Our corrupt system The following people are involved in a 'conspiracy'/corruption against us as carers (at the cost of the child!):

Key Assets (Agency for DCP):

1. Ms Angie Simpson (Director during 2012)

2. Ms Judith Wilkinson (Current Director)

3. Ms Penny Bridges (Manager)

4. Ms Kat Ahlers (Social Worker)

Key Assets Review Panel:

1. Mr Steven Jacques (Director – Key Assets Queensland)

2. Anne-Marie Loney (Chief Psychologist – DCP)

3. Rachel Jones (Advocacy Officer – FCAWA)

DCP Joondalup:

1. Ms Deborah Gould (Director)

2. Ms Melissa Cotterill (Previous Case Manager)

3. Ms Jo-Anne Fletcher (Previous Team Leader)

4. Ms Danielle Bunce (Current Case Manager)

5. Ms Rhian Permaul (Current Team Leader)

DCP Head Office:

1. Mr Terence Murphy (Director General)

2. Ms Judith Garsed (Child Advocate)

DCP Complaints Management Unit:

Ms Kim Gartner (Senior Investigating Officer)

Ministerial Representatives:

Ms Helen Morton (Currently the Minister for Child Protection)

OUR STORY

(FOSTER CHILD) was taken out of our care by Key Assets (Agency) and DCP Joondalup without any reason (conspiracy/corruption?) on a 7 day notice period on 27/09/2012.

We lodged a complaint against Key Assets and it escalated to a Tier 2 independent investigation done by Ms Anna Wilson. We were very unsatisfied with the pathetic way in which Ms Wilson conducted the investigation and did not accept the results due to the fact that we are still questioning the authenticity of the evidence and rhetoric used in this report as well as the disputable points, contradictions and blatant lies, not to mention shoddy investigation.

Ms Wilson made use of ‘unproved’ evidence and tried her uttermost to degrade us as carers in her result. We are now in the process of taking this defamation act against us to the WA Police.

As we did not accept the results of Ms Wilson’s investigation, we asked for a review by a Review Panel (Tier 3). I quote from the Stage 3 Complaints Review Panel Final Decision by Key Assets (10/04/2013 and 11/04/2013) as completed by the following three Panel Members; Mr Stephen Jacques – Director, Key Assets; Ms Anne-Marie Loney – Chief Psychologist DCP; Ms Rachel Jones – Advocacy Officer, FCAWA:

“Key Assets did not comply with policy in relation to the ending of placements. A meeting was not convened, with the complainants, to discuss the concerns and ending of the placement. Nor was a disruption meeting held subsequently. Key Assets did not review the foster care approval of the complainants in line with policy and procedure, which would have afforded an opportunity to formally discuss the concerns the agency and DCP had”.

We also lodged a complaint at the Complaint Management Unit of DCP (Department for Child Protection WA). I quote from the findings of the investigation on my complaints against DCP as done by Ms Kim Gartner, Senior Complaints Investigator at the Complaints Management Unit of DCP (14 March 2013):

“When the Department was advised by Key Assets of the decision to cease placement the Case Management Team and/or the Central Referral Team could have: - Requested that Key Assets reconsider their decision - Made the decision to assess you as a Departmental carer to enable (FOSTER CHILD) to remain in the placement”

“However, the Department did not challenge the decision by Key Assets to cease placement as the Department had a number of concerns in relation to the placement” Please note that these so-called ‘concerns’ were made up (or small one’s were blown out of proportion) by Key Assets and DCP in an effort to get rid of me as carer.

This was something they had against me, personally, as carer and misused their authority by making up lies, at the cost of the child. The Department did not challenge the decision by Key Assets, however, no assessments were ever made on these so-called ‘concerns’. I was found ‘guilty’ without trial.

The reason why Key Assets and DCP wanted to get rid of me was because I was willing to advocate on behalf of this child and questioned certain decisions they made regarding (FOSTER CHILD). Apparently I was also too ‘friendly’ with the child’s grandparents and parents.

I quote again from the DCP Complaints Management Unit’s final results: “The Departmental case file and the Key Assets Complaint lnvestigation Report confirm that the concerns were not discussed with you by Key Assets prior to their decision to cease the placement”

“The concerns occurred in the context of very challenging behaviour by (FOSTER CHILD) and a lack of support to you as a carer” “The decision making process provided insufficient opportunity to consider (FOSTER CHILD)'s best interests and the impact the placement move would have on (FOSTER CHILD,)given the acknowledged attachment between (FOSTER CHILD) and you” “The complaint investigation did not identify any immediate concerns for (FOSTER CHILD)'s safety and wellbeing that necessitated a 7 day notice to cease the placement”

“There is no evidence that Key Assets formally recorded and reported their concerns to the Department in a Critical lncident Report that provided a rationale for the decision and included a clear internal process to endorse the decision” “Unfortunately the concerns held by Key Assets and the Department have not been formally assessed by Key Assets”

“The complaint is upheld as the decision making process was flawed” The Duty of Care Unit DCP assessed the concerns that Key Assets and DCP Joondalup had against me. This is the result, and I quote from the results on 15/04/2013:

“The assessment found that the standard of care concerns should not preclude you from being considered as a foster carer should you which to apply to another agency in the future” Although I have been cleared by (both) the Complaints Management Unit of DCP as well as the Duty of Care Unit of DCP, the Joondalup DCP Office is not willing to accept the findings of these units as they do not want to reinstate me as carer for (FOSTER CHILD). I have asked many times for a reason why they do not want me to be (FOSTER CHILD)’s carer, but always receive the answer that they have ‘concerns’ about me! I even asked to personally speak to the Director Joondalup DCP (Ms Deborah Gould) in order to get stability back into (FOSTER CHILD)’s life, but she refused. (Evidence of this is indicated in a letter I have from Ms Kim Gartner).

Ms Kim Gartner made some resolutions in her final result of the Complaints Management Unit DCP, and I quote some of the resolutions: “The Department invites you to have input into a Signs of Safety meeting to be convened for (FOSTER CHILD), including relevant professionals and significant persons, to inform decision making for (FOSTER CHILD)” Please note that this never took place!

The only meeting I attended was at Joondalup DCP in order to discuss the ‘concerns’ they had against me. However, DCP Joondalup now wants to let everybody believe that this meeting was a Signs and Safety meeting they held with me. This is a blatant lie. I am asking Joondalup DCP to produce signed minutes of this meeting to prove their allegation. “The Children's Advocate Ms Judith Garsed will ensure (FOSTER CHILD)'s voice is heard in the Signs of Safety meeting and subsequent planning for him”

This never took place! Ms Kim Gartner (Complaints Management Unit) wrote the following in a letter to us, a clear indication that she was expecting (FOSTER CHILD) to be placed back into our care: “Hi Cris and Desiree, thanks for your patience through this process. Hopefully the resolutions will provide you with satisfaction and good outcomes for (FOSTER CHILD). Regards. Kim Gartner” The above statement by Ms Gartner also correlates well with her investigation finding: “The complaint is upheld as the outcome of the placement move for (FOSTER CHILD) has clearly not been in (FOSTER CHILD)'s best interests.”

“The Department has not been able to stabilise (FOSTER CHILD) in a long term placement and the Department needs to make an informed decision in relation to (FOSTER CHILD)'s future placement arrangements”. “The Department acknowledges that you provided a stable placement for (FOSTER CHILD) for over 12 months and during this time you developed a positive relationship with (FOSTER CHILD) as well as some effective skills and strategies to manage (FOSTER CHILD)'s behaviour”.

Unfortunately, Joondalup DCP does not want to put (FOSTER CHILD) back into our care. They are rather willing to ‘gamble’ with (FOSTER CHILD)’s future (and health!) as (FOSTER CHILD) ended up in hospital due to ketones in his blood system. This is due to mismanagement of (FOSTER CHILD)’s diabetes (by carers).

It is now 11 months since (FOSTER CHILD) was taken out of our care. DCP Joondalup insisted that (FOSTER CHILD) must go to new carers, even though it was not recommended by professional people working with (FOSTER CHILD). (FOSTER CHILD)’s dad and his grandparents also want him to return to our care. Professional people were against this move out of our care right from the beginning. They confronted DCP Joondalup many times on this issue. Their professional advice and suggestions were ignored by Joondalup DCP.

The professional people also questioned Joondalup DCP’s eagerness to push (FOSTER CHILD) on to new carers without (FOSTER CHILD) wanting to go there. They have asked Joondalup DCP why they want to take another chance, as the possibility that it would end up failing is great.

