Provide.
Provide - to give something wanted or needed to (someone or something) : to supply someone or something.
Provide. The sixth artwork from the Law on the Wall series by Lawyers Arts Club.
The title Provide is taken from the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 section 1.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A SINGLE WORD
One single word and an entire conversation is flipped on its head. That is the significance of one word.
WHY PROVIDE ?
From our very first breath everyone of us needed providing for. We would not survive alone. As we grow we all require support and security. Our families, friends and environment provide us with our values, beliefs and ethics.
Mother and Child, 1905 by Gustav Klimt
WHAT LAW IS ON THE WALL?
This act clearly defines a parent or guardian’s responsibilities to provide for a young person.
Children and Young Persons Act 1933 section 1. (2)For the purposes of this section—(a)a parent or other person legally liable to maintain a child or young person, or the legal guardian of a child or young person, shall be deemed to have neglected him in a manner likely to cause injury to his health if he has failed to provide adequate food, clothing, medical aid or lodging for him, or if, having been unable otherwise to provide such food, clothing, medical aid or lodging, he has failed to take steps to procure it to be provided under the enactments applicable in that behalf];
THE ACT GAVE DEFINITION TO PROVIDE
The act gave clarification and explanation to the maintenance and care required to take care of a child or young person.
“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.”
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE TO PROVIDE
All adults who work with children and young people have a crucial role to play in shaping their lives. They have a unique opportunity to interact with children and young people in ways that are both affirming and inspiring.
DUTY OF CARE
Whether working in a paid or voluntary capacity, these adults have a duty to keep children and young people safe and to protect them from sexual, physical and emotional harm. Children and young people have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. It follows that trusted adults are expected to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and well-being of children and young people. Failure to do so may be regarded as neglect.
Canigiani Holy Family, 1507 by Raphael
NEGLECT IN UK LEGISLATION
Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to:
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provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment)
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protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger
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ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers)
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ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
Providing - that’s not love. Being there - that’s more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They’re crying out for attention; they’re hurting for love. I’m not being judgmental - I’m just making an observation. They’re crying out for the love that maybe they didn’t get at home, and they got everything.
WHY IS PROVIDE IMPORTANT IN 2021 AND BEYOND?
We live in a time of tighter state control, where the state is for many becoming their sole provider.
PROVIDED FOR BY THE STATE
There has been much conversation over recent years for the UK to have a universal basic income. For the state to provide an income for everyone.
Star Wars: Episode V - I am your Father
FATHERS 4 JUSTICE
Fathers 4 Justice was setup in 2001 by Matt O’Connor in 2001 after he was denied access to his two boys after a difficult divorce. The fathers’ rights organisation aims to gain public an parliamentary support for changes is UK legislation on fathers’ rights, mainly using stunts and protests, often conducted in costume.
Fathers 4 Justice believe courts can discriminate against fathers and may, in certain circumstances, violate fathers’ rights to family life.
One of its central aims — the removal of secrecy surrounding family courts — is the subject of active political debate.
Fathers 4 Justice Stunts
UK STATISTICS ON ABSENT FATHERS
Fatherlessness is an obscenity. No child should be denied their human right to a father yet nearly 1 in 3 children now lives without a father in the UK – that’s nearly 4 million fatherless children. In secret courts every day 200 children lose contact with their father.
WHAT DOES ART PROVIDE
Making art boosts self-esteem and provides a sense of accomplishment.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
CAN WE PROVIDE FOR ALL
Art for many centuries depicted sex alongside the
Who knows? And that the point. nobody. but, people know that a single word such as ‘sex’ means. its not subjective. sex is what your are born with. the good and the bad.
PROVIDE ART
is the belief that heterosexuality is the default, preferred, or normal mode of sexual orientation. It assumes the gender binary (i.e., that there are only two distinct, opposite genders) and that sexual and marital relations are most fitting between people of opposite sex.
INTERACTIVE ART THAT SPARKS DISCUSSION
This is an on going, interactive artwork to keep people engaged with the law and the discussion that comes from it.
WHY THE 14TH FEBRUARY?
Sex. was launched on Valentine’s Day 2021 on the statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Square, Birmingham to celebrate the 120 year anniversary of Queen Victoria's death.
WHATS NEXT?
Victoria wrote extensively about women’s rights and as the suffragettes pointed out many times, it was ridiculous that a woman ruled a nation yet her female subjects couldn’t even elect a female representative.
Princess Diana with her two Princes’s William and Harry.
BE HEARD AND GET INVOLVED
Many millions of women at the time could not believe that they were reigned over by a female monarch but yet had no female representation. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act changed that.
BABY P
Baby Peter was a 17-month-old boy who died in Haringey, north London in August 2007 after suffering a series of injuries. He died in 2007 after he suffered more than 50 injuries despite being on the at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from social workers, police and health professionals over the final eight months of his life.
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