Recovery of Funding Per Conditions of Grant Funding for the Coercive Control of Children training not being fulfilled.

SJ Kerr made this Freedom of Information request to Scottish Parliament This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was refused by Scottish Parliament.

Dear Scottish Parliament,

Per FOISA please supply me with information contained in your records appertaining to the public petitions committee hearing of Petition PE1790 Parental and Familial Alienation the official report can be found at:

https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentar...

“Gail Ross (Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) (SNP): I concur with everything that other members have said. The subject is an extremely distressing and emotional one, and I certainly have full sympathy with what the petitioner is asking for. We have had a lot of information, so I thank the petitioner for everything that she has given us to facilitate our consideration of the issue.

I agree that the crux of the situation is around child welfare reporters. Our papers note that

“there will be a full public consultation”

on the criteria for their training requirements. I am confident that that will cover the issues that have been brought up in the petition, and I am content to close the petition on that basis.”

Does the CONFIDENCE of an MSP ENSURE that the full public consultation on the criteria for the training requirements for the role of child welfare officer will indeed include recognition that parental and familial as a specific and serious form of pathological psychological child abuse?

As this is a full consultation of the training requirements of the role of the Child welfare officer, and as Scottish Government Officials refuse to acknowledge any form of parental alienation officially and allow inclusion in the Children Scotland Bill, then the full consultation of the training requirements for the role of Child Welfare Reporter, will have no legal basis on which to cover the issues raised by myself the petitioner, and therefore,

1. On what legal grounds does the Scottish Parliament have to close the petition on the basis that that parental and familial alienation will be covered in the full consultation on the basis of an MSP’s perception of confidence, which is their common-sense option but having no tangible evidence to ensure that this is be covered appropriately.

2. Is it not the case that the Scottish Government have funded various partner agencies and third sector NGO’s as part of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill 2018 in training frontline staff in coercive control:

https://www.gov.scot/news/funding-for-sc...

https://safelives.org.uk/sites/default/f...

Yet we are still to have full consultation on the criteria for their training requirements for child welfare officers and not one local authority council including police Scotland was able to provide any policy or procedure in identifying psychologically coerced children. See:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/ms_s...

This is evidence in the public domain that despite the inception of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act 2018, the paramount wellbeing of the child has been neglected by the Scottish Government and her partner agencies,

3. What steps have the Scottish Government taken to recover the funding received by these agencies and third sector organisations that have not ensured the ‘project; under the conditions of funding, as Scotland’s children are still in severe and paramount risk of coercive control and there is no policy or procedure to identify this subtle mental health emergency despite the public purse being raised again for projects that are delivering the set objectives to ensure the paramount wellbeing of the child.

To further evidence that there is no provision to ensure the paramount wellbeing of the child, I direct you to the following FOI: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Reesponse - No Recorded Information to supply. Therefore no protection in law for Children used as weapons by one parent against another on heresay and Coercive Control.

Yours faithfully,

SJ Kerr

Forrest LE (Linda),

Dear SJ Kerr,

 

I acknowledge your freedom of information request received on 20 October
2020. We will reply in due course within the statutory deadline.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Linda Forrest

IMG Assistant | Information Management & Governance Team |

The Scottish Parliament | Edinburgh | EH99 1SP |

Phone | 0131 348 6876

Email | [1][email address] |

 

 

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And like magic, the link for save lives has miraculously been broken, does someone have something to hide?

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Just as well I have the PDF and screen dumps for the interest links Scot Parl had removed. Highly suspicious behaviour, its only a FOISA request.

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They switched the link on one of my requests too here is the real deal https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

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Must have hit a raw nerve here, all my links even the official report for The petitions committee takes me to NRS .. http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolv...

Here is my petition here: They could have included me remotely but well the info provided here they really did not want to discuss did they? Wonder Why?

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And again .. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/ms_s...

Identifying psychologically coerced children. All files been downloaded by Zip ..

Scottish Parliament have a lot to hide here ..

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https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Oh Look Save Lives is mentioned in this response from Police Scotland

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6...

Dear Forrest LE (Linda),

It appears that Police Scotland and partner agencies have been dealing a significant hand along with adamant Scottish Government officials refusing to acknowledge parental alienation in which coercive control is a criminal factor according to the unlawful iVPD/VPD database which is shared with other agencies is false , vexatious and libellous allegations against a parent therefore it is the state that is more than encouraging state alienation by funding to voluntary organisations to roll out coercive control training, but not the type of coercive control training that identifies highly damaging psychological coercive control in children and thus ensures the erasure of one parent by these information sharing agreements despite the target parent being the non abusive parent, per the evidences shown in this FOI request https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...

