Thread: UK government to put CCTV cameras inside people's homes

THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.


The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.

They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far.

But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.

Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless.

Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them.

He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little, much too late.

“This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.”


Mr Balls also said responsible parents who make sure their children behave in school will get new rights to complain about those who allow their children to disrupt lessons.

Pupils and their families will have to sign behaviour contracts known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, which will set out parents’ duties to ensure children behave and do their homework.

The updated Youth Crime Action Plan also called for a *****down on violent girl gangs as well as drug and alcohol abuse among young women.

But a decision to give ministers new powers to intervene with failing local authority Youth Offending Teams was criticised by council leaders.

Les Lawrence, of the Local Government Association, said they did “crucial” work and such intervention was “completely unnecessary”.

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Ed Balls is obviously insane - anybody in his position should be able to anticipate the problems they would face regarding privacy and data protection laws. He should be removed from office, if only to save the wasted money paid to him by us the taxpayers!

Lol talk about privacy.

But these people did this to themselves such as drunk driving, starting alcohol at age ~10 etc.

No offence to anyone XD

George Orwell would be really proud!:o Probably not...

This is total Dictatorship
How could they even think of invading Privacy.
Rather they should start a Rehab or somthing similar 4 people who voluntarary would go there get their problems sorted out.

I know Ed Balls was always a bit of a muppet and luckily now not in power but this has to had have been a wind up. Surely it must have been a press release, released on April Fools Day? Oh hang on a minute this was the same government that put microchips in dustbins to scrutinize our waste activities!