Our next story looks at what happens when councils ignore expert evidence encouraging the use of support services and choose to file care orders instead.
1. Could you give a brief summary of the facts of your case?
Our four children were removed from our care without our consent, all through forced adoptions. The two eldest were placed with family and our two youngest were adopted by strangers. The orders were made using the ‘risk of emotional harm’ threshold, however my wife’s lawyer felt strongly that the criteria had not been met. I was unrepresented because I could not afford a lawyer.
Our family became known to social services because my wife pushed one of our children’s car seats a little too aggressively, which resulted in her being placed on the child protection register. She was then removed from the register a year later and was never placed on it again. We both have medical conditions which can be addressed with medication. Both my wife and I have argued in front of the children at times but we have never gotten physical with each other. Like most parents, when we get tired we can shout at the children too, however this behaviour was viewed in a completely different light by social services.
Despite several assessments which confirmed that my wife and I could look after our children with support from professionals, we never felt supported or listened to. When I began to get upset about losing my two eldest daughters, professionals in the case just assumed the behaviour was proof that I couldn’t parent, and instead of offering me help to cope with the loss, they simply penalised me for my pain, and assumed the anger was “part of a pattern,” which professionals ended up taking personally and then simply pushed on with the adoptions out of what felt like spite. It was all very primitive.
Incidents included a social worker assaulting my daughter, another social worker blocking my way when trying to stop the assault, being routinely threatened with prison if I didn’t agree to various suggestions, and being told my children would simply vanish if I was obstructive.
2. What went wrong in your case?
Our solicitors during the first set of hearings didn’t seem to be bothered, and just weren’t interested in pursuing the truth. Most of the judges we came across in subsequent hearings seemed preoccupied with internal politics which appeared to affect the way they processed our case. We got the feeling there was collusion between the professionals and a lot things had been decided before the hearings actually took place. A strange cultural quirk I also noticed was that judges seemed to accept whatever social services told them without questioning the quality of the reports or evidence produced. When it came down to our word against theirs, we didn’t stand a chance.
Bizarrely, when we did eventually get a good lawyer who was fighting our corner, the council then threatened to sue her and her firm. It was like watching a soap opera.
3. What happened after you alerted the professionals to the errors?
Nothing. No one seemed to be able to correct the mistakes that had been made in the paper work. The most distressing aspect of the case was the taking out of an Emergency Protection Order for my son. A prominent politician at the time was so concerned by the EPO in our case that he even raised it in Parliament, where he questioned the legal validity of its use in our case both under Family Law and Human Rights Law.
4. How do you feel the errors were dealt with?
They were never dealt with and no one has been held to account for the incredibly poor way our case was handled.
5. What do you think could have been done differently?
I think adoption targets have a lot to answer for. They blind social workers to their reason for being, which is to first and foremost offer families support and guidance. Not remove children from loving parents who if you treat with respect and kindness would be only too glad to work with them.
6. What message would you like to pass on to the child welfare system?
The system can’t carry on like this, it needs to improve drastically. If it doesn’t, its days are definitely numbered.
If you would like to share your story, get in touch by leaving a comment below or emailing Researching Reform at contactnphillips at gmail dot com.
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I certainly hope the care system’s days are numbered, as the system is now anyway. So it’s OK for a social worker to assault a child or shout, but not a parent. This is just one of so many cases, where the ‘professionals’ lie and twist and distort parent’s understandable grief and do untold harm to the children and parents. It’s perverted.
‘My’ CAFCASS officer just couldn’t ‘get’ the fact that I was distraught at the prospect of losing my only child and made out I was being unreasonable and aggressive by simply asking (awkward) questions. She’d made her mind up, I believe no amount of evidence would have made any difference. Simple humanity didn’t exist in my case and it doesn’t in thousands of others. Ask the Websters (well-known case orchestrated by Norfolk Social Services a few years back). Ask almost anyone who’s gone through this sort of barbarity.
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As with many other victims of this fraud and organised institutional state sponsored child abuse I was made to give birth to a premature baby using an incorrect estimated delivery date after being induced . I was told that there was no female available to act as midwife even though I was at “The Women`s Hospital ” . Copious amounts of pain relief including nitrous oxide gas were given to me which switches off the body`s ability to utilise vitamin b12 and this can be permanently causing pernicious anemia whilst I screamed my way through the birth which was like being in a torture chamber .I was cut and had substantial stitching . Nitrous oxide gas also causes neurological damage to the developing brain causing neural connections to get cross wired effecting sexual development . My child was born with a low birth weight and had a drooping face from birth . She was not identified as being premature and was not given the .vitamins she should have been nor was she identified as having had a birth trauma nor obvious indications of palsy .
