Double Standards - Parents and Professionals who abuse children should be treated the same.

Dear Family Justice Council,

Considering there are laws such as:

Children and Young Persons Act 1933 Section 1 - Cruelty to
children.
Sexual Offences Act 2003 - Covering all inappropriate sexual
behaviour involving children.
Mental Capacity Act 2005 - s44 Ill treatment / Wilful neglect

It can be demonstrated that an act of abuse or neglect towards a
child is a crime.

Where a 'Professional' working with children is accused of abuse of
a child that is not their own they are entitled to a Criminal trial
with evidence and the case has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt
to a Jury. The accused is considered innocent until proved guilty.

and are often saved a trial and just secretly struck off.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scotti...

Whereas when a Parent (professional or otherwise) is accused by a
Social Worker of risking the abuse or neglect of their own
child/ren,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...

the child/ren are immediately removed from them to Foster carers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7...

who are effectively strangers for 40 weeks and the parents have a
trial in the Secret family court

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

which is typically a series of 15 minute direction hearings every 8
weeks where all directions the parent requests are ignored and
everything the Local Authority request is Ordered,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

the case can be decided without any evidence, relying solely on the
hearsay of social workers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

who receive bonuses for meeting permanency targets if they
permanently place children away from families,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

and make a case against the parent for the children to be adopted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

http://news.scotsman.com/news/100-babies...

and an 'expert' instructed and paid £10,000+ by the Social Workers
to report what they want and that the parent has not agreed to,

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-s...

all other witnesses are excluded from the proceedings, there is no
real avenue of redress or appeal,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

the case is decided on balance of probability therefore the parent
is considered guilty because the social worker is presumed to be
telling the truth

http://thismorning.itv.com/thismorning/w...

evidence is suppressed, assessments are not carried out, the
parents and children go through a level of grief and distress
through their separation which is tantamount to torture, and their
emotional distress is used against them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

the most important bond in a child's life is damaged or destroyed;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...

the mother becomes socially labelled and a discretionary note is
placed on her enhanced criminal record stating that her children
were removed due to suspected abuse/neglect.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...

The child is then made subject to increased risk of abuse and
neglect by strangers that are not biologically programmed to
protect the child.

Adopters prostitute the children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

Children are abused in children's homes

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/thi...

to the point they commit suicide.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

A disproportional number of children are dying in care.

http://www.thejournal.ie/22-children-hav...

Foster Carers are molesting children.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/foster-fat...

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/863...

Adoptive parents torture children.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8...

Children are left in uninhabitable accommodation.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-...

And those who survive fair worse than those who are not taken from
their families

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5...

resulting in that child's children being removed from them when
they have any, as the child was not properly nurtured they are
deemed unable to care for children guaranteeing an endless supply
for babies and the money making cycle continues.

WHO PROFITS?

I refer to the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-1...

This story relates to a regime of government child trafficking in
Spain involving snatching children from parents simply because they
have the wrong political views, or even any child because it was
realised the profits involved.

I now refer you to the various roles of Anthony Douglas in the
removal of children from their families:

1. He writes the law for the Judges to follow

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/...

2. Anthony Douglas has been chief executive of Cafcass, the
specialist national agency representing children and families in
family courts throughout England, since 2004.

3. He was director of social services in the London borough of
Havering.

4. He was a social worker.

5. He is a visiting fellow of the University of East Anglia who
teach Social Work.

6. He is Chair of the British Association for Adoption and
Fostering (BAAF).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/summit/speaker...

7. He writes the books that Social Workers study

http://www.tower.com/partnership-working...

8. He has formed a partnership between Court Advisory Service who
are supposed to be independent and one of the largest adoption
agencies CORAM.

http://www.cafcass.gov.uk/news/2008/cora...

I refer you also to MARGARET HODGE MP who in 2003 it was brought to
light that she was defaming survivors of sexual abuse in care homes
she was responsible for:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...

But after failing in her role as Children's minister

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/265...

Her friend and neighbour Tony Blair creates a new role for her as
Children's minister where she and Tony Blair's other life long
friend Lord Faulkner fired the board of CAFCASS and committed
contempt of parliamentary privilege against whistleblower Judy
Weleminsky for exposing that CAFCASS were running a business
placing their corporate interests first and neglecting the
principles of public service.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-off...

