Well, everyone who works for pressure groups and independent organisations advising families torn in half by dishonest appraisals, for a start. If we were able to print half the information we acquired as assistants to families who have lost their children without just cause to the care system, it would certainly have an effect.
And then there are the social workers themselves; torn between doing what is right and keeping their jobs, they are often forced to stay silent for fear of the consequences. These are the real dilemmas facing the family justice system and this article, in the Express, only scratches the surface of a cruel and hostile system that conceals dangerous conflicts of interest, which ultimately affect parents and children all over the country.
In the article, a whistleblower from social services comes forward to talk about what he has seen inside the system. He reveals that in the wake of Baby Peter, social workers are under enormous pressure to ‘sex up’ reports and play down the positive elements in a case, to make sure the case crosses the required thresholds that need to be met in order to take children into care.
For those of us who see this every day, it never ceases to shock – every time is like the first time. But it will be an even bigger shock, still, for those inside the system who are too deaf to hear and too blind to see. Will they, at last, accept the terrible truths plaguing the system, or must we continue on, pretending the voices of the children are not our voices to hear?
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that is more than just sad. why are councils putting so much pressure? I understand not wanting to repeat the Baby P situation. But to ruin families like this? I hope the parliamentary inquiry does more than just ask questions.
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Thank you OP, we hope so too.
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to get a supply of kids for Forced Adoption. it is ideologically driven. The families are then demonised, so it is all jsutified
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yes, this is so true and has been going on for a long time before Baby Peter.
I know social workers who broke down crying on seeing children removed and adopted from loving families.
One social worker went grey overnight at being forced to lie in court.
The mother had passed every assessment put before her and ended up being more qualified than the social workers themselves- which amazed them- but did not stop the social worker going for adoption.
The entire family is ruined, fragmented with the older ones who were in corporate care now having all kinds of problems and wanting to know why they were torn from their mother in the middle of the night- One girl is still stuck in that moment though she is 18- she is still 6 in her mind-screaming for her mother for hours and not allowed to see her for a whole year, because mother refused to sign the children over- knowing she had done no wrong.
The mother is a walking wreck,not knowing where her adopted child is- no photos, no updates for years, She wonders is her child alive or dead.
The eldest was too old for corporate care and is leading a wonderful life and a credit to society.
So it is crystal clear that removing the rest of the children has not been in their best interests at all. They have little or no education, with foster carers not bothing to send the children to school regularly.
It is no different to the banished babies in Ireland, Spain etc- women demonised for having babies and not under the control of a man- married. These mothers today are under the control of the patriarchal system which does as it pleases with them and children, because under patriarchy women and children are second class citizens with mothers deemed the lesser parent.
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Hi Portia, thank you for your comment. As you kindly noted, I have edited your post for legal reasons.
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Dear Mam, ALL headlines before were “OLDS”. “Sexed up Dossiers and Dishonest Authorities _ WHO KNEW of THIS CORRUPTION” is NEWS.
Just another little pointer. In most of the cases Court Files are “MISSING” and “it was not a requirement at the time to keep records of individual cases”. This was STATED by a person from CAFCASS. When contacted a person from CAFCASS could not REMEMBER his involvement in having three infants adopted. I have this persons name and his SECRET GUARDIANS REPORT from an informant. Again consider this. Various people in history to the present have been prosecuted for their crimes.
NOT ONE SOCIAL WORKER has been called to account for their PERJURY. WHY are people in POWER protecting these supposed social workers.(ONLY the ones known to be CORRUPT). I would also like anybody who reads this post to consider this. Is there a CORE of councils that have a predominance of forced adoption.
BTW. The latest PLOY is to bring in social workers from OTHER towns and cities to deal with a LOCAL issue. BIG BUNCE money for expenses.
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Dear Mam, just one more thought before I retire to another fitful sleep. i awake about every 2 hours and immediately think of the injustice that has been done to my family. I read a book, fall asleep, wake again and the cycle of the INJUSTICE continues to hurt me.
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Dear Phil, thank you for your comments. I hope you’ll forgive me, but for legal reasons I have had to edit your last comment. I do think the system is caught in all sorts of terrible conflicts. The individual versus the collective rings true as a metaphor on many different levels inside the system. If we are going to try to help people we must acknowledge the need for a balance between the two and ensure conflicts are minimised as much as is humanly possible. Your suffering affects me greatly; I hope change will come, eventually.
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These reports have long missed the financial vested interest of the Local Authorities who are all insured by Zurich. The whistleblower in the welsh care home scandal was villified because of the zurich connection as happened with worker in the Climbie case.
I have long sought for a no fault complaint system to remove this conflict of interest. Twenty years ago when a Judge saw poor practice the Director of social services was called to court to explain, now Judges do not have the time even to read the papers, social work bad practice is routinely excused and the mantra of how busy the poor things are and how we are lucky to have them today at court is oft repeated.
In the last year I have been involved in a case with two different CAFCASS reports, a case where social worker’s statement does not match her case notes at all and another in which the LA with-held directly relevant documents from a findng of fact hearing and in which Lord Justice Munby declared he could not correct a miscarriage of justice after a full care order and placement order had been made other than on a change of circumstances relevant to the findings. The fact that the findings were made on partial evidence was neither here nor there.
