Jff Report 25 - June July August
Apologies for the delay in the report. This arises from being too busy with all sorts of things. Thanks to Ali for putting everything together.
Key things that are happening at the moment:
- Proposed changes to the CYP Bill are tabled to be considered in October
- The Times are putting some real effort into Family Court Openness
- Our first few cases have been submitted to the ECtHR in Strasbourg
- We have improved our contacts in Ireland for anyone thinking of emigrating to Ireland
- A judicial review against the government for failure to maintain the rule of law in Jersey has been initiated
- Discussions are ensuing with the Central Authority for the Hague Convention about International Public Law where families have expanded whilst "on the run".
- The Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee is expected to review the request for an investigation into Family Law later this month.
Please ask your MP to vote for the amendments in October.
Ali's media report
KIDS COURTS AND CORRUPTION
June media report
Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year.
2 children in care die of neglect each week. Children placed in care are three times more likely to die than others, a shock report has revealed.
A woman fled her Wearside home with her five daughters when she found out they were being taken into care.
Natalie Bracht, 34, fled four days before her children were to due be taken to foster homes after a court ruled she was incapable of caring for them. Although, they look well cared for in the photos.
A Sunderland mother who went missing with her five girls a month ago has a "histrionic personality disorder", police said. After a High Court ruling, they were also able to reveal that 34-year-old Natalie Bracht's children should be in local authority care..
Police investigating the disappearance of Wearside mother-of-five have traced her last known movements to the Harlesden area of London.
Police searching for a woman missing with her five children have not ruled out the possibility that an organisation may be sheltering them.
A senior family judge has attacked the present system of family courts run by a “self-selecting great and good and a professional judiciary” as out of tune with society.
A high court judge has revealed how the innocent parents of a baby boy suffered the "nightmare" of a court finding that they had deliberately harmed him, in a cautionary tale about the devastating consequences that can follow when courts and expert witnesses get it wrong.
A mother, whose baby son was taken away after she was wrongly accused of harming him, had an abortion because she could not bear to have a second child removed from her family.
Parents held for murder of their son after paramedics 'failed to spot playground injury that killed him'
Lewis Urmston-Brown, of Runcorn, Cheshire, died in hospital on Monday, shortly before his parents were arrested on suspicion of murder. Chris Brown, 41, and Michelle, 39, were released without charge when tests proved Lewis had fallen in a play area.
Nanny accused of shaking police officers' baby so violently he died of brain damage months later.
Miss Wise, 47, an experienced nanny, is accused of shaking baby Isaac so forcibly that he suffered bleeding over the brain and died almost 11 months later from a resulting epileptic fit. She denies manslaughter.
A man seen as the 'ideal' foster parent by social services was a secret paedophile who sexually abused girls in his care for years.
Councils have admitted using laws intended to thwart terrorists to probe petty offences such as littering and poor parking.
MORE than 140 unborn babies have been put on the child protection register in Cardiff – before they were even born.
Barristers have been making millions of extra pounds from the misery of families and children caught up in the family courts, according to new figures released by ministers yesterday. Fees paid out of taxpayer-funded legal aid to barristers in family court cases have gone up by almost a third in five years and have now reached nearly £100million a year, they showed. And there have been big increases in claims by barristers for obscure special payments that provide 'uplift' and 'bolt-ons' to their basic charges..
Police looking into child abuse allegations at a Jersey children's home arrested a retired married couple yesterday.
Jack Straw faced pressure yesterday to appoint an independent judge to oversee the child abuse investigation in Jersey, after police were prevented from charging two suspects.
Care leavers from Jersey have called on the UK government to launch an independent inquiry into child abuse on the island.
It is seven years since Cafcass was set up, bringing together 113 organisations including probation officers in family court welfare, social workers representing children in care and adoption cases, child protection agencies and welfare groups. An inquiry by the Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee found “serious failings” and an organisation unable to cope. By August 2005 it was facing a predicted £4 million overspend on its budget and a backlog of 1,000 unallocated cases as targets were not met.
A new report by Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, and journalist/social commentator Jennie Bristow, argues that the growth of child protection policies, police vetting and CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checks is poisoning the relationship between the generations and damaging the voluntary sector.
