Welcome to another week.
As the ultra successful Family Drug And Alcohol Court (FDAC) looks set to close, Nick Crichton, the judge who pioneered the programme in the UK is calling on the government to keep the scheme alive.
The unit, which is the only family court to date that offers a personal, and proven programme for helping keep families suffering from substance abuse together, has been systematically rejected by local authorities around the country, who claim not to be able to see its value.
FDAC also prevents mothers dealing with addiction from losing their children, and entering an often unbreakable cycle of care proceedings, fostering or adoption plans, and a move to get pregnant again to cope with the loss once the child is taken, which in turn leads to more care proceedings and child removal orders.
The units are also saving the government a lot of money. Research suggests that FDAC saves the government £17,000 per adoption and fostering case. In 2017, there were over 72,000 children in state care. The number of children adopted in 2017, was 4,350. The number of children paced in foster homes in that same year was 53,420.
Conservatively, FDAC could be saving the government over 900 million pounds a year. At full throttle, the savings could reach well over a billion.
There has been the suggestion that local authorities are refusing to implement the units because they don’t see what they get out of the programme. The argument is that FDAC employees and teams reap all the benefits of the scheme and the host council, benefits little. Others, like Researching Reform, take the view that local authorities, whose main streams of revenue include fostering and adoptions, see FDAC as a threat to their income.
Our question this week then, is just this: what do you think should be done?
Researching Reform 
It makes a change when someone instead of aimlessly criticising the system actually asks what should be done !
The FDAC may well be a good thing but it is largely irrelevant in the general scheme of things.
What should be done to stop the snatching of children from good and loving homes?
1:-Abolish forced adoption (adoption opposed by parents in court)
2:-Abolish “punishment without crime ” and remove children only from parents who have been charged with or convicted of a significant crime against their children or other chidren.If those charged are found not guilty children must be returned home.
3:-Abolish the gagging of parents whose children have been taken from them.Allow parents to discuss with their children their case and their fight to recover their offspring ;Restore FREE SPEECH.
4:-Abolish the gagging of children in care allowing themto keep their mobile phones and computers, to report abuse in care, discuss returning home,and,to speak freely in their own language.Restore FREE SPEECH
5:-Never forbid by court order indirect contact (letters,phone calls,and emails or texts) between parent and child even when direct contact may be thought dangerous or undesirable.
6:- Abolish social workers and leave child cruelty and neglect to be dealt with by the police as it used to be before the intervention of the “SS” !
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if accept all these changes, then all fostering adoption mafia will cease to exist.
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“Nick Crichton, the judge who pioneered the programme in the UK is calling on the government to keep the scheme alive.”
Thats the right thing to do and he needs to speak out more as Munby has done to stop shady LAs from trying to derail positive change.
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Reblogged this on | truthaholics and commented:
Corporate greed and commodification of children for corporate profit is the virus not the vaccine. Time for a public inquiry into misappropriation of taxpayers money for corporate greed. The hidden cost of judicial rubber-stamping local authority surmise/hysteria for private fostering/adoption is too high for society, especially in an age of ongoing austerity. The case for continuing with FDAC speaks for itself so abolishing is absurd and raises more questions than answers.
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it is crystal clear : it is done to pave road for indiscriminate dragging children to foster care, supported by Timpson and likes. Seems people will take all forever.
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