The government has launched a consultation into the state of children’s social care.
The Education Committee’s inquiry will look at children’s social workers engaged in children’s social care with a view to trying to understand how to give children and families the best support possible.
The inquiry will explore the possibilities for early intervention, social work reform and training for children’s social workers. It will also investigate the extent to which social workers carry out and uphold their legal responsibilities as social work professionals.
While the focus appears to be on workloads and high staff turnover, this is a wonderful opportunity for families and children to try once again to explain to the government why a brand new approach, and state of the art social work training is needed. And you can share your thoughts with the committee.
Care experienced families and children can answer a series of questions prepared by the Committee in this file. The questions are:
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What does/did your social worker need in order to do their job properly?
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What helped, or didn’t help your social worker have what they need to do their job properly?
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Do you think the job that social workers do today has changed in the past few years? If so, how has it changed, and why do you think that might be?
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What does good social work look like to you?
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Is there anything else that you want to tell us?
You can also submit further thoughts in a file without being restricted by set questions.
You are entitled to ask that your submission, or just selected parts, are kept confidential. The Committee may also anonymise or redact your submission.
Education Committee Chair Robert Halfon MP explains the background to the inquiry:
“Children, young people and their families receive vital support from social workers. Yet children and their families in receipt of social work support are often those who have the worst outcomes. For example, 14% of looked after children get five good GCSEs, 39% of care leavers are NEET [not in education, employment or training], and one in four women who had a child removed through the family courts is likely to go back to court to have another child removed.
Reports suggest that children are under increasing pressures as they grow up, facing up to a rise in mental health problems, a rise in knife crime and serious violence, and experiencing a range of challenges in areas such as social media use. We want to explore what social work looks like in 2019 and examine the skills and support that social workers need to keep children and young people safe from harm and to help them grow up to thrive as adults.
This inquiry will build on the Committee’s previous work on fostering, alternative provision and special educational needs, and continue to make the case for greater support for young people as they grow up. We want all children to have the very best start in life, and social workers play vital roles in keeping families together, children and young people safe and providing much needed support.”
The deadline for written submissions is Friday 30 August.
The Education Committee’s page with all the information on this inquiry can be found here.
Many thanks to Eugene for alerting us to the inquiry.
Researching Reform 
If social workers want parents to have confidence in them simply promise those parents that no social workers will ever appear in court against them asking for their children to be taken away ! Similarly no reports to be lodged asking for the same result.
As long as social workers are parent’s adversaries in court they will be feared,hated,and despised but never trusted !
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Surely the Social Enforcement Officers realise they are doing something wrong when they become hated by the parents, the children, and the foster carers?
Imagine if they offered support to help the problems in families and became a Social Service where families actually looked up to them!
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Cover ups usually come before truth.
we will see.
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Ive submitted my take on the system and its failings.
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Just a few add on’s to my previous comments-Back to basic’s,its always a good place to start!!-Human kindness-its a fact,we all respond to kindness.Genuine,heartfelt concern for the parent and child/children.For a social worker to acknowlegde that a parent will not give up without a fight.It is natural for a woman to become a warrior when provoked.A woman who fights to the death for her child is a warrior.She is not crazy.So,lets see some groundwork being put in first from the SS.Mutual respect for “the client” (i hate those words).Fact’s not fiction example – just because ‘Mary at number 20 heard you call your kid a twat once doesn’t mean your child needs putting on a protection plan.Solid fact’s first or you will get your client breathing fire across that damn conference table and rightly so.
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Transparency and accountability needs to be at the forfront,malice and incompetent social workers are destroying families and causing major problems for the future of our nations children in decisions made in haste,they cause up roar and simply move authorities,reform is needed as a matter of urgence
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They desperately need more INDEPENDANT reviewing officers and i mean INDEPENDANT not people that work along side social workers,sitting next to each other everyday.Jesus christ,give the parents a chance.For godsake train these idiots in mental health issues aswell.Social workers know NOTHING about mental health.That is dangerous in itself.Classic example-(this will make painful reading)-An older mother in early menopause is guaranteed to be anxious,have low self esteem,be emotional.She does NOT have “mental health problems”.She displays natural menopause symptoms….So social workers who have no medical background put her child into care.This is beyond distressing.This is one amoung thousands.How cruel.Some of these parents commit suicide.I’m out of words
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Greg ,if punishment was not a deterrent nobody would ever get punished !That however has nothing to do with replacing social workers by police because unlike the “SS” police will arrest you if you do commit a crime but not because they think you might commit a crime next year !Police and criminal courts do not rely on a crystal ball to pronounce parents guilty of crimes they have not yet committed ! ;
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“INDEPENDANT reviewing officers and i mean INDEPENDANT not people that work along side social workers”
So right there.
