As the child welfare sector becomes more open to the idea that adoption is not an easy choice, or cure-all, for anyone involved in the experience, a growing number of voices inside the family justice system are inviting discussion on the best way forward for vulnerable children.
McFarlane, a judge now widely considered to be the front runner to replace Sir James Munby as President of the Family Division in July, gave a speech at the NAGALRO annual conference in which he offered support for the view that adoption should no longer be seen as the first option in cases where children could be at risk of harm. He appears to take an enormous amount of credit for the burgeoning movement looking at more open approaches to contact, and at times seems out of touch with modern life – he mentions adoption programmes produced by the BBC and tells the audience that they are available to watch on “the iPlayer” – but we’ll forgive him all that if he can actually effect change.
But it’s what’s going on at ground level which is most fascinating. For the first time, social workers are finding the courage to speak out about day to day practice, with some beginning to question whether what they’ve been told, and trained to do, is actually in the best interests of the children they are meant to be supporting. Jo ward and Joe Smeeton’s paper on adoption, “The End Of Non Concensual Adoption? Promoting the Wellbeing of Children in Care,” was incredibly well received by families across the country, with many praising the social workers’ thoughtful and sensitive approach to adoption.
Another social worker, Simon Haworth, has also questioned the benefits of adoption, and in the process showed the social work community that discussion and debate are vital aspects of developing and improving any system which needs to stay current in order to deliver the best possible service. These brave voices are paving the way for much needed reform and ensuring that wherever possible families are kept together.
There are however, some children who will, for various reasons, need to live with adoptive parents. The latest thinking on this form of support for vulnerable children is also changing, with the once taboo view of contact with birth parents – which has been largely prevented through legislation and policy – now taking a more central role.
A report by the Centre for research on children and families (CRCF) looks at contact after adoption, and concludes that contact with birth families is vital, to allow children the chance to understand themselves better and cultivate their identities. The benefits of contact with birth families extended to the adoptive family as well, with the findings strongly indicating that it improved relationships within the dynamic. Spending time with their biological families also offered children huge advantages, including developing important relationships and being able to be open and honest with their adoptive parents, too.
It’s a slow and winding road, but we are getting there.
Very many thanks to Dana for sharing the CRCF report with us.
Dr. Manhattan. said:
Some interesting areas there but talk is cheap and we will have to see what develops from it. Sir james Munby has been grinding at opening up the family courts to media scrutiny etc for around 3 yrs yet it still has not happened so thats a good indicator of how the hardliners dont want anyone rocking the payday boat.
justice McFarlane will hopefully continue to push for change where Sir James left off when he takes the driving seat of the Family division.
We will see. the Eye in the Sky is watching.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Also i hope Sir James will continue to speak out about changing the Family court system and not just retire to hide away with his pipe and slippers down in the garden conservatory of his big House.
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Ian Josephs said:
As long as all involved benefis from the huge profits made by the adoption industry nothing much will change !
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daveyone1 said:
Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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Ian Josephs said:
Inter Agency Fees
The interagency fee is a nationally agreed mechanism for covering the costs incurred in the preparation, approval and matching of prospective adopters, and the support provided during the first 12 months of a placement. It is currently set at £27,000 for the placement of a single child, with additional rates for the placement of sibling groups. This is set at the same level across all VAAs in the UK and all local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
So how much do the SS get out of this bounty ?
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Ian Josephs said:
Backhanders,under the table cash payments but they don’t publish figures !
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Does any evidence exist to show that social workers or other LA staff have taken backhanders for securing Adoption placements ?
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Ian Josephs said:
Some years ago a 12 year old girl stole her fosterers bank statements showing that out of £450/week coming into the fosterers account £200/week went into the social workers account by standing order! The statements were smuggled to the girls father via a schoolmate and dad showed them to the judge in court.
The judge was outraged and screamed at the father that this proved he was an unfit parent teaching his daughter to steal.He tore up the evidence and made an order jailing the husband if he ever mentioned anything at all about the case to anyone !
End of that story…………………….
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Thats assuming its a true story. must admit it takes some believing but if its true that judge and the social worker should have been jailed and their assets stripped and used to fund their jail time.
this happens in the USA all the time but in the UK they are like the untouchables, the Teflon squad.
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Ian Josephs said:
I was very much involved in that case and it was I who advised the father to take the bank statements to the judge;I never saw the statements (living in Monaco)and I was not in the court but had no reason to disbelieve an educated father as we were both excited and convince we were about to expose a scandal .Some hopes !