Therefore does the Scottish Parliament actually give any significance to the paramount wellbeing of the child?
As parental alienation is NOT recognised then the comments made by the MSP were ingenious regarding the issues of parental or state alienation legally being considered in the role and training of the child welfare officers.

Please can you clarify this from a legislative perspective?

Yours sincerely,

SJ Kerr

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In case this link disappears https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...

Dear Forrest LE (Linda),

By way of explanation, Police Scotland does not recognise the term “parental alienation” and it is not a term that features in Scottish Criminal Law therefore we are unable to respond to the aspect of your request which refers to “arrest of parents where parental alienation is suspected” as it does not apply.
Per https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6...

Yours sincerely,

SJ Kerr

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again in case this link disappears

By way of explanation, Police Scotland does not recognise the term “parental alienation” and it is not a term that features in Scottish Criminal Law therefore we are unable to respond to the aspect of your request which refers to “arrest of parents where parental alienation is suspected” as it does not apply.
Per https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6...

Forrest LE (Linda),

Dear SJ Kerr,

 

I confirm we have received your email and further clarification dated 21
October 2020.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Linda Forrest

IMG Assistant | Information Management & Governance Team |

The Scottish Parliament | Edinburgh | EH99 1SP |

Phone | 0131 348 6876

Email | [1][email address] |

 

 

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Dear Forrest LE (Linda),

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

7. ‘The Scottish Government and Scottish parliament is a suitable contact point to answer whether the impositions of said case numbers increment (by testing and contact trace & track App), a face mask, Lockdown, and fear are imposed to create a collective obedience.’ Whereas many psychologists consider the threat of inducing debility to be more effective than debility itself: as to comply with the ‘coercive or controlling behaviour offence’. Therefore, will you provide the information showing that your Lockdown restrictions steps are not aligned with these in ‘Biderman’s chart of coercion’:
a) Isolation (quarantine, distancing, Isolation from loved ones, solitary confinement, Travel restriction),
b) Monopolization of perception (24-7 news cycle, censorship on dissenting voices, soft puppet armies on internet, Eliminates information not in agreement with abusers’ messages
c) Punishes actions that show independence or resistance, and Enforcing Trivial Demands: Develops habit of compliance; Punishes for non-compliance with the ‘rules’: Rules are rigid and unrealistic but frequently change and often contradict:
d) Occasional Indulgences: Provides positive motivation for conforming. Exchanged with Barren environments (closed bars, restaurants, gyms),
e) Degradation (those who choose personal freedom are called ‘covidiots’, psychopath, anarchist),
f) Induced Debility, Threats (no child schooling, prolonged quarantine, closing business, forced vaccination),
g) Demonstrating an Omnipotence/Omniscience (world shutdown, authority of science/‘the science is set’).
h) Digital Control: Accessing text, email or online accounts to gather information or monitor a victim: Using GPS tracking/GEO tagging devices to find victim’s location: Installing surveillance software on computer or mobile phone.

Apply the steps of Bidermans Chart as noted above to the coercive control element of parental alienation of my children, and it seems an appropriate question to raise why? despite the inception of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act 2018 why there is NO policy or procedures from 32 LAC’s and Police Scotland in identifying psychologically coerced children and the deliberate act of not this government and ultimately The Scottish Parliament knowingly NOT having regard to ‘paramount wellbeing of the child’ by deliberately omitting parental alienation from the Children Scotland Bill and having absolutely NO acceptable method of identifying psychological coercive control of children, making you ultimately responsible and complicit in perpetrating child abuse of my children and those children of many others in this country?

Yours sincerely,

SJ Kerr

Dear Forrest LE (Linda),

I refer you to a response to an FOISA request at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
The helpful disclosure given stated:

A referrer must discuss the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services involvement with the child or young person and ‘their family’, and gain and evidence informed consent prior to making the referral. Where the child or young person has capacity, they must individually consent to the referral being made. When at the time the unenforceable voice of the coerced child (not enshrined in Scots Law and merely 2014 guidelines not law enacted) has been used against the target parent by Police Scotland, Social Work and Educational Services and went undetected as there is no form of identifying psychologically coerced children even to date.

"Their family" is ambiguous.

If you are an alienated parent you are hardly part of "their family" as you as the victim of coercive control by the now family, who have effectively erased you from the child’s life, and are also a victim of spousal abuse (domestic abuse, by the use of children and third parties including employees of the state) but any reporting of such is being ignored. The bottom line is that as an alienate parent, you get zero say in what is happening in their child's life and it is high time that the Scottish Government and her partner agencies acknowledged this officially, albeit they know this is actual veracity as it is designed to be.