when you check the work history of iRO staff on the Council website they usually show as previously worked as Child protection s/workers. is it any wonder why nothing gets done. its all in-house control over every single area of child protection protocol.
as David Cameron famously put it, “where are all in it together”.
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Typo.
“We are all in it together”.
We need an Edit button on this site.
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Social services have mo heart at all saying to leave husband after ten years because he has breakdown over a rape how can you stop a marriage emotional attachment so easy it doesn’t happen uk gone crazy over domestic violence and no one will get help no more because the risk of losing kids its disgusting also social need to not lie to get children removed at court perjury is a offence
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Do you think the job that social workers do today has changed in the past few years? If so, how has it changed, and why do you think that might be?
yep, they’ve gotten more proficient in lying, twisting words, falsifying reports, and lying as they ‘know’ what wordings to use to play the courts to their twisted agenda. They have a playbook now. The whole system needs investigating, including the whole ‘secrecy’ of family courts.. the abuses that go on there in the name of ‘protecting the children’ are rediculous… and yet none of them are held to account.. that needs fixing..
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My ex were alcoholic [edited] social services had me down as murdering my own brother as violent ex prisoner who spent all my life fighting on the streets of [edited] sad truth is they never investigated anything of the facts and I had too fight [edited] social services by actually reading the children’s law I have passed a crb police check too work with children of all ages when the accusations were being thrown at me in core group meeting I twice thought of ending my life I’m now £130.000 out of pocket because of the Lies told too professionals at the meetings by the lead social worker and everyone as covered up my complaint
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Looks like youve joined the Club with all the other Victims of the gutter Rat profession.
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Parents with learning difficulties struggle to complete these ‘consultations’. I have autism and have struggled with social workers. Adults and Children’s services are making a living form vulnerable people, and know they can’t get support to help them navigate the system. I tried to respond to the consultation but found it really hard to put into words how they have failed without feeling very vulnerable. I agree with Ian Josephs. STOP social workers having the power to take children into care. Work with parents to ensure their children get whatever they need to be safe, happy and secure with their families.Tearing them away from loving parents isn’t the answer. Both Child and Parent suffer. This government have created a multi-billion pound industry which serves agencies and foster-carers, yet there is very little evidence the children benefit, there is more evidence that children do better in families where difficulties are worked through. All social workers do is scare people into not turning to them for help. When I needed support from social services I trusted them, people told me I was mad too. I was told how ‘brave’ I was…. I was very naive. Social Workers can NOT be trusted. They have far too much authority and they play the court system to meet government targets and are handsomely rewards for doing so, they couldn’t care less who they hurt in the process. Too many children are losing parents to suicide caused by severe PTSD, how can that ever benefit any child long-term?
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Until balance is brought into the system, it will always favour that of social workers. Corporations (LA’s) have the financial wherewithal to go unchallenged and protect those in their employ. The same can not be said of the families facing that challenge. They do not have the financial resources nor the corporate weight of protection behind them. So whilst social workers remain thinking they are teflon coated, the balance continues to negatively impact those they negatively affect. Social Services was originally set up to help those in need, but it has become an adversarial profession by their very own making/design. The lack of checks and balances to ensure an attitude of ‘do no harm’ is outright ignored to adhere to targets, assisited with the help of the courts. By bringing in accountability for their actions may go a long way to righting a lot of what is currently wrong. There is a cause and effect to everything, and the same applies to the actions of social workers. Not all sw’s are at fault, but a large majority are and should never have been placed in a role that impacts the vulnerable or cause further harm by their actions such as PTSD etc. There is an element of enjoyment by many social workers when they irrevocably destroy a family, as one council in the East Midlands showed by liking themselves to the child snatcher. As parents, fighting to keep their children, are psychologically assessed at the request of the social workers, then they (social workers) too should face similar assessments to ensure they have the approriate temprement and charachter to deal with traumatised individuals. I suspect many in current employ would find themselves on the unemployment line if this were to happen. Bring back the ‘DO NO HARM’ as the primary reason behind the profession, to strike the balance between the law and humanitarianism.