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Natasha said:
Ian, would you be happy to tell the story in my Your Story series?
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
For an Educated Father you cant believe he didnt think of making a back up copy of the files.very Silly mistake.
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Natasha said:
Ian, I should say, would you and the family involved be happy to have the case featured on Your Story (most are anonymised).
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
This would be good for the movement of Justice in the family courts.
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Ian Josephs said:
Of course I agree .See my reply to Natasha
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Ian Josephs said:
Natasha I would be delighted to publicise the story but first must get in touch with the family concerned.The father was Greek and I believe has since died but the young girl concerned is still very much alive as are her other relatives.They are very active on Facebook.
Dr Manhattan ,alas the judge was not an idiot and made the father swear to destroy any copies he had made . His main concern was his daughter’s safety and general welfare as I believe she had quite a difficult time subsequently…………
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Natasha said:
Thank you, Ian. I will wait to hear back from you. Adding the Your Story section here so you can send on to the family should they wish to see the format and process: https://researchingreform.net/category/your-story/
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Ian Josephs said:
The only person prosecuted was the “fostermother” who was an ill educated black lady from Zimbabwe and she was convicted of fraud !The social worker still happily continued to drive the car originally financed by that fosterlady and the young girl was given drugs in care on which she is now hooked;The judge never read the evidence so cross was he at the theft of bank statements but he made the fostermother a szcapegoat somehow …….All this was in 2011 and both the journalist Christopher Booker and myself were very much involved at the time but without great success in the end .
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Did you or Mr Booker not contact the police about the matter ?
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Ian Josephs said:
Christopher and I had no evidence of any kind and indeed legally should not have been made aware of those facts we did know about !The police were already involved and went for the easy target fostermother ! i am just a voice on the phone in Monaco advising parents with limited sucess but I still get better results in court than supine lawyers pretending to support parents when in fact gagging them.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
You could have Notified the serious fraud office SFO while remaining anonymous.
anything is worth a try.
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Ian Josephs said:
Never heard of them ! And what could I possibly have said as a voice from abroad with no paperwork and only the reports by phone to me from the father to go on ? The police found an easy culprit and we could do no more
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Fraud_Office_(United_Kingdom)
its still a line to explore in the pursuit of justice.
Sometimes the most Unlikely actions can produce startling results.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Oh Yes, i would think you mean the old Brown envelope job.
shurely when audits are done there would be large sums of money in dispute.
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Ian Josephs said:
The UK is the ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE:-
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 (Lebensborn) but it did not save the worst of them from the gallows ! Sometimes wicked orders must be disobeyed and if neither parents nor children have committed any serious crime then UK police should refuse to kidnap screaming reluctant children.
Have you spent ages preparing documents and writing down the good points in your case? Well don’t think the judge has the time or inclination to read all that stuff.!Lever arch files full of hundreds of papers that nobody reads !
Here is one judge actually admitting that he has not read the bundles yet he still turned down the appeal !Make sure you convince the judge that you are the best mum (or dad) that your child could wish for.Represent yourself otherwise your bent solicitor or barrister will stop you speaking in court (effectively gagging you) and then they will agree to everything the local authority have asked for !
A v R & Anor 2018
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2018/521.html
His Honour Judge Scarratt: And so District Judge Abigail Smith’s diary emptied yesterday and I’m afraid this happens. Cases are moved about. Not ideal but as it happens I have finished my five applications and given judgment so I’m, I’m now free to deal this but you’ve really got limited time because I have to be at a meeting at 4 o’clock. I’ve got bundles here, I’ve not looked at them –
Even worse, not dozens but hundreds of babies are taken every year from their law abiding mothers for mere future risk,(usually from verbally abusive partners,often long departed or in jail !) and handed over for expensive fostercare or forced adoption in the UK!The idea of the “SS” being that the unfortunate mothers never hear from their children for the rest of their lives..
.Unless of course you have the cash to bribe a social worker to get the adopter’s address ! Yes some of them are open to” Under the counter” cash payments !
North Somerset Council worker ‘sold child’s whereabouts’
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-39847623
•A former support worker has admitted selling details of an adopted child’s whereabouts to their birth mother.
Androulla Farr, 50, of West Wick, Weston-super-Mare, admitted one count of bribery or corruption while working for North Somerset Council.
Ms Farr accepted the £2,000 bribe, even though the child’s details were protected by an adoption order, North Somerset Magistrates’ Court was told.
She is due before Bristol Crown Court for sentencing on 6 June.
North Somerset Council confirmed Ms Farr left the authority in 2006.