The Head Teacher, named person, my apologies Key Worker et al and Educational Services are part of the state alienation process by use of the unlawful processing of false vexatious and libellous data subjects personal information by the iVPD/VPD database shared with all agencies, in order to ensure secure gatekeeping, these agencies only further consolidate the coercive control by acting on the false recording by Police Scotland and Social Work, have advised there is NO policy and process for identifying psychologically coerced children hence, within the recent Children Scotland Bill, the role of the child welfare officer is still to be consulted upon, bearing in mind the inception date of 1st April 2019, of the new DA Scotland Act 2018.

Therefore, the Scottish Government Who are answerable to the Scottish Parliament are both guilty of child neglect, which is child abuse, by not ensuring the paramount wellbeing of the child in due time, and thus allowing severe cases of parental sorry state alienation to continue unchecked, whilst the target parent has been blocked from exercising their duties as the non-abusing parent libelled falsely as the abusing parent under the Children Scotland Act 1995.

Under FOISA please supply legislation in your records that’s effectively allows the above to happen, without any one agency taking any form of accountability, when the formulation of legislation is provided by Scottish Government and follows the passage of new legislation through parliament as MAPPA have no legal personality, and no transparent and fit for purpose complaints system for the service user?

Many expert academic witnesses have provided Parliament with evidence to support inclusion of Parental or State Alienation within the bill, and there is more than significant evidence provided as acknowledged by the public petitions committee by myself the petitioner, however, on the speculation by MSP’s that these issues would be dealt with in the consultation of the role of CWO’s the petition was closed, when there is no legal responsibility for any of this information to be included in the role of CWO’s as it has been evidenced that parental alienation is NOT recognised by the Scottish Government or Police Scotland in an official legal capacity, and is highly unlikely to be included due to there being no legal recognition of what is actually ‘State Alienation.’

Yours sincerely,

SJ Kerr

Dear Forrest LE (Linda),

Additionally to provide extra evidence of the malfeasance and misfeasance of your funded partner agencies: Please find attached request disclosure;

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5...

There is a picture being created by the collection of evidence, showing that there are serious and significant issues within the custom and practice of child protection procedures.

Under FOISA. please review this request and supply information contained in your records from a legislative basis that allows this malfeasance to happen in the first place?

Yours sincerely,

SJ Kerr

Foi-Officer,

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Dear SJ Kerr,

 

We refer to your request for information dated 20^th October 2020.

 

Please find attached our reply to the request together with accompanying
notices.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Robin Davidson

Information Management and Governance Team

The Scottish Parliament

Edinburgh

EH99 1SP

 

Tel: 0131 348 5281

Email: [email address]

 

 

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Dear Scottish Parliament,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Scottish Parliament's handling of my FOI request 'Recovery of Funding Per Conditions of Grant Funding for the Coercive Control of Children training not being fulfilled.'.

I am dissatisfied to your response to Question 1, which you have not even answered with any form of cognisance. Question 1 was directed towards the Scottish Parliament Question 2 Was directed to Scottish Government (but supplied as background) Where you state:

“The Committee acknowledged that the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament understand that there is an issue in relation to parental and familial alienation. Whilst the Committee noted that the Scottish Government submission confirms that there is no provision in the Children (Scotland) Bill requiring the court to consider in every case the possibility of parental alienation, section 8 of the Bill makes provision for the establishment of a register of child welfare reporters in respect of which it is envisaged that their training will include recognising situations where a child has been turned against one parent. Training requirements will be set by regulations and there will be a full public consultation on the criteria in due course.”

Not all cases of parental or state alienation end up in the family court system, as it is not common for a vexatious DA charge to criminalise a parent and then add a stalking charge to alienate the said parent from their children using an unlawful series of multi agency meetings with MARACS populated with the usual cut and paste lines without any evidence, and of course the iVPD/VPD database the information populated on this as factual is farcical, and unless you have knowledge of how to challenge this many innocent parents are criminalised, lives destroyed and children left without a parent.

The petition was closed on the committee being ‘envisaged’ that the training will include recognising situations where a child has been turned against one parent.

Definition of Envisage or past tense, past participle envisaged
Envisage in British English
(ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ )
VERB (transitive)
1.
to form a mental image of; visualize; contemplate
2.
to conceive of as a possibility in the future; foresee

The language used and factual on the record statement that:
“The Scottish Government consulted on the inclusion of a specific factor relating to parental alienation but ultimately decided against it. Scottish Government officials told the Committee that the term parental alienation is ‘much disputed’ and therefore the Government concluded that it would not be appropriate to include it in the Bill.”

In actual terms states that the discussion about Parental and Familial Alienation being ‘envisaged’ that the training will include recognising situations where a child has been turned against one parent, is

1. Not taking full cognisance of the many nuances of alienation I described in my submissions i.e. it is not only just one parent that turns a child against another parent. It could be anyone with close access to the child including family members, teachers, police officers, social workers, any frontline state worker masquerading as someone to be trusted.

