My Family Justice Private Members bill has now been published for public consultation on my website here
The version that goes to the second reading is likely to be different. It has also been sent formally to the government for consultation.
Details of who to respond to and the deadline (which is 20th September) are in the bill.
It has interleaved explanatory notes.
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1. Child case conference.
I find that a lot of the boxes are ticked but it is routine and not with love. I feel it must be essential that acting on what is the most loving thing to do for the child should be paramount in all case conferences. They always act on worst case scenario instead of what is really best for the child’s welfare. The worst case scenario never occurred or came close within my case. They need to review their strategies on decision making so that choices are made with the happiness and love that the child receives as well as education being paramount. Keeping a stable environment for the child should be priority.
It is also important that the child’s opinion is heard and noted regardless of the age. If they can communicate their wishes then their wishes should be taken into consideration.
Also not everyone who is meant to attend the case conference does always attend.
It is essential that those involved with power approach their position from a humbled perspective and not with the ego trip that they are often on within most interaction with family services. They are either on an ego trip or its just plain arrogance. They are often in denial, dishonesty even to children, and ritual and robotic without true consideration. They always claim to want to do the best for the child. The people learn a set number of phrases they use to explain their position. Like we do what is best for Gracie. They just repeat that and in their eyes it justifies their position and choices. Yet there is no truth in it when moments earlier they just lied out right to my child. The services have lied many times to my daughter right in front of my face. Made it look like I was lying to my daughter, I say I will be back in a moment and the social worker was there when I said this to my daughter. Then they will not let me go back and say good bye. This is because they are on power and ego trips and just enjoy steeling your position as a responsible and moral parent. They try and make you look bad in the eyes of your child. It is paramount that the people in charge of children also have a heart and do not take the position as social worker because it makes them feel important and strokes their own ego.
The social worker told me that my child just made things up and had a wild imagination. I said my daughter never spoke of such horrors ever before in her life. When I saw Gracie she would tell me of eyes popping out of baby’s heads and skin peeling off their bodies and blood is squirting at the ceiling and much more graphic detail. For months my daughter would talk of related horrors every time I saw her and when I told my concerns to the social worker they said it is just imagination. However Laura bringing too much love and toys and joy for my child was an issue! Does this not show the complete destructive behaviour and position the authorities take? They are concerned about me giving my child too much love, but they completely disregard the talk of complete horror and say that is okay and normal child behaviour. My daughter never uttered a word of such horror in her life before taken into the care of the authorities. They energy steel, I feel some do it by accident but others do it on purpose. My daughter was talking of horrors that where 18+ and the fact the social worker said this was normal child behaviour shows that the social worker obviously does not understand what is acceptable environment and behaviour for a child of 4 years old.
Well Lancashire county council is who Gracie was in care with when she talked of such horrors. So it makes sense that there are other cases of them not protecting the child’s safety both sexually and physically. I did say that they where energy steeling from us and sent this email to Lancashire council. The next day they put my child in foster care, it felt like they were taking the opportunity to energy steel as they put her within a nice foster family and for no reason at all moved her to a horrible family where she was physically abused that I witnessed myself, when the carer grabbed my baby by the arm and swung my daughter round and pulled her right to his face and said “don’t you ever do that to your mother”. She was only playing with her coat. If he could show abuse like that in front of me then what was going on when I was not there? I feel the authority purposely put my child in a place of pain because I said that they where energy steeling from us. The facts are true that they moved my child from a happy foster home to a very destructive one for no reason at all. That eventually I managed to move her from to a more stable environment.
The local authority and CAFCAS where insisting that Gracie would have to accept the fact that I was no longer the no 1 person in her life. The judge made it quite clear that Gracie should not have to accept this and that I should always be the no 1 person in her life. This I appreciate and I do Feel that the judge was on my side throughout all proceedings.
The judge insisted I saw Gracie once a week while the local authority where fighting for 6 times a year. The fact that the local authorities recommendations were completely opposite to what was in my child’s best interest and what the judge ordered, shows that they do not really do what is best for the child, yet they have a long time to make all the wrong choices before it goes to the final hearing and the parents and family actually have a voice to be heard.
I am not allowed a proper relationship with my daughter as we are cooped up in a room together. We do not get to enjoy the blessings of nature and freedom to run and play and laugh. We are locked in a cage.
Also a meaningful relationship includes me being able to teach my daughter my skills and pass on my knowledge to my child and my love. A meaningful relationship means being able to spend quality time together without the interruption of staff. I taught piano for 7 years and am at grade 8 level when I play. I don’t play now at all because I don’t have my Angel Gracie. I would play the piano and Gracie would dance around the house like a ballerina and an Angel, she would make up moves spontaneously. The authority and destruction they have caused has taken away from my daughter a lot of that spontaneous creation on the innocence of beauty. I do not get to teach her piano or any of my skills. We are in a very fake environment with none of the facilities available to pass on my abilities and knowledge to my daughter.
I am skilled in many areas and also have a degree in computer science. My daughter is being deprived of my love, my affection and my focused attention, I have a high attention span and IQ and I did pass the test for MENSA, so Gracie is also being deprived of my academic abilities as well as my inner wisdom and unconditional love.
9. I also feel as well as truthful comments being allowed to be heard. Also lies and false comments need to be investigatered properly. Once a judge has confirmed that he does not agree with the authority’s recommendations then those authorities involved should them be fully investigatered. So that they do not continue to make wrong recommendations and get better at being deceitful and cut themselves off to what really matters. If they continue to get away with making bad choices for children, then they will not stop and they will carry on in the same light. The authorities behaviour should be monitored properly so that when it is obviously proven, like in my situation, that the authorities recommendations where wrong, then the authorities who made those recommendation should then be investigatered to ensure they are doing their job properly. This would encourage all authorities to make sure they are making the right choices and not that they feel they can do whatever they want as their position is never in jeopardy. They need to feel the responsibility of their choices and they need to feel it is paramount for them to make the right choices for the children involved or their job is at risk otherwise. They need to feel this pressure in order to ensure that the right decisions are made within every child’s situation.
11. Yes we should be able to make a record of the hearing that is tape reordered too in case conferences too and in every contact with child so that we have the parent’s opinion to the contact as well as the authorities.
12. Yes we do need to be able to challenge the decision of psychologists, I am sure that people can pay these people extra money in order to get a report that they want. I will prove my mental capacity and stability by responding to this bill as I am and also by doing everything else within the public eye on the internet.