“We have been helping the police with their inquiries regarding this case,” the spokesman added.
CORRUPT SOCIAL WORKER FABRICATES EVIDENCE !!
A social worker has appeared before a professional disciplinary panel after she was found by a judge to have fabricated evidence to bolster the case for removing a child from the mother’s care and then lied in court about having done so.
Linda Fraser, who works for Bristol city council, could be struck off if the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) concludes that her fitness to practise has been impaired by her conduct.
But the hearing was adjourned after five days of evidence last week and will not reconvene until March. No reason was given for the delay.
Fraser, a senior social worker, was found by a judge in March 2016 to have improperly altered records concerning children in care proceedings – a case in which a mother stood to lose her two children into foster care.
At the HCPC hearing, Fraser admitted to twice editing the children’s records after case notes had been finalised by the family’s social worker.
In the original child protection case, held in Bristol, the district judge Julie Exton found that Fraser had added new information to the case notes in 2015 to “bolster” the evidence against the mother.
Former foster carer, 58, who raped and sexually abused five children for more than a decade is jailed for 22 years
•Gary Teague raped children he offered his home to, waiting until they were alone
•The 58-year-old, of Ramsgate, denied all the 14 charges, claiming they were lies
•He was convicted of several charges including rape at Canterbury Crown Court
By Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 20:09 GMT, 19 December 2017 | UPDATED: 21:49 GMT, 19 December 2017
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5195679/Ramsgate-foster-care-raped-abused-five-children.html#ixzz51mume0JT
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Yvonne Taylor said:
is the commercial interest of the UK and EU above the best interests of individuals and Family’s Natural Heirs their Sons and Daughters ? Core Assets , philanthropy , Quasi Trusts and offshore tax free havens for modern day slave trading by the back door? Food for thought? Inter-country foster care trade and industry, might it be taking preference to kinship care where our Heirs are kept within the extended family? why are family ties completely severed? Why are families gagged for speaking out? Why are people threatened with prison ? I see it as a most punitive malicious and vindictive cruel system operandi perhaps with a sinister eugenics agenda to destroy natural families for control and profit of the few at the expense of the many vulnerable enough to be targets for such vile trading in human cargo . It is my opinion that family courts like the slave trade should be abolished forever rather than simply abandoned to rear its ugly head in the future. Let equity prevail over the gross iniquity, let it be so.
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Ian Josephs said:
You are so right ! Scrap family courts and social workers ! Leave child cruelty to the police to deal with. That is the way it used to be and it was a lot better.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
Nemo iudex in causa sua – MAPPA pertnerships- V Natural Law Maxims 😉 Police and the Courts Administrations they bye pass of case management = gulag. No one can be judge in their own cause – re business partnerships and vested interests
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
I know of a family court case where the two Barristers assigned to the parents by their Solicitors were based at the same address where the Judge is running her own Law firm.
thats a gross conflict of interests and shurely illegal.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
“So great is the ascendancy of the Law of Actions in the infancy of Courts of Justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure.” [Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 389]. Assuredly this is true of our real property law, it has been secreted in the interstices of the forms of action. The system of Forms of Action or the Writ System is the most important characteristic of English medieval law, and it was not abolished until its piecemeal destruction in the nineteenth century.
Let it be granted that one man has been wronged by another; the first thing that he or his advisers have to consider is what form of action he shall bring. It is not enough that in some way or another he should compel his adversary to appear in court and should then state in the words that naturally occur to him the facts on which he relies and the remedy to which he thinks himself entitled. No, English law knows a certain number of forms of action, each with its own uncouth name, a writ of right, an assize of novel disseisin or of mort d’ancestor, a writ of entry sur disseisin in the per and cui, a writ of besaiel, of quare impedit, an action of covenant, debt, detinue, replevin, trespass, assumpsit, ejectment, case. This choice is not merely a choice between a number of queer technical terms, it is a choice between methods of procedure adapted to cases of different kinds. Let us notice some of the many points that are implied in it.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/maitland-formsofaction.asp
2013 we have no remedy for wrongs . Equity barred , no vice chancellor
All Chancellor’s are judges but not all judges are Chancellor’s.
The Lord Chancellor no longer sits as a judge, therefore is the Chancellor of the Chancery Division still able to sit as a Chancellor in the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court.
Who holds the position of Vice-Chancellor and can they sit as a Chancellor, and is any other position available within any of the courts to hear inherent Equity cases.
