Clear Purpose – It’s a definition only a sleepy civil servant with no life experience or perhaps less common sense could have made up, but an excellent article in Community Care today explains how the government’s recent decision to end all contact for birth parents after adoption has been revoked, and in its place, a plethora of regulations have been outlined, designed to keep families bouncing in and out of court for decades.
Having written about the decision (which has now been reversed) with more than a little concern, we’re glad to see that the starting point for this type of contact has shifted, but we are still worried about the implications of the new regulations, which have been outlined in the Children and Families Bill.
The article in Community Care goes on to explain that social workers will now need to ensure that any contact arrangements have “a clear purpose” (which we think is a little awkward given that contact is quite obviously a purpose in itself and where children are involved is self-explanatory), and that they will also be able to ask the court for a “no contact order” when they apply for an adoption order (which would become effective once the adoption order has been made). Birth parents will then need to go back to court to apply for an order, but will have to meet tough criteria to ensure a contact order in their favour.
This latest measure has been designed to tackle what is being termed ‘unregulated contact’, through social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. The article is a very interesting read, not least of all for Director of policy, research and development at the British Association of Adoption and Fostering’s John Simmonds’ comments, on how this kind of activity can be monitored.
A must read. Thought-provoking and quite one of the most explicit examples today of why these dilemmas should really be tackled from the inside out, and not the other way around.
The UNCRC provides the child the right to maintain contact with their biological parents. Since ratifying this document, it’s good intentions have been undermined by mealy mouthed weaselcrats.
Rather than placing the burden of proof upon parents and forcing them to make applications to court why not simply get the local authorities to state their best evidence based case for the parents not having contact or the children not enjoying an open adoption? Any such applications by the local authority that do not meet the required level of proof, which I suggest to be at least 90%, should be considered as malicious.
Any such for no contact application in a contested application where the parents plead innocence and have not been convicted but the children are adopted anyway should automatically go to open and revokeable adoption or foster care.
So, there is now no presumption of contact to a separated parent in private law and the same in public law after adoption. Progress.
The UN also provides with Britain being the first signatory, that all, child or adult would receive free, fair and OPEN justice which the secret star chambers known as family courts are in a direct violation of.
Britain is in direct breach of international law in a great many tenets of the original UN treaties written to protect citizens and/or children, certainly the current forced adoption agenda and trend is illegal under international law but most people who suffer it are from areas where they have not the funds nor the access to the right people to champion it for them.
The single biggest problem with family law is Whitehall’s laziness. It refuses to treat children of divorce separately and in a separate Act or category than children from ‘homes’ where adoption is a possibity ( eg SMH and/or drug addiction) or where the local authority is involved. IMO the same courts with the same judges administering the same Act can’t help but be influenced in their dealings with children of divorce.
So very soon the “SS” can ask the court at the time the adoption order is made to legally prevent a loving mother who (like most) has committed no crime from contacting her child for the rest of it’s life or her’s !Does that sound a nice thing to do? Will the judge enjoy telling her and will the social workers clap and cheer (as often happens)? Will that miserable buch get a thrill out of jailing her if she responds to a desperate email or facebook enquiry from a desparate child? Do you know I really think they will !!
In my court judgement the Judge ordered for me post adoption contact at least once a year, social services admitted that I was the most significant person in the childs life (my grandson) and agreed they would look for adoptive parents willing to do this.
However, the speed of the finding of adoptive parents was incredibly fast, I was also told by a SWA that social services told adoptive parents I was a risk and all sorts of things and instructed them to IGNORE the court order which I have in black and white in a letter from social services themselves stating as such.
Whilst the child was under my care he positively thrived, his learning and growth was exemplary… since being adopted I have been advised by my secret squirrel at the SSD that he has become a sad little boy, he is now missing his developmental milestones by over six months and there is only one conclusion one can make from this that taking the one person out of his life he really adored and felt safe with has traumatised him immensely but social services are steadfastly refusing to accept this because it would mean admitting fault rather than doing what is necessary for the best interests of the child.
I’m sorry this has happened. I genuinely hope that these sorts of things happen less in the future and that you do get to see your grandson soon.
Thank you Natasha, what this does highlight too is the courts almost blind unwillingness to enforce court orders against adoptive parents which makes basically everything decided not a matter of adherence to an order but the whim of the adoptive parents which is wrong.
Closed adoptions which even the BAAF will admit are most likely to fail or to lead to later life issues such as mental illness, drug dependence or social deviance but the bleeding hearts in the LA’s refuse whatsoever to accept that allowing birth or familial contact could only work to the best interests of a child.
As for my grandsons, I doubt if I will ever see them again whilst I am alive, I have all but given up hope now
I very much hope that’s not the case.
Why is it that we all TALK about the cruelties of the SS. I have been writing to MPs for five years and told LOTS of them of the cruelty being done in the name of SOCIAL: SERVICES. I am not alone in writing to MPs. I cannot help but think that there is something sinister going on in the background. Landed people get an investigation like Levinson. People like us just get ignored. MPs of three parties have KNOWLEDGE of the CALUMNY that has been done to my Family. People in the highest office of the land.
There are lots of reasons I expect, firstly the poor quality of staff at the “frontline” would be a major contributor and I for one have called for psychological testing as we test soldiers and police officers for social workers but to add too an in depth study of their upbringing and history too.
We could also examine a very similar policy that existed in Nazi Germany, where Hitler decided his officer classes should be family men and suddenly there was a huge movement of children from the lower classes to the officer caste through forced adoption on very spurious terms, the added difference of course was to object as a parent was a matter of treason for the German parents which kind of reminds me how parents who protest too much or go to the press end up in prison in these modern times as chillingly sinister in comparison.