The professional people once again recommended me as carer but Joondalup DCP ignored their advice. The following professional persons are more than willing to discuss this issue, as they would like to raise their serious concerns against the management of (FOSTER CHILD)’s placements by Joondalup DCP. Up till now they have been ignored. (I received permission from them to publish their names and contact details, though contact details will be withheld in this public document): Ms (AAA) – Specialist Clinical Psychologist , Tel: (XXXXXX) Ms (BBB) - Principal (PRIMARY SCHOOL), Tel: (XXXXXX) These are remarks that were made to me on various occasions by staff members of Joondalup DCP: Ms Melissa Cotterill (previous Case Manager DCP Joondalup):

After I explained to her that the decisions they made concerning (FOSTER CHILD) had a tremendous impact on (FOSTER CHILD)’s life, and that all we have built over the last six months is now gone. Her reply to me: “Use the next six months to build him up again!” Ms Jo-Anne Fletcher (previous Team Leader DCP Joondalup): “You are not forming part of our future planning for (FOSTER CHILD)” Ms Kendle Smith (previous Case Manager DCP Joondalup): “We will make sure that you never see (FOSTER CHILD) again”

“We will make sure that you don’t get any DCP children to look after” When I informed Ms Kendle that I am seeking help from outside, she replied: “You can do anything you want, we are not worried as we will convince them to believe us!” At a later stage she said: “You are wasting your time to work through politicians. They are not allowed to intervene and if they want anything to be investigated, it will end up on our table again where we make the decisions!” These workers think that they are above the Law! These workers make themselves guilty of child abuse.

They neglected their duty as the ‘child rights’ of the United Nations are incorporated into Federal Law in Australia. The international Convention on the Rights of Children was recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and ratified by Australia in December 1990. In addition to basic human rights, children and young people have the right to special protection because of their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse. In addition, the convention includes the following rights:

“All children have the same right, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or a girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis”. (Is this child just seen as ‘another welfare child’, and nobody cares? This child’s abuse was reported to the Minister of Child Protection WA, Ms Helen Norton; the Premier of WA, Mr Colin Barnett; the Deputy Premier of WA, Dr Kim Hames, and other politicians. This information was also emailed to the Offices of the Prime Minister (Mr Kevin Rudd) as well as to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Tony Abbott). No reply was received from these 2 offices.

Nobody is willing to investigate this child abuse! All these important persons just turn a blind eye to these accusations of child abuse! They are not willing to accept that there are wicked staff members in the DCP system!) “All adults should do what is best for a child. When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children”. (Why was the professional people’s view never taken into account regarding decision making for (FOSTER CHILD)? The professional people involved had over and over indicated to DCP Joondalup that it would be in the best interest of the child to be put (FOSTER CHILD) back into our care! “Children have the right to give their opinion, and for adults to listen and take it seriously”. (Why was (FOSTER CHILD) never given the opportunity to give (FOSTER CHILD)’s opinion?

No Child Advocate has visited (FOSTER CHILD). The Child Advocate (Ms Judith Garsed) from DCP ignored my requests to make contact with (FOSTER CHILD)! “Children have the right to be protected from being hurt or mistreated, in body or mind”. (Chaos in the life of this child for more than 10 months! DCP Joondalup trying to push (FOSTER CHILD) to carers where (FOSTER CHILD) does not want to go! Attended only 9 days of school during the last term of 2012! Been placed in 6 different placements in a short period of 5 months!

Spent a lot of time in PMH (hospital)! The child was taken out of a “stable placement of over 12 months” from us to be put into this situation. (FOSTER CHILD) is 12 years old and is allowed to have a say in (FOSTER CHILD)’s placements. (FOSTER CHILD) can choose where (FOSTER CHILD) wants to stay. This right has been ignored by Joondalup DCP. This is mental abuse! This statement of mine (mental abuse) is underlined by the comment of Ms Kim Gartner in her Complaints Management Unit Report, and I quote: “(FOSTER CHILD) has experienced a number of placement moves in the five months since (FOSTER CHILD) was removed from your care”.

”The placement moves have impacted negatively on (FOSTER CHILD)'s health, education and psychological and emotional wellbeing” Lastly, I would like to mention that (FOSTER CHILD) has now reached the stage where (FOSTER CHILD) is desperately trying to make contact with us as family. (FOSTER CHILD) will try anything. This is due to the fact that (FOSTER CHILD) is not allowed to see us. (FOSTER CHILD) is a child where these types of uncertainties do create an obsession within (FOSTER CHILD).

(This child stayed for longer than a year with us, we know (FOSTER CHILD)!) The only thing on (FOSTER CHILD)’s mind is that (FOSTER CHILD) wants to see us. (FOSTER CHILD) loses grip on reality and any explanation (doesn't matter how well) will have zero influence to change (FOSTER CHILD)’s obsession. It will just get worse until (FOSTER CHILD) has seen us again. We experienced this type of behaviour from (FOSTER CHILD) when (FOSTER CHILD) was still in our care and was told by DCP that (FOSTER CHILD) could not visit (FOSTER CHILD)’s grandparents anymore. Ms Rhian Permaul (Team Leader Joondalup DCP) wrote in an email to me (18/08/2013): “I am aware that you have now been in contact with (FOSTER CHILD) via (FOSTER CHILD)’s iPad and the content of your messages clearly indicate that you are undermining (FOSTER CHILD) settling with (FOSTER CHILD)’s new carers”. These people are absolutely cruel!! We never tried to make any contact with (FOSTER CHILD).

(FOSTER CHILD) was the first to make contact. We answered every email as we do not want to let this child feel that we are also ‘failing’ (FOSTER CHILD). I am willing to give all the email information when requested. We asked Joondalup DCP to respond within 24 hours in an email that was sent to them on 19/08/2013), asking them for a positive resolution to move (FOSTER CHILD) back into our care in order to stop this mental abuse. (FOSTER CHILD) is definitely not happy in (FOSTER CHILD)’s current placement (which was warned by the professional people involved) yet I am now being blamed for Joondalup DCP’s mistakes! Up till now we have received no feedback from DCP Joondalup.

They are so sure that the Law will protect them and that nobody is allowed to question their evil decisions and placement managements, therefore they ignored my email. We informed them that if this is not going to happen, we will have no other option than to continue with this correspondence in public. I will make all information available (as well as the emails received and sent to (FOSTER CHILD)) and then we can let the public be the judge. We have written to the Royal Commission concerning this issue.

This is the reply I received from them: Thank you for your written submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. As you identify in the submission, the Royal Commission was established with a specific mandate to investigate the institutional responses to the sexual abuse of children. As such, the abuse that you have identified by the Department of Child Protection (Western Australia) is, unfortunately, outside of the Royal Commission’s Terms of Reference.

I understand that this must be frustrating, and you have clearly been through a lot in relation to this complaint. I can suggest that the best avenue to progress your complaint is through both the Ombudsman Western Australia (www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au or 1800 117 000), and persisting with your contact with the Minister for Child Protection. Thank you once again for taking the time to contact the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Kind Regards, Tim Matthews Tim Matthews | Officer of the Royal Commission Tel: 02 8282 3860 However, the Minister is NOT willing to help!

We have reach the stage where we need to seriously change our plan of action as DCP Joondalup are not showing any willingness to work with us as carers and shows a blatant disregard for common sense, children’s rights and the law. Thank you. Regards. Cris and Desiree Jonker JUST LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO (FOSTER CHILD) SINCE (FOSTER CHILD) WAS REMOVED FROM OUR CARE: (FOSTER CHILD) was removed from our care and placed out into the care of a respite carer, Mr (GS) on 27 September 2012. Key Assets staff previously declared Mr (GS)'s home as 'unsafe' for (FOSTER CHILD) after an incident that happened at Mr (GS)'s home at the end of May 2012 when (FOSTER CHILD) exposed self to a 17 year old girl (also a foster child from Key Assets).

Mr (GS) was not allowed to provide further support to (FOSTER CHILD) due to this incident. This specific incident was reported by Mr (GS) to Key Assets as a critical incident, and it is fully recorded in the database of Key Assets. However, in their eagerness to get (FOSTER CHILD) away from us (with lies), Key Assets and DCP Joondalup were willing to place this child in an ‘unsafe’ house! Mr (GS) never completed his Diabetic Training at PMH. All training is only seen as completed once a practical part has been done under supervision of the trainers at PMH. This involves the giving of an injection to (FOSTER CHILD) so that the staff can be confident that the training was successful. I received a phone call from Mr (GS) on the morning of 28 September 2012, the first morning after (FOSTER CHILD) was removed from our care. Mr (GS) wanted to know what the 2 different bottles of insulin were and how much of each to administer. I explained to Mr (GS) that (FOSTER CHILD) knows the 2 bottles of insulin.

