# Kids: Child Protection in Britain: The Truth

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/kids-child-protection-in-britain-the-truth/
- Published: 2017-10-17T10:27:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**What was lost when Kids Company imploded last summer? More than reputations. **

The charity’s founding vision, that there is a gap called love in how the state 
responds to abused and abandoned children, also vanished.

In this book, the founder of Kids Company lays out the thinking behind a model of
care that broke the cycle of neglect for thousands of vulnerable children. She reveals
the true scale of Britain’s failure in children’s services, making public two decades
of candid exchanges with prime ministers and senior politicians to explain why the
sector has not improved since Victorian times.

She also reveals the deceits used by local authorities to stop the magnitude of 
the problem becoming known.

This is a book of hope, however. Calling on a plethora of moving case histories,
it presents the science that gives cause for optimism; proof that even the most 
troubled young lives can be turned around. Looking forward rather than back, the
book shows how a new model of support could be cheaper and far more effective than
existing provision.

Kids Company has gone. And yet something like it must be the future. It is imperative
that the breakthroughs in understanding that came from its work are now shared with
the widest audience.

This book is an unusual collaboration between two outstanding individuals. One author
is Camila Batmanghelidjh, who spent thirty years working with troubled families.
The other is an award-winning journalist, Tim Rayment, who was sent to investigate
Camila but decided instead that the real public interest lay in hearing her vital,
life-changing message.