A newly established charity run by barristers and solicitors called The Transparency Project, has organised a conference to look at some of the issues inside the family justice system that cause parents and practitioners problems alike.
The conference, which takes place on June 1st this year, is titled “Is the Child Protection System Fit for Purpose?” and features workshops and panel discussions for professionals and interested members of the public.
The venue for the conference is in King’s Cross. This is a fee paying event. Tickets for non family law professionals start at £5 for those who are not currently in work, and £35 for those who are. Family law professionals with 5 years or more experience will be charged £100 and those with 5 years or less experience can purchase a ticket for £50.
Speakers include family law researchers, care leavers, McKenzie friends, parents and family lawyers.
If you’d like to attend, you can do so by: emailing sarah.phillimore@stjohnschambers.co.uk.
Many thanks to Jerry Lonsdale for sharing this event with us, and we wish him every success as he participates in this conference.
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I wish this well as its long overdue, I would have loved to have attended but my mental illness is not improving and how do you encapsulate some 16 years plus of pure hell at the hands of them into a small bite sized chunk, the scope of what they did to me is just so huge and it is no mistake that my youngest’s court bundle is still the single most large file for a single child in the court system and requires to be moved on several heavy duty trolleys stacked feet high on each.
How do you define how a judge who each and every time was positive to my manner of parenting, was so easily switched when it came to custody of my grandson? Heck we even had the court appointed “expert” bang to rights for fraud where he charged for court attendances he never attended and when we asked for him to be discharged on those grounds alone, the same Judge who gave me custody of my youngest, refused.
Where can you convey to an audience the vicious reprisal and revenge, when what was seen by their circles as a social worker heavyweight, who was so confident that we would never find out that she had arranged a “witness” to a very dodgy “confession” by my daughter of all things ill, something my daughter in public witness stated she had never said, that she had forgotten to check that said witness to disclosure was actually on holiday at time of happening and once we had that, we were about to lead her into a perjury charge but someone tipped her off and the case was dropped, the pure hatred from this woman who interfered incessantly with my grandson’s case because she “had” to be seen as “right” all along, the knives came out oh yes.
How do you explain the very bizarre clique mentality in these offices? When HHJ McKinney, a veritable firebrand no nonsense Judge who despised crooked social workers with a passion, wrote a letter demanding the local director sack the first social worker in my case, this stayed in the records all those years and the problems that abounded after no doubt was through loyalty revenge, one worker, a very odd woman who has now been permanently barred from working in child protection, became so incensed at a child conference that she physically attacked me across a table, the only written evidence of this being in that of my advocate and she had to be literally dragged hissing and spitting fury at me, threatening to kill me and more and the people of the council, they did nothing, they ignored it, it never happened and denied it happened when I made a complaint too, when it became apparent that I was not going to drop it, instead of notifying the governing body of this, they kept it secret and allowed her to resign quietly where she went back to mental health and it was exposed by her new managers that she was addicted to hard drugs, was in a terrible mess of debt and had even contemplated selling her body to fuel her habit as she lived in a car in the back of the unit she worked at.
(It reminds me of the poor case of the three girls in Hampshire where the social worker et guardian was convicted by a criminal court of fraud, deception and other charges YET her non criminal testimony was used to finalise the removal of the three little ladies despite every aspect of her work being trashed, every aspect of it proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been a fantasy woven by a woman who had to win at all costs and made the fatal mistake of trying to force a foster carer to lie for her in court, it was in the local news but she is, like Lisa Artorworry and others of her ilk, working safely and soundly in the secure offices of social work, as were the two Boston social workers who ritually abused two toddling girls they fraudently adopted and required an armed rescue by police to free the children locked and gagged in a wardrobe covered in their own excrement and bearing vicious black bruising from top to bottom. I mean what do you have to do to actually get these people OUT from the system, or do they protect themselves with knowledge or perhaps being part of the myriad fostering and adoption scams rampant in most councils now, stealing millions from the taxpayer because they enjoy a secrecy even our spying agencies are envious and a power that even the police could not profess?)