At three weeks old when she failed to thrive she was referred to Alder Hey Children`s Hospital instead of being referred back to the Women`s Hospital . Her head was x-rayed which causes learning difficulties and can cause premature puberty as can being born with a low birth weight and having your head squeezed too hard with forceps which damages the pituitary gland . She then spent many years being used like a laboratory monkey being diagnosed with every indication of iron and vitamin b12 deficiency whilst enduring needless operations and sadistic traumatic procedures trying to understand what was wrong without having an iron study done . Her GP gave her a mono therapy of folate when she was a baby which hid the symptoms of vitamin b12 deficiency by fixing any megaloblasts in her blood . Her childhood was stolen from her . She was left lethargic and unwell endlessly with no break from it . She was seen by over thirty different doctors ” paedi atric consultants ” and surgeons who between them did not know that testing ferritin on it`s own was not approved of by either the W.H.O nor by the N.I.C.E and could not identify the symptoms of iron and vitamin deficiency which cost my daughter her childhood and over £40 million in wages and needless operations and traumatic procedures to eventually diagnose ` iron deficiency ` in March 2013 .
Two weeks later in April 2013 after having a blood test at Alder Hey`s House of Horrors Iron Deficiency Anaemias was registered on the NHS data base . In June the same year iron deficiency anaemia was diagnosed by a registrar . A month later in July 2013 I spoke with Dr Sian Snelling who was the Clinical Director of Medicine as well as Head of the Community team Head of CAMHS and Head of Child Protection as well as being a litigation representative for the hospital at the time of the Shibhan Ahmed debacle . She denied she had met my child and denied the proximal more than distal muscle weakness which had been diagnosed by a senior neuro surgeon and .she denied the anaemia which was registered on the NHS data base and which had been formerly diagnosed . I asked her for the blood results and she went to a corner of room and logged on to the computer then told me that my child had never been anaemic . I asked her for the haemoglobin results and she told me that some blood test results don`t come back with a number and just come back marked ` normal ` . I suggested I may seek legal advice and she made a veiled threat about contacting my GP about ` my stress` . I asked her about Dr Tedman who had performed a number of strange procedures on my daughter using biopsy needles which had traumatised her and who had walked past me in the hallway and had turned his face away from me when I said good morning to him . Dr Snelling suggested he was a little shy and so I mentioned that he was not ` too shy ` to stick biopsy needles in my daughters face . He had done this during a muscle biopsy of my daughters left lateral thigh even though he had already traumatised her by putting these biopsy needles into other parts of her body and obtaining a negative result . My daughter was very unwell at the time and obviously suffering with the paediatric anaemia they had left her with from birth while they earned a fortune from her and left her with endless lethargy and tiredness without testing her circulating iron level once in thirteen years . My daughter and I saw many babies and children leaving his sadistic clinic screaming and traumatised . At the neurology clinic a hand written sign pointing to his torture chamber was pinned to the computer .
Dr Snelling then wrote to the eye clinic stating that the reason for my daughters blurred vision and headaches was due to a refractive error before she had been seen by the eye specialist . She then retired temporarily and her position as Head of ` Child Protection ` was taken by Dr Gregg who I do not believe we had met before . When we went to the eye clinic my child had suffered with blurred vision and headaches for over eight months and we were told by a high street optician that he was not allowed to look at her if she was seen at Alder Hey . At the appointment the registrar looked up her blood results and the screen was blank . I received blood test results which had black lines through them and the letter `c ` written alongside .
It then became apparent after making a complaint to the executives and asking for the involvement of an external child protection agency that a strategy meeting was convened at Alder Hey between the two departments in health and SEN education who had failed in their duty of care over many years and they worked out how to lie and cheat their way out of what they had done . A care order was placed on my child and she was taken into LA care where she has been abused and may have been sexually assaulted .
The last time I saw her at the SEN building at Toxteth Annexe for contact all her hair had turned white and fallen out . She had head wounds and was covered in bruises and had severe weight loss . The court guardian as well as the social worker my daughter referred to as a ` demon` and another woman who referred to herself as a ” children`s rights representative all mocked us both and talked among each other saying things like ” I can`t see anything wrong with her hair can you Julie ?” and ” Her hair looks fine to me does it look fine to you Catherine ? ” .They then concocted a story that I had attacked them and made an application to suspend contact in order to divert the re hearing which was stamped by the city solicitor Jeanette McLoughlin ..
