In a case which bears all the hallmarks of shoddy child protection practice, a social worker has been criticised and a council fined for abducting a child from school to place her with new carers.
This case has several aggravating factors.
The first is that the local authority decided to remove the child but never told the parents or the child in question, who had learning difficulties, about their decision.
The social worker in the case then went to the school unannounced, and removed the child. We do not know whether the child willingly left with the social worker or understood what was happening at the time.
The council’s reasons for removing the child without anyone’s knowledge was that one of the child’s carers was uncooperative and aggressive, and another carer failed to attend meetings. The carers in question were the child’s biological aunt and uncle. The child was also being looked after by her grandparents from time to time. The aunt and uncle denied the allegations made by the council.
Then, the social worker failed to tell the new carers about the child’s needs. The child then fled the new carers’ home and went back to her aunt and uncle, where she stayed past her 18th birthday.
The subsequent complaint made by the aunt and uncle was also poorly handled.
However, the most serious aspect to this case has to be that the Ombudsman could not find any evidence to support the council’s view that the original placement could not work. The Ombudsman went on to tell the council that it would have to review every single foster placement they had terminated in the last 12 months to ensure court procedures had been correctly followed.
Whist there are several issues with this case –
- Removal of a child which could potentially fall under abduction/ kidnapping
- Breaches of procedure
- Personal conflicts of interest from professionals in the case and;
- A lack of evidence to justify child protection decisions
The practice of turning up at children’s schools without warning is the focus of this post, and it is a practice that must stop. Deeply traumatising for children, and with no legitimate policy or law to underpin this conduct, social worker visits during school hours whether to interview or remove a child are not professional, nor are they appropriate. And Ofsted agrees.
Two reviewing bodies have now actively called out social worker visits to schools. Surely it’s ripe for review?
UPDATE: We decided it might be helpful to make a Freedom Of Information request on this practice as well, so we add it below:
Forced Adoption said:
Social workers earn their living taking children from their parents and persuading compliant judges to put them into care or better still forced adoption !Readers must understand that they have official scorecards for adoptions that must be filled so they trawl schools to snatch as many children as they can but as they do need a bit of justification they get it by cross examining bewildered children without parents present ..
Unfortunately the police absolutely refuse to enforce the law against kidnap even though child snatching by a lone social worker without a court order is definitely and positively illegal and would normally involve a jail sentence for the guilty party.
I was recently sent a video where at least 5 police demanded entrance to a flat late at night “or we will break the door down as we need to verify the welfare of the baby” Having entered and verified the welfare of a healthy baby asleep and guarded by both parents they seized the child “”at the request of social services!” The father demanded what danger existed and what crime had been committed ;The reply was we are simply aciting on advice from social services !
The police then said they would search the flat and when the father asked “have you got a warrant?” the reply was “We don’t need a warrant to search your flat ” the father asked what they were looking for and they replied “cannabis” but found nothing so they tore the baby from the arms of its screaming mother who was trying to restrain them, and left in triumph refusing requests from the father to give him any paperwork or names of the invaders present (except for one sergeant);Calm down or you will be arrested for breach of the peace” was the comfort given to this distressed family……….
All this is recorded on a live video sent to me by a brave father……
My point is simply this :- If both police and social workers break the law with impunity surely someone should be made to pay the price and answer for their criminal activities??
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Roger Crawford said:
Most people do not know that this goes on and they don’t believe it if we tell them. It’s too distressing to believe, so people turn their faces away. Evidence such as this should be shown on National TV News, and then there would be a national outcry and a full investigation into why events like this happen. It would help put a stop to it. Someone must bite the bullet and do this, and try and get one of the major daily papers involved, too.
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finolamoss said:
But the Media is controlled by the State.
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keith said:
i dont think its the case with all media.take the Mail online. they are printing stories all the time about the corruption surrounding child protection and the family courts and judges being in cahoots with Social workers.
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finolamoss said:
But as I said the policy was created by 3 successive governments, adoption, the flagships of Blair and Cameron, so what would be the point and how could you contact Downing st ?
I emailed Norman Lamb re my daughters state care and got no where see my blog.
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finolamoss said:
mAIL on line is more independent than others but you must also remember child protection departments are being attacked to allow privatisation or should I say more of it.
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keith said:
We hear it time and time again how Local authorities think they are God within their town/City and operate as if they are above the Law.
what we need to see is Social workers,LA staff and judges being jailed for conspiring to pervert the course of justice and committing perjury.
there is no place in this world for corrupt liars who destroy entire families with their carefully crafted techniques.
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maureenjenner said:
Reblogged this on Musings of a Penpusher and commented:
State sponsored kidnapping of children – unbelievable? Not so – read on and discover the appalling truth.
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Sabine Kurjo McNeill said:
Reblogged this on No Punishment without Crime or Bereavement without Death!.
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truth1 said:
The UK is an evil nation. Child “Protection” Serivces only exist to steal children and give them to perverts/rapists. This has to be understood and accepted before any progress can be made.
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keith said:
i think the bigger picture suggests the Govt dont want to open up this can of worms due to the vast sums of money that would have to be paid out in compensation to the thousands of victims.
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finolamoss said:
But 3 successive governments have created the industry, Blair and Cameron had adoption as flagship policies.