I also explained the doses to administer (which was indicated on (FOSTER CHILD)'s 'Insulin Reporting Book' that was with Mr GS). I received a later phone call from a very worried Mr (GS), informing me that he thinks he gave (FOSTER CHILD) too much insulin, as he also used the 'Novorapid Pen'. I explained to Mr (GS) that this can be a dangerous situation and I suggested he takes (FOSTER CHILD) to the Hospital. I immediately phoned the emergency number of the Diabetic Clinic and the Doctor confirmed that I’d given the correct advice.

(FOSTER CHILD) was in Hospital for a 3 hour observation period. Friday 12 October 2013: We were finally given an opportunity to say 'good-bye' to (FOSTER CHILD) during a contact session arranged by DCP. ((FOSTER CHILD) was taken away from us without (FOSTER CHILD) knowing, as we were not allowed to tell (FOSTER CHILD) that (FOSTER CHILD)’s placement would end within 7 working days. (FOSTER CHILD) was picked up from School on 27 September 2012 by Key Assets and (FOSTER CHILD) could not say good-bye to us as (FOSTER CHILD) was taken to the respite worker's home directly from school). (FOSTER CHILD) appeared to be very anxious and stressed during our contact session. (FOSTER CHILD) frequently cried, saying that (FOSTER CHILD) wanted to come back to us as is very unhappy.

(I do have audio files available as proof). (FOSTER CHILD) complained about the fact that (FOSTER CHILD) was not reminded to use a cream every morning, afternoon and evening as strictly instructed by his Doctor at PMH. This led to a worsening of a skin disorder which was almost healed when he left our care. (FOSTER CHILD) mentioned that (FOSTER CHILD) was not asked to shower/bath daily. (FOSTER CHILD) told Ms Kendle Smith (DCP Case Manager who supervised this contact session) that (FOSTER CHILD) does not want to go back to Mr (GS)'s home: (FOSTER CHILD) indicated to Ms Kendle Smith that (FOSTER CHILD) was bullied by Mr (GS)'s son. (FOSTER CHILD) also indicated that Mr and Mrs (GS) does not understand (FOSTER CHILD) and screams at (FOSTER CHILD).

(FOSTER CHILD) also asked Ms Kendle Smith: “Why did you put me in a place where I feel unsafe. I thought DCP put children in places where they feel safe!” (FOSTER CHILD) also indicated that (FOSTER CHILD), on occasions, tried to phone 'Crisis Care' as (FOSTER CHILD) wanted to be taken away from Mr (GS)'s house. Mr (GS) refused (FOSTER CHILD) to use the phone. (FOSTER CHILD) also told me that (FOSTER CHILD) does not want to go back to Mr (GS)’s home as the girl that stays there is weird and talked about sex.

(FOSTER CHILD) said the girl explained in detail how another Key Assets boy “fucked her doggy style”. (FOSTER CHILD) told me that the girl said sex is very nice and that (FOSTER CHILD) must also try it. Ms Kendle Smith promised (FOSTER CHILD) that, because she understands how important the Jonker family is in (FOSTER CHILD)’s life, (FOSTER CHILD) could have contact whenever (FOSTER CHILD) wishes. (FOSTER CHILD) must just tell her and she will arrange it! – (audio evidence available).

(However, (FOSTER CHILD) was not, and is still not, allowed to contact us with permission from DCP!) (FOSTER CHILD) was moved during middle November 2012 (after 6 weeks at Mr (GS)'s home) to a permanent placement at a new carer with the name of (C). (FOSTER CHILD) only stayed with (C) for one week when the placement broke down. (C) asked Key Assets to remove (FOSTER CHILD) from his care as it will not work out. (FOSTER CHILD) was placed back in the care of Mr (GS) for 2 days. (FOSTER CHILD) was removed from Mr (GS)'s care after 2 days and put in PMH Hospital as there were no carers trained to look after (FOSTER CHILD) and manage (FOSTER CHILD)’s diabetes.

(FOSTER CHILD) stayed for about 2 weeks in PMH (A healthy child but just because there were no trained carers, had to stay in Hospital!) Up till now, (FOSTER CHILD) did not attend any school due to the disruption in (FOSTER CHILD)’s life! (FOSTER CHILD) was moved early December 2012 to another permanent placement in (PK). After enquiry from the Principal of (PRIMARY SCHOOL), DCP Joondalup decided to put (FOSTER CHILD) back in school. (FOSTER CHILD) attended ONLY 9 days of school for the whole of the fourth term! 18 January 2013: (FOSTER CHILD) ran away from (FOSTER CHILD)’s current carers in (PK) to us in (SH) (6 km distance). (FOSTER CHILD) was very upset and Desiree had to calm (FOSTER CHILD) down.

(FOSTER CHILD) told us that the carer got upset with (FOSTER CHILD), grabbed (FOSTER CHILD) with one hand and pushed (FOSTER CHILD) against the wall. The carer then hit a hole in the wall with his other fist, swearing at (FOSTER CHILD). (FOSTER CHILD) felt unsafe and decided to run away to us. (FOSTER CHILD) was also crying, saying that (FOSTER CHILD) regularly and constantly asked Ms Kendle Smith for (FOSTER CHILD) to visit us, but it was refused by Ms Kendle Smith. (FOSTER CHILD) said (FOSTER CHILD) was worried about us and wanted to see us! I took (FOSTER CHILD) to PMH after notifying Ms Kendle Smith about what happened. As I did not have (FOSTER CHILD)’s emergency diabetes kit with me, this was the only option left for me to do.

On our way to PMH (FOSTER CHILD) begged me to take (FOSTER CHILD) back again. (FOSTER CHILD) said that (FOSTER CHILD) does not want to go and stay with anybody else as nobody understands (FOSTER CHILD) and that they are all mean to (FOSTER CHILD). (FOSTER CHILD) asked me to please fight for (FOSTER CHILD) to come back to us. (FOSTER CHILD) once again stayed in PMH Hospital (as a healthy child) from 18 January 2013 until early February as there were no trained carers to look after (FOSTER CHILD).

I phoned the DCP Joondalup Office after this run away incident and asked them to 'take hands with me' to sort out this chaos in (FOSTER CHILD)'s life. I even suggested that I would withdraw the complaints I've made at the Complaints Management Unit DCP. The answer from Ms Jo-Anne Fletcher (DCP Joondalup was: “NO, you do not form part of our long-term planning for (FOSTER CHILD)!” (FOSTER CHILD) once again did not start attending school on 4 February, when schools started for the new year, due to the disruption in (FOSTER CHILD)’s life.

(FOSTER CHILD) was placed with a carer in Mandurah early February 2013, and started attending (PRIMARY SCHOOL) again after a few days in placement. This placement broke up after a week or two. (FOSTER CHILD) was now moved back to (FOSTER CHILD)’s Grandparents during March 2013 where (FOSTER CHILD) stayed until August 2013. (FOSTER CHILD) has now been moved into a new placement with new foster carers (against (FOSTER CHILD)’s will!!). I am now blamed by Joondalup DCP for the signs of breaking up in this placement. DCP Joondalup ignored warnings by professional people that the chances are very big that this placement will fail just as the previous ones did. The professional people asked DCP Joondalup to place (FOSTER CHILD) back into our care. DCP Joondalup ignored their request and suggestions. Where is the humanity now?

(Please note that I do have the support from all professional people working with (FOSTER CHILD) and they are all willing to testify and support us as carers on this matter when asked to) They have given permission for their names and contact numbers to be made public when needed). We have all the evidence and proof (also on audio) available to expose the lies by DCP and Key Assets. There is much more information that we can give if needed. PLEASE HELP!!

A GRANDMOTHER at the heart of a legal tug-of-war over the future of two young children claims she may never see them again – due to social services negligence and failures.

As reported by the Daily Echo, the two children will be separated and placed into adoptive homes after their grandmother lost a lastditch appeal to look after them.

London’s Civil Court of Appeal heard how the youngsters, aged three and five, had grown up in a volatile home with a history of domestic abuse and neglect, and have complex problems that need extra care.

But the case led one of the top judges in the country to deliver a scathing verbal attack on Southampton City Council after the children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were left without a permanent home for more than two years. Now their grandmother has expressed her disappointment at losing the appeal and says she would “give her life” for her grandchildren.

She said: “I haven’t been treated fairly from the beginning.

“Social services are saying I saw the children three times a week and I must have known what was going on in their house.

“My answer to that was I have never been to their house, they were visiting me at my house.

“I have spent the last two years trying to prove the truth and I have done everything I have been told to do.”

She told the Daily Echo she quit her job and moved 150 miles away to distance herself from the children’s parents to prove she had no contact with them.

She added she also met with social workers once a month to discuss the case.

She said: “They have disregarded me from day one.

They are not giving families a chance and you cannot get the advice you need.

“I am debating whether I can take it to the Supreme Court but I cannot get legal aid because of the new legal aid system.

