Researching Reform were alerted to Dr Hibbert by one of the families who is now mentioned in a truly devastating article by the Daily Mail. A thank you to them for drawing our attention to this story.
Dr Hibbert has been alleged to have fabricated evidence to suit Local Authority perspectives in care proceedings with some medical experts in the field stating that they refused to work with him as a result of his questionable practices. Since being confronted with the allegations, Dr Hibbert has tried to surrender his licence but the General Medical Council are so concerned that they have refused to allow him to do so and are now investigating him.
It has long been stated that professionals who produce these kinds of reports inside the system stand to profit handsomely if they tout the Local Authority point of view when assessing families and as can be seen from this article, Dr Hibbert has been rewarded handsomely for his work.
John Hemming has now written to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, asking for a full enquiry. But this is not the first time a leading medical expert has been called into question inside the care system and this news comes only days after the Family Justice Council, along with Professor Ireland, revealed that at least 20% of reports like these are written by people who are not qualified to do so and a staggering 60% were deemed to be of poor quality. Channel 4 aired the report on a programme, this week.
We have been informed that the General Medical Council is now about to prepare a Fitness to Practice Panel to investigate the claims and to see whether or not Dr Hibbert should be allowed to continue to practice psychiatry.
Researching Reform spoke with Miss A today, who told us, “This doctor is evil and corrupt and I believe that it is he who has mental health problems. As all these reports have shown recently where people who aren’t qualified are able to diagnose people in the family court, I myself feel that I am more than qualified to say that Dr Hibbert may have some kind of narcissistic disorder and needs sectioning under the mental health act!” Kudos to Miss A for having such a tremendous sense of humour after everything she has been through. Researching Reform admire her greatly.
If you want to catch more coverage on the story, BBC Radio 4 will be mentioning it on their 6 O’clock news and Radio 2 will also be airing the story today.
Miss A is currently launching an action against Dr Hibbert and the Local Authority and is looking for other families who have been subjected to Dr Hibbert’s treatment to come forward. All correspondence will be treated confidentially and every care taken to ensure that any gagging orders that may be in place will not be breached. You are entitled to come forward, even with a gagging order, if you have concerns about treatment you have received from Dr Hibbert.
Please email Researching Reform at Sobk13@gmail.com and we will pass your details to Miss A’s legal team.
Dr Hibbert
Nearly 1000 children a month are taken from their parents by the “SS”.Most,yes most parents undergo examinations from the psychobabble brigade ,who make their livings by declaring that parents suffer from “borderline personality disorders” (ie they hate social workers!) or having “narcissistic traits” (self respect!).Dr Hibbert is a typical example of these charlatans whose only current role seems be to act as “hired guns” for the local authorities !Few of the thousands (yes thousands) of parents who have phoned me for help over the last five years have been accused of violence or addictions to drugs or alcohol.Too many have alas been accused of being a “risk” to their children and have in effect been condemned not for what they have done but for what so called experts likeDr Hibbert think they might do in the future so the children go to foster care or forced adoption . How can anyone defend themselves against a prediction by a court appointed expert?
It is time the criminal rules of justice applied in the family courts.Innocent until proved guilty,and no gagging orders etc;We might then begin to see a proper “rule of law” and fair justice in our UK family courts.
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The rot is a lot worse than people may think.
Knowing that the moderation is quite sharp on this page I will be careful here.
However having first hand experience of exactly this type of expert, where not only did he write whatever he was told but had a three hour meeting with the social workers to ensure they were all working off the same page so to speak shows a deep collusion that borders on the criminal.
What is the salient point that we should all be asking is if there are “hundreds” of families thus affected then this means that these hundreds of families which could be thousands of children have suffered a massive miscarriage of justice.
Looking back to the article about the difference between criminal and family approaches, if a person stole a child from the street, he would be looking down to 15 years possibly yet if the state does it, no one except the family feel any shame or retribution which is wrong, wrong, wrong!
The investigation should look to indict not only this man but EVERY social worker, guardian that colluded with him and this is a prime example why forced adoption should not be permanent in this country.
We halted the death penalty after concerns of hanging innocent people, we should abolish permanent adoption on the same premise, as so many parents do manage to clear their name after the adoption is finalised.
The market for stolen children is driven by money from the top to the bottom, many social workers are silent partners as are team managers, directors and councillors in foster “farms” and they steer more customers to their “farm” through their work and quietly and without the government or anyone else noticing the fat little paychecks at the end of the month.
Child protection has become a dirty, dirty racket, innocent children are targeted whilst children in need are ignored.
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Thank you for your comment and for your considerate posting.
