Legal Action For Women (LAW) very kindly invited Researching Reform to come to their office in Kentish Town yesterday, to talk about child welfare.
Dedicated to offering support for low income women, Legal Action For Women garnered media attention this year after publishing a report entitled, ‘Suffer The Little Children‘, which looks at some of the underlying causes for the sharp rise in the removal of children from their mothers inside the Family Justice System.
We met with Anne Neale, co-author of the report, and Kim, who talked to us about the work they do, the campaigns they are currently working on and the organisation’s continued efforts to lobby government in order to raise awareness around the importance of motherhood.
Anne Neale
LAW is currently working in several different areas, including the Children and Social Work Bill and its content on adoption, service privatisation and the ‘opt out clause’.
If you’d like to get involved or get in touch with LAW for support, you can do so by calling them on: 020 7482 2496. If you have access to email, they would find it easier if you could reach out at law@allwomencount.net.
We would like to thank LAW for inviting us to learn about the vital work they are doing, and for the very delicious lunch they kindly gave us, too.
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The UK is the ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD where:-
1:- A steady stream of parents flee the country every year to avoid having their babies and young children taken from them by the State for forced adoption. Social workers,behaving like police ,take babies at birth from mothers ,not for anything they have done but for something someone with a “Crystal Ball” thinks they might do in the future !
2:- PERHAPS THE WORST THING OF ALL :-The UK is the ONLY country in the world where Babies are taken at birth for “RISK of emotional abuse”
Yes it really is true as most of the mothers who phone me complain because social workers acting as though they were police but with no authority to do so, snatch babies at birth from the hospital for this hypothetical“RISK of emotional abuse” .Social workers by acting in this way are claiming to read the future with neither Crystal ball nor tarot cards or even simple tealeaves !This is I believe the ONLY example in UK law where a law abiding Citizen can be punished in the worst possible way (permanent loss of a child) not for something that PARENT has done but merely because it is thought that there is a RISK !!
In 2002 Tom Cruise starred in the film “Minority Report” .In the year 2054 citizens were punished for crimes they were predicted to commit in the future ! That,believe it or not is the situation for British parents right NOW today !!
England: 2011 – 2015 NSPCC STATISTICS
Children and young people who were the subject of a Child Protection Plan (CPP)
by category of abuse at 31 March.
Category of abuse 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Neglect 18,600 18,220 17,930 20,970 22,230
Physical abuse 4,800 4,690 4,670 4,760 4,350 = 9.3% reduction since 2011 !
Sexual abuse 2,400 2,220 2,030 2,210 2,340 = 2%reduction since 2011 !
Emotional abuse 11,400 12,330 13,640 15,860 16,660 =46% increase since 2011 !!!
Multiple 5,500 5,390 4,870 4,500 4,110
Total 42,700 42,850 43,140 48,300 49,690
So baby P caused a social workers to concentrate not on physical abuse but emotional abuse (risk of?).Not the picture usually painted !
Once in court the urgent objective of social workers is to WIN their case come what may as their carers can depend on it, so they produce “hired gun” Professional psychologists/psychiatrists who regularly back them up in the family courts by exaggerating unlikely risks from parents with so called “personality disorders” even if parents have never harmed anyone in their lives !Everyone can have a different opinion about such so called risks but both before and after these babies are snatched family court judges will nearly always rubberstamp the snatching and later order forced adoption of these little mites by strangers ! That way social workers can blame judges for the cruelty these actions entail .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35088794 Record numbers of UK babies taken at birth !!
The UK is the ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE:-
3:- family courts in nearly every town up and down the country are overloaded with desperate parents fighting (mostly in vain) to keep their beloved children from fostering or forced adoption;
Hard to believe this happens in UK? Well every single day, dozens of babies are taken at birth following a prediction of future risk by social workers and their “experts” .This happens despite the fact that by far the worst risk a court can usually take is to put a child into State care as nearly half such children end up in jail or as prostitutes !UK police have been seen in various videos telling screaming children of the 5-12 age group that they have orders from the court and have to take them away. In fact that was the excuse of the German SS but it did not save the worst of them from the gallows ! Sometimes wicked orders must be disobeyed and UK police should refuse to kidnap screaming reluctant children.
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“the underlying causes for the sharp rise in the removal of children from their mothers inside the Family Justice System.”
was there any mention of the problem of s/Workers fabricating evidence to damage the parents chances of having children returned ?
also anything about the deliberate Severing of ties between children and their parents. Contact being denied etc ?
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I had this problem with the s/worker, I collected my data from the local authority and found loads of evidence to support my belief, it was painful to read and made me go through every known emotion but I had to find answers.
I found false statements and evidence, contradictions but worse was many counts of abuse which my child endured and was hidden from myself and the court.
I became a thorn in the side, I contacted everyone from head of the local authority, ministry of justice, commissioner for the police, to name just a few.
I looked up human rights and children’s rights act and I found laws that were broken, I was suprised at just how much ready information is available and free.
Again your rights to data held by any professional holds many answers.
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we put in two FOi requests. one to the school and one to Place2be asking for the data they had collected from our son in the weekly sessions he had with them since Nov 2015. both requests were denied stating confidentiality.
we feel very strongly they have unlawfully severed his ties with all his family in the pursuit of an adoption order that failed. now they are using every trick in the book to cover it up. even NYAS tried to have him referred to them just a few months ago but the S/worker declined it. they simply do not want our son to have a voice because they know he will start talking and that means troubling for them.
its like they have put a unlawful gagging order on him. it makes you want to scream at how good they are at stopping people getting to the truth.
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