“I would give my life for my kids and my grandchildren and I have proved there’s nothing I would not do for them.

“I fear I may never see them again, unless they come looking for me or after they turn 18.”

As previously reported, the grandmother applied to look after the children but was told that, despite being able to offer a good standard of care, it would not be enough to deal with the problems they face.

The court also heard the youngsters had not had a permanent, settled home since the council took them into care in 2011, after one of them was admitted to hospital with symptoms of developmental delay due to neglect.

Lord Justice Ryder and Lord Justice Tomlinson dismissed her case at the appeal hearing in London, despite saying they “well understood” why she felt she had not been treated well by the council.

Lord Justice Ryder said the youngsters had waited “long enough” for stable homes and that no further delay in deciding their future could be tolerated.

Expressing sympathy with the grandmother, Lord Justice Tomlinson said: “I know this will be of no consolation to the grandmother, but I would stress that our decision reflects no adverse assessment of her parenting skills – quite the reverse.”

Referring to the council’s handling of the children’s case, he said: “However, one may characterise the performance of this local authority as one of drift, delay and a failure to get a grip – there is no evidence of either bad faith or unfair process. “I regret, with a great deal of sympathy for the grandmother’s position, there is no real prospect of success in this appeal.

“These children have waited for long enough for decisions and a placement to be made.”

Southampton City Council said it would not be commenting further on the case, but reiterated a statement issued by Councillor Sarah Bogle, the council’s Cabinet member for children’s services, which said: “The council takes all matters relating to children’s welfare very seriously, and we are working extremely hard to improve the outcomes for all children in the city.”

By Rory McKeown,

dailyecho.co.uk

I was cornered and he turned violent and assaulted me by pushing my abdomen when I was three months pregnant

My name is Elaine Lim and I was a 30 year old Singaporean Chinese, seeking genuine relationship and commitment. Like others, had past relationships but did not work out, I gave it a go on a serious online dating website and was surprised my ex-husband Timothy Evans aged 26 had shown great interest on my conservative honest profile.

He expressed extreme adoration towards me and after a few months of long distance relationship he invited me to come over to Sydney to meet him and his family. I was surprised but looked forward to this sincere request and our relationship.

We spent Christmas together and getting to know each other. He mentioned to me about settling down and starting our family together. He proposed to me, we got married in Feb 2009 and I was pregnant soon after.

He started to reveal his true self; he said he had dealings with drugs, smoking cannabis and had past drink driving charges. He started drinking heavily. I was terrified of him returning home from work being verbally abusive towards me and blaming me, and he started to intimidate and control me. He even threatened to revoke my spouse visa and send me back to my country.

One night he came home with beers, drinking heavily and became aggressive towards me, after he started the quarrel, I was cornered and he turned violent and assaulted me by pushing my abdomen when I was three months pregnant.

I was fearful of my unborn child’s safety and my own and tried to escape out of the rented unit but he tried to stop me by grabbing my wrists. I had enough of his domestic violence. My neighbour called the police on my behalf and the police officer brought me to Wollongong hospital for check up to make sure my unborn baby was safe. The next thing I know was I was taken to a women’s’ refuge.

She was being removed by DOCS FACS Coniston just three days under my care without my knowledge

I gave birth to my lovely healthy daughter, Suelia Lim with DOCS FACS worker Julie Leighton by my side, she was from DOCS FACS Coniston called by my Salvation Army women’s’ refuge workers. I did not have any idea what this government department did and I was told they are here to support my baby and myself.

I was informed by the doctor that my baby and myself were ready to be discharge and return back to my women’s refuge with my new born baby. I was looking forward to being a full time mother. I was being told that I am being considered to go to mothers learning craft centre called Tresilian but the waiting list is full. I agreed to be put on the waiting list.

Suelia was under my care for three days in the women’s’ refuge, when she was removed by DOCS FACS Coniston just three days under my care without my knowledge. I cried, was devastated and lost, it happened days before I was supposed to meet up with my ex-husband and ex mother in law Dianne Evans to meet with my new baby Suelia.

I had no idea where or whom my baby was with. She was placed in foster care for a few months, I went to DOCS FACS Coniston to have contact visits with her, DOCS FACS requested my ex-husband take up full time care of Suelia, even though he was not qualified due to his past crimes. He turned it down by saying other family might take her in, when the case worker requested to my ex mother in law to take up full time care, she replied that she was working part time, unable to have her full time.

They were not prepared to give up what they had to have full custody but the next thing I know was my baby was with my both ex in laws, Dianne Evans and Raymond Evans until she is eighteen years old.

My representing solicitor Jeff David from Hanson Lawyer did not inform me about the hearing date at Port Kembla Children’s’ Court. At that time, I was sent and warded in Shellharbour mental health unit by DOCS FACS for my major depression, I said I did bring in some antidepressants from Singapore but soon ran out of it as I could not afford to visit private doctors for consultation and the cost of medication.

DOCS FACS said my baby was an unplanned pregnancy

I was discharged without any diagnoses from Shellhabour mental health unit team. I then rented a two bedroom unit in North Wollongong with DOH. I had got one worker from the women’s ‘refuge who mentioned that I am beginning to pick up mother skills and had shown affections and care for my baby.

DOCS FACS made false accusations of me in my avidavit accused me of lack of bonding with my baby and burping my baby upside down and giving my baby hot milk bottle, with unkempt psychical appearance and cluttered refuge room and me looking hostile. DOCS FACS said my baby was an unplanned pregnancy. I was married in February and delivered my baby in October.

I was falsely accused of having psychosis symptoms like hallucination and hearing voices, which do not exist at all. I want to have full parental responsibilities of my child, is it too much to ask? They are not qualified medical professionals to make false mental health report of me, and wrongly diagnosed me of my condition.

I was threatened by both ex in laws

By mutual agreement with my ex in law, with no orders in placed, for about five months, I had contact visits with my daughter twice a week total of four hours a week at my ex in laws place, supervised by my ex in laws. I felt I was being observed by my ex in laws during the contact visits with no privacy. My ex father in law, Raymond Evans became intimidating and verbally abusive towards me when I was having contact visits with my child at their place. He started to order me around in his house and calling me names with racist remarks all these happened with my child around which is highly inappropriate.

I was threatened by both ex in laws to leave their residence and if not they are going to call the police. My ex father in law told me not to look in my daughter’s bedroom wardrobe as it is his house and even blocked the front of his house entrance with a folded table as I was not welcome at their premises.

I informed my ex-husband, Timothy Evans about this matter over the phone, the next thing I knew was I am not allowing having contact visits my child at all at their residence and my contact visits only occurred once or twice in a month at a shopping mall for an hour supervised by my ex-husband. He was a highly inappropriate person to be there during the contact visit because police had applied for a two year AVO against him.

I applied legal Aid for a family law solicitor, my lawyer applied for restoration Section 90 on my behalf, on the grounds of no sufficient contact visits with my child and myself, having shown significant changes during the past months. Port Kembla children’s’ court reopened my case for hearing. My ex in laws and ex-husband falsely accused me of child abuse when I was having contact visits at their place and reported that I was the one that started the issues with them.

DOCS FACS solicitor Carol Askee represented the Department in Port Kembla children court and opposed the idea of me seeking private parenting assessor Cinzia Gagliardi and DOCS FACS were not willing to accept my parenting assessment done by The court’s clinic but only keen in sending me to Queen Elizabeth ll for a few nights of twenty four hours of parenting assessments by DOCS FACS appointed workers.

After the hearing, I had the go ahead to proceed to do my private parenting assessment, I paid thousands, half of the assessment fees and legal aid paid the other half. Cinizia Gagliardi asked me a lot of questions during the interviews and I had to answer, five hundred irrelevant questionaires about myself.

Cinzia arrived at my rental to do the forensic clinical parenting assessment, my two year old daughter arrived but she was reserved and uneasy with my parenting assessor Cinzia around and her assistant, DOCS FACS case worker, Isobel George and Jacinta Wall my disability support worker from Catholic Care Wollongong who had provided my improved parenting assessment skills and had emphases my bonding with my daughter Suelia in her positive report.

The forensic clinical parenting assessment done by Cinzia Gagliardi turned out to be very negative with false accusations about myself and my child and favoured to my ex in laws. I am a single mother with no family support and a foreigner and it is an unfair comparison.

My child is confused and lost about her cultural background and identity. I was advised by my solicitor that due to the negative outcome of the parenting report. I had to dismiss my restoration and to apply for more contact visits instead. My ex sister in law Carlie Evans, she is a current NSW police officer, youngest daughter of my ex in laws wanted to end an hour early during a contact visit without informing beforehand, held at a paid play centre at Zoom.

She is an off duty officer who grabbed my upset and crying daughter from me and put her in her car and drove off during this first harassment.