The father of Madonna’s adopted son David may challenge the decision by the High Court in Malawi to grant permanent custody to the pop star. Peasant farmer Yohane Banda claims he has been ‘left in the dark’ by government officials who had promised him he would have regular visits from the two-year-old boy as part of the adoption arrangement.
July media report
Earlier this month it emerged that almost 700 applicants for jobs in teaching, nursing, childminding and volunteer work were falsely accused of wrongdoing by the Criminal Records Bureau.
A tearful boy raced to stop his mum killing herself in front of a train after finding her suicide note at home. It later emerged Mrs Bell feared her younger children, aged from nine to 15, would be taken away after she was arrested for an alleged assault. In her note she said she loved them all and would never forget them.
A schoolboy pleaded with his mother just before she was killed by a train while standing on the tracks at a station, police said today.
Details of private family court proceedings that led to a mother fleeing the country with her son after he was placed in foster care have been disclosed after legal action by
The Times.
At the end of this week, Bedfordshire County Council will stop funding a place for 12-year-old Ben Haslam at an independent residential special school where he is flourishing. Ben's parents say the alternative they are being offered by the council requires them to put Ben into care against their wishes.
One day my friend was rung up and asked to come to the school urgently with a pair of tweezers. Luckily he was working locally. When he arrived, he found one of his sons had a splinter in his finger. None of the school staff was allowed to remove it because that would be an 'invasive operation'..
Mother stopped from travelling with son in taxi to school - because she hasn't had a criminal record check
They're at it with their crystal balls again! Making new excuses to trap people in the UK.
All councils keep a database of children they fear are likely to go missing, which can be accessed by police and social workers. New legislation will come into place this year to give courts greater power to protect victims of forced marriage or those 'at risk'. It will allow judges make wide-ranging orders such as barring relatives from contacting the victim or confiscating their passport to prevent the marriage happening overseas without criminalising members of their family.
The report says that while millions of pounds are spent looking after a huge number of children in care not enough is allocated to supporting children still living with their families but needing the support of social workers to keep them out of care.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1058831_councils_inadequate_care
Many parents could face prosecution for leaving their children home alone during the summer holidays, a children's charity has warned.. The law does not specify an age when a child can be left alone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7501031.stm
A head teacher has apologised after a seven-year-old boy was shut in a cupboard-sized room as punishment for bad behaviour.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036217/Supernanny-row-school-shut-boy-cupboard.html
A conspiracy of justice. Allowing the family and social services to operate in secret allows miscarriages of justaice without the possibility of redress.
Given their power to tear families apart, the lack of accountability is astonishing. The judge found that every one of the assertions made by the social services team leader was “misleading or incomplete or wrong”.
Some terrible stories of children taken from their parents without good reason and adopted against their will, never to be returned. And all in secret. Not a word to be published.
I wrote on Monday about the many desperate parents who have app-roached me after losing their children to social services. One thing that they all have in common is shock at how quickly the system seems to decide against them, and at how doggedly it sticks to that view despite all evidence to the contrary.
Britain faces an investigation by Europe into secrecy in family courts, amid growing political pressure to overhaul the system. The Council of Europe has stepped in after allegations that gagging laws designed to protect the rights of children are allowing miscarriages of justice and children to be removed unnecessarily from their parents
It is five days since The Times launched its campaign to open up the family courts and make social services more accountable for the removal of children from their families. The enormous response so far has bolstered our view that this is a vital debate. Many parents, but also lawyers, social workers and members of the medical profession have written in to sound the alarm about different aspects of the child protection system.
I am awed by the response to the family justice campaign that The Times launched last week. So many readers have e-mailed their MPs that I am getting calls from all three main parties. Several MPs have also raised their private concerns about how their own local authorities behave. Camilla Cavendish
Hundreds of innocent people have been wrongly branded as criminals by the Government agency set up to vet people working with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Andrew Bridge often gives talks to young people in the care system. 'You can't go to Harvard because we never taught you to read.' That we put young people in that situation is absolutely indefensible."
A nanny has denied being drunk while caring for a two-month-old baby whose death she is alleged to have caused.
Two fathers' rights campaigners have been arrested after holding a 14-hour roof-top protest at Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman's home. Police said both protesters, dressed as superheroes, had come down voluntarily.