I am sorry to hear we no longer have a Vice Chancellor with the capabilities to sit as a Chancellor under the inherent equity jurisdiction of the High Court.
Can you confirm when a Vice Chancellor will be appointed to hear equity suits under the inherent equity original jurisdiction side of the court. And confirm whether or not the Chancellor of the Chancery Division can still sit as a Chancellor to hear these suits.
For clarification the Equity of which I speak is strictly the inherent original equity not the substituted version created after the merger of the court rules ( but not the merger of the separate jurisdictions ) after the Supreme Court Judicatures Act of 1873 and 1875.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_chancellor#incoming-731852
For clarification the Equity of which I speak is strictly the inherent original equity not the substituted version created after the merger of the court rules ( but not the merger of the separate jurisdictions ) after the Supreme Court Judicatures Act of 1873 and 1875.
I have been advised by Judicial Office colleagues that there will not be a Vice Chancellor appointed – the office was abolished some time ago and the current judicial offices and their relationship with the executive are outlined in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
Regarding the second point you raise, I am advised that Supreme Court Judicature Acts merged the equity jurisdiction and the common law jurisdiction into a single High Court, with a uniform system of pleading and procedure. The equitable principles still apply from time to time and the Chancellor is of course competent to hear all cases relating to equity matters, as are all the judges of the Chancery Division, although cases brought in the Chancery Division are not necessarily attributed to any one judge even when a specific request is made.
I am extremely disappointed that a Vice Chancellor is not to be appointed to hear exclusive equity jurisdiction cases.
It is impossible to abolish Equity Jurisprudence that should be operating within all the courts since the merger of the rules to ensure complete justice.
Please point to the precise part of the legislation that shall show where the equity jurisdiction and the common law jurisdiction were merger, rather than just the merger of the procedural rules to enable a uniform system of pleading and procedure and not the merger of the separate jurisdiction.
The remedies available to the common law were limited to damages ( financial) and those disputes demanding an injunction or specific performance of a contract needed to be heard in equity which was administered in Courts of Chancery, separate from the common law courts.
No compensation in financial terms could ever replace an Heir , or undo the damage inflicted on innocent families . We seek the restitution of our loved ones back to the loving arms of their natural families. Where they rightfully belong and from where, through devious and fraudulent means they have been stolen by strangers. Without our Equity we are ham strung and hog bound
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Yvonne Taylor said:
Statutory interpleader was extended by Common Law Procedure Act 1860, which allowed a defendant in Courts of Law to interplead claimants even if title of the claimants to the res have no common origin, but are adverse to and independent of one another.
From the 13th century in England and Wales, equity developed as a system of justice in parallel with and complementary to the common law. By the 19th century, with the rise of capitalism in Victorian Britain, equity had become very important. The remedies available to the common law were limited to damages and those disputes demanding an injunction or specific performance of a contract needed to be heard in equity which was administered in Courts of Chancery, separate from the common law courts. Moreover, procedure in equity was better able to handle complex disputes involving the relationship between several parties such as partnerships and trusts.
An Act to regulate the Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster
Citation 25 & 26 Vict., c. 42
Introduced by Sir John Rolt, Attorney General
Territorial extent England and Wales, Lancaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancery_Regulation_Act_1862
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Yvonne,
have you lost children to the SS and family courts ?
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Yvonne Taylor said:
No. my Granddaughter is known by ‘professionals’ in the family court gulag system as “The One That Got Away” 2002 . been reading law ever since . I lost three good professional careers due to false allegations and after 8 months to the day in the gulag and countering all the perjury and lies , threats and menace by CAFCASS guardian , we escaped their criminal behaviour.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
So i guess you went as a LiP.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Yvonne i have a feeling you were too clever for them.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
The Rules of the Supreme Court (RSC) were the rules which governed civil procedure in the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales from its formation in 1883 until 1999.
The RSC applied to all civil cases in the Supreme Court in England and Wales commenced after the merger of the Courts of Common Law and Equity in 1883 by the Judicature Acts until they were superseded by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) in 1999 on 26 April 1999. Civil proceedings in the County Courts during this period were governed by the separate County Court Rules.