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It’s seems factual that when you complain and even get the complaint logged there’s just a written apology which seriously doesn’t quench the accusations that were said in the first place I’m a very out spoken person and fairly well educated which then poses the question how many children are in care of the local authorities who shouldn’t be they have Destroyed families throughout the uk
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That dose letters and number and pattern got to do with parenting nor with anything with family court
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As won’t people to trust them but all they do is lie
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I feel social services in Peterborough ,are not trained in mental health ,and also autism which is a subject that truly come from my heart.My son is 18 now and was placed in care due to on going issues at home,they never put him in the correct placement,they never I feel once understood autism,and did not think of the wilder family.They breached confidentially ,then put all my family at risk.They do not listen to the parents ,or care how this situation affected us.There is alot more to my story.
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Is this in the UK?
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Hi Greg, yes.
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Social workers have far too many cases. Their work liad if so large that they cannot complete the everyday tasks. They are unable to look at what is best for the children as as there is far too much paperwork and boxes to tick. Social workers do you get the Brunt of people’s anger and frustration some of them this may be deserved but but there is social workers who genuinely want the best for the child and families but even to do this as a hierarchy or push that to have those boxes ticked it is very frustrating 4 or the children and the families that the social workers are working with the whole system is extremely underfunded understaffed and needs a massive shake up
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What social workers really need is their abolition and their disappearance from life in the UK ! Replace them by police and family courts by criminal courts and most of the injustices would also disappear……….
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That’s the most destructive thing one could suggest.
Punishment is not a deterrent, but going to the source of social issues is.
If you’re making suggestions as you have please read A Secure Base, by John Bowlby and otherwise educate yourself.
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Police arrest you if you have committed a crime NOT because they think you might commit one next year ! Unlike social workers and family court judges who snatch babies at birth for risk of future emotional abuse which is most unfair.and unjust
In Criminal courts you are innocent until proved guilty but in family courts the judge just guesses which is the more likely and that too is unfair and unjust .
I am sure nobody needs to read any book to see the wisdom of this.
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I’m sure what you say is true in some cases, but it seems to me that you’ve stated some gross generalisations that are difficult to reply to.
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Greg I wish you were right but alas I did not generalise at all;I simply stated the uncontested legal position !
In criminal courts the standard of proof is “beyond reasonable doubt and hearsay evidence is not admitted normally.
In family courts the standard of proof is whichever is more likely 51% is enough.!,and hearsay evidence (from persons not in court) is freely and continually admitted.
When parents are branded “abusers” in Family courts the standard of proof is abysmally low and would never be considered in a criminal court;hence by suggestion of replacing family courts by the much fairer criminal courts.
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Every child that I’ve worked with for the past two years has been genuinely traumatised. You say what serves as grounds for referral and removal of a child from a parent’s home is a low threshold, but the first 4 years of a child’s life is the most important. This is when they form the strongest attachments. There’s is no such thing as perfect parents, but I honestly don’t think the state really wants to be responsible for so many children in care as it is already at epidemic proportions! Taking children into care is not the easy way out, believe me! It complicates too many lives.
Statistics about children in care 2017-2018: https://bit.ly/2JWOyn6
There are similar statistics for England and Scotland.
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Yes nearly every child taken from parents is traumatised BY THE REMOVAL !
The “State” may noT want huge numbers of kids in care (approx 100,000 in the whole of the UK); but the fostering and adoption agencies making millions and the “special schools” charging 3 times more than Eton certainly do want as many as possible ! The lawyers,the judges,the social workers ,and so called experts also make a good living out of taking kids into care .
That is why change is a long time coming !
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I can tell by what you say that you really dont get it. you just cant connect the dots.
yes in some cases children should be taken into care but for thousands of others they have been wrongly taken and that can be shown when Police look into what went on but find no case to prosecute. many of these young Children genuinely traumatized will be due to being forcefully taken from their parents and put with complete strangers.
I’ll bet you never asked any of them if they think it was right that the council took them away from their parents.We have seen with the Scandal of the stolen babies of Ireland where paperwork was falsified and all kinds of dirty deeds went on to steal babies for the lucrative Adoption industry where some have made large sums of Money.Corruption is real.
