Walk for justice starts 13 May 2014

Sid Hingerty, 72, is to walk for justice starting on 13 May 2014 at Nazareth House, 1647 Paisley Road West, Cardonald, Glasgow at 10 am.

Mr Hingerty will be visiting towns and cities across the country and would like all abused children from the care system who are now adults to give him letters so that he can hand them to the relevant Government Offices on his walk.

The location for the beginning of the walk for justice has been deliberately chosen. Nazareth House has been hit by scandals and another article appeared recently in the Scottish Express 2 February 2014.

 

http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com/walk-4-justice-4-the-children-screaming-to-be-heard-glasgow-to-brussels-starting-may-13th-10am-nazzereth-house-glasgow/

 

The Sisters of Nazareth, the Roman Catholic order of nuns which operated dozens of orphanages across Britain, recently apologised to children who suffered in their institutions in Northern Ireland.

That apology came at the start of a public inquiry in the Province, the largest of its kind in UK history, yet the Scottish Government has consistently ignored demands to set up a similar judge-led investigation here.

Last night, Mrs Peacher and her husband Andrew said they hoped that by coming forward with their story they could help put pressure on Holyrood ministers to start taking the issue seriously.

They reported ...incidents to the police in 2002 but were eventually told there was not enough evidence to proceed. Last night, Police Scotland confirmed that a new inquiry was now underway.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/457478/I-was-raped-by-priest-in-orphanage

Dr Bruce Perry speaks to the Early Intervention Foundation

In the following article Dr Bruce Perry, a US psychiatrist, made an extraordinary statement: "In around 100 years time, multi-generational "problem" families will constitute a quarter of the population, sucking in billions of "our" tax dollars and placing "an ungodly burden" on our children and grandchildren." Since poor families have been producing children since time immemorial he does not explain the significance of the next 100 years. If we are to believe his prediction then a quarter of the population will have damaged brains leading to mental illness and criminality amongst other things.

His grim prediction came at the end of a recent presentation in London designed to persuade policymakers to intervene early in problem families. Reach their children early, through parenting classes and other "individualised intervention plans", before their brains are irrevocably hardwired – and you not merely rescue the child from disaster but you, the taxpayer, will save billions in social security payments. "It's a big economic bang for your buck".

Perry's vivid style is to stitch together data, shocking anecdotes and emotive imagery.. "To neglect them [children] is to murder them." If we don't intervene early, he warned, we will hit an "unsustainable tipping point", unable to break the cycle by which hopeless parents spawn unloved children prone to educational failure, obesity, mental illness and criminality, before those children themselves become hopeless parents, accelerating societal and financial meltdown.

Perry's presentation launched a series of science lectures organised by the Early Intervention Foundation. In the audience of academics, philanthropists, campaigners and politicians was the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, whose Centre for Social Justice was an early adopter of Perry's work in the UK. Duncan Smith introduced the lecture by describing Perry as "an inspirational and influential figure".

During his brief visit, Perry met other senior government ministers including Francis Maude at the Cabinet Office, the prisons minister, Jeremy Wright, and the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. He also spoke with Labour's shadow education and treasury teams, and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood...Yet despite the cross-party interest, there is deep unease about the Perry thesis: its use of neuroscience; its underplaying of poverty as a context for dysfunction; and its influence on child protection policy.

Sue White, professor of social work at the University of Birmingham, is sceptical of what she has called the "artfully packaged" neuroscience/early intervention narrative.

Examples of extreme neglect – such as the case of Malaya, or Perry's infamous brain images depicting scans of two contrasting three-year old child brains (the "normal" brain significantly larger than the brain of the child suffering "extreme neglect") – are typically taken from children who have suffered extreme institutional abuse in orphanages in eastern Europe and have virtually no predictive value in a UK context, she says. Yet such examples encourage a "policy leap from orphanage to council estate". Neuroscience is "infiltrating" child protection practice and the family courts, she says, where it has been conscripted to support "moral arguments" about state intervention in family life. The danger, she believes, is that it will lead to ill-considered "act now or never" decisions to take children into care.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/06/policymakers-neuroscience-justify-early-intervention-agenda-bruce-perry

According to its website, the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) was officially launched at 10 Downing Street on 15 April 2013, with cross-party support. It was established to champion and support the move to greater use of early intervention approaches. No doubt, invited speakers will support its cause too.

Many of the organisations backing the EIF have interests in providing the services that early interventions entail, including adoption and fostering. With recent changes in the law to make adoptions quicker and easier such a consolidated effort is an unprecendented assault on the poor.

