Welcome to 2016.
As we begin a new year, the child welfare system still has many challenges ahead, so our question this week is simple:
What child welfare and family justice issues would you like our politicians to address over the next 12 months?
Question it!
04 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in Question It, Researching Reform
Researching Reform 
The total shambles that has become of an award winning Probation Service and the fact that no-one shows any interest in talking about what has happened.
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Regulation of McKenzie Friends& complaints procedures;
Compulsory training for ALL MKF funded by gov & then accredited MKF paid Legal Aid rates;
MKF having to disclose fees paid in full by clients for the court to publish- some charge £1500 plus for appeal;
MKF to be DBS checked;
MKF struck off when found holding back information from Court;
Media articles being checked for accuracy before being printed (eg. Baby No Name DID have a name);
Always a response from FJC or Cafcass CEO when Hemming makes statements;
Legal Aid back to ensure Justice;
Families given correct information sheet on procedures- e.g. S20 voluntary, obtaining SAR etc;
All Children to have Independent Child Advocates (something I am working on);
After proceedings have ended where Families have won, LA’s MUST keep to promises and families to get fast track support- e.g. where a Child is found to have EDS full support for Education and consultant parent request should be honoured;
Where children are being returned, LA to provide suitable housing- many parents are struggling to find larger accommodation which is a condition of return. Supplying suitable homes would be less costly than FC& the least damaging to all concerned.
SW who lie to be automatically struck off;
26 week rule not being a factor where therapy is required & other circumstances where there is a possibility of families staying together;
Extended family such as Grandparents to have automatic party to proceedings unless safeguarding issue;
Children to be taught their Rights & Wishes and Feelings ALWAYS heard;
Matching of sw to families with knowledge of culture/ faith/ beliefs- e.g. Muslim sw for muslim family;
Parents to have automatic shared contact in Private Law cases unless safeguarding issues;
proven dishonest & bullying MPs such as Lucy Allan to be disallowed to give opinions;
Children in care to have access to mentors;
FC/ Children Homes to have unannounced spot checks by Independent Advocates/ Mentors for the children;
FC to have a log of expenditure from payments;
FDAC available to all who may benefit;
Written Agreements to be banned unless they can be legally binding;
Post Adoption contact adhered to;
Therapy for families who have lost children to prevent repeat removals- this is being piloted;
Specialised sw on certain issues- e.g. conditions which could look like abuse, DV, parent disabled needing support etc;
Where family found out to be innocent after adoption, they are to have shared input with adopters on upbringing of child & when child is gillick, child is to be told truth & decide who they wish to live with;
All familial medical records to be kept with child’s to help them should they get any hereditary conditions later- diabetes, arthritis etc;
All records corrected when ss proven wrong.
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Hi Amber, I hear all of the time of parents being told by many legal teams they must separate if they want their child back and in many instances the parents are so loving then we have ALL parents and the child/ren who have to by law have different legal teams, why can a family with no problems not be represented by the same lawyer, its money, as for a child’s advocate well I know most advocates are working for charities and should they speak truth the charity can lose money,
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and when a child is taken into care they lose their personal possessions such as dolls and teddies all toys and their clothes and Cafcass is big time into the kids losing all to include families. it is like I have said so many times a kid in care is surrounded by an army, and the Governments will allow the army of SS and S/W to continue, and of course it will go on and be allowed because if the crooks “In a child’s best interest” were bought to account how would governments live their high lives and of course rule the Plebs with the army known as the SS, wonder where the name of the SS came from, well if people were to research into world war 2 you will read it was the SS who had the powers, so what is knew.
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SS comes from
http://one-evil.org/content/entities_organizations_nazi_ss.html
Other names Nasi SS, “Knights”, “Knights of the Sedes Sacrorum “, “Knights of the Holy See ”
Year of origin 1933
Founder(s) Archbishop Cardinal Pacelli, Superior General Fr.Wlodimir Ledochowski S.J.
First Leader: RiechFührer (1st being Fr. H. Himmler S.J.)
Headquarters Berlin (to 1945), Washington DC since 1945
Head of Organization RiechFührer (1st being Fr. H. Himmler S.J.)
Current Leader Director, SS (Secret Service), Washington DC
Members 10,000
Add that Judges etc in Ireland. UK, USA etc all attend the annual Roman Catholic Red Mass to kick off the legal year.
Add to that the Holy SeaSee and Admiralty law and it all fits together nicely.
Llook back at the RC church and Jesuits to see the pattern.
http://www.reformation.org/jesuits-in-ireland.html
These corrupt monks wanted to have access to the children at any cost.
The monks (who took vows of poverty) got a substantial sum from the government for every child thus incarcerated.
Its all about money and children make a fine commodity. Easy to warehouse, easy to traumatise and control for life.
Remove all toys and traces of their family- as was done to Native American children under the Jesuit regime.
No presents allowed by parents etc- all creating the same energy as SS .
Its history repeating itself and this time it is up to us to get off the wheel and create something new and beautiful for all children.
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1:- No child should ever be taken from sane parent(s) who have been neither charged with or convicted of a crime against children.
2:- No parent or child in care should ever be gagged ie prevented from discussing whatever they liked with whomever they liked in public or in private ;
3:- No parent or child should ever be forbidden to contact each other at least indirectly by phone or email unless the parent had previously committed a serious offence against the child.
4:- Forced adoption and closed adoption should both be abolished .