As for the SS they work on a ( Need to know basis ) just like Govt intelligence services and unfortunately your dept Do not need to know what they get up to. Your eyes will open eventually.
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Mr Young seems to have no idea of how parents and Children are being treated by the Child protection dept of Councils.
working in a Care home doesnt mean you know everything whats going on in other depts.some of these comments are becoming irritating at the very least.
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Show me proof of what you say. So far you are speaking in generalities, which makes me think that what you’re saying is pure conjecture.
As far as my point of view – it comes from being on the ground working with physically, emotionally and sexually abused children. So, from your point of view you think it best that children stay in homes where they are being abused in the above manner because it’s better than being taken into care?
I can only imagine what you would imagine as a normal upbringing, if the answer is yes to my last question.
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Former foster carer, 58, who raped and sexually abused five children for more than a decade is jailed for 22 years
Babies taken at birth from law abiding parents for risk of future emotional abuse
10,000 children per year on average go missing every year from State care!
If only social workers and judges stopped guessing about the future andlooked instead at children already badly hurt.
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I dont need to show you anything. the proof of what goes on is all over this site in the painful descriptions of what parents are going through with lying SS staff and the ignorance of the family courts.
obviously you are a protector of the realm as your Job depends on the care system staying strong with plenty of children herding through the care system year after year.if the numbers suddenly plummet you could be out of a job. its like stocks and shares.you got to keep those shares sounding fit and strong to protect your interests right.
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If the parents have been charged with or convicted of abuse the child should probably be taken.
However in the vast majority of cases there have been no convictions at all just predictions of future mistreatments, so it will probably be far safer to leave the child with imperfect parents than putting them in the far greater danger of abuse in care where 10,000 go missing every year and nearly half juveniles in prison or on the street as prostitutes were once in the “care” system !
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Social workers lie and are not trained as they don’t do there jobs proper and should stop stealing our children from loving homes based on lies
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If your child is in care, you should go to your council and tell them the issues you’re having with your social worker!
If your children aren’t in care and you’re hearing things and or third hand, I suggest you not remain ignorant, and educate yourself about what’s really going on.
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What is your point exactly ?
going to the Council if your child are in care will get you nowhere as they protect Social workers to the hilt. the 3 stage complaints process is completely rigged to protect staff.
i cant see any problem with what Simpkin3 said.
they do lie and are not doing their jobs properly and for many parents they do steal children.
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There needs to be a completely independent body over seeing the social services. The council protect their own, and complaining only makes things more difficult for the complainant. The gagging order prevents parents from seeking any help elsewhere.
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Family court Judges should be made to explain why they dont report Social workers who commit Perjury in their courts.
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They also need to explain how they can make judgements on a child’s future without evidence of any harm ever being caused to the child. Also, most of the case is discussed behind closed doors by the solicitors and social services, away from the families involved, so what is said in court is only a tiny fraction of what has been discussed in secret. I think they need a jury in family courts. I believe a jury will protect the children better in a court environment.
There seems to be a huge lack of understanding of mental illnesses in social services, plus the social workers are very young, unmarried mostly, and without children of their own. Certainly in no position to decide the future of other people’s children! When a teenage child who is very happy at home is removed suddenly when it is discovered that the parent has a had a life long mental illness something is very wrong with the system when all the years before diagnosis aren’t taken into account when the future of the child is being decided. Mental illness doesn’t mean child damage, most are able to protect their children and only need some help themselves with their struggle. In some cases it is the caring for the child that keeps the mental health problems at bay. Even with the teenage child protesting that the social workers are incorrect in their risk assessment of their parent, the social workers put the child’s whole family into a traumatised state with the forced removal of the child. I teenager understands a lot more than a toddler and what they say should be taken into account when deciding their future.
Social services should act more like a service and less like an enforcement.
The courts need to prosecute social workers who lie in court. I’m not talking about a single lie or slip-up which can be forgiven if corrected, but it’s constant lies and manipulation of the information to get what they want. Their goal is to remove the child for adoption when it should be to get to the bottom of the problem to find a way to support the family to stay together.
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Well they taken my lil of me neglect two day after he was born and never had a chance and I think they are shit st there jobs they have used me
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Too big a case load
We have a good social worker supports in meeting in schools as education doesn’t understand attachment needs. Adoption support has been fantastic although the problem has been application of funding of which has impacted on the children’s therapies
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The best therapy most of these forced adopted children could have would be to return them to their birth parents !
