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Unreliable Evidence, Social Services Evidence is becoming Unreliable in the Family Courts.

BBC Radio 4 Reports, An increase in children going in to care, against the wishes of parents and based false Social Services evidence.

Social services have to make up false evidence so they can meet new government targets.

This means children like baby P (Peter Connelly) are left with abusive parents and more children are taken in to care away from inocent parents like Sarah and Ian Walton (These are there real names).

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Judge backs mother and four children facing eviction because of older kids behaviour IN the narrow passageways of a Gospel Oak housing estate the rights of a young family to keep their home are clashing with the demands of neighbours to be allowed to live in peace. A mother and her four children under 11 are fighting a legal bid by Camden Council to throw them out of the flat they have lived in for 15 years. But the Town Hall insists that the wild behaviour of the familys 10-year-old and his teenage brothers has made the lives of neighbours so hellish that eviction is the only resort. Three of the older boys have anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos). Two are in custody but will shortly be released, and one is on police bail. One faces trial for an alleged assault on Gospel Oak Conservative councillor Keith Sedgwick. The only way to deal with this problem is with the family off the estate, the councils barrister Philip Squire told the judge at Central London Trial Centre on Thursday as he tried for the second time in a week to have an injunction imposed on the 10-year-old and his siblings, banning them from the estate even before they are evicted. For the second time, Deputy District Judge McCormack threw the bid out. Disagreements among the Town Halls housing, homeless persons and social services departments over who should take responsibility for the family meant that Mr Squire had to admit that the local authority is not in a position to offer an alternative property and the judge refused to put them on the street. As the familys barrister, Joshua Dubin, argued: Is it within the grounds of exceptionality that a mother and her children should be ousted from their home?

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A Nigerian woman has been jailed for 26 months for bringing a child illegally into the UK. Peace Sandberg, who was living in the UK, went to Nigeria and bought a baby to become eligible for a council flat, Isleworth Court Court heard. She was convicted last month of bringing a child illegally into the UK. She was reported to police after she initially told council staff she had given birth to the boy, then changed her story to say he was adopted. Sandberg had a daughter who was living with her in council accommodation in the borough of Ealing in west London. With dual nationality – Nigerian and Swedish – she knew that as a European citizen working in the UK she would be eligible for a council flat because she had a child. But her daughter left the UK and moved to Sweden to live with her father, Sandberg’s ex-husband. With her daughter’s departure Sandberg saw her hopes of a new home slipping away – which is when she hatched her plan to get a child. Distraught appearance At the end of 2006 she flew back to Nigeria.

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Further to my post on Bloody Relations, this question was tabled and answered in the House of Commons on Monday. Children and Adoption Act 2006 John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to implement the provisions relating to parenting in the Children and Adoption Act 2006. [204244] Kevin Brennan: The provisions of part 1 of the Children and Adoption Act 2006 relating to Family Assistance Orders and risk assessments were implemented in October 2007. The time scale for implementing the remaining provisions in part 1 of the Act is subject to completion of a number of tasks, including preparing for the provision of contact activities, making necessary changes to the court rules, putting new administrative systems for court staff in place and staff training. The Ministry of Justice published a consultation paper on draft rules on 7 May. The Government will shortly be making a written ministerial statement (WMS), outlining the timetable for implementation of the remaining provisions in part 1 of the Act.

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They fell in love during World War II and have been together ever since. So Thomas and Iris Bashford should have been looking forward to marking 60 years of commitment and devotion with their diamond wedding anniversary. But social services officials have given them the devastating news that they could be living apart by the time their anniversary comes around later this year. Mr Bashford, an 82-year-old war veteran, may be moved to a care home, while his 81-year-old wife, who is blind and dependent on him, will remain in the couple’s sheltered housing. Mr Bashford, in hospital after a heart attack and a number of other health problems, said he was appalled at the treatment he and his wife were receiving. ‘I feel pretty grim about the future,’ he said. ‘The war didn’t split us up but now this could. ‘I never thought I would see the day when I was separated from my wife. We have both worked our whole life, paying into the system, and I am not happy that we are being treated like this.’ Mrs Bashford added: ‘I don’t want to be without him – I am very upset and angry. Things would have been different years ago. Old people used to be treated differently.’ Mr Bashford, who ran a decorating business until he retired, has been told he will be allowed to live in a residential home once he leaves hospital. But he and his wife, a former seamstress, have been told they cannot both move to the home in Southampton.

