"An NHS trust is to be prosecuted over the drowning of an 18-year-old patient at one of its facilities, the BBC has learned."
"Connor Sparrowhawk suffered an epileptic fit while in a bath at Slade House in Oxford in July 2013."
"Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust eventually admitted responsibility and offered his family compensation."
"The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) told the BBC it will now prosecute the trust."
"Following the announcement, Mr Sparrowhawk's mother Sara Ryan said: `I still feel really sad about it`."
"`I just feel we've been put through the mill. We have been treated appallingly and a young man should be doing whatever he would be doing right now`."
"`He should never have died`..."
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"The HSE said it was prosecuting the trust `under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following its investigation into the death of a patient under its care`."
"A jury-led inquest in October 2015 found that `failings` by trust staff contributed to Connor's death."
"The trust's boss Katrina Percy resigned in October amid public pressure."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39859898
Or a slippery slope ?
"There’s an understanding that, when you work in mental health, a lot of your resources will be focused on trying, to the best of your ability, to prevent your patients harming themselves."
"It was therefore with some surprise that I read about a 20 year-old-woman in the Netherlands who had chosen to be euthanized. Having been sexually abused from the age of 5, she was considered to have an ‘untreatable’ Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, reportedly co-occurring with anorexia, depression and hallucinations."
"It has since emerged that, while only two mental health patients were euthanized in the Netherlands in 2010, this rose to 56 in 2015. A recent review showed that the overwhelming majority of those with mental health problems who chose to be euthanized were women with long-term conditions, often with some kind of trauma."
"The right to end your life is a complex topic and perhaps one which it is very difficult to have a settled opinion about."
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/first-do-no-harm/
[Paul Randle Jolliffe]
"Why I no longer work on family law cases."
"Parents all experience the same and fight the same way with minor variations and lose."
"Fighting individual cases does not change things. And never will."
"The problems are systemic not individual."
"The only way is systematic issues and patterns research so as to provide the common evidence. I and a couple of others have proven it works."
"But only the surface was scratched there is much to do."
"If I think of the amount of money that is wasted losing and how some of that could have been used to really do something."
"No one wants to support that work only fighting individual cases, petitions and protests which get nowhere."
"Of course I understand why people do but that does not change that it is pointless and useless."
"I have seen 1,000s lose and only 2 people do what was needed. But without support its impossible to do it well or even continue."
"So 1,000s will continue to lose and find no solution."
"More meat for slaughter. I cannot even bear to watch any more."
"From being connected to about 50 family law groups I have now left every one."
"A poignant note from heartbroken young mother Carla Andrews was tucked into the family’s photo album as she faced last Christmas Day without her seven-month-old daughter Effie."
"It said simply: ‘It’s December 24, 10.15pm. I’m ready for bed, but as I write this I am dreading Christmas tomorrow because our baby girl won’t be here. I am missing you Effie . . . we all are. Me and Daddy promise to have you home soon. We love you, always have, always will. XXXXX’"
"This message, discovered by a judge by chance when the album was handed in as evidence during an historic family court case, helped stopped Effie being taken away and adopted. For the judge said it provided proof of the devotion of Carla and her partner Craig to Effie even though the pair were facing accusations of violently shaking their daughter and nearly killing her."
"The reprieve was not only a huge relief for Effie’s parents, but the judge’s view that they were innocent is expected to influence many cases that involve parents who are wrongly blamed for causing their babies’ injuries."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4478288/The-note-helped-prove-couple-did-NOT-shake-baby.html
"Diane, a cleaner from Newbold, was forced to hand over her daughter Sarah to Derbyshire County Council social workers and she was later adopted - against Diane’s will.Now she is appealing to trace Sarah who turned 18 in February."
"Diane said: `I felt like I was being bullied. I had no choice. A day after my daughter’s first birthday they came to remove her from my care. They wanted her to go into foster care. I said ‘over my dead body’ but they said if I didn’t co-operate, they would call the police`."
"Diane, 37, had six months to prove she was a good mum but the surveillance put her under pressure. She added: `When you have someone watching you constantly you feel like you’re doing something wrong when you’re not. They were like vultures over my shoulder. It was difficult to show them I could be a good mum when I was having the supervised contact`."
"Diane claims that years later after submitting a Freedom of Information request, council case files showed the intention had always been to put Sarah up for adoption."
Read more at: http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/chesterfield-mum-forced-to-give-up-her-baby-for-adoption-shares-heartbreaking-plea-to-find-her-daughter-1-8526374
"Standardised testing is due to be rolled out across Scotland this August in reading, writing and maths in P1, P4, P7 and S3, with the Scottish Government insisting the move will not lead to ‘high stakes’ tests and league tables."
"But speaking to a conference of teachers in Rotterdam this morning, Professor Andy Hargreaves of the Lynch School of Education in Boston, who is one of the Scottish Government’s international education advisers, called standardised testing an `attack on decisional capital`.
http://www.holyrood.com/articles/news/top-adviser-john-swinney-attack-standardised-testing
"A Catholic Priest has been acquitted by the church after admitting to raping almost 30 young girls aged between 5 and 10-years-old. The priest, Jose Garcia Ataulfo, was cleared of any wrong-doing and won't face any criminal charges, despite the fact that he knew he was infected with HIV when he sexually abused all the children he admitted to raping. The mother of one of the priest's victims wrote a letter to The Pope asking to meet with him in Rome to discuss the case, but was shunned by the Vatican who declared that `the matter is closed`."
"Ataulfo admitted to sexually assaulting well over two dozen children, many of whom were indigenous young girls from Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico known for its large indigenous population. Due to the significant influence that the Catholic Church wields in Mexico, the priest won't face any criminal charges, particularly for his crimes in areas populated by indigenous ethnic groups."
Read more at: http://www.neonnettle.com/features/891-pedophile-priest-with-hiv-who-raped-30-children-forgiven-by-church
