complaints against children services (social services)

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

I have moved Purdies post to this new thread.
Purdie posted- "Social services,will say you have emotionally neglected your children, they write that on everything that seem's to cover everything.
it also dose not supprise me the social worker is being difficult that is what they do.
They train as they all use the same ten plate, if you go to scotland or dorset they treat everyone the same labled by them, as failing parent's.
their name means nothing like (social ) as they are the worst kind of people whom sit in judgement of me,my god where do these people come from that can sit their and tell lie after lie and write it all as well after calling you every name under the sun,trying to get a reaction.
Thank god I put in a corperate complaint and won,but that made no difference they were told to appoligise and even at one stage offered me 500 pounds to stop the complaint but i said no and kept going .the out come was they said sorry about 5 times and within 10 weeks were back to square 1, I've writen to David Camron, several mp,s the police, the pcc, the ico,and the Lgo the Education department, and no one has taken up my complaint despite being told by the priminister,on tv this country has a good complaints system, all of the people whom I have complained to have a complaint system to stop the behaviour of being mistreated by social services.but not one off them has done their job the complaint system in this country fails."

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Hi Purdie,

I have moved your post to this new thread-about complaints.


Best wishes,

Suzie

[purdie]

Thank you SUZIE,

Back to complaining this morning I phoned the ICO apparently they have moved my complaint,
up to resolutions, this mean's that their has been in my word's ( more dodge goings on) in the department that I am complaining about.
By the Way the ICO are the people who approach the social services on your behalf for information you request but get refused, you must request this under the Subject Acess request, you can do it on line or get a friend to help you at the Libuary they have load's of computers.
If we are to be labled then make sure you have the right lable attached to your name and that everything that is being put in your child's file is a true account of what is taking place.

People are indeviduals, every parent that comes under social services, either volentry or otherwise it dose not make us all the same, we all have different levels of reasons as to why.
and should be treated accordingly.

Now an Mp just got put in jail for lieing for a whole year and kept his secret for 10, he lied to his goverment, the people who voted for him the police and the courts, he cheated on his wife so he lied to her as well.
If we lable this Mp are we to think all MP's are the same, no we judge when we see evidence in this country.

If 2000 people drive down a motorwey at christmas, and 1000 are drunk are we to assume the 1000 others are drunk, but they just got away no we wait to see the evidence.

So why is it the duty of Social Services to play the part of judge and jury over our children before we have even got into court without 1 scrap of evidence.
We are all in the same boat and dealt with in the same way not looked at as an indevidual cases,
LABELING that's why It is amazing how many Social Worker's go on sick leave the week the case comes to court because so many of them get it wrong.
I'm all for good parenting but to think I am treated like people who make the papers for their dreadfull parenting is beyond me.
The Children and Families Bill it's hardly anything to do with ( Family's ) our PM want's the Children in foster care addopted ASAP, it is costing the country Million's but did he stop to think
maybe support the parent's without family's who have no support at all before even looking into addoption.
So Many children spend thier lives looking for their birth parent's to find out one question why did you leave me, and read dreadfull stuff writen about the unsupported parent, to find they got their to late.and the parent not able to even answer what had been writen 50 year's ago.
That's what labeling and addoption and seperation dose, it should be the last resort not because this goverment has a back log of kid's in care.
Support the families who want their children back and addopt the one's who are at risk.
Because all children are not at risk !!.
Let's not forget most of the failing's within social services are the manager's and social workers.
I'm on my 4th now as the rest have left due to stress or their agency contract has run out,or like the 3rd one got court by the judge with her manager lieing in the High Court.
Don't Label everyone as a throw a parent of a thow a way child because not all of us are.
So do your subject Acess request and make sure that every thing that is in thows files are true.
Because even if the child comes home the file will be atttached to their name all of their life.

[Frazor]

This is so true to detail

[Walkingdead]

Iv been on (child protection service) since last November, iv been accused of neglect, abuse, mental abuse, I was reported for being pregnant,single mum.
Iv tried Ofsted to complain about how iv been treated, iv told police, iv tried news papers, now my social worker wants me to email her boss and give him a nice report on how nice she is, (are these people serious) not a chance.they are awful, I want my report in papers, and on the news.iv got meeting on 3rd June 1pm again to review how I'm doing basically to write down I'm being the mother I'm supposed to be.im 42 I started having children age 24 each 1 after that was almost 6 years apart, iv got 5 kids last 1 was 9 week next Tuesday 6th june.social workers love to rule family's, they want us all to be obedient, they will spit relationships marriages up they will accuse fathers of raping there daughters no reason why it's because they can.if you have business they will find a way of shutting you down, I told my social worker 9 years ago something wrong with my baby she said look nothing is wrong ,shes healthy, shes feeding, shes a lovely coloyr and big weight, she was sent to hospital day after and died alder hey baby social worker killed my daighter but social worker dont care.they are cruel nasty age is just a number to them.

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Dear Walkingdead

Thank you for your posts on the parents’ discussion forum. I see from your most recent post that you are not asking a specific question, but I believe it would be helpful for other posters to have correct information in respect of your post.

You state in your post that you have been on a child protection plan since November last year. In your post you do not agree to this plan being in place. Unfortunately, you have not said how children’s services came to be with involved with your family. Who made a referral or why. You have mentioned the concerns as neglect, abuse, mental abuse and for being single and pregnant. Here is information about domestic abuse when children’s services are involved.

Taking the last point first, no one would be referred to children’s services for being single and pregnant. A referral might be made if it were considered a worry that no antenatal support is taken up or if the person had previous children’s services involvement. Please read information HERE about what happens when children’s services receive a referral.

Children’s services have a legal duty to ensure that children are cared for safely and that for an unborn child that the expectant mother has the right antenatal support to ensure baby is safe. This can include asking the expectant to engage with midwife services and could include, if this is appropriate mental health support during pregnancy. This information relates to child protection procedures, and you may find it useful.

As I do not know the local authority’s policy about feedback, I am not able to comment on what you say about reporting back about the social worker. If there is a review conference you may be asked for your views. Here is a link from our website about review child protection conference which you may find useful.

Regarding abuse and splitting up relationships, if there is a perpetrator in the home, it is possible that children’s services may want this person out of the home to ensure there are no further incidents. It may also be to allow them to carry out assessments including risk assessment to ensure that any risk is minimised which could be if the perpetrator undertakes appropriate courses to address the behaviour.

If you believe you do not get the chance to speak in your meetings, it might help if you write down what you want to say and ensure that copies are available for everyone taking part in the meeting.

I am very sorry to see that your baby died 9 years ago. You say it was the social worker’s fault and accuse that person of killing your baby. Whilst I do not know the details, a social worker unless a trained doctor cannot diagnose a child’s ill-ness and the best people to do that would the hospital. It may be the case that when the social worker saw your baby, she seemed fine to look at, but other things were happening which could only be identified by a proper examination by a doctor. I believe there would have been a review into your daughter’s death, and I am sorry for your loss.

In your post you have mentioned complaints to different organisations about children’s services. As stated above, children’s services have legal duties to children to ensure that they are safely cared for, and it may be that they do not consider that children’s services have acted inappropriately and within the statutory requirements. You can make a complaint to children’s services about the handling of your case and there is information here about complaints

You may find it useful to read this GUIDE from our website about working with social workers.

I hope this is helpful, but should you wish to speak with one of our experienced advisers, you can telephone our advice line on 0808 801 0366. The advice line is open from 9.30am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays.

Best wishes


Suzie