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Oh and just to show how crazy things are out there, a [name withheld] SSD are returning to a mother children that she has abused, in fact this mother has violently abused every child she has born, disfiguring and brain damaging two of the seven through her violence.
Yet it gets better, this SSD actually have been into prison to meet with the mother’s partner to talk to him about him acting the father figure when he is released, his crimes are violence and domestic violence, they say he is a better father than the real one whose “crime” is that he failed to disclose he was an alcoholic in his youth.
You just couldn’t make it up…
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miss w dr hibbert is a very ill & sad man he give my child fish food to eat and caused him so much pain he wanted to die at the age of 6 years old as dr h was putting him in to foster care he should be left to suffer for the rest of his life what a sick man miss
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I’m so sorry to hear that.
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If the GMC find the case against Dr Hibbert to be proven, then every case where children have been removed from their parents should be re-examined and determined with the evidence of Dr Hibbert excluded. I’m sure there will be many hundreds, although as in the similar case of Professor Roy Meadows and Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy after the Sally Clarke trial and the Minister announced many thousands of cases would have to be re-considered, every local authority will deny having such cases. Why?, because they will be ordered to do so by their insurers.
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The “expert” witness industry flourishes all over with junk science, but it is particularly distasteful to see that it has invaded these domestic matters where children’s best interests are at issue.
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http://world4justice.wordpress.com/ the Family Justice system is a sham the world over and riddled with the likes of Dr. Hibbert! From Justice Ministers to Family Court judges right down to lowly social workers they should all hold their heads in shame for adhering to Hitlers version of “In the children’s best interest! as it so seldom ever is!!
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This is not an isolated Expert case. Clearly as we all know full well, once having met the system. All experts like CAFCASS and ISW’s are the puppets of the system.
LA’s are the funding providers in chief. The piper pays the expert and calls the tune. The whole system relies on the grace and favour of future work in Public Law cases and similarly controls and funds CLAIT and Solicitors family Panels both with funding and grace of referrals. The role of Solicitors acting for Guardians, Guardians that instruct solicitors rubber stamping LA’s position in regard to children. The whole system becomes cosy and dependant on each other. Money and grace and favour. The supporting sector of funding to social charitable organisations be it CAB or SEAP rely on the LA and so on.
Thus all families and children are lacking in voice and independence. The LA become unchallengeable and once the SW’s take action, clearly as the Daily Mail articile expressed no child comes home from these actions by LA. hence the startling fact that 97% of children are not returned.
The state mechanism is potentially an application of a policy on no child or family from being safe once an intervention takes place, for almost any reason. Any family will resent the actions of a state that believes all families are likely not good enough once a SW has taken a view in the negative.
Experts funded by a system that is self protecting and self serving will more than likely follow the money. Courts and Justice for years has been known as a place for justice of those with the deepest pockets. No families have pockets deep enough and Public Funded Legal aid will react also to expert reports in the negative for a family that ought fight a corrupted system milking principles of justice, add that the Justice system itself is a funding institution self protecting a business.
Solicitors and Barristers in Public law rely on Public funding, money and future business, not the interest of Parents or sadly the child. Solicitors are just going thought the motions, knowing the power rests with the LA’s.
LA’s win at all costs protecting an insurance premium. Wrong doing not addressed by the courts.
Experts are the tip of the ICEBERG.
FOSTERING & ADOPTION is growth business in the UK as available funding and policy clearly indicates. LA’s children’s services is a growth area and a target of business interest including those so called Charities reliant on funding and growth themselves SADLY.
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Nobody so far has tackled the question of “why” social services behave the way they do ;ie paying tame medical experts to rubbish families ,and using all means fair or foul to win cases involving the confiscation of children from their parents.
“Follow the dollar” is a useful maxim for explaining unpleasant behaviour by officials…….
A mother gets about £20/week family allowance for her first child,but if that child is put into fostercare the fosterers are paid by private agencies an average of £400/week per child!It is not unknown for social workers to get kickbacks from the families they recommend…..No names no pack drill….
The fostering and adoption agencies however laugh at these “pitiful sums” as they charge local authorities from £1500/week upwards for placing a child with foster parents, or a flat £27,000 for finding adoptive parents!
Recently such an agency founded by ex social workers a few years ago was sold for £130million ! Nice work if you can get it……Judges,solicitors,and barristers all make a cosy living out of the misery of others and all pals together they ensure that more than 99% of parents lose their cases . No conspiracies necessary ; just noone rock the boat please !