I went to court for what should have been a re hearing ordered by Lord Justices from the superior court and was tortured further by being made to stand in the box . A woman came over with a lap top showing a picture of my completely bald child wearing a small disk of fake blonde hair on her bald head . The judge who had said she would not read the order and judgement from the superior court and so would not have seen that the directions which said that there should be no additions and which also directed the court not to cut and paste documents submitted by the LA and other parties ordered a Cafcass meeting after I showed her photographs of my daughters real hair and when I went to this there was no court guardian present . I asked the ` demon ` social worker and her colleague who told me she was a consultant social worker when I would see my child and was told I was threatening them by asking that .
I went back to court and found that the judge had been replaced by a Recorder who had previous knowledge of the case and had refused an emergency hearing a month earlier when it became apparent that the plaits my daughter had which were woven with fake hair had been used to disguise her hair falling out . I was presented with a picture of my daughter standing next to Lord Mayor and Labour minister for Children`s and Adults Social Care Mrs Roz Gladden which was allegedly taken by a deputy mayor at an `awards `ceremony . There is no audience and the picture looks entirely staged . My daughters face is expressionless . She is wearing fake plaits draped across her bald head and is wearing clothing to conceal her severe weight loss and bruising . Once again the cut and pasted nonsense submitted by the LA was accepted and compelling evidence was ignored or dismissed as advice letters . The suspension of contact was allowed and therefore the care order stayed in place .
I appealed this and went before Sir James Munby who refused me the right to appeal and refused me the right to approach the supreme court . I sent an application to the ECHR . I also sent a bundle with a 39 emergency rule request which clearly showed that my child had been abused in care . I received a letter to say that the evidence in the 39 emergency rule application had been noted and then I received another letter to say that my application had been refused due to there being too much paperwork so in my opinion my child and I have been refused human rights . We have also been refused the right to compensation and therefore refused the right to own property or wealth which makes us slaves . I have not seen my daughter since November 2015 .
The LA sent me a letter telling me that I could not go on the Have Your Say site and could not go into any of their buildings nor contact them by telephone . I was given an e-mail address to write to which came back to my computer and my friends computer as not deliverable. When I did finally get e-mails to send to this address I have had no reply . I was given a Labour party members name to write to regarding complaints in 2014 . I rang him and found that his telephone number was now ” Taxi licensing ” and the woman who told me she was a children`s rights rep at the contact session at Toxteth Annexe in November 2015 and who denied she could see anything wrong with my child`s hair now works for “Taxi Licensing ” .
I received a copy of the ” It`s Your Review ” form which was not filled in by my daughter as it should have been . It was filled in by P.Connor `on her behalf`. In one section it says that she ` does not like going in the taxis ` which has been crossed out and underneath it says ” likes taxis now ” . I received a L.A.C review which said that my child had tried to run away . Apart from being sent from one mystery doctor to another who have given my child unwanted dangerous pharma drugs and vaccines without her consent and without my permission it seems that the Catholic church has also tried to evenagelise her into their church . My daughter said that her foster carer took her to her own church which was dark and full of men . Two social workers at a contact session at Toxteth Annexe sat pointing their matching black chain and crucifix ankle tattoos at me on one occasion .
After no response what so ever from the LA I rang Brougham Terrace to ask the duty social worker what the arrangements had been made for my daughters 17th birthday and was told ” nothing ! ” and then the phone went down . I rang back and heard sweet wrappers being rustled and then the phone went down again . I rang back and was told to write to the ” special place I had been told to write to ” which has never responded once .
I went to Brougham Terrace and was approached by a woman who told me I would have to leave or she would have to call security . I asked her what her job was and she told me she was a social worker . I asked her name and she said ” Barbara ” . I asked for her surname and she said ” Rowley ” . She rang the next morning and told me to bring in gifts for my daughter for her birthday . I took the cards and gifts to Brougham Terrace the next morning and was waiting for a social worker to come and collect them from me . Barbara Rowley approached and tried to take the cards and gifts from me so I explained that I was already waiting for another social worker to come down . I asked Mrs Rowley if she was related to Judge Rowley or to Recorder Rowley by any chance . She sneered and told me that was none of my business . I reminded her that it was every inch my business and if she was related to either of them she should walk away and not speak to me as it would not be appropriate under the circumstances . She scuttled away .
Ultimately the situation is this : I made a complaint to the CQC whose CEO is Sir David Behan ( care industry ) about Alder Hey Hospital whose CEO is Sir David Henshaw . I then found Alder Hey Hospital destroying systems operations disks and paperwork and my daughters blood test results disappeared from screens . I took my child for a second opinion at Manchester Children`s Hospital whose CEO is Sir Mike Deegan and she was attacked with a syringe by a psychopath posing as a pantomime medical professional .Re written data base information was then cut and pasted at the Family court whose President is Sir James Munby .