The second harassment occurred during my contact visit with my child, Carlie Evans arrived an hour early without texting or calling, banging on my windows and threatened me to open the door or she was going to call the police. My child was traumatised and cried loudly by the ordeal.

I had captured the whole incident as evidence and had applied for an AVO but dropped the AVO in criminal court house in Wollongong as Carlie had hired a lawyer to defend her in court and I was pressurised to drop the case during the hearing. At the children’s’ court hearing at Port Kembla, DOCS FACS accused me of being socially isolated and not getting into the community.

My representing family law solicitor highlighted that I should be able to bring my child out for different activities during the contact visits and not being confined to my residence but DOCS FACS opposed it during court hearing and opposed the idea of me having more contact visits with my child in children’s court hearing.

Skype are not allowed between my child and me. I had a final court order of minimum three hours of contact visits with my child at my place unsupervised until Suelia attained the age of five years old. A conference meeting was held a Port Kembla Children Court with the court secretary, my child solicitor Wayne Holden, DOCS FACS Shellharbour worker, Isobel George and Anne Blackwell, DOCS FACS solicitor Carol Askee and my mother in law Dianne Evans and her daughter Carlie Evans.

DOCS FACS sided with my ex in law about why it was one sided with my in laws who were doing the transportation during the contact visits, the court secretary asked DOCS FACS workers what do they suggest instead. They wanted me to put in the effort as well, but I highlighted the fact that both my in laws making the contact visits very difficult for me.

To my disappointment, the conference meeting did not resolve much at all regarding the contact visits as there are disputes during the meeting. In January, Carlie Evans posted in her top page profile of her social media, a nude shot of Suelia with her underpants on lying on a sun lounge.

It is an image on my three years old child being sexual exploited. I was informed by NSW police that they had no issue with the picture and that Carlie had taken down her profile from the social media. My father in law had posted in his second profile in social media an image of my daughter standing next to a big smokey bonfire at their driveway.

These images of my child appear in their profile are highly disturbing, as they are targeting at me using my child as hostage. Suelia arrived at my place during a contact visits with a large purple blue bruise on her right eye socket, It was due to neglect.

I tried to contact DOCS FACS on duty officer was shocked that DOCS FACS Shellharbour workers and managers gave me incorrect phone number and for the emergency hotline, they gave me NRMA insurance hotline instead. I had no other options but to report to police on my child unexplained injury on her eye socket.

I am afraid for my child’s safety and psychological development under the care of both ex in laws, as they are domineering and controlling in the upbringing of my child. My ex in laws had tried to change my daughter’s birth name from Suelia Lim to Suelia Evans for her preschool class and had attempted to mislead my daughter into thinking that her mummy does not love her but failed.

I joined Luke’s Army Facebook group as a member for support as well as assisting grieving single parents like me in the support group. I had met a lot of helpful compassionate individuals on the site.

In July, I discovered Suelia’s aunt Carlie Evans posted the same naked picture of my child with her underpants on, on her social media profile. Nevertheless, she removed her profile yet again.

The third harassment occurred, this time it was my ex mother in law Dianne Evans who arrived an hour early during the contact visit without informing by texts or call, last week my contact visit was cancelled without a valid excuse , so during this contact visit I am going to have a total of six hours of makeup contact visit.

I asked Dianne,” will my make up one hour contact visit be next week?” She replied,” Next week Suelia will be having a holiday in Canberra.” But actually Suelia was in Cairns for a holiday with them.

Dianne refused to tell me about the makeup contact visit session. Dianne was trying to grab my upset Suelia and go off but was being denied. I am trying to console my traumatised child who had been affected for the third time and trying to settle her down, for the best interest of my child I could not just let her go in this unsettling situation.

Dianne called the police on me. Three officers arrived at my place. Dianne was trying to lie to the police about the contact visit time, falsely accused me of being mentally unstable and lies about the missed contact visit. I told the officers that she was lying about the whole thing as I had captured all the harassment as evidence. The police officer handled the situation by telling me when the next make up contact visit will be after Suelia came back from holiday.

My ex brother in law, Michael Evans and ex in laws had threatened to move interstate, so that I would not be able to see my child at all. DOCS FACS Shellharbour called me up to have a meeting with Narella, the manager. I was accompanied by my support person from Luke’s army, I was told not to video during my contact visits, I replied that I have the right to capture harassment at my residence.

She said I should not meet strangers online, I replied I have the right to make friends. I am not able to defend myself in the family court for those penalties that I did not make.

My child had pleaded to stay longer and overnight with mummy and reluctant to leave my place after our contact visit, but was being rejected out front by my in laws again and again. She is being unfairly treated and her right is being removed.

I want to have full parental responsibilities of my child, is it too much to ask? I had shown significant changes in my circumstance and had attend numerous parenting courses with great parenting report done by my disability support worker and my psychiatrist acknowledge me as mother with a stable mentality to care for Suelia, yet all these is being dismissed by the family court system.

I hope to get Suelia back soon before the family court thinks that she is stable in her current carers.

Elaine Lim

My two daughters were removed by Department of Community Services Surry Hills DoCS (Now known as the Department of Family Services FACS). They lied and twisted every word that was said by myself and everyone else they came into contact with. My mother, my ex partner, my brother, sisters, people from church, my doctors. They even called the school my daughters went to and told them nothing but lies, but the principle of the school did not believe them. They lied so much about me that nobody believed them, but still they have my daughters until they are eighteen in foster care in NSW.

Photo: Miss Lewin was a visit supervisor who assaulted my daughter at a visit by strangling her and throwing her against a wall causing her to become hysterical. I immediately called an ambulance to attend the FACS NSW Surry Hills Supervised visit, No charges were laid and nothing happened except for a cover up.

She would take notes at the visits she supervised and twist everything and lie about the whole visit. She threatened my by saying that if my oldest daughter who was then 8 years old went away from her side she would stop the visit. She accused my daughter of being crazy, and that I was too.

Photo: Jackie Meyer.

Jackie Meyer, a caseworker manager for FACS NSW Surry Hills office was in charge of the whole theft of my daughters. She lied and covered up lies of the other FACS Surry Hills workers. She oversaw the whole corrupt operation. She was investigated by the ombudsman and the complaints unit and they found that she had submitted misleading information (lies). she altered documents also. She was sacked for what she did to me and my children, but my children have never been returned, and I am not allowed to see them until they are 18.

Photo: Dale Chiswick Manager Caseworker Surry Hills Office of FACS NSW. Dale Chiswick lied about everything. She threatened me on numerous occasions, practically everytime I spoke to her she would threaten me with the removal of my children until they were 18, a threat which she has followed through with successfully.

First she threatened to take my first daughter and then she did, then she threatened to take my other daughter, and she did. Then when she had stolen both of my children, she threatened to separate them with different foster carers, which she has done.

This woman is the cruelest of them all and should never be allowed near children, she is a government endorsed predator upon children and families with ultimate powers.

Dale Chiswick also sent police from the Redfern Police Station to threaten my life and they also held a gun to me. My four tyres were also slashed around this time. It was at this stage I decided not to fight these corrupt FACS workers any longer and just hope that my daughters return to me when they turn 18.

Investigation into a complaint about the conduct of kinship assessments (and related matters) by Child and Family Services

A copy of the report can be found here.

After the report was finalised, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services provided additional information on the implementation of the recommendations contained within the report.

Recommendation One:

• All southern region staff were provided with formal training on the importance of family connections and the guidelines that are in place on this matter. Following the immediate response to this recommendation, significant work and planning has occurred in the area of workforce development and training across the state. Further training opportunities have now been put in place for staff across the state in relation to:
• • Family focused responses to risk and safety
  • Sound and robust risk assessment training
  • Signs of Safety training
  • Family Partnership Training and
  • Circle of security training will be provided later in the year
• All of these training programs promote and teach family led and family focused risk assessment and case management. These training programs have now been formally built into the ongoing training continuum for Children and Youth Services and will be provided on an ongoing and continuous basis.

Recommendation Two:

• There are clear guidelines in place which direct that kinship placements must be explored and exhausted prior to children entering foster care. Kinship care assessment practices were immediately reviewed and changes to process were made in the southern region to ensure this was further imposed. The analysis and assessment of kinship placements are conducted as a matter of course now and is a trigger question at all times when children enter the Out of Home Care System.

Recommendation Three:

• Immediate changes were made to the delegation and endorsement of Care and Case Plans and affidavit material. In addition to this, quality assurance and review of affidavit material is now consistently provided by Crown Law.
• An additional mechanism for continual improvement in the quality of Case and Care Plans is through the Quality Improvement and Workforce Development Team which sits across Children and Youth Services in the Program Support area. This team conducts regular quality appraisals of key activities within Children and Youth Services and has included Case and Care Planning.
• One appraisal was conducted in 2012 which has resulted in the development of a quality improvement strategy which focuses on additional staff training, system/process changes and further changes to the case and care planning practice guidelines. Case and Care Plans are now part of a quality work plan which will allow for these plans to be apprised on a 12 monthly cycle in order to review practices and amend improvement strategies as required.

