Only the Crony: David Cameron & investment for #fostercare

We'll give you money if you've got dreams bigger than your budget.

That's the message from David Cameron on social investment.

Four minutes into his speech , David Cameron refers to the problem of adoption and goes on to talk about placing children in loving homes.

My story is about a disabled man who lost his life trying to help disabled children, a man with vision, integrity and above all courage.

What David Cameron says will prove the potential of social media to create influential memes while at the same time demonstrate that we are not "all in this together" .  

 

Before the first social impact bond was launched in 2010, on the day he was elected to office as PM a petition was raised on Change,org.  It asked for his support in an impact investment strategy to remove disabled children from institutional neglect to loving family homes. I appealed to him as the PM and the father of a disabled child. Two years later, would raise further awareness of the problem but not of the proposed solution, published in 2007. . 

“There is no substitute for a loving family environment for growing children. Existing state care institutions do not and cannot possibly provide this – despite occasional, lingering claims that state care is the best care for children. This attitude is a holdover from Soviet times when the state was idealized as the best possible caretaker for all, including children. Stark reality does not support that notion.

While this section has strong focus on financial aspects for reforming childcare in Ukraine, these are just financial numbers to demonstrate that this can be done for an overall, long-term cost reduction to state budget. That is to say, simply, this reform program is at the least financially feasible. The barrier between old and new is the cost of the transitional phase."

The same call had been made on US government in 2008, again with an appeal for support for impact investment.

"There is increasing congruence and synchronicity in play now, to the point of attunement. What Ms. Fore is describing has been central to P-CED’s main message, advocacy and activity for a decade. That, and helping establish an alternative form of capitalism, where profits and/or aid money are put to use in investment vehicles with the singular purpose of helping the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The paper on which that is based is in Clinton’s library, dated September 16, 1996, author yours’ truly. That is reflected in P-CED’s home page and history section. In fact, you might notice a number of ideas and writings there that have now made their way into the mainstream of economics and aid thinking, how to make business and aid work smarter and more effectively in relieving poverty and the misery and risks that result."

That same month, February 2008 a message for the social enterprise community

"Allowing that some people do not matter, as things are turning out, allows that other people do not matter and those cracks are widening to swallow up more and more people. Social enterprise is the first concerted effort in the Information Age to at least attempt to rectify that problem, if only because letting it get worse and worse threatens more and more of us. Growing numbers of people are coming to understand that “them” might equal “me.” Call it compassion, or call it enlightened and increasingly impassioned self-interest. Either way, we are all in this together, and we will each have to decide for ourselves what it means to ignore someone to death, or not."

Later in 2008, it was submitted to the EU Citizens Consultation. 

In 2009, much the same appeal was made to Sir Richard Branson via Virgin Unite.

In 2010 Axiom news reported

"Hallman is currently investigating the setup of a multi-million dollar fund offering split financial ROI if needed, that is, a portion to investor(s) and the remainder to P-CED.

The funds will be directed to concluding a project in the Ukraine which involves funding the training of residents to develop social businesses. Included in this work is supporting children who have disabilities, many of whom have been left to die in secretive locations. P-CED is helping to move these children to safety and give them access to modern healthcare."

In 2011 as David Cameron told us we were all in this together. The man who said the same thing several years earlier died in poverty to illustrate that clearly, we were not.

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To:
David Cameron, British Prime Minister