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I agree 100%
or returned to other members of their own family.
taking them out of their own Gene Pool is Cruel and heartless.
just look at Michael Gove. he doesnt even want to find his real parents. How Sad for them.
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Returning a child to their parents is the best therapy in cases where the child isn’t being harmed by the parents. As for the poor over-worked social workers, they could save themselves a lot of work if they stop removing children that are better off at home with their parents. They could also save a lot of money on therapies and other professionals who are called in to try to fix the distraught children. That’s not mentioning the cost of the damage that will be caused by the parents who lost their children, damage in the way of costs to the system for therapies, their new found hatred and distrust for the authorities, losing their jobs to mental illness and living off the state, long term medical needs, costs of contact sessions for the few lucky ones to get them, and lots more too much to mention here.
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Are you speaking as a parent who has lost children or a carer who has Adopted Children ?
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Foster Carers will not speak up ,if they do.often an.allegation follows and deregistration ,, foster carers have been bullied and intimidated because they have no workers.rights , that’s why The IWGB foster care workers union has been set up ,so.we have support enabling us to be able to advocate for the yp we.care for 24/7 we know our yp.best ,and SW may see a yp for an hour every 6 weeks,, some have never meet the yp ,,we are not given enough information when YP are placed ,to safeguard all ,,then you have ,The child’s SW ,,and supervising SW , and independent SW ,for each child ,all giving foster carers instruction, Trying to look after yp while watching your back ,like walking on egg shell, If you want true insight ,contact ,the ,IWGB foster carers union Email fostersupport@iwgb.co.UK ,
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Why would they speak to anyone who isnt a F/carer ?
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My son is under a supervision order has an fasd diagnosis I had to fight to get and I feel my son we were told supervision order would give an umbrella to services for his needs well I am still waiting for these services to extent I have approached services myself and engaged so what if you are supereceding the criteria of the supervision order but social work aint who holds them accountable as they would hold you accountable quickly enough. Plus my son was in social work unit he went missing from a holiday park from their staff walked from at half two in morning to half five in morning to turn up at my door and their staff didn’t notice him missing I had to phone to tell them my son was in my care but all they could say was sorry. Really
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A survey by the All party parliamentary group found that 10,000 children in care go missing every year ! Why should the “SS” care ? Your child is just a statistic !
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Ian, I know you mean well, but please be gentle.
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Sorry no offence mean’t but readers should realise just how inadequate State Care can be !Even the occasional bad or neglectful parent will usually be better for the child than the even more neglectful care of the State
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Social workers need to be trained to recognise parent alienation, Its disgusting children’s wishes should come first not the other parents, I have no faith in social workers after a very bad experience .
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Social workers are also responsible for parental alienation where children are then Cut off from both parents and extended family. we hear very little about this problem and it needs more discussion.
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“We want all children to have the very best start in life, and social workers play vital roles in keeping families together,”
That is what the MP Robert Halfron chairman of the Education Committee has said………..
I can emphasise that for the last 16 years I have been receiving at least 3 or 4 calls or emails from distressed parents every single day asking for my help when their children have been taken..Over 1000 per year for 16 years since I put my site http://www.forced-adoption.com on line.
In all that time I never heard of even one social worker helping to keep a family together!
That is not surprising since they all inevitably work to split families up and take the children into care or forced adoption;
Have any readers experienced the contrary and had their families reunited thanks to a kind and helpful social worker?
Did you see those pigs flying over the mountains????
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I’m a sw myself and I am disgusted by the lies and evil systems used regularly to steal babies from vulnerable mothers in order to get adoption bonus from the govt
They have lied and lied and been dispicable and used every evil trick in the world to quieten me to stop me telling the truth
The system allows gross misjustice and parents cannot stand up to such injustice.
Where is the support ? There isn’t any
I’m going to the press. Ive had enough !
Courts are letting these liars get away with baby snatching
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Hi Alison, thank you for your comment. Would you be interested in being interviewed on your thoughts about the care system by Researching Reform?
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Incredible ! AN HONEST SOCIAL WORKER………………….
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Yes as I hate what has happened to the system
I’m retiring in oct and happy to spill
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Thanks Alison, I’ve sent you en email.