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“We got the feeling there was collusion between the professionals and a lot things had been decided before the hearings actually took place”
My god, this case mirrors what happened to us to a T. you would almost thing this was describing our case. and yes we thought the same about collusion between the judge and other professionals as there were just too many discrepancies and problem areas left unchallenged that were never addressed and just swept under the Rug.
there is no doubt in our minds the Family courts are operating unlawfully and deals are taking place behind closed doors while parents are kept out of the loop. very corrupt.
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The reason the Nazi paedophiles and child murdering sadists said that the blonde blue eyed people were the superior race and had a breeding program using blonde blue eyed women to produce babies to sexually abuse had absolutely nothing to do with being ` white` and was for the purpose of the ritual sexual abuse of babies and young children . People with African / Indo European (PIE) and Scandinavian ancestral DNA share a genetic line which carries a mutation which prevents them from producing intrinsic factor in their stomach which is needed for the absorption of vitamin b12 . This makes them more likely to have pre term low weight babies which can put children as young as two at risk of having a premature puberty and can cause six month old babies to have a false puberty . Generations of these babies have been getting referred to social services by doctors where they have been sexually abused and then passed to sex offenders posing as foster carers and adopters . The LA Children`s Services Health Assessment forms ( IHA – YP ) has a section about hair colour and eye colour . Most of the babies and children being snatched are fair haired and blue eyed . They have vitamin b12 deficiency symptoms which are being deliberately prolonged in ” care ” in order to cause further needless illness . They are being sent from one mystery doctor to another and are having unwanted dangerous vitamin b12 lowering pharma drugs and vaccines forced on them without their consent and without the permission of their parents who they have been alienated from in advance . The child protection process has been designed to be as disturbing as possible in order to induce the appearance of trauma and fear in children suffering from vitamin b12 deficiency which has been caused by the use of nitrous oxide gas in hospitals and this will generate fraudulent funds for CAMHS . It will also help to exclude them from the jobs market . They have been deliberately neurologically damaged through vitamin b12 deficiency in order to generate fraudulent funds for SEN education which will also help to exclude them from the jobs market .
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i wouldnt like to comment on this as ive never heard of anything like this from anyone else dealing with the Family courts.
one thing i will say is that our 10 mth old baby has fair colored hair and bright blue eyes and we are convinced he was their Target. once the Mash team came to the house and seen him it was bad news for us. he is a very good looking baby boy and we feel shure he was the reason they destroyed our family as they knew he would be easy to Adopt. the LA were very aggressive at pushing for Adoption in the court but the Twist came when the Foster carer turned on the LA and after an Emergency meeting at her house the LA mysteriously dropped the Adoption plan. we were never told why they did this and what the Foster carer was threatening to do but we know she had something on them that would get them into serious trouble.
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As successive parties of all persuasions from Blair, have made child protection and adoption, effectively their flagship policies; passing more legislation to get children into care more quickly, and on ever more spurious grounds; ‘significant harm’, now includes ‘witnessing the financial and/or emotional abuse of another’.
And, as all charities Women Aid and NSCPCC etc have helped by widening definitions of abuse and neglect, and the later becoming national framework assessors of children.
And. as social work training trains them to be court enforcers rather than supporters.
And, as all child protection is soon to be completely privatised, the main object of the exercise being the profit to be made not child protection as evidenced by the recent attempt to statutorily exempt LAs from liability.
The government paying a minimum of £28,000 per child adopted and no maximum figure as totally discretionary for difficult to adopt.
And here are some profits of fostering from corporate watch
https://corporatewatch.org/news/2015/dec/15/foster-care-business
Foster Care Associates
Owned by: Jim Cockburn and Janet Rees through Ideapark Ltd
Income from foster care in 2014**: £127.2m
Payouts to owner in 2014: £7m
Highest paid director salary and other benefits: £406,000
National Fostering Agency (includes the Foster Care Agency)
Owned by: Stirling Square Capital Partners (previously Graphite Capital until April 2015)
Income from foster care in 2014*: £94.5m
Payouts to owners in 2014: £14.4m to Graphite Capital
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £318,112
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Acorn Care and Education (includes Fostering Solutions, Pathway Care Fostering and Heath Farm Fostering)
Owned by: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Income from foster care in 2014*: £73.1m
Payouts to owners: £13m accrued in 2014
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £266,420
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Partnerships in Children’s Services (includes Orange Grove, ISP, Fosterplus and Clifford House)
Owned by: Sovereign Capital
Income from foster care in 2014*: £29.8m
Payouts to owners in 2014: £1.9m
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: not shown in accounts
we have not heard back.
