Britain’s first parent-led Truth Commission looking at children’s social care is holding its monthly Zoom on Sunday 8 May at 5pm. Attendees can get involved with the work of the commission and can ask its members any questions they wish about the commission during these calls. We’d love you to be there.
This month we’re putting together a questionnaire for child welfare and family court experienced families and children. During the event we’ll be asking you for your thoughts on the questionnaire, how we can make it better and hearing your requests about anything else you may want from the commission.
The hour-long event will be introduced and hosted by the CFTC’s lead, Michele Simmons, who is a care experienced mother. She will be joined by commission team members Simon Haworth and ourselves (Researching Reform – Natasha Phillips).
We will:
- Share updates about the commission’s work
- Discuss the questionnaire, so we can receive your feedback and incorporate your advice and guidance
- Answer any questions about the commission you might have
- Receive any thoughts or suggestions you have and see how we can include them in the commission’s work
- Invite you to send in testimonials about your experience of the system (all testimonials are published without names or identifying elements)
The call will take place on Sunday 8 May, 2022 from 5pm to 6pm on Zoom.
If you would like to attend the event, please email the team at truthcommissionuk@gmail.com. The team will also give you information about how to access the conference.
Please confirm you would like to attend the event in your message, and let us know if you are a care-experienced child or parent, social care stakeholder, government affiliate, academic, journalist or member of the public.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Additional links:
Researching Reform 
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Could the commission at least consider the impact on children who are taken from their families very often by squads of uniformed police around 6;30am to live with strangers who confiscate their tablets and mobile phones cutting them off from family and friends.
Is forced isolation really the best way to treat children who have mostly done no harm to anyone?
Also when parents eventually make contact in a “centre” the kids cannot talk to their parents about coming home or about their case at all.They cannot report abuse by carers and cannot talk in their own language if English is not their mother tongue.
If the break any of these “rules” contact is stopped immediately and sometimes permanently !
All the above is NOT enforced by statute ,or by any judge .Social workers decide all this and they really ought to be stopped………….
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Damn ! I missed this … I put it down for 8 p.m in my haste with doing other stuff .. Sorry ..
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I do think isolation (Ref Ian Joseph’s points above) is a case for some Adoptees too that damages them .. You will know of kids that are Adopted at ages more than infancy where memory is more difficult for many to retrieve .. The State may well think this is all desirable but the identity-dislocation emerges years later and even interferes with functionality and self identification. It creates a base of internal world instability. You have to be there to know it … Many adoptees attest to this ..
We know this (instability) is the truth from the AUK surveys too in their “Barometer” results – at least partly – because so many young Adoptees they measured were not in Education, Employment and Training and many had presented to Mental Health Services before the age of 24 ..
“Looked After Children” too will experience isolations and de-personalisations as suggested by Ian Josephs above .. When you have belongings taken away from you it is a typical way to de-individuate you .. State services used to do this in Mental Health services with patients and they may well still do that ref Mobile phones .. They use “patient safety” and “patient confidentiality” to justify such things ..
Sorry I missed the meeting .. xx
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Please don’t worry xxxx
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