Recommendation Four:

·         Training in the legal requirements and content of affidavit material was provided immediately following the investigation and regular training opportunities are provided through Crown Law as part of their service agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Recommendation Five:

·         This recommendation was accepted and Quality Improvement and Workplace Development have since put in place joint training opportunities between Tasmania Police and Child Protection Services. This will again be built into the ongoing training continuum for Children and Youth Services. In addition to staff training, the Memorandum of Understanding between Tasmania Police and Child Protection Services is currently under review providing a further opportunity to ensure that clarification of dual roles and responsibilities in matters where police are involved is noted.

Recommendation Six:

·         A written apology has been provided with referral through your Office as required.

Recommendation Seven:

·         The Director of Operations, Children and Youth Services addressed the serious practice issues with the specific staff identified throughout the investigation and they have undergone counselling as a result.

·         Both staff are subject to regular performance development meetings in line with Agency requirements.

Michael,
I am the father who was accused seven times, actually now eight. Both Mr. Miller and myself have been contacted by numerous producers from the Dr. Phil Show. Mr. Miller had his email spoofed & hacked just recently and now the FBI is involved as well. I'm waiting to hear back from the Ca. State Bar.

Respectfully,
Ken

My name is Ken and this letter dated 2/12/12 was written by Graham Miller. He and I met at a parenting class back in 2007. This is all true and YES...please post and share this with all those who love all children.

Thank you so much for caring,
Ken Hollander

Regarding qualified potential financial donors to your organization and
causes.

If David J. Glass ESQ, PHD is not already a current donor towards your
organization, it may because he has been spending much of his time throwing
catered parties and attending Laker games. Maybe a solicitation on your part
may help him start a monthly financial contribution towards your organization
.  I am attaching a copy portion of the latest August, 2013  FMBK monthly
newsletter which boastfully claims how well he and those around him are
eating and living exceptionally  well, while children across the globe are
starving to death, are homeless, neglected and abused every day. It would
appear that such a successful family law firm  such as FMBK and an attorney
with a PhD in Psychology would already be generous donors to your cause.
The income levels of those fortunate enough to reside in the city of Beverly
Hills, CA. are sufficiently able to afford generous ongoing  contributions to
your organization.
                                                      DAVID GLASS HOSTS FMBK
MIXER
David and Carol Glass hosted an FMBK mixer at their beautiful home in Beverly
Hills to help welcome our 2013 summer law clerks Anna Giroux and David Jones.
Carol's family's restaurant, Joan's on 3rd, catered the event, alongside a
portable pizza oven that fired out hand crafted, delicious pizza pies!
Dessert included brownie bites, lemon squares, and other delicious sweets.
All of the attorneys attended, and the mild Southern California weather made
it a lovely outdoor event. Thank you David and Carol for hosting!

To remind all those with morals and to all those who love all children, that
this David J. Glass Esq. PhD would giggle & laugh at me while waiting to see
the judge. Shortly after this attached letter dated 2-12-2012 was received by
the community of Malibu, CA this David J. Glass Esq. PhD conspired to injure
a 3rd party (myself) , suborned perjury and falsified evidence just before he
closed down his practice and went to FMBK Law.The CA State Bar has just
received a 2nd complaint regarding this matter.

2-12-12
                                                                 Mr. Graham J
Miller

REGARDING CHILD ABUSE

  To The Principals of Malibu Elementary Schools and To Whom it may concern
within the LAUSD and SMMUSD administrations, Directors or other persons.
Dear Sir Madam or MS,

I am writing to you firstly as a parent. I have a child in a Malibu public
school.  I am also writing as a Citizen, and therefore concerned in a more
global manner with issues that I personally find disturbing and relevant. I
believe a possible failure to perform to ethical codes of several
professions, let alone what any normal person may find to be reasonable is
about to, and could in the future lead to embarrassment, public consternation
and at best a complete lack of faith ,trust and confidence in the above
agencies.

  I have recently been informed by my daughter Lily-Jane Faith Miller that her
mother has taken her out of Callahan elementary (Northridge); and she is now
at some school in Malibu district. (Grade 2)

  My reasons for my concern follow.

Within the Malibu school district there is a teacher, (C Cullen) who has
accused her ex-husband of two counts of sexual abuse of their son, and 5
other counts of abuse of their son (11). This alleged abuse according to Ms.
Cullen and her Attorney took place over the past 5 years.

  I would like a notation in my daughter’s file that she is never to be
placed in class with the above person as her “(my daughters)” teacher. I
apologize in in that I amenable to provide more details on my daughter’s
whereabouts (school) but her Mom has not provided that info. I’m sure Dr
Jacob the principal at Callahan would be able to assist.

  In MS Cullen’s divorce and custody case she utilized the services of a Mr.
D Glass Esq.(Attorney) Mr Glass is also a PhD in Psychology .Mr. Glass was
also utilized by the mother of my daughter, Lily -Jane in my own divorce and
custody matter. Mr. Glass a Psychologist/ Attorney and mandated reporter saw
fit to bring allegations  of sexual abuse of a child and 4 allegations of
other forms of abuse of MS Cullen’s son Sammy  before family court. These
all were investigated by the Police DCFS, and the District Attorney. They
were found to be without either Medical or Credentialed 3rd party
verification and closed therefore as unsubstantiated. These allegations were
brought by MS Cullen via the services of Mr. Glass and occurred regularly
before the summer school break on a yearly basis. MS Cullen had also recently
remarried a Mr Brian Winsick another Teacher and coach in the Conejo Valley.
Their marriage took place just prior to the allegations beginning.

I will now outline my concerns and reasons for the request of the notation in
my daughters file.

It is my belief that the relationship between this teacher Ms. Cullen and her
attorney and my own ex-wife and the same attorney is cause for reasonable
concern. That to avoid any unfortunate incident where god forbid I was to be
accused by my daughter’s mother of something similar as MS Cullen accused
her ex-husband of it is imperative no establish able link is in place as
could lead to suspicion of collusion.  The worst case scenario that Ms.
Cullen at some time becomes my daughters teacher and subsequently claims  are
made that perhaps my daughter had inferred  to MS Cullen that I had abused
her ( Lily-Jane) and MS Cullen then could relate this  to my daughters mother
through their mutual attorney, or contact at school is beyond  horrific. I
feel the separation of my daughter and this teacher protects LAUSD/SMMUSD and
my daughter and me.

In a more global sense I am concerned that a teacher married to another
teacher and coach and an attorney who is also licensed as a psychologist made
no attempt to make aware the LAUSD or the SMUSD of their concerns. (Two
allegations of Sexual abuse and five other allegations of abuse.) Surely some
ethical codes of their respective professions would demand other relevant or
parties who could be impacted be advised.

When a teacher finds the resources to pay $500 an hour to a Beverly Hills
Attorney for 5 years surely there is a need for verification that such
allegations will bring in terms of the expenses the County and State will
bear during the protracted conflict. Especially if the accused has been made
indigent by the continued claims and has suffered stress or work issues
stemming from such accusations and is no longer paying taxes.

As a parent I certainly would be outraged if I knew my child’s teacher was
aware of a legitimate abuse situation and if, as in this case it included
Sexual Abuse allegations and that teacher did nothing to bring attention to
it as could protect other children I would expect answers. Specifically why
and how a person(s) (2 Teachers, (Coach), An Attorney/Psychologist) would go
ahead and consciously disregard accusations of such a serious nature, and
then they having brought these allegations before family court and the
district attorney go ahead and let other parents arrange activities with the
person they were accusing of abuse in a manner as would expose other children
to the accused.

What  is more disturbing and I expect the press will find disturbing is that
repeated allegations of this nature are often utilized in family conflicts
and that this is acceptable is in fact a failure of morality within our
society. I believe this failure may have had a profound societal impact.

That the failure of an application of evidentiary standards as are normally
applied in criminal matters may have allowed credentialed persons possibly
with questionable motive to use family court in a manipulative and deceitful
way to achieve their own ends appears to me to be worthy of consideration.

This epidemic of claims of abuse of children caught in such situations,
(family breakups) versus children, who suffer actual abuse , desensitizes the
general public and governmental agencies and allows real and dangerous
criminals to hide and operate with virtual impunity in our society. It is
beyond Peter and the Wolf it is an ongoing crime against humanity. To falsely
perpetrate something that I believe leads to what we are now facing in the
LAUSD and SMMUSD and may have exacerbated, perpetuated and indeed by lack of
action condoned events and actions that possibly has led to emotional; mental
and even physical harm to any child is heinous.