The RSC were designed to replace the individual rules of the courts of Law and Equity which were subsumed into the Supreme Court providing one harmonised set of procedural rules for all civil cases.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Do you know much about the workings of the LGO, the iCO and the DFE ?
they all seem to brush off complaints about local authorities very quickly and its almost impossible to complain about their poor case work.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
yes, the LGO Patricia Hunt told ss she was coming to look in their files, this of course would have given them ample time to sterilize files allegedly of course. She found no case to answer I sill have the proof . in my informed opinion they are all in this together and we people are not. We did have some success with the stage 3 complaints SW department had to apologize for Racial Discrimination and discrimination with regard to our faith , I still have the letter.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
its a lot to go through just for an apology.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
with regard to ICO I would like to establish am I the only one who has been issued a number and then blocked re e-mails , suspect this has been done to protect Cumbria Police. On what do they know site , moderated By Cambridge my FOIA to ICO was made private , so no one can see it and then vanished it was in regard to Cumbria
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
ive heard the same problem happens with mental health charity Place2be. first they respond but when you keep asking questions they go silent and ignore all emails.
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
what about the DFE. any dealings with them ?
they seem quick to squash any complaints against a school for withholding information.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
re DFE , I corresponded with Margaret Hodge children’s minister at the time re two boys sexually abused in foster care, no risk assessment had been carried out by SW team before placing these children. Cumbria Again . Margaret, despite the serious issues I raised wrote to tell me she would not intervene , she passed it to DFE and they did not even raise an eyebrow .
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
That does not surprise me at all.
theres more chance Ofsted would have acted than the DFE but again they also seem reluctant to get involved with individual cases.its the usual story that they tend to say its the responsibility of the LA to deal with any problems or complaints. how Ironic you always get sent back to the very Core of the problem.That would be like the Jews of the death camps of WW2 asking the guards to help them escape then being told to take it up with heinrich himmler.
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maureenjenner said:
The erudite details offered by all correspondents is truly amazing. It proves that our legal system has more holes than a sieve. Those responsible for its administration are not only falling-down on the job, they are letting down all those who go to them expecting – and believing they will get justice.
As an octogenarian, I am aware that I have long been hoodwinked by the very system I believed and trusted. It is only in the last eighteen years that I have become aware of the terrible injustices perpetrated by those I was brought up to revere and trust. I never had any cause to do otherwise.
That the lid has been blown off is welcome. We must endeavour to keep it off so air and light can reach its deepest and darkest places. There is a real need to cleanse; to see all the secrets of the darkest corners.
The results will be distressing to hear and to read, but how much more so will an enforced silence be for the victims if they are prevented from revealing the horrors they suffered and naming the perpetrators who inflicted that pain. “Tell the truth and shame the devil” never had greater meaning.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
Ditto Maurine , it must be our age and the principles , we were raised and nurtured with in decent loving homes , telling the truth and shaming the devil has made a target of many , but well worth it, knowing its the fair right and just way to act . The flying roll that cannot be escaped is Gods Law. 😉 , I know having been born to goodly parents whom I both honour and respect .
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Yvonne Taylor said:
Natasha , thank you I now owe you more than a G & T &c. Well done xx
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Natasha said:
My pleasure, thank you for sharing all your thoughts xxx
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Maggie tuttle said:
A grandmother who lost her grandchild to the system spent untold thousands of pounds in the family courts and got no where, she was well known to Governments who in the 70s paid for her to build the first Prison nursery to help prisoners wife’s to go back to work, in the 80s she was also the owner of her own nursery, she also fought Governments to bring child minding into the high street in a nursery setting and won the day, she had worked with children around the world, and when she lost her grandchild to the care system this became one of her biggest campaigns, but what they did to her when knowing who she was they spent tax payers money to check she was the real Mrs ? and on the truth they gagged her also telling her if she speaks out she faces 7 years in prison she was also accused of being an alcoholic and drug user and her contact with the grandchild was stopped so she went back to court many times at a great expense some times she won the day, she was told constantly grandparents have no rights, and yet 6 years later she arrived back from abroad called her grandchild only to be told he was all packed and ready as he was coming to live with her, she had no emails telephone calls nothing at all to say the social had agreed for her grandchild to live with her, she then applied to the court for a guardianship and won the day, so much for the family courts and justice for a child, and all because the social worker told lies from day one.
As for Sir James Munby he was just another person put into power so say this or that so that the nation would believe he will bring change, change will never happen to much money and jobs with control of the population.