Organisations backing The Early Intervention Foundation Consortium include:
4Children
3SC
Achievement for All 3As
Action For Children
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Barnardos
Best Beginnings
Big Issue Invest
Community Links
Family Action
Family and Parenting Institute / Daycare Trust
I Can
Impetus Trust
Institute for Public Policy Research
Local Government Association
London Early Years Foundation
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
National Association for Voluntary and Community Action
National Children’s Bureau
NCT
National Day Nurseries Association
Nesta
NSPCC
Public Health England
Save the Children
Seven Social Care
The Centre for Social Justice
The Children’s Society
The Football League Trust
Turning Point http://www.navca.org.uk/early-intervention-foundation
See also: http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Early%20interventions

Controversy continues over Gardasil

Health promotion for Gardasil in Scotland

A new GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) funded study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases has revealed that HPV infection, resulting in naturally acquired human papilloma virus (HPV) antibodies, reduces the risk for new infection and cervical abnormalities linked to cancer in non-HPV vaccinated subjects.

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/hpv-vaccine-maker-s-study-shows-natural-hpv-infection-beneficial-not-deadly

Cervarix, which the Scottish government previously endorsed, was replaced by Gardasil in 2012 after trials were completed in Glasgow. It was issued to girls in their second year of secondary school in Scotland. Nevertheless the above study raises questions about the wisdom of using either of these vaccines.

http://www.mainstreetvacs.com/field-archives/

Moreover, it was admitted by Dr Diane Harper, one of the developers, that there had been no efficacy trials in girls under 15 years and the rate of serious adverse events is greater than the incidence rate of cervical cancer.

http://www.pop.org/content/merck-researcher-admits-gardasil-guards-against-almost-nothing-985

Despite being linked to numerous deaths and countless side-effects, the safety of the vaccine has largely gone uncontested and continues to ride a wave of false media hype.

The drug was "fast-tracked" to the market, meaning the FDA granted approval in 6 months, bypassing the usual four year waiting period.

Anaphylactic shock is the most serious side effect reported on the Scottish information website which means important information about more serious effects have been withheld.

http://www.immunisationscotland.org.uk/documents/6132.aspx

Recently, Natural News has reported that a top physician who used to work for the company who created the Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer, has made some startling public admissions about the dangers and ineffectiveness of this controversial vaccine.

During a recent interview with the French magazine Principes de Sante, Dr. Bernard Dalbergue confessed that Gardasil is a worthless vaccine that not only fails to protect against cervical cancer but also puts individuals at risk of paralysis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and a host of other debilitating ailments.

Suggesting that Gardasil will eventually become recognized as "the greatest medical scandal of all time," Dr. Dalbergue railed against its approval and continued use, claiming that "everyone" involved with it knows that it's completely worthless.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044895_Gardasil_vaccine_medical_scandal_Merck.html#ixzz30Om0XlSc

See also:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027225_vaccine_cancer_cervical.html

http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/gardasil-vaccine.html

False allegations from Fife social services

Kerry and Mark McDougall talk to John Hemming in the video above.

Because Kerry was banned from marrying Mark and told that their baby would be removed at birth, they fled to Ireland. The reason given to them by social services was that Kerry had learning difficulties and had been in care herself and had had a bad experience. Mark explains that this sort of thing happens to many mothers and John Hemming agrees. "It is really about adoption."

When they arrived in Ireland, and after the baby was born, Ben was removed into foster care because the reports from Fife social services painted such a very poor picture of Mark and Kerry. In the reports that followed them to Ireland they were accused of being cocaine addicts and alcoholics. There were also allegations that they had picked up sexually transmitted diseases. In order to prove their innocence and to get Ben out of care they went for health checks and drug tests. The test results disproved the reports from Fife social services.

After four years in Ireland they returned to Scotland where eventually social services told them that they would leave them alone.

John Hemming asks them if fleeing to Ireland had been the right thing to do.

Mark tells him that, had they not fled to Ireland, they would never have been able to get Ben back.

See also: http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/mark-and-kerry-mcdougall.html

CTV cameras in schools

A survey conducted by the NASUWT teaching union, has highlighted that teachers are being subjected to "permanent surveillance" through the use of CCTV cameras in the classroom.

What is clear is that the surveillance experiment of the past twenty years has failed to reduce crime or improve public safety. Yet, schoolchildren and teachers across the country are now expected to accept surveillance for the formative years of their education and in the workplace.

