i have a question for Who. If you are looking to improve these programmes surely you would be infavour of those who support strict and well enforced independent regulation of
a) The qualifications required to work in the industry
b) a mandatory ban on censorship of written and/ or verbal communication between kids and parents
c) the legal requirement for correct minimum levels of medical care
d) a requrement for a ban on punishments that involve forced exercise, extended periods of isolation and deprivation of food, communication or shelter.
e) a registrations system for staff so that if they leave one programme because of inappropriate conduct with the kids, or if they prevoiusly ran a dangerous programme, they can not work in the industry again. Doctors afterall are held to this standard.
one of the main complaints is that with an unregulated financially competitive industry parents have no independent way of knowing if a programme is truthful in its marketing. There is no incentive for a programme to hold itself to these standards if it is going to cost too much money. would you not be pushing for these things if your job is industry improvement?