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Yvonne Taylor said:
http://www.keyassets.com.au/key-assets-australasia-welcomes-ceo-to-queensland/ One only needs to look at the timeline and changes in legislation that have enabled the growth and development of this worldwide trade and a growing international team. Estella Emily Abraham, Martin James Stuart (Jim) Cockburn and Janet (Jan) Rees husband and wife . Jim’s SW No. 23467 Broomsgrove . Jim and Jan began CORE ASSETS in 1994. 1994 Appropriation Act ( Funds from consolidated fund). 1997 they established themselves in the SE Area of UK . Kent and Sussex, Solent, SW, Thames ValleyWestern and Yorks & Lincolnshire regions of the UK . By 2000 Foster Care Associates ( FCA) and Core ASSETS was already moving its central support team to SAXON BUSINESS PARK . 2002 already operating across England and Wales expansion into Scotland FCA Scotland , a not for profit foster agency was established.
soon after 2002 Northern Ireland .
In 2000 The Social Care Regime changed rapidly and DRAMATICALLY with the Care Standards Act ( Victoria Climbie Case) Regulation and Registration of Fostering . To respond to the change FCA LTD was incorporated, taking over the TRADE ASSETS and LIABILITIES of the original English and Wales Regions .
2004 First diversification from Fostering a TRAINING CONSULTANCY – OUTCOMES UK ( Possitive outcomes for children)
2005 FOSTERING FIRST IRELAND established , and a move to delivering INTERNATIONAL services.
2006 FCA acquired FOSTERING PEOPLE a small agency in Nottingham
2007 Invited ‘DOWN UNDER’ Key Assets Australia and New Zealand
2009 operating in Europe and Canada and name change to CORE ASSETS ( one vission, one Mission, one BRAND)
2010 Asia , Japan and Singapore followed
2011 the USA Kentucky and 2013 Florida
2012 Aquisition of CARTER BROWN largest national ‘EXPERT WITNESS’ service , while embarking on a unique partnership with OXFORD UNIVERSITY – REES centre for research in Fostering and Education 6 year pledge for FUNDING.
2013 The Company were awarded a GRANT to set up ADOPTERS FOR ADOPTION as part of the GOVERNMENTS Adoption Reform Agenda
2014 Being awarded the CONTRACT to deliver the BRITISH FORCES Social Work Service in GERMANY ( this will explain Sir Richard KEMP links to the Directors that i talked about on UCK News in 2013)
Consolidated Fund Act like the Appropriation Act allows the treasury to issue funds out of consolidated funds, appropriate the funds to individual government departments and CROWN bodies .
2013 FCA Grant was connected to Adoption Reform Agenda.
There are others with fingers in this PIE , but this is by far the main and biggest venture and it is my understanding that they allegedly provide over 90% service to Councils Children Services Departments in UK.
They are ‘charitable’ philanthropists – I have a lot more research already done , tried to keep this brief
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Paul Roberts said:
there’s too many people in high places that would end up in prison if the constitutionally illegal private courts were opened to public scrutiny. they’ve committed crimes against humanity with their kidnapping and selling children, there’s forgery of creating the kidnap orders (you can see where parts are penned in and other parts are photocopied, no court stamp and no signatures, and they manage to get hold of them when courts are closed too), fraud from making huge sums of money from the kidnap of children and holding the illegal private court hearings without parents being notified but appointed solicitors to represent individual parents and children too. there’s the suicides and illnesses caused by the trauma (intentional infliction of emotional distress), law society lackeys colluding to decide how cases should proceed, and judges (orrell) who produce pre-written judgments within seconds of summing up at final hearings (if the outcome had already been decided, why bother with all the hearings?) i’m suggesting judges take payments in exchange for judgments.
this is why the constitutionally illegal private courts will never be opened to public scrutiny.
and lets not forget the police (staffordshire) who start to make inquiries into how kidnap orders are obtained, then as soon as they realise that serious crimes are being committed and they want to take action, they’re ordered to “back off, or lose your jobs and pensions”.
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Maggie tuttle said:
Paul, you are so correct, also the courts lawyers allocated to the stolen kids are so corrupt and work along side the whole team who stole the kids, i know this and many names from parents who called the help line, none of the courts lawyers ever represent the child,
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
“suicides and illnesses caused by the trauma (intentional infliction of emotional distress)”
There is no doubt Local authorities are guilty of this.
“no signatures”
Yes thats another one LAs are guilty of. then they deny to the LGO what they wrote in those very papers as if to suggest they have been tampered with by the parents.
“(if the outcome had already been decided, why bother with all the hearings?)”
Another very good point. cases are being decided long before the final hearings.
“i’m suggesting judges take payments in exchange for judgments.”
I will second that. Collusion is Rife.
“police who start to make inquiries into how kidnap orders are obtained, then as soon as they realise that serious crimes are being committed and they want to take action, they’re ordered to “back off, or lose your jobs and pensions”.
Im inclined to be believe this to.
Some very relevant points there.
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