If It Saves Just One Child-False Positives

[Elaine Kirk]

In Ben's Name... love from Elisha

It is heartbreaking we have got to stop the 'Child Protection' con and reverse the trend.

This changed this weekend. Rachael and her mother, Juliet, are in such agonies... for Kerry, Mark and Ben. This weekend, hearing the reports of how Ben was taken from his mother's arms, as he'd been breastfeeding... the pain they are feeling is just immense. The memories are sharp and tearing.

But they want to help. Above all, they want to help. Therefore, in Elisha's name... they are releasing the advocacy complaint. It's below. It's a gift from Elisha, to Ben. From Rachael, to Kerry. She knows it will hurt to read, but also knows that it needs to be read.

[marl2580]

My understanding is Kerry and Ben have been reunited in a mother and baby unit

[Elaine Kirk]

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Evening Standard

A British couple who fled to Spain to prevent their unborn son being taken by social services were today given hope of getting back their daughter who was taken from them at nine weeks old.

A European Court ruling means there is a case to be heard in the row surrounding the girl known as Poppy who is now 17 months old.

[Elaine Kirk]

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The Slog

When Justice Mary Finlay Geoghehan said in an Irish courtroom a few weeks back that there was 'only a possibility' that Nottinghamshire County Council would forcibly adopt two innocent English children, I almost cried for the naivety of it. Justice Geoghegan has clearly never dealt with the British social care system.

[Elaine Kirk]

More cases

But Lord Justice Aikens warned that social workers were effectively saying to the mother: 'Whatever you may do doesn't make any difference - we are going to take your child away.'
He added: 'That is more like Stalin's Russia or Mao's China than the West of England - that is the impression you give.'

another

In a separate case, Lord Justice Wall criticised the 'shocking' failure of social workers in the London borough of Greenwich to support a mother seeking to break free from an abusive relationship to win back her two children, who are in care.
He said the case would do little to dispel the public perception of social workers in care proceedings as 'trampling on the rights of parents and children' while removing youngsters into 'an unsatisfactory care system'.

[Elaine Kirk]

The Telegraph is covering his appointment, very good article

Any journalist who writes about the family courts dreads looking at their emails. Often I find long cries of pain from parents whose children have been removed by social services. A spot judgment has been made on their competence as parents, they say, following some incident or injury to a child. From then on, nothing they do or say will change the social workers' opinions.
The new President of the Family Division, Sir Nicholas Wall, offers such parents a ray of hope. Before taking up his appointment yesterday, he criticised the way in which a "warm and loving mother", who was seeking to keep her two children, had been "quite improperly rebuffed" by Greenwich social services. Having ditched their violent father, she wanted to start again –

but was receiving no help.

[Elaine Kirk]

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From The Times
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A COUPLE have won a legal battle to prevent social workers taking their five-year-old son into care after the authorities claimed that his health had been damaged by a meat-and-dairy-free diet.

Social services even tried to get police to investigate the family and threatened to seize the boy’s two older siblings during the two-year ordeal.

The parents, Ken and Marie, were forced to represent themselves in court after their legal aid was removed — simply because they had insisted on contesting the case.

Last week a family court judge removed an interim supervision order on the child previously obtained by social workers and ruled that he must be taken off the at-risk register.