I believe because of the actions as I have described many prior red flags
have been ignored in many abuse situations and much suffering and harm and
expense could have been avoided if a less commonplace attitude   of children
was the norm.

Indeed in the immediate situation with (C Cullen, B Winsick )either the
allegations were scurrilous and a product of vitriol, and an attorney(PhD
Psych) with who knows what motivation (7 Claims) and that these claims were
worthy of public expense .Or these persons were aware the claims they were
bringing were false and therefore not worthy of reporting to LAUISD/SMUSD or
other parents.? The alternative is an admission of negligent  lack of
reasonable due diligence and surely a great lack of concern for the school
both pupils and other teachers and parents has been flagrantly displayed in
total disregard for the safety and welfare of minors. Whether this is or
should be a concern for the bond holders of these persons I do not know. Mr.
Glass, Glass family Law and former associate of (Kolodny & Anteau) One of the
most respected family law firms in the United States (Mel Gibson Getty, etc.)
has been investigated by the CA Bar already in this matter and while the
complaint was not upheld a letter suggesting the possibility of civil redress
was issued by them.

The APA also found he did no wrong apparently within their own ethics code.

The fact remains an Attorney/Psychologist and a Teacher and a Teacher/Coach
surely have some duty to the community. The positions of trust and respect
they are afforded should allow the general public a reasonableness within
their expectation of propriety and protection of the innocent by such
credentialed persons.

Perhaps the LAUSD/SMUSD could incorporate or suggest to the  CA Bar a
cooperative relationship of a professional nature that would allow this
protection to be afforded our children as well as draft a code for the
LAUSD/SMUSD’s own employees in such situations.

Certainly recent events could lead one to surmise that a better clarified way
of maintaining the safety and welfare of our children, from both bonifide and
false claims of abuse would be helpful. The harm that both real and imagined
events can bring to families, as well as collateral persons and an
institution such as children’s learning environment should be minimalized
at all times.

Sincerely Yours,

Graham J Miller.

885 Avenue of the Americas

Penthouse 1A

New York. NY. 10001

Lee Bonneau, 6, was killed on Aug. 21 at Kahkewistahaw First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan. Police have confirmed his death as a homicide, allegedly at the hands of another child.

Saskatchewan government faces questions over foster care after six-year-old slain

The Saskatchewan government is facing further questions about its foster care system, while it has no plan to build a locked facility for troubled youths following the recent slaying of a six-year-old at the hands of another child.

“We have a range of facilities that assure the safety of the child,” Andrea Brittin, assistant deputy minister of social services, said on Wednesday of the province’s plan to house the child suspect at an “out-of-home” facility.

“Some of the facilities in Saskatchewan use intensive staffing models to ensure the children are safe and are receiving the supervision they need.”

While declining to comment directly on the killing of Lee Bonneau last month at southeast Saskatchewan’s Kahkewistahaw First Nation, the opposition New Democrats said they have “serious concerns” about the provincial government’s foster care system — particularly after the deaths of several children under the watch of family services in recent years.

“This is the fifth foster child death — categorized as suspicious or criminal — in the past four years (in Saskatchewan),” NDP spokeswoman Erin Morrison told Metro of the child suspect’s alleged killing of Bonneau, a ward of the Ministry of Social Services, on Aug. 21 at the reserve near Broadview.

“There are more questions than answers right now.”

RCMP have confirmed that the boy who allegedly killed Bonneau with an unspecified weapon is under 12 — the minimum age to face the judicial system under the federal Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The suspect is being held at an unsecured facility equipped with 24-hour supervision, according to the province.

While Alberta and Ontario have locked facilities for such youths, Saskatchewan does not.

“The facilities we have here in the province are very good,” Brittin said, noting that if it’s determined that the suspect in Bonneau’s killing cannot be “safely and securely managed,” the ministry might look to other provinces for help.

This past spring, the NDP criticized the province for housing toddlers and infants under its care at Dale’s House — a Regina group home for troubled teenagers.

The government described that as a temporary measure and said the younger children had been kept in an area separate from the teens.

AUSTIN (August 29, 2013)—Texas Child Protective Services caseworkers have randomly inspected 23 area foster homes in the wake of the arrest a foster mother in Rockdale, who is charged with capital murder in the death of a 2-year-old who was in her care.

Julie Moody of the Department of Family and Protective Services said Thursday caseworkers interviewed a total of 59 children in the 23 homes and removed two children from one of the homes because of the use of inappropriate discipline.

In another case, caseworkers barred a frequent visitor from a foster home until a criminal background check was performed, Moody said.

Sherill Small, 54, of Rockdale was arrested earlier this month on a warrant charging murder and remains in the Milam County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

The child, Alexandria Hill, 2, died at Scott & White’s McLane Children’s Hospital after she was taken off life support.

Smalls’ arrest affidavit says, “She became frustrated with Alexandria, picked her up, and in a downward motion with a lot of force came down toward the ground with her.”

“She did this twice and on the third time she lost her grip and the victim was thrown to the ground head first,” the affidavit said.

At McLane’s emergency room, the affidavit says, doctors found that the toddler had “subdural hemorrhaging, subarachnoid hemorrhaging, and retinal hemorrhaging in both eyes.”

Small became a foster parent through Texas Mentor, a child placement agency with a dismal history.

State records show it has racked up 59 violations in the past two years. Some of those violations center around routine background checks that weren’t corrected after inspection.

Residential Child Care Licensing has been investigating Texas Mentor since Small’s arrest. The contractor has nearly 70 foster homes in Central Texas.

Texas Mentor sent News 10 a statement after the inspections were announced that said, “We are aware that the state has been in contact with several of our foster homes. Given the recent tragedy, we will cooperate fully.”

Meanwhile Thursday retired U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack has ruled that a class-action lawsuit accusing the state of poorly supervising foster children can proceed.

She certified as a class more than 12,000 abused and neglected children permanently removed from their birth families in the suit brought by the group Children’s Rights.

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Failed: Seven out of 14 caseworkers who were unable to achieve a pass when they applied for a team leader role were already working more senior roles. Photo: Sean Davey

Many caseworkers are employed as senior supervisors at the state's child protection hotline despite having failed the application process for the role.

Internal documents obtained by Fairfax Media show that seven of the 14 caseworkers who failed to achieve a pass when they applied for the role of team leader were already acting in the more senior position. It is understood that most of the caseworkers who failed the application assessment are still acting in the more senior roles.

The document, signed by Michelle Allan, the acting manager of the Child Protection Helpline, on May 9, shows that caseworkers deemed ''not successful'' scored marks of 11 to 15.5 out of 30. To pass they are required to get 16 out of 30.

The senior role involves leading teams of up to five caseworkers who answer calls to the hotline, which fields reports about children at risk of abuse and neglect. The team leader supervises the caseworkers and escalates the priority given to more serious complaints if child safety is at serious risk.

Anna Patty

State Political Reporter

smh.com.au

Sir James Munby, an unusually humane and intelligent judge, is bent on rolling back the blanket of secrecy that has concealed many horror stories from public view

Note: Child Abuse and the Media in Australia

In light of this, says Munby, “public debate and the jealous vigilance of an informed press have an important role to play in exposing past miscarriages of justice and in preventing future miscarriages”. He emphasises that if confidence in the system is to be “maintained or, if eroded, restored”, it is vital that its workings should be as open to public view as possible. The answer to criticism of “secret courts” must be “more speech, less enforced silence”

By Christopher Booker

telegraph.co.uk

Using statistics from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), an issue brief from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families' Office of Data, Analysis, Research and Evaluation provides new details on the U.S. foster care system's size reduction over the last decade. The brief offers trends in demographics among children in foster care and State and county patterns.

Between 2002 and 2012, the overall number of children in foster care decreased by 24 percent—from 523,616 to 399,546. Demographically, reductions among African-American children in foster care were the most dramatic—declining by more than 47 percent during this time and accounting for three-quarters of the overall decline. Once making up more than a third of the foster care population, African-American children now represent just over one-quarter of all children in foster care. The group of children in foster care identified with two or more races experienced substantial growth during the same period, increasing from 13,857 children in foster care in 2002 to 22,942 in 2012. Statistics also show that since 2009, Native American children have had the highest rates of representation in foster care; however, these children, along with children of all other races and ethnicities, experienced reductions in average length of stay in care.

Ten States accounted for more than 90 percent of the total decline in foster care (California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and New Jersey), while three States (California, New York, and Florida) accounted for more than 50 percent of the reduction. Texas and Arizona experienced relatively large increases in the size of their foster care population. 