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Natasha, the only change will be more money set aside to talk and talk of how to bring justice for children as if they don’t know its a laugh, over 600 MPs god knows how many Lords Ministers Charities and the millions all working “In a child’s best interest” so how many of them have lost a kid to the care system, not one that I know of, does any one else know. Amazing that they all get untold wages and all we hear is WE NEED MORE FUNDS, how wonderful get paid and untold expenses with rent paid for a flat close to the Commons and they want more money to help the kids in care, them in power are the most crooked on earth, but as many police officers have told me, we have to do as the social workers say, child abuse will never come to an end unless the world comes to an end.
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Eliminate the SECRECY of family courts for REAL, not just as ‘guidance’ by well-meaning Sir James Munby, when it’s “up to individual judges”.
TECHNOLOGY is the answer to recording truth for anybody who has nothing to hide!
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The Transparency Project has done a detailed report on recordings.
http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/guidance-on-parents-recording-meetings-with-social-workers/
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All business with SS social workers, Guardians etc must be recorded for the truth to be exposed.
At the end of each recorded session each party must have a verified copy- to avoid doctoring.
Even in RCJ doctoring the transcripts is possible.
Also possible to remove files from the bundles when they are on the way down from the upper offices.LJ Mumby is well aware.
GAL taking the bundles from the court clerk was also witnessed.
When challenged CAFCASS declared they had no such agent.
On research he was found to have been moved down South.
Things I once believed were impossible – I witnessed as possible.
Even with technology Sabine it is possible to carry on the corruption as I have shown with a few examples.
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Every child’s “best interest” understood to include their human right to biological family ties and identity. #adopteerights
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I would suggest all politicians “walk a mile in an accused parents shoes”.
Imagine having your children removed from you. As you stumble through a biased court with every word you say skewed by the court, interpreted to mean something you haven’t said. Experts depicting you as unsuitable to bring up your child without any tangible proof. Losing your case and your child removed permanently, possibly to be adopted. Contact with your child sparse, if at all. Your parents, the grandparents, being denied a relationship with your children. No contact with any of your family. Your children stigmatised by being brought up in care!
The Children’s Act is worthless! Only acted upon if it suits the needs of social workers who do not adhere to it’s principals. Reunification happens only occasionally when a child votes with his/her feet and is rarely planned! Local Authorities need to look towards family and stop looking for reasons why family can’t! No one is perfect , not family or Foster carers. Foster carers should only be employed when there really is no one else! Reunification should happen asap if a child is removed temporarily.
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all you write I agree, I cannot for see any thing changing for kids and families to much money involved and jobs, but it is the next generation mostly the kids in care who will suffer more, the families who lose the kids shed untold tears but have freedom the freedom to speak and fight, but the kids in care have no one to turn to for support, the schools, doctors foster carers the judges and so on all turn a blind eye when a kid speaks out, and to be in care those kids are bullied in the schools. Is it any wonder that mostly thousands on the streets are from the care system but who gives a dam, the families do but there are no DOORS to open unless the Nation come together and put a stop, it wont happen because the British Nation has always been known as LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER and the kids will remain screaming to be heard,
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FORCED ADOPTION
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It is disgusting that any activity that concerns children that can be manipulated to produce a financial benefit for the recipient and not for the Genuine interest of the child/ren should never be encouraged and certainly not by the Professionals that set themselves up as the Guardians of those children. It is pur money making and profit for immoral people. No one should make money out of misery and certainly not out of the misery of children!!!
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If all the children of MPs were taken away upon a nefarious claim of abuse and cared for by foster parents and ultimately adopted or in the old days they were sent to the colonies, for their own good and in their best interests, then you would have a meeting of COBRA and a Bill rushed through Parliament in a week, solely in the MPs best interests. We, the voting publice are treated as second class citizens. In 1839 the Chartist Movement was against this type of one sided justice, but that changed withina few years. There is an election in 2020 so we know which party we will be voting for…..The REAL familyly political orientated party where Truth, Honesty, Transparency and The REAL needs of children are paramount. We are campaigning for changes to the Laws concerning Secret Family Courts where there are no genuine reasons of concern by a divorcing partner except lies made up to gain advantage and to seek financial advantage over the respondent. Remember 90% of Divorce cases end up with the woman being handed the child/ren for no other genuine reason except that they are female. This is Sex Discrimination.
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Carlos Morales was a CPS worker in America. He is now a whistleblower! He has made many videos including “Legally Kidnapped” found on u tube. Whilst the USA CPS is slightly different, too much remains the same as the UK’s social services!
Molly Mc Grath Tierney also spoke out about the so called successes of her ss department that were in reality, failures for the children & families concerned.
The NCCPR has excellent research articles including a comparison between similar maltreated children that were either cared for at home or in foster care. The children left in their own homes fared so much better than the children in foster care!
Why is the UK government not listening?
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I see the family courts are relying on social worker assessments more as experts have dwindled down to 49%. (Community care on RR Twitter feed)
Are they the same social workers who admit to being “burnt out” due to the stresses of the job? Are they the same social workers who needed more education?
I would like to see research on at least 50 different social workers from 50 different geographical areas make an assessment of the same 50 families taken at random to see if the child should be taken into care/adopted or supported at home. The social workers should give their reasoning and if what they chose wasn’t availiable what would be the next best choice and to give their reasoning for that choice.
I wonder what the results would be?
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