Each child/baby is worth a minimum of £30,000 per adoption, unlimited discretionary maximum for those hard to adopt, and the agencies decide who can adopt google UK GOV adoption fees.
Fostering is a multi million pound industry and the number of those each month placed in care keeps increasing.
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keith said:
Finola,
was that £30k per child adopted related to the Govt incentives offered to LAs which were abolished in 2009 ? or is this £30k per child still taking place.
when you said some Social workers work for the Agencies Adopting children out. is there any proof of this ?
also have you seen any direct evidence of S/workers getting paid a bonus of some kind from the £30k Adoption racket ?
so far i have not heard anyone say this is a fact and it can be proven.
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keith said:
Finola, i googled what you said but only found this which seems to suggest the Govt have re-packaged the incentive payments to LAs. now called Grants.
Grant amount
You’ll get the following amount of funding when you submit a valid claim:
£27,000 for placing 1 child
£43,000 for placing 2 siblings in 1 adoptive family
£60,000 for placing 3 siblings in 1 adoptive family
£68,000 for placing 4 siblings in 1 adoptive family
£80,000 for placing 5 or more siblings in 1 adoptive family
These amounts match the national inter-agency fee.
link this this Govt page here
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inter-agency-adoption-fee-grant-for-local-authorities
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Robin Prison said:
This happened to my brother and sister in 1996.
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daveyone1 said:
Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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finolamoss said:
The fostering industry is an increasingly venture capital backed industry and care homes are being built and can command on average £120,000 per annum.
This is not about child protection, a recent Bill is trying to avoid responsibility for the LAs duty to protect children.
It is about control and profit, most child protection services are privatised now, and social workers are employed, sometimes by the very fostering company that will benefit if care proceedings are successful as 80% are, so a huge conflict of interest..
All expert evidence is jointly instructed by 2 to 1 ie the LA and CAFASS to the parents, if they are represented.
It is sufficient if there is merely a risk of ‘significant’ harm, which is vague and undefined, social workers evidence is not tested and they are now trained enforcers. Proceedings are now limited to 26 weeks by statute.
It also means if a school is inadequate in anyway parents will not cannot complain.
Details of ‘problem’ families are held illegally and shared secretly with all ie schools, GPs under a MUTI AGENCY SAFEGUARDING HUB.
Same is happening with the LD/Autistic google finola moss for details.
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keith said:
you seem to know quite a lot about this corruption. have you ever tried contacting 10 downing st for their response on this ?
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finolamoss said:
Keith, glad you found the fees and there is also a pdf google CORAM/BAAF adoption interagency fees these increase per year.
How they are packaged is for PR, the question is what are they paid for, particularly where it is a healthy baby that they have managed to adopt.
And if you read this document, it appears the amount claimed can be unlimited, dependent upon the deemed difficulty of adoption.
And what checks are there on the suitability of the adoptors, in this all for profit industry?
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Liam said:
Have social workers ever thought about how their actions could traumatize the child? I mean in their perspective, it’s like one moment you’re in class and the next you’re told that you can’t go home anymore.
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drmanhattan62 said:
You must be kidding, social workers do not have a conscience otherwise they would not be able to do this kind of work. those who do are a particular breed which could be compared to the likes of those at Great Ormond st who make decisions to terminate the life of a child even when most of the country are against it. social workers are too bussy Severing ties whilst grinding the parents through the family courts with false case files to make shure the kids will never go home. Fostering and Adoption is a lucrative industry which makes big money for its investors.once that happens its all downhill from there. All we can do is wait for the backlash and scandals to follow.
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finolamoss said:
But the scandals will never be revealed we have had many already.
Baby P was only revealed,( and it was the social services at fault as the mother was the token parent allowed to keep her child and used for training videos), to increase the numbers taken into care from 600 per month now to 1600 to fuel the now fully privatised adoption and fostering industry.
Similar scandal 20 years ago with Victoria Climbie, tortured by her approved foster mum and killed, again this pushed through legislation allowing speedier removal .
It appears all this has not improved child protection, but has made a fortune for private profit min £30,000 per adoption , with unlimited discretionary pay out for those deemed hard to adopt and huge sums for fostering and £200,000 for childrens homes.
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Leonardo said:
How can a social worker just do whatever they please in the first place?
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finolamoss said:
Because the law and courts let them do so in secret.
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Philip said:
The Education Act 1996 says:
“576 Meaning of “parent”.
(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “parent”, in relation to a child or young person, includes any person—
(a)who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him, or
(b)who has care of him,”
Social workers do not have ‘parental responsibility’ for many children in foster care, so in these cases the law requires that the school stops social workers from removing a child. That can then only be done by the person “who has care of him”.
So the school failed to fulfill its legal obligations..
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dr. manhattan said:
“failed to fulfill its legal obligations”
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thats nothing new,
Local authorities/social workers fail to fulfill their legal obligations all the time. its part of their everyday duties. thats how they beat parents in the family courts.no such thing as a fair fight. they do what commodus did to Maximus in Gladiator, they stick a knife in your back before you get to court.then they twist it while your in court.
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dr. manhattan said:
Also,
schools are terrified of the SS. having a social worker come into the school is like Auschwitz having a visit from Himmler.
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