The only thing these individuals fear is publicity; hence jail for any parents daring to complain publicly when their babies are snatched at birth to feed our deplorable care system.A system of such care that in foster care and even in private schools/children’s homes charging £7000/week or more ,(3 times the feesat Eton!) kids are abused,raped,and more than half end up in jail or as prostitutes.When judges declare that parents are a risk to their children they never compare such risks with those suffered by children unfortunate enough to be snatched (often from loving families) to be placed at the tender mercies of the horrific UK care system.
With so many “snouts in the trough” our MPs look like plaster saints compared with the greedy stalwarts of our “child protection system”!
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http://world4justice.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/daily-mail-no-to-secret-family-courts-campaign/
here you are again! Davey
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One word. Corrupt. I had a phyc done one me, never met me or spoke to me but labelled be an abuser because I had concerns of a certain person. Just had another, i have not received report yet but believe that it has backfired on ss as i over heard a meeting with my SW (he forgot to hang up his phone) saying its conceivable abuse took place (something I had reported). SS have tried to back track and now suddenly blaming myself for not alerting them to the severity of what my daughter disclosed. As a former police officer i know exactly what to write in a statement and made it clear what was being said. Sw FAILED TO LISTEN. This is the second time they failed me when my ex disappeared with the child, they had no concerns over her mental health or threats to kill the child and disclosures she herself made over another family member. Over a year later another ss raised the same concerns but the authority in question LIED to cover their mistakes and CONTINUE to do so protecting their JOBS, not protecting the child . I was illegally removed from the police with SS fabricating reports to police to have me removed.
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I am going through care proceedings with my 2 [children], my oldest got out of house three times when I was asleep early in the morning, for the last 3 years I have been told my child shows signs of emotional neglect, sexual abuse etc etc. Now two psychologists have confirmed my child is autistic, signs of these were the escapism and sexualised behaviors and seeming in their own world, also signs of sexual abuse and/or neglect… now my child’s behaviors have become so extreme AFTER being removed from my care that the local authority have decided my child is better off in long term care…
In the meantime I had a another child [content removed], I was told throughout my pregnancy that this child would not be under investigation until the day AFTER I was due to give birth when I was told this child would be going on a care order, with home placement ‘just in case’ I neglect this child. At a week overdue I had to go to court and was told if I did not agree to my oldest staying in long term care my baby would be taken at birth as I would be seen as unable to safeguard a child.
By my own barrister.
Now ten months after that I have ticked every box and more needed to show I am not going to abuse/neglect etc my baby and in June I am hoping my baby will be released from their care order.
My other child, however, has an uncertain future and daily my heart breaks to know I am still being blamed for behaviors that are not my fault.
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The social services are destroying lives, adults and childrens, just to meet targets.
HOW THE HELL IS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?!?!!?
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And it’s not just Dr Hibbert, I was told I had a split personality disorder, borderline paranoia etc etc… one report even said I had ‘the persona of a lap dancer’. I have no idea what this means, I was told I couldn’t think cognitively and had to have an assessment which I not only passed but was told I could think ‘at superior levels’.
I also passed a psychological assessment with flying colours!!
There are so called experts everywhere cocking up cases. Many social workers have NO children and cannot possibly understand some of the struggles parents feel. I had one social worker say I was a concern because I was upset when my child once said they want to die.
Forgive but if I wasn’t upset… surely THAT would be concerning?!?!?
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ive just had a psch report from [Name withheld] in norwich she has falsified court reports just found out prior to my assessment she had contact with the authorities so basically ive been set up to have my children removed my psychiatrist for my adhd says my insight is of high intelligence psch says basic im stupid erm so ive been uner a psychiatrist for over a year and met her once she also said at psch assessment my logic is very good on the cognitive tests and wrote in her report im basically useless i was pre judged before i met the woman to suit the authorise needs to take my sons.
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Hi there, we’re sorry but we’ve had to edit your post for legal reasons. If you have concerns about the professionals in your case, may we suggest getting in touch with the governing bodies for each sector and looking to see if they have ever been disciplined, had their licences removed or whether in fact they have a license to practice in the first place. Alternatively, you can get in touch with the lawyers working on the case relating to Dr Hibbert.
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Dr hibbert was not my psychiatrist but never the less she is just as corrupt I have informed my barrister we are hoping to have her report opposed as it is full of contradiction and totaly falsified I was pre judged before I met her as I’ve found out that the social worker contacted the psychologist prior to assessments she has completely destroyed me my psychiatrist is supportive towards me so I have two professionals against each other luckily for me the psychiatric report is good so we will see what happens at judgement day as for that evil dr hibbert he deserves to go to prison even if he is still allowed to practice he won’t get any more work and I hope miss A and her defence lawer destroy him and she gets her child back they all and its goes to re trial all I can say my heart goes out to you all xx
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Dear Anon, I have had to remove the content of your post for legal reasons.
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