One in 10 children's homes in England fail to meet the required standards for keeping youngsters safe, a report says. And some of the country's most vulnerable children are not being well served by the public services, the joint chief inspectors' review adds.
The latest case against paediatrician Dr David Southall has been dismissed by a General Medical Council hearing.
A controversial paediatrician was cleared yesterday of experimenting on babies without their parents' consent.
The General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise panel concluded that Dr Southall had no case to answer. It also exonerated two other doctors in relation to the so-called CNEP breathing tank trials conducted at North Staffordshire Hospital in the early 1990s.
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) is concerned that too many ethnic minority children are left in care homes or with temporary foster families while social workers try to find families to match their precise ethnic and religious background. It believes that the problem could be worsening as the ethnicity of children becomes more complex.
The majority of children awaiting adoption in Britain are black, Asian or mixed-race while most available adopters are white. The issue of 'transracial' adoption is hugely controversial with experts divided on what is best for the young, vulnerable children
The funny part is that a married woman who has a baby by someone other than her husband will be asked no questions. Her husband's name will be entered on the birth certificate as a matter of course. Neither the registrar nor the Government really cares who a child's real father is. What they really, really want is someone to foot the bill for raising it.
Police investigating abuse claims at a former children's home on Jersey are to search a second site. Around 100 people have claimed that they were abused at the Haut de la Garenne home. The focus of the inquiry will now shift to a second, as yet undisclosed, location believed to be elsewhere on the Channel island.
The sacking of a UK social worker from a Jersey secure unit would have been considered unfair if his employment tribunal had concluded, an inquiry has found.
The Second World War bunkers where police believe they have found compelling evidence confirming claims of abuse at a Jersey children's home. Jersey police investigating the claims allowed photographers up close to the complex for the first time today.
There are numerous campaign and advice groups looking at the issues surrounding family courts in the UK.
POLICE are trying to trace a woman in the Ingoldmells area after she abducted her three-year-old son in Mansfield yesterday, Thursday.
Amy Bird, 21, was about to begin the visit with her son at the Water Meadows Swimming Complex in Mansfield when she slipped out through the changing rooms.
POLICE have launched an investigation after a mother abducted her three-year-old boy in Mansfield on Thursday.
“We should never have been put in a situation where I found myself at four in the morning in a car park near the foster carers’ home, seeing my stepson exuberant, jumping around, thrilled at being with his mum. She was scared. They were about to embark on a journey – whether for a few days or for ever we didn’t know, I felt I had to protect them.”
A GIRL who was taken into care because her mother was accused of child abuse has been reunited with her family after a ten-year ordeal. The 16-year-old, snatched by social services at the age of six with her younger sister, returned home insisting her mother is innocent and the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
There has been a fall in the number of registered childminders in England as they have faced increasing regulation.
A council in Newark, Nottinghamshire, has sent out letters warning that children face prosecution and fines of up to £100 if they annoy neighbours with ball games.
overweight children may be taken from their families and put into care if Britain’s obesity epidemic continues to escalate, council chiefs said yesterday.
Batman is arrested
ESTRANGED dad Tim Line who dressed as Batman and staged a rooftop protest at the home of Lord Justice Sir Mathew Thorpe in High Street, Seend has been arrested today.
A care home pervert who repeatedly had sex with an under-age girl he was looking after was jailed for six years yesterday. Only six years but this child has to live with this for life.
At least five children were illegally placed in care on Jersey by Birmingham social services, which then lost track of them.
As a Crown dependency, Jersey has its own investigative, legal and judicial systems but Britain has the power to intervene in extreme circumstances.
Rescued unharmed by FBI agents and police in Baltimore following a week-long international manhunt. The girl had been abducted during a supervised visit to her father Clark Rockefeller, 48, in Boston.
Former residents of a children’s home who say they were sexually abused in the 1950s and 1960s have each received a £3,000 payout from Portsmouth City Council.
You tubes
There are now thousands of videos regarding the corruption of family courts and child protection stealing children. Comments like these from America are increasing.
"I had the SWAT team bust through all the doors of my house. I demanded to see a warrant. They refused. Six hours later, the sliding glass doors are shattering. 11 children in the house! They come in with machine guns!? Why?"
How could this possibly be protecting the child?
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More corruption in the Australian family courts.
Another family torn apart by grief and corruption in the Australian family courts.