And despite this, despite every aspect of her work being rubbished at every level, it was her work, it was my refusal to work with her, allow her access to my children or her anywhere near my family that they hung me with over my grandsons, nowhere in 16 years plus is there a record, proven or unproven claim that I ever acted unlawfully, negligently, abusively towards my own or ANY child but they had me there and there was my reward, my punishment of punishments to ensure I knew my place, a mere parent that had to be forced to kneel before their twisted altars.
With it went two grandsons, to live with adoptive parents 60 years or more their senior, because they were part of the system, involved in terrible defrauding of the taxpayer and they used every aspect to ensure their connections to Freemasonry and I can prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, was to silence me, to rob my grandsons of justice and a loving upbringing, when you find out that even your own barristers husband belonged to the same damned lodge as the director, deputy director, complaints manager, team managers husband, senior practitioners husband, court appointed expert, deceased husband of court guardian, father of assistant team manager, county solicitors husband, even the records and data protection manager is in a Lodge picture with the court “expert” and the husband of my barrister, she who when I wouldn’t drop the case at the final hearing, simply stated she would refuse to fight for me, she who refused to give me the discharge papers in order to sack her and my solicitor, that man I thought a friend and confidant just looked mealy mouthed at me and did nothing…
How in a short moment can I tell the world of that one small moment, the moment my daughters said they could hear my heart break, my mind break faced with the loss of a grandson who was observed so close and so in sync with his grandfather, who absolutely adored his grandfather that he cried whenever not in his care, I have no tombstone to visit, to heal with and with the abounding stories of state organised rape and torture of our children, I can only see the worst, the darkest moments and I swear on my own mothers grave that if they ever do anything, anything that would harm them in that manner, I would seek my own absolution in their painful misery and will cross that line of law because no one else will, those that hurt my blood and kin because I have been told that the adoptive parents dare not tell them anything BUT lies to assuage their own guilt as fantasy parents, to assuage their own guilt over participating in lies and to assuage their own guilt when those children will ask WHY despite a Judge decreeing that post adoptive contact be given at least once a year to myself, based on real evidence from Swindon that proved such contact improved adoptive childrens future chances immeasurably, they have to face them boys and explain why they lied and lied and lied again.
Already there is a video on Youtube as kind of holding place telling the lads how it really was, I am working on a website which hosted outside of UK jurisdiction that will SHOW them how they were stolen and those adoptive parents will have to face the despite, the disgust of them lads and that maybe makes the ability to wake up every day the only impetus in a sea of despair that I now exist in.
I so need to tell my story to the world, at the legal abuse that broke me and destroyed my family but who would listen? People more interested in having better houses and cars than their neighbours than actually giving a damn… Yet if you wanted to hear my story, then those that know Marian from the BBC can with my permission ask for it, she has been an absolute saviour to many out there and I fell along the way whilst she carried on and a little part of myself hates me for not being strong enough to carry on, my old organisation, once feared now broken and just a website front page, when we trod the halls of parliament and testified to the Houses, when MP’s came to us for help (John being one but conveniently forgets) and we saw a change in the distance, when Theresa May came to us in opposition begging us for our support in exchange for promises that were broken because its not just social workers making a lot of money out of our misery, MP’s and others do too and the most popular previous employment in Parliament today is ex social worker.
Sorry for going on but I gets very upset and usually end up in a small ward to stop myself self harming, that is the legacy child protection gave me and my daughters too who are so frightened of having children, they will go into spinsterhood denied the rights and privileges of being a loving parent themselves.
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I’m so sorry to hear that, AG. Wishing you better xxxx
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Many thanks for this Natasha, Just to give a bit of an update, we have secured the presence of Sir Mark Hedley who will open the conference and be around for the whole day 🙂
Places are filling up fast so it is looking to be a very good and worthwhile conference
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That’s fantastic Jerry! Good luck.
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