Kids in danger?

LegacyUser

I need some advice please.

I live in an apartment block and I'm really worried about the kids downstairs....

The youngest one screams constantly, she wakes up in the middle of the night screaming most nights. They are a very loud family and shout at each other a lot anyway. I think they lock the kids into their bedroom because sometimes I here them banging the door, once I heard one kid screaming that she would say her name in English repeatedly and begging to be let out.

Can someone please give me the name of an organisation I can contact to check on these kids...?

Carrigart Exile

Unregd wrote: »

I need some advice please.

I live in an apartment block and I'm really worried about the kids downstairs....

The youngest one screams constantly, she wakes up in the middle of the night screaming most nights. They are a very loud family and shout at each other a lot anyway. I think they lock the kids into their bedroom because sometimes I here them banging the door, once I heard one kid screaming that she would say her name in English repeatedly and begging to be let out.

Can someone please give me the name of an organisation I can contact to check on these kids...?

sounds just like a stressed environment for all. Don't know if its something that should be reported tho'

xeroshero

If you REALLY, HONESTLY are worried then you can get in contact with your local/area's health board. You rlocal garda station will have a number/advice, they are dealing with this kind of thing on a daily basis. I have seen this first hand and there is DEFINITELY NO HARM in getting this checked out - if you have if wrong - great the kids are ok, if you have it right - great because you have helped!!!

Like I said, there is no harm getting this looked into, IF the kids are not being treated right then a visit from a social worker (or the likes) may be enough fo rthe parenmst to cop on and pull up their socks or to explain the situation and ask for help.


I think its really importamt that people, everyone, realise that social workewrs rae not there to "take away everyone's kids at the first chance they get"!!! In fact iot qiute the opposite, social workers do everything they can to keep families/siblings to gether and can really offer some graet help to families who are need of some support/help...

Op, if you are/were worried enough to write this post and ask for advise - I think you should follow your instinct and ring the health board. (Can I ask where you are livng? Dublin? North/south? Or outside of Dublin?)

Good luck OP, hope all works out for those kids.

Toots

I'd agree with Xeroshero, it would be no harm getting this checked out. It might not be a case that the kids are being abused deliberately, but the parents simply may not be able to cope. Some families are louder than others (my last neighbours were possibly the loudest family on earth, but they weren't arguing or anything, just really really loud.) but locking the kids in the bedroom isn't right. If I were you, I'd give your local health board a quick call and suss it out. AFAIK, you can make a report anonymously, but I'm not 100% certain on that.

Nevyn

Yes it will be keep from the people you are reporting that you reported them.

Ring you local health clinic and ask to speak to the socail worker on call.

Zippitydoo

The youngest kid could just suffer from night terrors which would explain the banging and screaming and this is hardly a cause for concern. Fair enough It may be causing you stress but the family have to live with the kid too.

Families shouting at each other a lot is hardly a cause for much concern either is it? Why not just call over with a pack of biscuits and have a cup of tea with the mother- just to see what it's like first hand?

tbh

thats the best solution (the biscuits) but if that's not possible, ring the authorities and let them know. You are not demanding that they visit, you are telling them what you know - they'll decide if it's worth checking out or not.

Esel

tbh wrote: »

thats the best solution (the biscuits) .....

I don't agree. If the biscuit visit goes badly, and the OP later reports the situation, the parents are going to have a pretty good idea who it was.