in the last 4 years to nearly 10,000 per year ! Could those two facts be related ??
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