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‘Stalinist’ social workers ‘took children from loving mothers’ Daily Mail

2010-04-25T23:56:31Z

Social workers behaved like officials in ‘Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China’ in attempting to remove children from loving mothers, senior judges have said.

They warned that social workers in two separate cases tried to put children in foster care without giving their mothers a proper chance to prove they were fit parents.

Their actions risked fuelling public perceptions that social workers are ‘arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents’, Lord Justice Wall said.

Battle: The couple with their son in Spain, before he was taken into care, have won the right to battle the decision for their eldest daughter to be adopted
In one case, Devon County Council was attempting to remove a baby from his teenage mother because social workers believed she had a habit of forming relationships with dangerous men.

But Lord Justice Aikens warned that social workers were effectively saying to the mother: ‘Whatever you may do doesn’t make any difference - we are going to take your child away.’

He added: ‘That is more like Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China than the West of England - that is the impression you give.’
In a separate case, Lord Justice Wall criticised the ‘shocking’ failure of social workers in the London borough of Greenwich to support a mother seeking to break free from an abusive relationship to win back her two children, who are in care.
He said the case would do little to dispel the public perception of social workers in care proceedings as ‘trampling on the rights of parents and children’ while removing youngsters into ‘an unsatisfactory care system’.

The judge, who will today be sworn in as president of the High Court’s Family Division, becoming the most senior family law judge in the UK, acknowledged that social workers were often ‘damned if they do and damned if they do not’.

But he insisted they had a clear legal duty to ‘unite families rather than separate them’.
His criticisms will feed public fears that social workers, in extreme cases, behave like ‘child-snatchers’.
There are concerns they sometimes break up families too readily and can be prejudiced against parents for frivolous reasons.
In the Devon case, social workers believed a teenage mother, known in court as S, was unfit to care for her baby boy, H, because of her tendency to form relationships quickly with potentially dangerous men.

Social workers said the father of her first child had been violent and the youngster had already been adopted.
They argued that her new baby should also be placed in foster care and eventually adopted.
But a county court had previously ruled the mother should be allowed a final assessment to see if she was fit to keep the baby.

The council disagreed and went to the Court of Appeal last week seeking to overturn the directive.

But Lord Justice Wall, sitting with Lord Justice Aikens, described Devon’s argument as ‘pretty unattractive’.
‘Local authorities don’t seem to understand that the public perceive them as pre-judging cases of this nature,’ he said.
The judges stopped short of saying the mother should keep her child, insisting only she should be given a fair hearing.
Lord Justice Aikens said there was no evidence the mother had maltreated her baby in any way - or evidence that the violent father of her first child would have anything to do with baby H.

He went on to condemn social workers’ ‘Stalinist’ actions. The council has now withdrawn its appeal.
A council spokesman said: ‘This is a difficult and complex case in which the county council’s first priority had to be for the welfare and protection of a vulnerable child.’
In the Greenwich case, a mother known only as EH was seeking the return of her five-year-old son, R, and daughter RA, two. They had been taken into care in January 2008 after doctors discovered her daughter’s left upper arm had been broken in three places.

Medical staff believed it was not accidental and a judge later that year concluded the children’s father, who had a history of violence, was responsible.
Since June last year, the father had stopped having contact with the children, while the mother remained ‘steadfast in her commitment’ to them, the judges said.
There was ‘abundant evidence that she is a warm and loving mother’. But social workers in Greenwich were accused of failing to support her attempts to break contact with her violent ex-partner.

Lord Justice Wall said the conduct of social services was ‘hard to credit’.
The court said Greenwich should give the mother more support and review its attempt to have the children adopted.
The two cases will further rock public confidence in social services following the Baby P scandal, where social workers failed to spot signs of serious abuse and allowed themselves to be manipulated by unfit parents

Church of England completes review of child abuse cases

2010-02-25T17:14:16Z

A Church of England review into child abuse has identified 13 cases needing formal action.

The review was launched in 2007 and looked at 40,747 files dating back more than 30 years.

Eleven cases were referred to the statutory authorities. Eight of them involved a member of the clergy and three involved a non-ordained person holding church office.

The Church referred six cases to the police for advice or investigation but was told police were unable to take further action.

In two cases relating to members of the clergy, independent reviewers recommended that the Church take formal disciplinary action.
The review found that there were no cases where a police investigation was still ongoing.

The Rt Rev Anthony Priddis, chair of the Church’s Central Safeguarding and Liaison Group charged with carrying out the review, said there were now no child abuse cases which had not been investigated by the police or other relevant authorities.

