Social Work - Coached Children

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Dear West Lothian Council,

Per the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, please supply me with all information contained in your records:

Please advise your policy, procedures and training programme for staff concerning
‘Coached children’ which explains types and examples of coaching, signs of a child being coached and consideration to be given when working with coached children"

Please acknowledge receipt and I shall look forward to your full and frank disclosure within 20 working days

Yours faithfully,

Samantha Kerr

Customer Service, West Lothian Council

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SocialPolicyIR, West Lothian Council

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Dear Enquirer

 

Thank you for your enquiry as below. Can you please clarify what is meant
by “coached children”. I have suspended your enquiry till this information
is clarified.

 

“ Please advise your policy, procedures and training programme for staff
concerning  `Coached children which explains types and examples of
coaching, signs of a child being coached and consideration to be given
when working with coached children"

 

Thank you

Systems Implementation Officer

 

Civic Centre

Howden South Road

Livingston

West Lothian EH54 6FF

 

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Dear SocialPolicyIR,

Children that have been groomed, manipulated or coerced into saying or believing a falsehood implanted by an adult .

Yours sincerely,

Samantha Kerr

SocialPolicyIR, West Lothian Council

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Please see attached response to your enquiry received on 26^th November
2018.

 

Systems Implementation Officer

 

Civic Centre

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Livingston

West Lothian EH54 6FF

 

 

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Dear West Lothian Council,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of West Lothian Council's handling of my FOI request 'Social Work - Coached Children'.

I am disatisfied with your response, to say that you have no training for your staff to identify coached children particulary when the new Domestic Abuse Act 2018 has highlighted that coersion and coersion of children is a criminal offence under the act, how can you fail the children and families you proport to 'child protect' or safeguard (if you want to use English terminology).

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

Yours faithfully,

Samantha Kerr

Customer Service, West Lothian Council

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Dear West Lothian Council,

Coached Children are coerced, coercive behaviour using a child and using Gillik Competence as as shield is child abuse, and when applied from partner A to partner B to cause psychological and emotional abuse is domestic abuse, as it using third parties including all inter agency’s involved in perpetuating a psychological violence against Parent B. Not only that, but by ignoring in the least the safeguarding or child protection concern from parent b whilst upholding the concern from parent a, is not fulfulling your statutory duty in regards to safeguarding and child protection legislation.

Children who are in an alienated position or who are at risk of this are very likely to want someone to intervene on their behalf (Baker 2012). By the time professionals reach these children, they are already placed at the top of the family hierarchy and have been given the power by the aligned parent, to make decisions which are not rightfully theirs. In this sense, children in this position are are in serious danger of being further abused by those who are trying to help, especially if those people are unable to break the bind that the child is facing (Gottleib 2012). The nature of the bind being that the child has moved to a place of upholding the parent's implacable hostility by rejecting the other parent but is upholding this as being of their own choosing. In reality, children in this position have not chosen to act but are being forced to do so through the emotional and psychological pressure being applied by the parent in whose care they spend most of the time. Intervening in such family systems therefore becomes a matter of ensuring that the work that is done with the family as a whole, alleviates rather entrenches the problem and matches it with a treatment route which has the best chances of success. Differentiation of the dynamics in a family system is the biggest step to achieving this.

https://www.karenwoodall.com/articles-1/

Yours faithfully,

Samantha Kerr

Customer Service, West Lothian Council

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Samantha Kerr (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Response indicates that there is no specific training and and all staff development has no external scutiny. This is rather alarming.

WEST LOTHIAN COUNCIL RESPONSE

“Please advise your policy, procedures and training programme for staff concerning
`Coached children, which explains types and examples of coaching, signs of a child being coached
and consideration to be given when working with coached children"

There is no formal procedure or training covering this specific area. All social work qualified
staff have undertaken a professional qualification and access training on a range of topics
throughout their career. Social work staff reflect on their practice and professional
development within regular supervision with their line manager.

West Lothian Council

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