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The children are usually the vulnerable ones. I’ve only worked in a therapeutic home for 2.5 years, but every child that has come to us has come from a family where the parents are either absent, drunk, strung out on heroin or in prison and the rest of the family is unfit for caring for a child. I’ve not seen one case otherwise so it therefore makes me think that most of these people saying that children are being stolen for profit , are not getting the whole picture, or their idea of what a good parent is is completely misaligned with reality.
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You can see on the hob website how much ss get for meeting their targets to adoption . They’re not placing hard to place children here as too complex, they are taking easy babies from vulnerable women to boost their targets. This is not what David Cameron had in mind , he was offering money to support the placement of complex kids that cost to move on
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This may be of interest: “The apparent low incidence of mental health problems observed in adopted children at the time of adoption order may have alternative explanations beyond early placement age and placement stability. First, the finding may suggest that the agency is more likely to pursue an adoption application if the child does not experience high needs.” From research we shared: https://researchingreform.net/2019/08/26/new-study-suggests-children-suffer-most-harm-after-entering-the-care-system/
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Alison,What is the hob site and how can I find it?
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Sorry gov not hob. It states they get 28k bonus for one child and increasing for more . I do have a screenshot of the age somewhere
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I know about the £28,000 but that goes to the fostering and adfoption agency that arranged the fostering or adoption.These agencies make millions every year publicly declared.
However the SWs do not officially get ANY of this cash though some of it has been known to trickle down in brown envelopes to various “lucky”social workers.
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Alison is it this Govt page with the figures under Grant amount ?
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inter-agency-adoption-fee-grant-for-local-authorities?fbclid=IwAR1oAQgVxuPa7M35m0X7CySH2mtdvAYcel16fDRX-UAZR24-kNyHr3siPxM
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Yes but get big bonuses on top
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No its you who is completely misaligned with reality.
many parents who come on here are genuine people who have been subjected to Social workers who falsify case files and lie on Oath in court to win their case.
the Corruption is real and there is plenty of evidence to back it up. all they need is a full investigation and all will be revealed.
what you have said here is highly disrespectful to the Victims of the SS.
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The “SS” ( 12/10/2018 Barnsley Chronicle) Judge Moore compared Social Services to the Nazi “SS” !
He said “Social services were like the SS of Nazi Germany. They’re literally the SS in their name, and their manner of working is somewhat draconian.”
WHAT OTHER JUDGES SAY :-
1: Lord Justice Thorpe said There is nothing more serious than a removal hearing, because the parents are so prejudiced in proceedings thereafter.
2: Lord Justice Wall (the former Senior family court judge) said that the determination of some social workers to place children in an “unsatisfactory care system” away from their families was “quite shocking”.
3: In a separate case on which Sir Nicholas Wall also sat, Lord Justice Aikens described the actions of social workers in Devon as “more like Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China than the West
The podcast and transcript from the Debate that was held on 24 November is now on the Family Justice Council website. Please see the link below.
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/advisory-bodies/fjc/conference-debates/debates/family-justice-council-9th-annual-debate/
Maggie Mellon, British Association of Social workers; Ex-Vice Chair says:-
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/02/19/parents
“I believe that suspicion of parents and of families has become corrosive, and is distorting the values of our profession.
For the last 20 plus years the number of investigations or assessments into families suspected of child abuse has climbed steadily upwards and now accounts for one in 20 families in England and Wales !!!
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If this is genuine then its great to hear the truth come from a Social worker who works with thin the Corrupt system. Whistleblowers are protected by the govt now so spill spill spill!.
you need to take your information to the HCPC, Care quality Commission and Ofsted. they all have a Whistleblowing contact centre. Also the Police may be interested if your evidence is strong enough.
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It’s genuine alright
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Alison can i ask which sector of Social services you work for ?
Mash team, Child protection, Looked after team etc.
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I don’t work for ss
I was chair of Irm for 8 years
Was a guardian
Now director of a private fostering agency ofsted all outstanding
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So i take it as a guardian you worked along side SS SWs in the family courts etc and witnessed the shenanigans they got up to.
“chair of Irm for 8 years” what was that ?
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I chaired the govts review panel for foster and adoptive carers who were refused approval . The practice I witnessed by many authorities was shocking
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WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN ?