2. The Petition was closed on the mental image, visualisation or contemplation:
The false conception of as a ‘possibility’ that this training will include these situations in the future: a personal belief of foreseeing this.

However, without any form of legal or legitimate recognition of parental and familial alienation: including all nuances explained in my substantial additional submissions, there is no legal obligation for Parental and Familial Alienation to actually be included in recognising situations where a child has been turned against one parent.

Without Bona Fide assurance in law, by the previous omission of the phenomenon of Parental alienation: The Closure of the petition was not made in an honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting in or with good faith and was done using double speak and personal subjection with the intention of defrauding the petitioner of their crave or call on the Scottish Parliament, regarding an extremely serious matter relating to the paramount welling of the child.

The second part of the request was to provide background to the parliament that that despite the inception of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act 2018, the paramount wellbeing of the child has been neglected by the Scottish Government and her partner agencies, despite the Scottish Ministers providing funding for the project to roll out coercive control training to frontline staff to allow them to identify psychologically coerced children, which has clearly not been fulfilled, as there is no policy or procedure in place for Police Scotland and the 32 Local Authority Councils per information in the public domain and also contained in my substantial submissions to the petitions committee.

As the Scottish Government are subject to the Scottish Parliament, and I myself provided your Justice committee with more than substantial information in the significant to severe mental health conditions associated with Parental and Familial alienation notwithstanding that that the voice of the coerced child going unidentified, due to the failure of the undertaking of the project and many children not being identified as being psychologically coerced, at a tender age negates the capacity of the authentic voice of the child which is still not fully enshrined in Scots Law, and the factual accuracy of my substantial communications with the justice committee on the severe effects on the paramount wellbeing and capacity of the child to make an informed decision has proven since the inception of psychological coercion of children as a criminal act in Scotland, this Government and ultimately the Scottish Parliament have failed to provide child protection and ensured the paramount well-being of the child.

In fact after a subject access request in February this year, the Justice Committee destroyed and deleted a substantial amount of well researched information for the committee to consider, as your clerk did not realise I had a read/not read receipt on my emails and after I received your confirmation of my subject access request by post the following day, the day after, multiple non read reports bounced back into my email account with that much ferocity that my smartphone was levitating with the sound of each relayed non read receipt, to the point I thought the smartphone was going to implode into smoke. This makes the Scottish Parliament accountable for neglecting a the serious mental health child abuse emergencies that have been brought to your attention, and has been concealed with the ‘possibility’ that has no legal remit in law to be considered in the child welfare officers role.

Therefore when the passage of the Domestic Abuse Scotland Act 2018 went through parliament, this was a very serious omission to ensure the paramount wellbeing of the child and ensure that appropriate professionals were in place to identify psychologically coerced children by civilians whether parental or familial. However there is evidence to suggest that coercive control training has been rolled out to multi agencies without a legal personality using the children’s named person, oops sorry the new title is key worker, who relies on falsely populated information about a data subject on the Police Scotland iVPD/VPD unlawful database that these frontline staff take as factually accurate and it can be proven that in many cases there is false, vexatious and libellous information in free flow transmission throughout agencies without a legal personality in contradiction to the DPA act 2018 and GDPR without the Data Subjects knowledge, and despite false allegations against a parent being dealt with properly in a court of law and a full acquittal being achieved, these key workers are misled into believing the information populated by Police Scotland is factually accurate when in many cases it is far from it and is unlawful processing of inaccurate data, this could lead to key workers and frontline staff actually perpetrating coercive control upon a child based of the fictitious information supplied by police data processors; Evidence available upon request.

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

Yours faithfully,

SJ Kerr

Foi-Officer,

Dear SJ Kerr,

 

I acknowledge your request for review of FOI case 2020-652169. We will
reply in due course within the statutory deadline.

 

Linda Forrest

IMG Assistant | Information Management & Governance Team |

The Scottish Parliament | Edinburgh | EH99 1SP |

 

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Dear SJ Kerr,

 

We refer to your request for a review dated 1^st November 2020.

 

We have now carried out a review of our reply to your request. Please find
attached our review reply.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Robin Davidson

Information Management and Governance Team

The Scottish Parliament

Edinburgh

EH99 1SP

 

Tel: 0131 348 5281

Email: [email address]

 

 

 

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Dear SJ Kerr,

 

We refer to your request for information dated 27^th October 2020.

 

Please find attached our reply to the request together with an
accompanying notice.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Robin Davidson

Information Management and Governance Team

The Scottish Parliament

Edinburgh

EH99 1SP

 

Tel: 0131 348 5281

Email: [email address]

 

 

 

 

 

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