Our report, The Class of 1984, shred light for the first time on the extent of surveillance within schools, highlighting that there are more than 100,000 CCTV cameras in secondary schools and academies across England, Wales and Scotland. Our report also showed that there is a ratio of one CCTV camera for every five pupils, more than two hundred schools are using CCTV in bathrooms and changing rooms and there are more cameras inside school buildings than outside.

http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/

Why was Robert Green arrested?

Robert Green, campaigner on behalf of Hollie Grieg, has now been in prison for over two months but still does not know on what charge. He was due to appear at court as a witness to the defence at fellow campaigner Tim Rustidge`s trial when he was arrested. That may have been one of the reasons for his imprisonment.

 

There is another. Robert Green had been blogging about the Violate Club which has premises in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. This club caters for different perversions and provides life-size dolls of children for their customers according to Robert Green. The Scottish government is aware of this organisation as the link shows.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/24111914/38/

Among the club members there are four sheriffs (equivalent to English judges), two ex-partners of sheriffs, two High Court judges and partners, two procurator fiscals and partners, six ex-partners of procurator fiscals, sixteen court staff, thirty seven staff from Scottish government departments and seventeen primary school teachers. Is this why the Scottish establishment wanted to confiscate Robert Green`s computer?

It is interesting how a formal petition, brought about by Peter Cherbi, (Diary of Injustice) - to ensure members of the Scottish judiciary have a duty to publicly disclose information about their interests, if there might be a conflict - has been resisted by the Lord President. What is it he would prefer to hide?

Meanwhile no Scottish member of Parliament will respond to requests to look into the matter including Alex Salmond who has twice breached the law in defying the Information Commissioner over questions about his conduct in the Hollie Greig case.

Robert Green has written a letter which appears on the Free Robert Green blog:

Dear S

Thank you for your message [on Email a Prisoner https://emaplogin.prison-technology-services.com/signup/signup.cfm?country=uk) . Yes I do have some medication now, which does help although I feel my health is deteriorating. Still, I receive the most wonderful support from around the world and remain, as usual, in good spirits.

The wing of the prison in which I am held is very old-fashioned and I am in solitary confinement, locked up, for around 19 hours each day. The food is basic but adequate. We do not eat together but collect our meals and eat in our cells. There is around one hour’s exercise in the yard provided every day, but few facilities beyond that. Virtually all the books I have are ones that have been sent in by kind supporters.
http://www.freerobertgreen.co.uk/letter-from-robert/

UPDATE: It has been reported on UKColumn News 18 June 2014 that the Violate website is no longer responding to emails, etc. It looks like they have gone underground.

Minister in Tony Blair`s government suspected of child abuse

　

"POWERFUL people tried to cover up a suspected children’s home abuse ring said to involve a Labour minister and a convicted paedophile, it was claimed yesterday."

"A 16-month investigation has revealed that former residents at the London home told detectives a group of paedophiles attacked children there."

"But soon after a former social services manager told police about the politician’s alleged evening visits in the early 1980s, the Met’s inquiry was suddenly halted."

"And experienced detective Clive Driscoll, who had been heading it, was moved to other duties.

"Yesterday, two former social services employees involved in the case claimed there appeared to have been a cover-up when Driscoll was removed."

"One – the former manager who alerted police in 1998 – said: "One wonders why Scotland Yard would be so desperate to stop it being investigated."

"I believe it was stopped because somebody in power was trying to prevent any further investigation into the politician and his possible involvement in unlawful activity."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/minister-tony-blairs-government-named-3468165

More cover ups

"Could Sir Cyril Smith be to the Lib Dems what Jimmy Savile is to the BBC?"

"The Rochdale MP was a larger than life character whose popularity stretched all the way from his northwest constituency into the heart of Westminster. A political figure who – following his death in 2010 – is at the centre of allegations detailing decades of physical and sexual abuse against boys and young men."

"Yet he is also a man who was nominated for a knighthood by Lord Steel, the Lib Dem peer and former Liberal Party leader, in the 1980s. And who had praise lavished on him by Nick Clegg via a public message on his 80th birthday."

"Now the Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, has admitted that his party must "answer serious questions". Who knew what, and when?"

"One shocking revelation is that the Director for Public Prosecutions was passed files containing allegations about Smith three times. In one of those cases in 1970 Lancashire police said it was "impossible to excuse his conduct", arguing that Smith had used his "unique position to indulge in a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys to whom he had a special responsibility". He appears guilty of "indecent assault", but has always sheltered behind a "veneer of respectability", officers concluded."