“As a result of this Review, we are now able to say that nobody representing the Church in a formal capacity has allegations on file that have not been thoroughly re-examined in the light of current best practice, and any appropriate action taken,” he said.

“But there is no room for complacency, and the Church, like other organisations working with children, remains committed continually to developing our procedures for safeguarding vulnerable people.”

Pregnant woman reported to social services over half-decorated home

2009-11-10T09:41:35Z

A pregnant woman has condemned police after they reported her to social services for being a potentially unfit mother because her home was half-decorated

Mary Cooke invited a policewoman into her house after she had dialled 999 to report a speeding car which nearly hit her outside her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.

However, the 27-year-old was left furious after she claims the officer raised concerns with the council’s children’s services department over the state of her property.

Mrs Cooke said she and her husband Peter are redoing the wallpaper at their semi-detached house and that she was “sickened” police had judged her on its appearance.

The first she knew of the officer’s concerns was several days later when she received a letter from Staffordshire County Council expressing fears for the wellbeing of her unborn child.

Mrs Cooke, who is 10 weeks’ pregnant with her first baby, said: “The letter made me feel sick.

“I believe someone was judging me for decorating the house and I can’t believe it. I’m in the first stages of pregnancy. I’d never dream of bringing a child home to a house being decorated.”

Mrs Cooke said the officer spent five minutes in the hallway and living room of her semi-detached home to take the statement and would have seen the stripped walls and floors.

She added: “I know the wallpaper is off the walls and there were a couple of nails lying around, but the policewoman didn’t say anything while she was here.

“Other expectant couples should be warned – be careful when you let police officers into their homes, because they can be judging you while they are there.”

Mr and Mrs Cooke believe their midwife has also been contacted to give her account of the couple.

Mr Cooke added: “I am angry about this. The police officer was polite when she visited to take the statement, but she was actually judging us.”

The letter was sent from the council’s children’s services first response service, in Stafford. It says a referral regarding the unborn child had been made by police.

A council spokesman said: “The council received a referral from Staffordshire Police and is now looking into the matter with the co-operation of the person concerned.”

Last night a spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: “Our police officers aim to act in the best interests of everyone they come into contact with.

“Their role involves liaising with colleagues from partner agencies on a regular basis and can include making sure people get any extra help and support they might need.

“We would not comment on individual cases and would neither confirm or deny whether a referral to another agency has been made.”

100 rapists inc child rapists are let off with a caution: Serious offences that never come to court

2009-11-10T05:50:46Z

More than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution, it was revealed yesterday. The 111 cases included 66 incidents of child rape.

The extent to which police forces have handed cautions to rapists, whose crime carries a maximum sentence of life in jail, was made public as Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced a full-scale review of the system of punishing crime with cautions and on-the-spot fines.
Mr Straw acted after a weekend when senior police chiefs and the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC called for curbs on the use of out-of-court punishments.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson also condemned the ‘uncontrollable increase in cautions’ and said that on-the-spot fines, now often used to punish offences such as shoplifting, ‘in the public’s minds equate to a parking ticket.’

The system of fixed-penalty fines and cautions has been introduced over the past six years as a way to deal with minor crime cheaply and effectively.

But the disclosure that cautions have been used repeatedly to deal with rapists is the clearest demonstration that the system is now being used to keep the most serious crimes out of the courts.

The figures released to MPs by the Home Office show numbers of cautions handed to rapists after the 2003 Sexual Offences Act became law in May 2004.

Between that date and the end of 2007 there were 45 cases of rape of adults in which the rapist admitted guilt but was released with a caution.

In a further 66 cases individuals who admitted raping a child under 13 were freed with a caution.
The figures from the Home Office gave no indication of why police chose to use cautions to punish a crime which, in the case of adult rape, typically attracts a prison sentence of five years.

Nor do they say how many rapists have been cautioned rather than tried since 2007.
A high proportion of the 66 child rapes may have involved very young offenders, and the offenders in many of the cases of adult rapes may have been intimate partners of the victims.

However no caution can be given in any case except where the suspect admits guilt. Therefore in all 111 cases prosecutors denied the courts an opportunity to examine the evidence and decide on sentencing.

Tory home affairs spokesman James Brokenshire said: ‘It is deeply disturbing to think that the rape of a young child could be dealt with by little more than a telling off. The law should protect the vulnerable, yet Labour’s caution culture is increasingly letting them down.’

Decisions to allow crimes as serious as rape to be dealt with by cautions are taken by the Crown Prosecution Service rather than police officers, the Ministry of Justice said yesterday

Nevertheless the punishment faced by a rapist who is cautioned does not amount to anything more than two years on the sex offenders’ register.
Figures also show cautions proliferating for lesser offences.