In 2006 the government index is introduced registering every child
whose records of every scratch, bruise or off day can be used as
grounds to take the child from their parents.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

In 2007, A mother who had been severely neglected and abused under
the supervision of Islington Social Services while under Margaret
Hodge's supervision, married a man 17 years her senior to whom she
had 4 children. 2 of which were severely abused by someone who had
befriended the mother and who then killed the toddler. The toddler
is commonly known as Baby P.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

In April 2010 the President of the Family Division LJ Wall is
declaring that Social Workers are behaving like something out of
Stalin's Russia or Mao's China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

In October 2010 Agreement between the President of Family law and
Anthony Douglas it is decided that children will get a CAFCASS
Social worker sooner and therefore the CAFCASS Social Worker's
voice/opinion will be heard rather than the child's.

http://www.cafcass.gov.uk/pdf/Joint%20Ag...

In November 2010, In Labour MP Margaret Hodge's new role as Chair
of Public Accounts Committee - the Watchdog of the Public Purse -
She declares that CAFCASS are struggling to cope with the fall out
of the death of Baby P because of the massive increase of cases
helping to access more public funding.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

And so the industry grows.

WHO PROTECTS THE GOVERNED FROM GOVERNMENT ABUSE?

The Watchdogs - Parliamentary Ombudsman - Appeal Courts

In the last year 148 complaints regarding CAFCASS were referred to
Parliamentary Ombudsman - 1 was investigated but not upheld.

Numerous applications to appeal unjustified Court decisions to
follow CAFCASS recommendation to permanently remove children, are
made to the Court of Appeal - but permission to appeal is rarely
ever given.

THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY AND JUSTICE COUNCIL

The Family and Justice Council has been costing the public purse
approximately £300,000 per year and has been in existence since
2005.

Since the existence of the Family Justice Council the public now
pay double through the Legal Services Commission funding the
defence of applications to the family courts regarding children.
40% more children are being taken from families each year and
figures are rising.

The courts are struggling with all the applications:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/l...

to the point that proposals are being made to do away with the
Courts from the child removing process altogether.

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/...

MY REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

1. Please provide the statistics and results of research carried
out in the last 5 years that justifies the permanent removal of
children from families who have

a. No criminal conviction for abuse or neglect of children despite
this being a crime (due to lack of evidence).
b. No full assessment at a Residential Family Assessment Centre
despite this being declared an ECHR Art 6 right in Case Law.
c. No resolution to the parents complaints made immediately before
Care proceedings were issued due to the matter being in the Court
Arena.
d. No access to Local Government Ombudsman due to C above.
e. No access to a Jury or any other accountability in the Family
courts.
f. No assistance or support ever received from Social Services in
relation to their Duty under S17 of the Children Act.
g. No plan for rehabilitation despite this being recommended by the
Experts.
h. No access to their children to find out what their children are
really saying so they have to accept what CAFCASS is saying is true
even though it does not make any logical sense and contradict
previous evidence in the case.
i. No mental illnesses/disabilities.
j. No record of any criminal behaviour.
k. No record of any harm to the children.
l. No investigation from Parliamentary Ombudsman.
M. NO access to any avenue of appeal due to permission being
constantly refused.
N. No right to speak publicly due to Media Injunctions and the
threat of imprisonment for contempt.
O. No assistance from their MP.
P. All of the above.

2. What Proposals have been made since 2005 to Safeguard families
from the abuse of Care Proceedings and to whom?

3. What responses have been given to any proposals made?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

LS Palmer

Dear Family Justice Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Family Justice
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Double Standards - Parents
and Professionals who abuse children should be treated the same.'.

Response is delayed.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/do...

Yours faithfully,

LS Palmer

Dear Family Justice Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Family Justice
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Double Standards - Parents
and Professionals who abuse children should be treated the same.'.

Please could you tell me what information you are able to provide
within the time limit excluding the information that is subject to
disclosure exemption.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/do...

Yours faithfully,

LS Palmer

Dear Family Justice Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Family Justice
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Double Standards - Parents
and Professionals who abuse children should be treated the same.'.

Please provide information to enable me to find the information
that I am seeking.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/do...

Yours faithfully,

LS Palmer