Parents who’ve lost kids in shadowy secret courts slam ruthless millionaires cashing in on UK’s fostering crisis
The UK’s £1.7billion foster industry has seen a growth of firms backed by huge private equity funds raking in taxpayers’ cash. They are cashing in on the anguish felt by parents who lose their children into care.
INVESTIGATION
By Jake Ryan, Investigations Reporter, and Tracey Boles, Business Editor THE SUN
22nd October 2018, 9:50 am
Updated: 22nd October 2018, 9:50 am
ANGUISHED parents of children taken away by social services have slammed fat-cat businessmen whose firms earn tens of millions from selling foster care.
The UK’s £1.7billion foster industry has seen a growth of firms backed by huge private equity funds raking in taxpayers’ cash.
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Alison, what about your time as a guardian. did that reveal much re LA social workers ?
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It revealed that some are great, many are pants and many lie. The best leave like I did as the system stinks and there is no requirement for evidence by ss. They can say what they like and then shout professional opinion which goes down as evidence,, I used to kick asse and demand such evidence as guardian and chair or Irm. No evidence , they didn’t get away with it with me
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The fabrication must be stopped. Social workers are making up reports in order to meet targets. People are losing their precious children! I was a foster Carer and quit. Many other foster carers have had made up safeguardings for daring to stand up for these children.
This is law breaking and families
And foster carers need justice
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Maybe the SW (soon to retire) Alison could tell us about targets,(with promotions when met) scorecards,and commissions from adoption and fostering agencies .These happen from time to time but not all the time so proof is difficult to come by ; Also if she thinks we should scrap social workers and family courts and revert to police and criminal courts to deal with child cruelty just as it used to be before 1948 !
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Hi Ian, I’m currently speaking with Alison, and won’t be able to publish any further claims she makes on the site without evidence, so bear with me. Thanks.
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Understood !
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Social Workers and fostered children are the ones who needs to speak out because the parents aren’t believed because they “must have done something seriously wrong” to have lost their children to the system.
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Social workers arent what I thought in my head
Oh no there plan evil nasty liars
Example of been under social services
Heres what happens in the real world
Autism pathway 18mnths
Social services at ur door u now have sw
Nasty peice of work.
Next thing 45days later FII ACCUSED
Threatened to remove children.
All professionals involved dont even no either kids or parent.
Next thing u loose ur job working mental health
Cause they forced mental health ass
Children labelled in new schools as mother is abusing them.more let downs by schools ignoring the duty of care an ignoring reports requirements.treated differently .
Sw starts the bullying tactics throwing weight around turning up after hrs etc
Setting meetings core groups up at ur home telling u you cant cancel sending different sw unnounced to ur home wanting to join in.
Helping cover up there lies the will use any professionals to do this.
By the end of this you still haven’t seen prove no reports no risk assessments hardly communicated with ignored all the time.
No paperwork is ever right all copied n pasted mistakes labelling abuse emotional.
So you get the idea hopefully
Sw take there no existing power they think they have to use to destroy families especially if there is nice little cash bonus afterwards
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I’m so with you on this.
We have endured years of lies and failed recordings making us out as evil abusing parents when we are exemplary, but have three disabled children from the care system that they failed to diagnose.
Never met so many lies and evil judgemental ppl in my life
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Lies, deception and Obstruction seems to be the name of their Corrupt game.
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We had Foster Carers for my grandson who has a very complex heart condition.
He spent alot of time in Southampton…my dauggter was so badly bullied by these two women…one in particular that they nearly drove my daughter. to take her life…this thank god was noted by nursing staff in Southampton who reported this bullying…
These women are now advertising Fostering in Jersey…how are they still employed..
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There is nobody Policing them. also foster Carers dont need to be registered with the HCPC and thats another big problem as Complaints to the Council are usually ignored.
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Well if they helped in stead of critasizing parents and backing up people how are in evolved that tell children if they dont wanna go school no one can force them and no one can make u do anything they dont want to pluse it took them 10 years to get my kids off me what a joke
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It’s about time half the social worker s were sacked . I have never seen such a corrupt system as iv found in the storys about social workers in the last 8 yearsITS NO LONGER WHATS IN THE BEST INTREST OF THE CHILD. ITS ABOUT GREEDY PROMOTION CIMBINGS/WORKERS FACT ITS ABOUT MONEY
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