Last year, according to the BBC’s Panorama programme, 39,000 people were cautioned for assault causing actual bodily harm.

There were 739 cautions for the much more serious offence of grievous bodily harm
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More than half a million offenders have been given repeat cautions since 2000 and in eight years between 2000 and 2008 some 2.2million cautions were handed out in all for crimes, including burglary and assault.

Another half million penalty notices for disorder, handed out of drunkenness, shoplifting and similar more minor crimes, were handed out between 2005 and 2007. In half of the cases, the criminal did not pay up. There are also concerns that the penalty notices are now being used for burglary and robbery.
Mr Straw said yesterday that he and Home Secretary Alan Johnson are concerned at the use of out- of- court punishments. He added that a review would be run by the Office of Criminal Justice Reform.

He denied the Government had encouraged the use of cautions to reduce the prison population

Parents losing children in ‘loaded system’

2009-11-10T05:31:54Z

Against a background of prejudice and out-of-date assessments, six out of 10 parents with learning disabilities are having their children removed for adoption, research by Bristol University suggests.

In Birmingham, where children’s services were described as “not fit for purpose” in a government report, social workers have told the BBC the system is loaded against the learning disabled who are more likely to lose their children than keep them.

A whistleblower in Birmingham City Council’s social services department said: “We frequently remove children from young mothers who continue to have children.

“We frequently go back and remove one child after the other, but we’ll find there’s been very little or no work done with that mother from having a first child removed to giving birth to the second child.”

Anna Marriott, a researcher at the Nora Fry institute based at Bristol University, said the system discriminated against the learning disabled.
She told the BBC: “Rather than looking for any actual evidence of problems with parents coping, (social workers) just assume the parent won’t be able to cope.

“And rather than looking to put a support plan in place, they’ll look to initiate child protection proceedings.”
The Birmingham whistleblower agrees, claiming once one child has been removed, removal of the family’s next child is virtually automatic.

She added, once one assessment has been made by social workers and psychologists, the same assessments are likely to be re-dated and re-used for when another child comes along.

The whistleblower said: “Lots of people will copy over old info, not checking the primary source of material.”
‘Helping children’

Isabelle Plumstead, a leading family court judge said she had concerns about multiple child removals and wanted to see much more support put in place.
“If you help the parents, of course you are helping the children.

“And when you, as I have, come across the eighth, ninth, 10th, or even in one case the 14th child of a parent being in care proceedings, how much better if the thing could have been cracked at number one.”

Christine Spooner had two children removed from her care and placed for adoption by Birmingham Children’s Services.
At the time her condition, Aspergers syndrome, had not been diagnosed.

She said: “They didn’t understand the person I was. They just seemed to look at the weakest parts, what I couldn’t do. They didn’t even try and think about what I could do”. Support for learning disabled parents is available through organisations such as Citizen Advocacy South Birmingham (CASBA).
Specialist workers help to guide learning disabled parents through a complex legal process which can be emotionally draining.
CASBA serves the whole of South Birmingham but is staffed for only 58 hours per week.

Vice chair Sior Coleman said: “The harsh reality is that we don’t have enough money. “There is an understanding from the authorities that it’s an important service, but it’s seen as a luxury - as an add-on.” The whistleblower said she had been in meetings along with 17 professionals and one parent with no representation or support. She said in some cases the parent had been identified as having issues with anger management, poor communication skills, or poor concentration.

She added: “So they have to sit and listen to the most intimate details of their lives and their children’s lives [being] discussed in a professional forum and they are expected to behave as professionals.

“And if they are not behaving in that way, they will be judged on that.”

The BBC put the social worker’s claims to the new director of Birmingham Children’s Services, Colin Tucker, who said: “I’ve got to change that because I would agree with you that isn’t fair, that isn’t proper and that isn’t right. “I want to talk to parents with learning disabilities, not to patronise them or make excuses, but to genuinely listen to their stories and see how I can respond to that.” It is too late for Christine Spooner, though, whose children have now been adopted and are with new families.

She has devoted herself to volunteer work, helping to support parents going through a similar experience, and is campaigning for change. She said: “I’m sick and tired of the negative attitude and I want people to think more positively about learning disabled people. “Realistically I would love to be a parent again, but what if it happens again? What if it goes on again?

“I don’t want to have my heart torn out the third time in a row. I’ve had enough pain in my life. I don’t want any more”.

Church of England Vicar pleads guilty to child porn charges.1145 serious indecent images of children

2009-09-14T17:27:27Z

A VICAR who presided over a Bocking congregation for 11 years has pleaded guilty to possessing more than 1,000 indecent images of children.

Appearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on Tuesday, Trevor Diaper, 58, admitted six charges of making indecent images of children, including photos and moving photos, and a further charge of possessing 1,145 indecent images of children.

The images, found on his computer, ranged from the least serious level one images to level four images, which are rated as the second most serious.
The prosecution has decided not to proceed with a further seven counts of indecent assault against a child, which Diaper, former vicar at St Peter’s Church in St Peter’s Road, had denied.

Diocese spokesperson Ralph Meloy said: “The diocese of Chelmsford and the Church of England are shocked and saddened that a clergyman has fallen so far short of the standards expected.

“We give the highest priority to the care and protection of all children and vulnerable people. We have policies, procedures and training schemes that uphold high standards of conduct.”

Diaper had been vicar at St Peter’s since 1997 and was also chaplain at Braintree ambulance station.
He has been suspended since he was arrested on suspicion of historic child abuse on June 26 last year.

The Bishop of Chelmsford is now due to ban him from holding office for life.

Mr Meloy added: “We continue to pray for and support the Diaper family, churchwardens, church council, parish and community.”
At an earlier court appearance, Diaper had pleaded not guilty to seven charges of the indecent assault of a girl which allegedly took place between 1999 and 2003. Those charges will be disposed of at a hearing next month after the crown decided not to proceed.

Prosecuting, Andrew Jackson said Diaper had admitted sexual assault in police interview but later denied the charges, saying his admissions had been untrue.
He said in the light of the guilty pleas on the indecent images charges, the alleged assault victim did not wish to go through the ordeal of pursuing the charges in a court trial.

He added: “We are concerned about the effect on her of giving evidence.” Judge Christopher Ball QC said pursuing historical abuse charges could be “intensely damaging” and do “more harm than good” for some alleged victims.

Re-bailing Diaper until October 9 for pre-sentence reports, Judge Ball warned: “The court’s sentencing powers in a case such as this are quite wide

Save the Children paedophile sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to raping boy, 14

2009-07-29T17:00:13Z

A former Save the Children worker who led a double life as a ‘predatory and devious’ paedophile was jailed for four years today.
Sohail Ayaz, a leading member of an international child abuse network, came to the UK on a two-year visa after molesting and photographing a 14-year-old boy.

Ayaz, who is also wanted in Italy in connection with a Romanian child sex ring, was arrested at the charity’s headquarters earlier this year.
Officers had been concerned he might find a way to use his job to target ‘some of the world’s most vulnerable children’ but their fears proved groundless.
Sentence: His Honour Judge Gregory Stone QC

Sentencing, Judge Gregory Stone QC told the impassive father-of-one: ‘One can only conclude that you are driven by powerful paedophile interests.
‘Offences such as these cause immense damage to children. Society has utter revulsion for such activity which brings nothing but degradation upon vulnerable children.’

He said some of the images recovered from his computer ‘involved children as young as six to 18 months - mere babies - and of the most degrading kind.
‘Some of the children are plainly in distress.’

Rejecting a defence assertion that Ayaz’s job at Save the Children was simply an ‘unfortunate coincidence’, the judge continued: ‘One very disturbing and worrying aspect of this case is that you sought and obtained work at a well-known children’s charity. ‘Now I have been assured that, in the circumstances of this case, that has not given you access to vulnerable children.

‘Nonetheless, there is concern that you were attracted to this work because it may have appeared to you that it would give you access to such children.’
To his credit was his co-operation with the police, his ‘evident remorse’, his pleas of guilty and previous good character.

That meant he would not be jailed indefinitely, even though the pre-sentence report made it clear he posed ‘a high risk of harm to children’.
But the judge said that, in addition to four years’ imprisonment, Ayaz would have to register as a sex offender for life and would never be allowed to work with children. He would also be recommended for deportation. The imposition of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order would be considered later.

The court heard the qualified book-keeper and accountant came to Britain in January 2008 on a two-year skilled worker’s visa.
Peter Zinner, prosecuting, said: ‘However, the Crown say he not only brought his special skills as an accountant into this country, he also brought his sexual interest in children.’

Save The Children Fund helped snare the pervert

Mr Zinner told the court: ‘Matters came to light by virtue of an investigation into an international paedophile ring, which started off with the arrest of a Norwegian police officer.’ They discovered he had been in touch with Ayaz and provided him with contacts in Romania who could provide at least 15 children for adults to abuse.

