{"id":2731,"date":"2011-12-11T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2011-12-12T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:16:59","slug":"social-workers-sex-up-abuse-claims-to-snatch-children-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/social-workers-sex-up-abuse-claims-to-snatch-children-for-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIAL WORKERS ‘SEX UP ABUSE CLAIMS TO SNATCH CHILDREN FOR ADOPTION’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK NEWS
\n<\/span>The whistleblower said auth\u00adorities\u2019 worries of another Baby P had created a climate of fear<\/p>\n

Sunday December 11,2011
\nBy Ted Jeory<\/p>\n

SOCIAL workers are regularly \u201csexing up\u201d dossiers on problem parents to remove children into care and even to farm them out for adoption, a whistleblower reveals today.<\/p>\n

The experienced social worker told a Sunday\u00a0 Express investigation that council managers are frequently putting pressure on\u00a0 him and colleagues to rewrite reports considered \u201ctoo positive\u201d.<\/p>\n

They are\u00a0 demanding \u201cmore dirt\u201d on mothers and fathers to increase the chances of\u00a0 securing court orders that place their children into care and which boost\u00a0 councils\u2019 Ofsted ratings.<\/p>\n

The whistleblower said the worry of having\u00a0 another Baby P on an authority\u2019s hands had created a climate of fear that was\u00a0 destroying innocent families.<\/p>\n

The findings were last night described as a\u00a0 \u201cnational scandal\u201d by one MP who is now demanding a full Parliamentary inquiry\u00a0 into Britain\u2019s child protection system.<\/p>\n

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The whistleblower<\/p>\n

Lib Dem John Hemming will raise the\u00a0 issue when he appears at the Education Select Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 committee\u2019s chairman, Graham Stuart, has indicated he would talk to our\u00a0 whistleblower in confidence.<\/p>\n

The whistlebower said the behaviour of social\u00a0 workers has been dramatically and \u201cneedlessly\u201d changed since the full details\u00a0 over the 2007 death of Baby Peter Connelly in Haringey, north London, emerged\u00a0 three years ago.<\/p>\n

He said there is now a new culture of fear in which the\u00a0 buck of responsibility is continuously passed up the managerial chain.<\/p>\n

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He\u00a0 said people in desperate need of help with their parenting skills are instead\u00a0 having their lives ruined by bureaucrats who fear being blamed for a highly\u00a0 unlikely case of extreme abuse.<\/p>\n

Courts sitting away from the public glare\u00a0 are then increasingly being asked to make life-changing decisions based on\u00a0 \u201cbiased\u201d evidence, he claimed.<\/p>\n

Latest figures show that social workers,\u00a0 already overstretched due to Government cuts, are dealing with rapidly rising\u00a0 caseloads with 42,700 children now on child protection plans.<\/p>\n

Social\u00a0 workers say this is largely due to political pressure after the Baby P\u00a0 case.<\/p>\n

David Cameron has said there are too many children in care and that\u00a0 the adoption process needs streamlining, but critics say the real issue is\u00a0 about why so many youngsters are taken into care in the first place.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 whistleblower, a father who works for a large authority in the south of\u00a0 England, said: \u201cWe\u2019re being pressured to go against what we think is right\u00a0 for families.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019ve written reports and been told, \u2018You are too\u00a0 positive with this family, we\u2019ll never get it to court unless you make it more\u00a0 negative\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve actually been told that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it goes against\u00a0 what you feel is right, you feel under an obligation.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren need to be\u00a0 in their families and we need to support them as much as possible and only if\u00a0 there are great risks do you take a child out of a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked for\u00a0 an example, he said: \u201cIn order to get a child through to a child protection\u00a0 conference, we\u2019re told to make the situation look bad and worse than it\u00a0 actually is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t necessarily make things up, but we can change the\u00a0 emphasis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s subtle. I had one child aged about eight. I\u2019d prepared a\u00a0 report with the emphasis saying that the parents were prepared to make changes\u00a0 and that their attitude was willing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I was told this was too\u00a0 positive, we\u2019d never get it through.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told to bring out more of the\u00a0 negative points, so I had to concentrate on the lack of cleanliness of the\u00a0 house. That put the parents in a bad light.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said these reports were\u00a0 used to take children out of a family home and in many cases then placed for\u00a0 adoption.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt destroys families. But the newer, younger social\u00a0 workers see this as the norm, they just want to toe the line with their bosses\u00a0 and that\u2019s worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The whistleblower also\u00a0 raised serious concerns about council-appointed psychologists who he believes\u00a0 are biased in favour of their paymasters.<\/p>\n

In particular, he said he had\u00a0 doubts over what he said were nebulous concepts of emotional abuse and\u00a0 \u201cattachment theories\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThese psychologists create such a high\u00a0 standard of for parenting that most of us would fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

MP John Hemming said: \u201cI congratulate the Sunday Express in\u00a0 unearthing this national scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of whilstleblowers\u00a0 have come to me to explain how expert evidence is at times sexed up and at\u00a0 other times plainly wrong in the Family Courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking the\u00a0 wrong children into care on the basis of sexed up dossiers and meaningless\u00a0 psychobabble results in other children being left to die such as Baby P.<\/p>\n

\u201cParliament must act to sort out the child protection system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nishra\u00a0 Mansuri, of the British Association of Social Workers, recognised the\u00a0 whistleblower\u2019s comments and said: \u201cIt\u2019s a major concern. The cuts are\u00a0 creating so much pressure for social workers that the right decisions are not\u00a0 being taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re storing up so many problems, but the odds are against\u00a0 us.\u201d
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