Petition to make trainee psychologists answerable to a higher body
A petition has been started urging Gordon Brown to seriously review and revise the issue of allowing trainee psychologists working within the UK prison system not being answerable to a higher body
A petition has been started on the official website of the Prime Minister’s office urging Gordon Brown to seriously review and revise, with urgency, the issue of allowing trainee psychologists working within the UK prison system not being answerable to a higher body when making highly significant decisions that affect many lives, without having the necessary experience for that level of responsibility.
The creator of the petition, Jennifer Windsor, says: “This is a system so wrong it is verging on being criminal in itself, as since the dissolving of the over-riding body that trainee psychologists were answerable to, they now answer to no-one, therefore they are making an awful lot of wrong decisions affecting many peoples lives for years - in some cases the rest of their lives.
“They have neither the experience or accrued enough knowledge to do this safely or fairly on their own; resulting in an awful lot of unjust decisions based on bare minimum contact with said person of a case - on average amounting to 20-30 minutes a week and quite often less than that. Upon that basis they can give an opinion and thus over-ride reports from many far more knowledgeable people; therefore keeping the prisons overcrowded with many that should not be in the system.
“This also places a further unnecessary burden on the taxpayer. The system must be amended for the sake of everybody - whether inside the prison system or out of it, it affects us all.”
If you feel strongly about this, ask a family member to sign up by 5th of August 2010.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Trainees/
Comments about this article
1/6/2010 Carole Murrie
Please advise how to add name to petition. Unable to access form.Response from Inside Time.
A note on the petition site states that e petitions are being reviewed by the new Government and they will advise those organising them in due course.
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