He, in turn, passed the information to a fellow pervert in Italy now awaiting trial for child sex offences. Once Ayaz had been identified, Scotland Yard’s Paedophile Unit was informed. They tracked the defendant down and launched an intensive surveillance exercise. Save the Children officials were also alerted.
‘In view of the potential for contact or at least obtaining the names of particularly vulnerable children, indeed some of the world’s most vulnerable children, via his position, police officers acted swiftly and arrested him at his place of work.’

Since then Oslo police have interviewed the Romanian youngsters, while the Italians have issued a European arrest warrant accusing Ayaz of ‘facilitation’.
Mr Zinner said the defendant’s computers were examined and more than 2,000 indecent images recovered - mostly of young boys - although many had been deleted. They included a number of images of him abusing the naked teenage boy. ‘The evidence also suggests Ayaz was in regular contact with like-minded individuals, not only in the UK, but also consistent with a paedophile ring involving central and eastern Europe and the Middle and Far East.

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Couple Lose Custody of their Children after School’s ‘Security’ Concerns

2009-07-19T09:52:06Z

The man, a business consultant, was concerned that two of his three children – who are all under 13 – might be at risk of abduction because of the family’s connections.

Telling the school that the children were related to European royalty and that his brother was a senior Army officer, the father is said to have asked for permission – which was granted – to pick up his children inside the two schools attended by his eldest children.

However, one of the head teachers went to the police because of her “concerns”.
This led to the parents’ background being investigated and concerns being raised, initially over the father’s mental state and then for the safety of his children.

Lord Monckton, who has investigated the allegations, described the episode as “the worst case of child abduction by social services that I have ever come across”.

He accused a social worker and a police officer, both female, of plotting together against the couple, who live in the east of England.

Lord Monckton has now reported the two women to the local police force and council for alleged improper conduct.

Lord Monckton claims that on May 18 a social worker approached the father as he arrived, with his wife, to pick up one of their children from school.

The father has told the peer that when he was asked to accompany her, he demanded to see her identification but she refused to show him. He claims he was then handcuffed by two police officers.

His wife was also detained when she went to remonstrate, and their youngest child was taken away screaming, according to the family’s account. Later all three children were taken into care.

The father was then detained under the Mental Health Act, although his wife was released later the same day.

“However, the father’s supporters say that on May 28, he appeared before a mental health tribunal and was given a complete discharge; yet his children remain in care.

The Sunday Telegraph has had no direct contact with the family. It is understood that the social worker and police officer have justified their actions in statements to a family court.

A council spokesman said: “We have no comment to make because the matter is in front of the courts.”

Social Worker Jailed for 6 Weeks for the Possession of Indecent Images of Children

2009-07-17T16:36:18Z

Angry parents have condemned as “laughable” a six week jail term handed to a South Yorkshire social worker who had an album of child porn on personal computers.
Michael David Tombs, who ran his own childcare company as well as working for Doncaster Council before he was arrested, has also been banned from working with children again. He was previously a school governor in Thorne.

Tombs, a 33-year-old bachelor, had pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing indecent images of children.

Doncaster Crown Court heard hundreds of indecent images of children were found on computer equipment owned by Tombs at his home in Lockwood Road, Thorne, following a police raid.

Officers also recovered a laptop he had given to a 14-year-old girl from which he had deleted many more pornographic pictures of children but police experts were able to retrieve them.

His mother and stepfather work in childcare with North Lincolnshire Council and were suspended until their computers were found to be clear.

Passing sentence, Recorder Andrew Campbell, QC, said it was quite clear Tombs was viewing the pornography for his own sexual gratification but he was still a part of the machinery of child exploitation.

At the time of the offences, between May 2006 and April last year, Tombs was working as a sessional child support worker with Doncaster Council and had also won contracts for his company, Michael Tombs Childcare Services, to train other childcare workers.

The court was told there was no evidence of any improper conduct with the children in his care.

After the hearing Keith Cheshire, whose 15-year-old physically and mentally disabled daughter was cared for by Tombs, said he had “got away with it” and described the sentence as “laughable”.

He added: “It’s absolutely disgusting. He was put in a position of trust and has abused that trust. The sentence is a farce and he can get on with his life when he comes out in a few weeks.”

He said: “None of the parents whose children he worked with have received a phone call from Doncaster Council to forewarn people that this was going to happen or to reassure us. We should have been told because we have to speak on behalf of our children.

Richard Haigh, defending, said his client had worked hard to build up his childcare qualifications and his career seemed quite rosy until police swooped.
He said: “At that point his world fell apart, he withdrew his nomination as Labour candidate in elections and notified all the agencies he had been working for.”

A statement from Doncaster Children’s Services said: “We made stringent checks on Michael Tombs and there was no way anyone could have known about this hidden side of his character.”