Just a bit of info for anyone who has heard this really heartbreaking story of little baby p. There is a blue balloon release scheduled for Dec 3rd outside 10 Downing street in London. I know many people would like to be there but unfortunately are not going to be able to. You can send blue balloons and they will blow them up and release them for you, on the day. The address to send the balloons to is:

Angelica Terzoli, c/o Baron Estates,
65, Weymouth Street,
London,
W1G 8NU
England

Please support this worthwhile cause, all abused children deserve to be heard.

Thanks

ahhh you beat me to it
i tried to post earlier and it kept kicking me out, ours are done for tomorrow

i hope they fill the sky in the uk, it would be good if expats sent the ballons

Good post

Cheers hun, ours are all ready for the off tomorrow as well. This is really something that we all need to get behind, it is time this situation was never allowed to happen again.....

Thanks everyone

Hmm, I agree but don't hold out much hope. This is just the last in a string of these incidents and the one before this was not that long ago.

Yes i know, the lessons weren't learnt from that case although they certainly should have been. We can't keep standing by and doing nothing, i just hope if everyone gets behind this situation, it will be seen that the majority of the population worldwide has a voice against it and then the people who are supposed to be in charge, and ultimately take the responsibility, will have to do something more than they have done. I just hope that these changes happen quickly to save any other children going through this, we have had enough of the discussions in parliment..........the time has come for severe action, maybe we need to show them that we want what is right, we have been silent far too long!

Sorry for the rant, but this is something that we should NEVER give up as a lost cause.

Anyone who works in community based professions is aware this is, just another, however, surely we should feel emotive by the brutal loss of any innocent, vulnerable persons life.

I agree with your Rainey, this is one instance where people should unite, feel outraged and speak up. Maybe if more had of done that to start, Baby P would be alive today......

Mrs M.

OK, I'll get shot for this but how will letting off blue balloons outside of Downing Street contribute to reducing violence against children?

I also wish they'd chosen a different letter. I can't help myself smirking when everyone goes on about Baby P.

Actually I get your point Novocastrian, but I think it's excellent that there is public discourse about this case, much better than the alternative.

Mrs M x

IMO, it won't.

I think it just allows people to think that they're actually helping.

I'm wondering who will be cleaning up the mess. All that plastic waste ending up in the environment... some cute baby animals will surely suffer.

The Colombi kid (or however it's spelt)? Yeah I thought it was quite recent too, but then I read in the paper it was ten years ago apparently! Feels like yesterday...

Eight years. Victoria Climbie was murdered in 2000, but the report into her death wasn't published til 2003 which is probably why it feels more recent.

The P stands for the babys name, that is why they picked it, if the goverment would get this sorted now then maybe it will save another life in the future.

As a mother i would do anything for my children, to see this happen to a child or baby breaks my heart. if i could be there on the day i would be, just to stand up and help, but sadly i cant

I was once told that a local planning application would be passed no matter what i did, i believe that you need to stand up and be counted, those who helped on that helped get the planning application turned down and in a way that when it went to appeal it was refused again

if we sit here in our little lives and do nothing then this will carry on happening, rainey is correct for posting this and if it means one ballon or a billion ballons, maybe seeing them may make a difference.

For the sake of the children who go through this, everyone stands togeather and stuff can be changed.....just needs to be shouted louder and harder sometimes....

rant over.............

Isn't it about increasing public awareness? Child abuse is not something that most people want to think about. Some may even brush it under the mental carpet, if they believe it's happening. Ramming the message home may cause such people to act while there is still time.

What's your opinion of the Amber Alert system?

What do many people do to act? They send balloons through the post... "I've done my bit to help bring awareness to child abuse" and that ends their participation in that cause. In many instances, it is effectively sweeping it under a mental carpet.

And really, who is unaware of violence against children anyways?

I understand your cynicism. But, what if raising awareness causes just one person to not look the other way and not make a fuss and not get involved and just one child is saved? Just one?