A new direction for Bury South

Yesterday morning I went along to the Farmers’ Market at the Longfield Centre.  Although it was raining slightly it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the shoppers and it was a packed market square.  We are hoping to hold one in Whitefield next month.  The range of products on sale were amazing and some looked really mouth watering it is important to support local traders and this is an ideal way in which to do so.

Much has been in the news the past week or so about the terrible torture of two boys in Doncaster.  This case underlines the problems which spring from failing to publish Serious Case Reviews in full.  A series of  Serious Case Reviews were written in Doncaster in the year immediately preceding this tragedy but the appropriate lessons clearly were not learnt because we know from what we have read that this case was indeed preventable if only Children’s services had been operating properly.  I know as a parent myself I felt a profound sense of pain and loss when I read this and I am sure that all of feel that we want to trace back the patterns of neglect, the fractures in family life and the drug and alcohol abuse which have contributed to tragedy after tragedy.  However as long as the full story is kept untold we can never learn all the lessons we need and tragically history may repeat itself again and again.