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I Peroll
[email address]
Cafcass
6th Floor Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
Tel: 0844 353 3317
Fax 0844 353 3398
Your ref:CAF236
Our ref: JJ/CAF236
Date: 16th July 2009
Dear I Peroll
Re: Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your recent request, which was received on 19th June 2009 requesting the following:
1 (a) Please supply the figures that relate to Cafcass receiving complaints with regards to concerns relating to 'forced adoptions' i.e. without parental consent.
(b) In particular how many replies have been sent to the thousands of desperate families, parents, grandparents etc trying to save their heritage from being destroyed forever, behind the closed doors of family courts, away from the public gaze.
2 (a) How many parents have given prior consent for adoption of their children versus how many parents objected but still had their parental rights removed i.e. 'forced adoption'; include figures relating to how many children in each group on a yearly basis.
(b) How many family members have committed suicide after losing their children to 'forced adoption' i.e. where children were taken without the prior consent of the parents for adoption.
(c) Any and all figures where mothers have committed suicide or had an abortion through fear of losing their children to 'forced adoption'
3 Please clarify from what period Amanda Barden (Guardian) worked within Kent County Council prior to becoming a Guardian and which position's were held.
Please see below:
1 (a) Please supply the figures that relate to Cafcass receiving complaints with regards to concerns relating to 'forced adoptions' i.e. without parental consent.
Cafcass does not collect this information.
(b) In particular how many replies have been sent to the thousands of desperate families, parents, grandparents etc trying to save their heritage from being destroyed forever, behind the closed doors of family courts, away from the public gaze.
I do not understand what you are asking here - please clarify.
2 (a) How many parents have given prior consent for adoption of their children versus how many parents objected but still had their parental rights removed i.e. 'forced adoption'; include figures relating to how many children in each group on a yearly basis.
Cafcass does not collect this information.
(b) How many family members have committed suicide after losing their children to 'forced adoption' i.e. where children were taken without the prior consent of the parents for adoption.
Cafcass does not collect this information.
(c) Any and all figures where mothers have committed suicide or had an abortion through fear of losing their children to 'forced adoption'
Cafcass does not collect this information.
You can however contact the Ministry of Justice http://www.justice.gov.uk/ to enquire if they collect this information.
Please clarify from what period Amanda Barden (Guardian) worked within Kent County Council prior to becoming a Guardian and which position's were held.
Prior to joining Cafcass Amanda Barden worked as a Social worker, Senior Practitioner and Acting Team Manager within Kent County Council between July 1998 and November 2004.
If you are unhappy with the decisions made in relation to your request, you may ask for an internal review to be undertaken. If you are dissatisfied with the way the internal review is handled or with the final decision made at that review about the information released, you are free to contact the Information Commissioner's office (www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk)
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Information Commissioner's Office 01625 524 510
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Yours sincerely,
Miss Jasvinder Jassal
Corporate Governance Officer
Baroness Valerie Howarth Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)