“Being suspended is a strange limbo like situation to be in –the world was getting on with its life but mine was frozen, awaiting the outcome of this investigation. Understandably, I felt periods of acute depression, sometimes wanted to kill myself. My sleep was frequently disturbed. Effectively, I was an outcast.”
Taken from the social work whistleblower report. this is exactly how the SS make most parents feel, and the powers that be know damn well that they are doing this, the system is heartless, corrupt and financially motivated.
Many thanks for your comment, Mike. The other notable thing to add is that when parents start to experience those feelings, they are then often used against them to suggest they are mentally unwell and unable to look after their children, despite the conditions having been brought on after their case began and no investigation into how the behaviour affects the kids is ever done. All very shambolic, short sighted and unethical.
Exactly Natasha, the very involvement of Social Services can create new problems and exacerbate existing problems, I remember asking my then 7 year old Grandson if he was happier now since SS had been involved in his life than he was before their involvement, his reply was “NO WAY!!!” Stated quite forcibly.
one grandmother who is just one of thousands was a well known person for justice but the system wrote in the allegations of being an alcoholic and a drug user but then it would seem from social workers all families who lose their children are suffering with what ever, but I have to smile at the amount of grandparents who on hear say by
the ss and court experts are all alcoholics and drug users and for the grandparents
who are goody two drops they are given a book to fill in of their life story as in this link http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com/dear-grandma/ I will say again the governments do not give a dam they have and are allowing the social workers to rule the nation from the young to the old and in the middle is control via the prisons hospitals schools doctors so it is up to all families to as a child in care said many times to their Nan STAY Strong, and I will say never let any one bring you down to their level they are the dustmen of the SS
All the Children’s departments of every single local authority fall short in one way or another. Measured on a scale by Ofsted, some like Slough are just worse than others!
Wandsworth, Darlington, Birmingham, Doncaster, Coventry, West Berkshire, Cumbria, Somerset, Durham, Walsall, ……..et al! What sanctions were made against those who failed the children?
Ian Thomas was tasked with sorting out what he called, the “toxic mess” of Rotherham’s children’s services. Rotherham is not the only one but the one that slammed into the public consciousness over the grooming of children in the wider community and of children placed within the care system, clearly being neglected by those tasked to look after them. Were those foster carers sacked? Are they looking after children now? If they were the birth families, their children would have been removed from them. One rule for those within the system and another for the families outside of it!
These councils are “rewarded” for their failings with additional funding from the government to turn them around. The government needs to change it’s policy and put their funding in to stop kids going into care!
It’s a well known fact in large corporations that when wrong doings are committed there is a closing of ranks. The person who tells of that wrong doing is ostracised, bullied in many ways, not spoken to, spoken of behind their backs, told their work is not up to scratch, a l until dismissal! The workers collude because they see what happens to the whistleblower and fears that the focus will be on them if they back up the allegations of the whistleblower. They fear for their jobs. They often have families and mortgages. They keep their mouths shut!
Mike Howard said:
“Being suspended is a strange limbo like situation to be in –the world was getting on with its life but mine was frozen, awaiting the outcome of this investigation. Understandably, I felt periods of acute depression, sometimes wanted to kill myself. My sleep was frequently disturbed. Effectively, I was an outcast.”
Taken from the social work whistleblower report. this is exactly how the SS make most parents feel, and the powers that be know damn well that they are doing this, the system is heartless, corrupt and financially motivated.
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Natasha said:
Many thanks for your comment, Mike. The other notable thing to add is that when parents start to experience those feelings, they are then often used against them to suggest they are mentally unwell and unable to look after their children, despite the conditions having been brought on after their case began and no investigation into how the behaviour affects the kids is ever done. All very shambolic, short sighted and unethical.
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Mike Howard said:
Exactly Natasha, the very involvement of Social Services can create new problems and exacerbate existing problems, I remember asking my then 7 year old Grandson if he was happier now since SS had been involved in his life than he was before their involvement, his reply was “NO WAY!!!” Stated quite forcibly.
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ladyportia27 said:
Its catch 22 all the time.
If a parent shows emotion then they are mentally unwell.
If they remain unemotional- even on the outisde- they are seen as cold, sterile and called cold hearted bitches, etc.
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Dana said:
A national scandal!
Every 90 minutes someone in the UK is feeling so distraught and so commits suicide!
I wonder what their circumstances were to bring about such a drastic and final act.
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Sabine Kurjo McNeill said:
Reblogged this on No Punishment without Crime or Bereavement without Death!.
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daveyone1 said:
Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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maggie tuttle said:
one grandmother who is just one of thousands was a well known person for justice but the system wrote in the allegations of being an alcoholic and a drug user but then it would seem from social workers all families who lose their children are suffering with what ever, but I have to smile at the amount of grandparents who on hear say by
the ss and court experts are all alcoholics and drug users and for the grandparents
who are goody two drops they are given a book to fill in of their life story as in this link http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com/dear-grandma/ I will say again the governments do not give a dam they have and are allowing the social workers to rule the nation from the young to the old and in the middle is control via the prisons hospitals schools doctors so it is up to all families to as a child in care said many times to their Nan STAY Strong, and I will say never let any one bring you down to their level they are the dustmen of the SS
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Dana said:
All the Children’s departments of every single local authority fall short in one way or another. Measured on a scale by Ofsted, some like Slough are just worse than others!
Wandsworth, Darlington, Birmingham, Doncaster, Coventry, West Berkshire, Cumbria, Somerset, Durham, Walsall, ……..et al! What sanctions were made against those who failed the children?
Ian Thomas was tasked with sorting out what he called, the “toxic mess” of Rotherham’s children’s services. Rotherham is not the only one but the one that slammed into the public consciousness over the grooming of children in the wider community and of children placed within the care system, clearly being neglected by those tasked to look after them. Were those foster carers sacked? Are they looking after children now? If they were the birth families, their children would have been removed from them. One rule for those within the system and another for the families outside of it!
What the investigations into Rotherham threw up?
http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/inspections-into-the-governance-of-rotherham-council.
These councils are “rewarded” for their failings with additional funding from the government to turn them around. The government needs to change it’s policy and put their funding in to stop kids going into care!
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Dana said:
Social Worker Whistleblower.
It’s a well known fact in large corporations that when wrong doings are committed there is a closing of ranks. The person who tells of that wrong doing is ostracised, bullied in many ways, not spoken to, spoken of behind their backs, told their work is not up to scratch, a l until dismissal! The workers collude because they see what happens to the whistleblower and fears that the focus will be on them if they back up the allegations of the whistleblower. They fear for their jobs. They often have families and mortgages. They keep their mouths shut!
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