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‘The Government & Local Authorities Need To Be Made Accountable For Their Actions When Removing Children’
This Petition Will Go To The Prime minister and Head of Children & Social Services!
Stop Injustice Now Has Been Fighting For Change for Along Time, Its Time to Stop the Abuse by the Government. Approximately 1 in 15 children have been taken into care, some adopted, at some point in their lives. Nearly 80,000 children are taken into care each year. That’s the entire population of 100 primary schools. Each case costs the taxpayer an average of Pfund150,000 in legal fees; many cost over Pfund750,000. There are other costs, costs that needlessly drain the resources of local authorities, central government and charities. Private children’s homes charge up to ‘Pfund10,000 per week per child’ and foster parents in High Wycombe for example gets ‘Pfund800 per week per child’ Children in care cost the taxpayer over Pfund1 Billion pounds a year. That’s an average of Pfund5,000 per child, per week-more than eight times what it would cost to send a child to Cambridge University.

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Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) welcomes a major new package of support for disabled children and their families announced at a national conference by Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, as part of the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme. A raft of new announcements, including the publication of key anti-bullying guidance for schools and a new ‘Core Offer’ for families with disabled children, were made during the Secretary of State’s speech. Delegates at the conference, including many of the most senior representatives of local authorities and primary care trusts in England, heard Ed Balls describe Aiming High for Disabled Children as a ‘chance for transformation’. Steve Broach, EDCM Campaign Manager said: ‘We are delighted that so many senior managers responsible for improving the lives of children across England are at today’s conference to hear the Secretary of State make his latest speech on disabled children. This is a recognition that disabled children and their families must be a priority for the reforms to children’s services nationwide. But there are many areas that are not represented today and EDCM will continue to push for disabled children to be made a priority in every single locality. Aiming High for Disabled Children must bring an end to the postcode lottery. It should not be too much to ask that families with disabled children, wherever they live, should have the same right to an ordinary family life as other families. Signing the EDCM Campaign Charters is the best way local areas can make sure this happens, alongside delivering the government’s new Core Offer for disabled children.’

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A COVENTRY mum of three has spoken candidly about her drug addiction in the hope that it will deter others. Karen (not her real name) says she can identify with troubled singer Amy Winehouse. As the government launches the first national Tackling Drugs Week, she has spoken of how she over-came her habit with the help of counsellors. The 28-year-old became addicted to crack cocaine and heroine six years ago when her youngest child was six months old. With help from Coventry’s Community Drugs Team – CDT – she quit using drugs in six weeks and has completely turned her life around. Karen says counselling and alternative therapies including reiki healing, meditation, homeopathy and acupuncture really helped her. Nine months ago she gave up alcohol, four months ago she quit smoking and has also stopped taking the anti-depressant Prozac. In the future she is hopes to train as a youth worker, having just completed a counselling course at college.

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Can there be a social work equivalent of a police community support officer? Corin Williams looks at a scheme that is pioneering work with children on the at-risk register Volunteering has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years. From the traditional pursuits of helping out at a homeless shelter or clearing a canal of rubbish, you can now pound the beat as a police community support officer. Volunteering is central to the government’s thinking on community and many say that these unsung heroes are keeping the nation stitched together. But should there be an equivalent to a community support officer for child protection social work? One scheme set up by Community Service Volunteers offers just that, and it looks like the idea is beginning to grow. After two pilot projects in Sunderland and Bromley, south London, came to an end last year, the organisation’s Volunteering in Child Protection project is being taken on by councils and has generated interest. The principle sounds simple enough volunteers are matched with families who are already in the child protection system on the “at risk” register and help out with day-to-day tasks and lend a sympathetic ear. Putting this into practice has taken a great deal of time and effort in order to avoid the pitfalls of working with some of the most vulnerable people in the country. By the end of March 2007, volunteers in the pilots had worked with 29 families benefiting 102 children. As an ex-social worker, CSV’s project manager Jean Pardey (right) has a unique overview. “I worked in a children’s department and I was very well aware of issues around child protection,” she says.