Until the Judiciary act as fair Judges willing to criticise unlawful actions of the State as much as they are willing to criticise parents there will be no equality of arms and no Justice. It is time for the judiciary to make a stand for Justice rather than treating it as a mehcnical conveyor belt.
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Yes, agreed.
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LA’s and Legal teams are prepared at any cost to protect failing services at any cost, including Perverting the course of Justice.
Social Workers and LA legal teams are prepared to go to any lengths to win at all costs in Family Courts, prepared to pervert the course of Justice, by with holding evidence from family Courts,where decreation rules OK, that in themselves are not transparent or open to scruitinity. Mistakes and inadequate administration leading to mistakes being covered up open high and SW teams gathering around themselves, self protecting the wrong doers. Even when later in Crown court another Judge finds new evidence from Social workers files under S2 rules, neither the Police or the family courts are able or more likely willing in the Public interest to correct mis carriages of justice at first principle – RCJ and Family Courts are not able within the family Law Courts able to correct evidence based injustice or a LA with holding evidence, the system is a sham and only rubber stamping panic buying of children after the Baby P case. no child is now safe in the UK from misguided SW’s and a system that is both risk adverse and Tick box and lacks any understanding of family units, believe they know better and feeding a commercial enterprise of adoptions. If your a Step father no right to public law funding when seeking to keep your family together, by intrusion of SW’s.
LA,s refusing transparency due to Zurich Insurance premiums and Government policy of Adoptions and destruction to families rather than problem solving.
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As an aside to prior comment, the actions of Local Authorities are exampled by portsmouth City Council who last week tried to remove my website or parts of it by threatening the host with defamation legal action. thankfully the host contacted me and on producing evidence to show I had been in dialgoue with the City Solicitor and had made an amendment prior but refused to remove the names of the social workers as they had been named in open Court and in Appeal judgement. I await to see their next actions as the host told the LA to mediate with me. This is the offending article;
http://www.southernfamilyaid.com/portsmouth.htm
but can anyone tell me how you identify the child from it? as far as defamation is concerned I can prove the allegations so a defence of truth stands. It seems Portsmouth got concerned after a recent article in the local paper. So far I have had my self employment receipts audited, been banned from attending meeting with client as carer as she has an ABI and last week had the threat of the website being removed behind my back. What next I wonder will happen.
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“Don’t go to XXXXXX then, they are more interested in who you might know or what you did some sunday 30 years ago than anything to do with actually looking after a child, I got reams of reports saying I am a good parent, reams of reports saying I can look after my grandson most ably, their case for adoption isn’t anything to do with childcare but because I happened to fight back before and won, that their shoddy and disgusting case some years ago against me led to one social worker resigning, another clinging onto her job by a fingernail and them getting the hell out of my life. And now my baby grandson is going to lose his granddad who he adores, any future contact with his mum who couldn’t cope with him and they failed her most abysmally, they didn’t even offer any support, just watched her struggle, the whole system stinks and I am disgusted that social workers IGNORE vulnerable children and STILL pick on soft targets to fill their books.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376321/25-abused-children-die-noses-social-workers.html#ixzz1JUP07aZV ”
This is the above one of the two reasons why my grandson was not allowed to live with me (and is recorded in the final statement as such) and that I acted unwisely which in interpretation was that the health visitor called in social services a day before I contacted them over concerns of my daughters coping.
They actually claimed the comment as “proof” that I was a risk to worker and grandchild and ceased contact for a month. Where in that statement is there ANY threat, indication of harm to child or worker?
It was admitted also later on that my grandson’s “failure to thrive” may have been GERD when I told them time and again that he had 95% of the symptoms of that reflux disorder, oh no, it was neglect, it was abuse, they knew better.
Since the case closed and he was packed off we have discovered lie after lie after lie, withholding of evidence from the court process, deliberate misfiling, failure to comply with PLO and Welfare Checklists, indoctrination of experts one which misfired being the ISW who told me they tried to coerce her into taking their side.
The social worker and her manager buried every positive report they could and presented only negatives, it was that bad that another social worker, two SWA’s went to their director to complain and got nowhere, even SureStart tried in vain to speak up and one manager was told that she risked her job if she continued to speak up for my family.
What is far more concerning, in their desperation to bring me down, they went for my youngest daughter, who has suffered much in her little life, they demanded a “wishes and feelings” interview, one with the social worker, the other with the “expert” psychologist (who has been remarked upon by my own psychologist as a b*stard and a Sh*t) and my psychiatrist who said he came to very unprofessional conclusions.
My youngest daughter now 16 is on the suicide watch and has been since these two interviews, I was assured it should have taken 10 minutes each time, both interviews took an hour and a half each, when she tried to leave the room she was told she could not and the door was blocked by the social worker twice, she wasn’t even allowed to use the toilet, a girl who had a couple emotional problems who was making good progress with CAMHS went from that to a complete mental breakdown.
Social Services stated themselves that she was a VULNERABLE child but refused her to have a responsible adult with her.
Our story is just one of hundreds if not thousands of horror stories out there, my little grandson is living with strangers, has been provably unhappy since contact with me ceased and their case for adoption is because I put a not unreasonable comment in the daily Mail and because a health visitor called them a day before I did…
I am currently working on a project where I will collate the local families that have suffered as I have and bring this to the Children’s Commissioner and force an inquiry into the county’s practices.
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Dear Mam,
At ALL times I accept your decision on anything that I comment upon.
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Dear Phil, you’re incredibly kind.
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