"Yet no prosecution was ever taken."

"Now Greater Manchester police and a Rochdale Council-commissioned independent inquiry are investigating if there was a cover up at Rochdale council."

"The Lib Dems insist that they have only ever known what was in the public domain. Before Smith's death that amounted to just two articles, one in Private Eye and one in a local Rochdale publication."

"And that, they say, was linked to events that took place before Smith switched from Labour to the Liberals."

"Mr Clegg, they say, knew nothing of it."

"Yet claims by Simon Danzcuk – the current Rochdale MP who has co-authored the book that contains most of the allegations - claims swirling rumours about Smith's behaviour were rife in Rochdale and Parliament throughout his political career."

"Lord Steel says those rumours never reached his office – but he is prepared to speak to police."

"The Lib Dems have rejected an independent inquiry, saying it is for the police to look into these matters. But they won't be able to avoid all the questions as these shocking revelations keep tumbling out."

http://news.sky.com/story/1250751/is-cyril-smith-the-lib-dems-jimmy-savile

Parental involvement and Children and Families Act 2014

Suesspiciousminds comments on the Family Justice Review of the Children and Families Act 2014 who were asked to consider parental involvement in relation to the welfare of the child. Should a non-resident parent have equal access to the child, for example?

There were four options consulted on (none of them being the presumption of equal time or shared time that the media reported on, and that the fathers’ rights lobby were asking for. I’ve tried in this article to not split it on pure gender lines – I think that all parents who don’t live with their children would like the Court to have in mind that spending a lot of time with both parents is better for a child than artificially restricting one parent’s time with their child)...

The Government decided that the court should work on the presumption that a child`s welfare is likely to be furthered through safe involvement with both parents but the nature of that `involvement` has been watered down over time.

...there`s a presumption that it is good for a child to have involvement with both parents (unless it would cause harm or risk of harm to the child), but that involvement can be `of some kind, direct or indirect, but not any particular division of a child`s time`.

It is probably worse for non-resident parents than the current Act, which tended to be interpreted that direct contact for both parents is a good thing for the child, if it can be done safetly.

http://suesspiciousminds.com/2014/04/28/welfare-of-the-child-parental-involvement/

More than 96,000 people have contacted First4adoption

First4Adoption is an information service which puts prospective adopters in touch with adoption agencies in their areas of interest. It is a partnership managed by the charities Coram Children’s Legal Centre, Adoption UK and Coram and is supported and funded by the Department for Education.

Dr Carol Homden, CBE of First4Adoption is celebrating the fact that since its launch a year ago the organisation has received 96,000 enquiries from people interested in adoption. However, she still urges that with local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies they must redouble their efforts. According to the Government website, these figures build on the successes of 2013, which saw a 34% increase in adopters and a record 15% rise in adoptions.

Sit Martin Narey has recently been appointed as the Chair of the Adoption Leadership Board - a new national initiative jointly developed by government, councils and voluntary adoption agencies to help them stay on track and drive the agenda forward. The board has a key role to play in providing independent advice to ministers we are informed which seems a strange claim to make given the board`s membership and how it was set up.

Sir Martin Narey, who for many years worked in the prison service,  moved to the charity sector to lead Barnardo`s through a period of growth making it once again the UK`s biggest children`s charity with a £250m turnover. He has said: "I am delighted to see that many of the recommendations I made to ministers in 2012 about adoption and siblings, adoption and contact, fostering before adoption and ethnicity and adoption matching have now found themselves in law as part of the new Children and Families Act."

Yes exactly. We can see why Sir Martin Narey was appointed Chair of the new Adoption Leadership Board.

Along with the £19 million adoption support fund to help adoptive families access the support they need, the adoption reform grant has been extended into 2014 - providing £50 million to councils to help support them in implementing the changes in the Children and Families Act. These changes speed up the adoption process and make it more difficult for parents to fight the system. The intention is clear. The pendulum has swung against keeping families together and the number of adoptions are sure to rise. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-96000-people-contact-adoption-information-service-in-12-months 

Interestingly, the University of York researchers are launching a new multi-disciplinary project to examine what works best for abused or neglected children – going into care or staying at home with support. It will run from April 2014 to March 2016.  Professor Nina Biehal, from York’s Department of Social Policy and Social Work, is leading the project. She said:  "We do not yet know enough about whether abused and neglected children who go into care do better or worse when compared to similar children who are supported at home, rather than to all children in the wider population."  It appears the Government is rushing ahead anyway.
http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2014/research/born-in-bradford/