Swiis Foster Care
Owned by: Dev Dadral and family
Income from foster care in 2014: £29.4m
Payouts to owners in 2014: £1.5m (from the wider Swiis group, see below)
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £169,000
Capstone Foster Care
Owned by: Different individuals and companies (see below)
Income from foster care in 2015: £21.1m
Payouts to owners in 2015: £406,000
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £185,000
Compass Fostering (includes The Fostering Partnership, Eden Foster Care and Seafields Fostering)
Owned by: August Equity
Income from foster care in 2015: £25.9m
Payouts to owners in 2015: £3.1m accrued
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £131,000
caretech
Owners: shares are publicly-listed – Farouq and Haroon Sheikh biggest shareholders with 20%
Income from foster care in 2014: £12m
Payouts to owners in 2014: £240,000 in 2014
Highest paid director’s salary and other benefits: £324,000
This all despite the UK being other than Portugal the only place I can think of in the world that allows forced adoption .
And, the EU Court of Human Rights stating it is the most grave intervention of Art 8 Right to Family Life and therefore must be exceptional.
And, there being still no statistics on Adoption Breakdowns and children re entering care.
There appears therefore little political chance of changing all this.
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yes it seems pretty Dire in terms of change at the moment.
the Whole God Forsaken industry is nothing less than a Medusa growing ever more snakes from its Core. the Head needs to be severed once and for all. For the sake of the children who are damaged the most by this Evil money making industry.
But who will be our Perseus.
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It is time for change. The system is broken beyond repair. It needs demolition and complete replacement plus a great injection of common sense.
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I would truly love to do that believe me I’d love my job and be great at it taking into consideration the path I’ve took and gone down in my own life experiences I would jump to the chance to help better our childrens services and departments for the rest of the world it would give me a great pleasure to give my input and time to help better the world aspecially for our babies sakes so they never have to exsperince any of the evil heartbreaking events we had to face when they have children of their own although those children should be drenched with more love and care and attention then just the normal population of the next generation that have lived a loving happy life with their birth parents all their lives . They lucky ones who managed to swerve having to go through the sad heartbreaking scared and all alone feelings for a long period in their lives they have a greater need to feel loved happy and safe over the top and I have so much love to give and want nothing but to help and put the smiles back on their little faces and so into their little hearts can feel loved. And to make them feel that this is where they belong , also to know and feel they will always and forever be wanted and loved unconditionally within our families starting with my very own specially made perfect family made by ours Truely , the making of our very own little comunity and our next generation of loving kind beautiful natural carers for our world with not even a twitch or thought of nasteyness sadness or loneliness and vunrable feeling in sight for the hole world to restore their world peace wishes together. By all giving a helping hand to the less unfortunate and the in need of love to berestored in all our babies of the future to lead by guidance and example made by their very own parents and family friends x one big nation of loveing and giving to each other . where lies no bad feelings to be felt at any time during their hole lives. Also To continue the same path forever more x
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Sounds wonderful. but Utopia is a long way off for the human race when you see whats going on in the world today and there seems no end in sight and if anything its getting worse year on year.
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I`ve had enough of the smoke screens and pigs dressed in frocks . I`ve had enough of the oppression and the organised child abuse calling itself ” Child Protection ” and the interim care orders placed on children who are being used like laboratory monkeys by pharma companies in the ” care ” industry . This situation is quite simply fascism . The babies and children taken have first had precocious puberty induced in maternity and children`s hospitals . Many have been born using incorrect estimated delivery dates and are premature . Many have been born with a low birth weight which causes premature puberty which can effect children as young as two and can cause six month old babies to have a false puberty . They have had their brains damaged using forceps which effects the pituitary gland ( master gland ) that controls sex hormone and behavior . An imbalance in sex hormone causes premature puberty . Their heads have been x-rayed as babies which causes learning difficulties and premature puberty and can also cause microcephaly . They have then been harvested to be sexually abused and to use as laboratory monkeys . They and their parents have no human rights . They have been deliberately neurologically damaged in order to generate fraudulent funds for SEN education and for CAMHS . The babies and children are mostly fair haired and blue eyed and have vitamin b12 deficiency symptoms which are being deliberately prolonged in ” care ” in order to cause further illness and disability to supply health fraudsters . This will never be forgiven or forgotten .
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