But in addition to this, we are beginning to get and gain a very sordid picture of what is very organised abuse rings in higher circles, we are not talking tens or even hundreds but possibly thousands of children abused by powerful organised paedophile rings, it is not lost on me either that the people at the top giving edicts are likely to be the users and participants too of such as so have a vested interest in keeping this continuing.
Yet mostly it comes down to money, pure and simple, adoptive parents earn 500 pounds a week for as long as social services say they can have it, the adoption agencies are turning over millions in pure profit, the councils are receiving millions in targets money as well, strong evidence is also emerging how council workers such as social workers, team managers and even directors are instrumental in setting up “foster farms” where for an assurance of keeping these “farms” stocked, they in return get under the counter payments through bogus means, councils have become immensely corrupt systems and they protect their own as anyone who has been through the shambolic complaints process will attest, what is surprising is the LGO does little to investigate true corruption at every level and dismiss complaints as much as they can.
Afterthought. Reading above I noticed a semi-colon ?. I have forgotten if that is the right name for that symbol. Just an idea, what about CRINKLIES like myself going back to school with the current curricular using calculators( which we never had)(log books at that time). Literally to help Dementia before it happens. A few years ago I went to Plants Brook School Sutton Colfield and learned to play the Keyboards. I now have about 50 books of music and my own Technics 720. I record all my efforts and play them in the morning to laughter at my mistakes and pleasure when I play a particular song correctly. The Days of Wine and Roses is very special to me. I have reread this and will send it for a laugh. NO NEED to send if not suitable. BUT if there were such a school nearby, I would go.
I agree with Angry Grandparent after extensive, exhaustive research and personal experience the corruption is at every level, government ministers, social workers, judges, barristers, police etc. all turn a blind eye to this evil social engineering and abuse that our ‘stolen’ children are subjected to in the name of child protection. It is all about money, profit, meeting targets, tramping on the less well off, and child abuse rings in high places, it is holy disgrace and we must all unite to stop it, somehow.
I REPEAT. We are talking among ourselves of what has been done to us. WHAT is stopping ALL of PARLIAMENT from LISTENING to our Pleas of the INJUSTICE that has happened to many Families. Parliament can discuss ANY proposition and enact any of their proposals. NONE of their proposals have HUMANITY. Regarding the current pretence of a guideline in the Family Courts, A GREAT MAN once said in Parliament ” I hereby make a resolution that X should pass a motion”. Like this pretence at Justice in the Family Courts it is full of C***. BTW, the only decent thing is the proposal of MEDIATION and not CONFRONTATION. NORGROVE got that from myself Philip Thompson at the meeting in Birmingham. I have said before. ONLY Lawyers, Magistrates and social workers attended that meeting. HOW could their views be representative of those who have suffered the cruelty of social services. I REPEAT that it is ONLY MEDIATION that will solve in the FUTURE the concerns of the ETHOS of social services(we WILL ADOPT)
I actually through a lot of hard work forced myself onto one of these parliamentary committees as a stakeholder, sitting there with the likes of Harman, Douglas, Hughes et al, there was little point as everything I said or suggested was ignored and they started making “subcommittee” meetings which I was not invited to so told them quite plainly to stuff it as this was not democracy, this was ensuring the gravy train and status quo continued.
What angered me most from this period is a lot of us were approached by Theresa May via Eric Pickles as many will remember Eric used to help some ppl fight the system, all the promises we were given by May if they got into power just turned into dust, when upon tasking her upon these given promises of fair trials, improvements such as raising the evidence bar, placing less weight on opinions, enforcing the presumption of innocence before guilt proven etc, all promises that I remember sitting in a hotel after a conference with some of the ladies and May all looking smug, they just never happened and now with removing safeguards from adoptive parents, streamlining the process to speed it up, we the people have again been duped and mishandled by these so called representatives.
Only when child cruelty becomes a police matter dealt with in the criminal courts and nothing to do with social workers or family courts will the present injustices finally be brought to a halt.Social workers should either be abolished or detailed only to help and support people but never to give them orders or take away their children !
No judge should ever have the power to jail mothers or fathers for contacting their own children by phone,email,or facebook ! !
A little swaying off topic but can anyone else add their thoughts about the convicted and imprisoned police officer in the last week who was in the last stages of adoption why they are allowing this adoption to continue? She is obviously a criminal serving at least 9 months inside and my understanding is that having a criminal record was a bar to adopting but Sir Martin Narey seems to think this is not the case.
Again this is another smack in the teeth to those of us who have lost children to the fantasy prediction case of “possible” risk where likely and definite risk seems to be ignored, this woman is 53, 50 years older than the child in question, is a proven liar, a former bankrupt, you name it she has probably done it but yet the adoption is going ahead even though she is in prison right now…
Angry Grandparent, can this story be found somewhere online? I am not questioning the story but just feel interested to read.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/reporter-attacks-news-corps-role-as-corrupt-police-officer-is-jailed-8476414.html
She was given a lighter sentence because of the adoption said the Judge in the summing up as she was supposed to get three years and from what I can gather the adoption is STILL going ahead whilst she is in prison which I find a very big kick in the teeth to us that lose when we have done nothing except be accused by social workers.
Thank you, angry grandparent, for providing the interesting link!
Many many thousands of people losing children, go on to face book talking just like the politicians and talking and talking, then writing letters to MPs who dont give a dam, on the odd child abuse marches, we are lucky if 50 people turn up, for nearly two years I have been the help line, no need for me to write of the cases reported to me, it is getting worse far worse then people know, and yet most are talking and talking on face book and other, until the people who have lost their children to
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