Recent Demographic Trends in Foster Care

Concerned: Community organisations have warned Pru Goward that changes to adoption laws could unfairly affect disadvantaged and vulnerable families. Photo: Wolter Peeters

Pru Goward Adds Forced Adoption to Her Arsenal Against NSW Families

"There needs to be greater emphasis on early intervention": Solicitor Janet Loughman.

But Anna Cody, the chairwoman of Community Legal Centres NSW, said the government plan ''suggests we have not learnt from the past and are set to repeat mistakes that will necessitate another apology in the future''.
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Janet Loughman, the principal solicitor at Women's Legal Services NSW, said a Family and Community Services discussion paper on the issue suggests the introduction of rigid time frames for deciding whether children will be restored to their parents before they are adopted by a new family.

''The current proposal is six months if the child is under two years and 12 months if the child is over two years,'' Ms Loughman said. ''We are very concerned that these time frames fail to acknowledge the time it takes to recover from trauma, particularly intergenerational trauma.

''There needs to be greater emphasis on and investment in early intervention. Except in extreme cases, early intervention services must be available to parents before children are removed.''

Ms Loughman said decisions about whether children are restored to their parents' care must be culturally appropriate, respond to individual needs and be in the best interests of the child.

Dr Margaret Spencer from the Intellectual Disability Rights Service said her organisation was ''seriously concerned that the time frames for family restoration and early adoption will be prejudicial to the children of parents with intellectual disabilities''.

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''Given the over representation of children known to Community Services whose parents have an intellectual disability, it is important that these changes consider the needs of these families and do not further discriminate against them,'' she said.

Rachael Martin, principal solicitor at Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre, said while Aboriginal children may be exempt from the proposed new adoption laws, not all Aboriginal children are identified as such.

''We do not want to see the government having to make another apology to children who have been removed from their parents,'' she said.

The letter signed by the groups says the proposed reforms could disproportionately affect vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

A spokesman for Family and Community Services Minister Pru Goward said the government sees adoption as an alternative to long-term foster care by offering a ''safe, stable home for life''

NSW Forced Adoption - Pru Goward Avoids Addressing Her Failing Department Instead Opting for More Powers

Anna Patty

smh.com

A NEWCASTLE man who used his foster daughter as a virtual sex slave had ‘‘a total disregard for her as a human being’’ at a time when she was ‘‘utterly alone and had nowhere to turn’’, a prosecutor told the district court yesterday.

The paedophile, who cannot be identified, claimed to have no memory of at least a year of sexually assaulting the teen despite him buying her lingerie, pornographic magazines and regularly forcing her to drink alcohol before the assaults, Newcastle District Court heard.

The sexual encounters were part of a heinous household routine on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the offender, aged in his 60s, having to inject his penis with prescription medication in order to achieve an erection, a statement of facts said.

Prosecutor Greg Coles said the girl, who was aged 14 and 15 at the times of the assaults, was in desperate need of support, but was instead subjected to a ‘‘sexual predator’’.

‘‘What she found was not protection, but exploitation,’’ he said.

‘‘The victim here was utterly alone and had nowhere else to turn ... she was helpless.’’

She had been in the care of the offender and his wife from the age of eight, but the wife suffered a lengthy illness and died in 2011.

The assaults started before the wife’s death with detectives from the child abuse squad discovering the offender increased the number of script repeats for his erection medication about two months before the wife’s death.

By September last year the girl had had enough and telephoned a friend for help before the friend’s mother rang police.

The girl was removed from the home while police seized lingerie, pornography and the offender’s medication.

The victim told police that she went along with the abuse for so long because she didn’t know how to say no.

She wrote in a victim impact statement that she was cutting herself and performing other acts of self-harm while being subjected to the abuse.

The offender eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault, which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.

Judge Raymond McLoughlin will sentence the offender  tomorrow.

By STEPHEN RYAN

theherald.com.au

Listening to parliament today the minister did not come through with to be announced legislation in regard to advocacy and falls short of increasing the powers of children's commissioner only increasing the job term.

Some parts of the amendments will provide better accountability and make it easier to argue in court, but it also does what intended to do and keep cases out of court through mandating parents to have to comply with the departments recommendations through orders. Will be meeting with the relevant politicians from tomorrow and need to compound the idea of a separate tribunal and role of advocate , because O'Byrne really wants to water that down with no real independent oversite by the look of it.

Remembering though this has been super rushed through.

Thanks to Jacquie for bringing us up in parliament today, O'Byrne got up to leave at one stage.

Working on a new national legislation will put us in poll position.

Adam Fraser   

Tribunal essential as much for eliminating lawyers and costs to families  as anything else.    There needs to be oversight of functions outside of department.  Still no role for public guardian.  Not good enough in my opinion.  

A tame attempt, been subject to internal lobbying by dept Perhaps?

Better than nothing. But could be much, much better.

Tim
Timothy Sanderson

Some further thoughts after sleeping on this, Adam.

I will go through this over the w/e, I have concerns that there is no protection for children's human rights being included here.  the concept of Rights and protection from harm are not the same thing.  Even Adults with Mental Illness or Disability are afforded the protection of their human rights in Tasmania, it is unacceptable that there is no identical protection for children.  There is a role for the Public Guardian here and so should be included in my view. Then you know my view on this.

The provisions and time lines of this Bill are still subject still to the courts' busy schedule.  A case can be made for utilising the same model of tribunal as exists already for Mental Health and Disability.  The Assumption that the decision to remove is right is still present in the language of this Bill, I want to look at this more closely.

The use of a tribunal allows both the state to justify its decisions in a timely manner and 8 weeks is NOT timely in my view, it is hell on wheels for parents and children.  5 weeks and 4 weeks (35 qne 28 days) is given in Mental Health Cases - parity here would be good?

There needs to be some reference to the State being subject to review in cases of Corrupt conduct i.e. the use of threats, coercion, bullying of parents by officers.  rendering Parents impotent by threats to 'keep children longer unless you comply' have to stop. This is another reason to introduce a tribunal/appeals mechanism.

The premise of the Bill is about the potential for harm - not unlike terrorism legislation.  Where there is criminal conduct by parents towards children, removal is clear and necessary - but removal because of 'potential harm' i.e. will always be problematic.  There ought to be a clear statement about understanding the psychological consequences of removal on children and families and that the department must provide ongoing psychological support to families from whom they have removed a child or children.  The current practice of treating parents in these cases as convicted criminals has to stop.

more thougthts in due course.

It would seem this honourable lady  being assailed by sodomites, could do with    alternative information and guidance, so as  to review action and direction.

This is an urgent appeal for your help.

Tess Corbett, a Victorian political candidate at the recent election, has been ordered by the New South Wales Administrative Decisions Tribunal to apologise for comments she made opposing paedophile 'rights'.

That's right. A Christian candidate in Australia has been punished for speaking out against paedophilia. The case was brought against her by the homosexual activist and serial litigant, Gary Burns.

The good news is that an appeal has been launched to overturn this decision. A barrister has also agreed to represent Tess and help her fight this case. He is working pro-bono but there are still going to be costs associated with travel and administration.

Tess is on a pension and is a grandmother. She needs your help and she won't be able to fight this case without support.

If you can, please donate. Even $5 will make a big difference. If this is not possible, please spread the word by forwarding this information onto your family and friends who are concerned about the dangerous erosion of values in our society.

Account details are:

    National Australia Bank
    Name: Family Values Action Account
    BSB: 084 134
    Number: 39 446 4501

Tess will need about $2,000 just to fight the case. She stands a strong chance of success, but if we really want to win, we must take this fight out of the court room and into the lounge rooms of Australians, who would be rightly shocked at what has happened. Obviously this will be expensive, but we will make do with whatever we can.
All donations to this account will be used to fund the appeal and, if possible, to inform the public of this situation. Any leftover funds will be saved for future battles. It is my intention that an organisation be established at some point in the future precisely for this purpose. It will be needed.
If you are interested in reading more about this situation, you can find the Tribunal's decision here . I posted this blog in response, and the original news story about Tess is here.

Apart from the morality of this case, there are several legal issues of concern. These include jurisdiction and the limitations this decision will place on the rights of (Christian) political expression in Australia. Please pray that these important points of law will be re-examined and that the original decision will be overturned.
Finally, make no bones about it, there are serious moves afoot to normalise paedophilia. In America, a group called B4U-ACT has been established to remove the 'stigma' from 'minor-attracted' adults. It preaches that peadophilia is not a choice and that paedophiles are 'whole persons' who are to be 'respected'. It's motto is Living in Truth and Dignity and it claims on its website that removing the stigma surrounding paedophilia will not harm children! This was exactly the same methodology used to normalise homosexuality - a 'sexual orientation' now protected by human rights tribunals across Australia.

In 2011, B4U-ACT sponsored a conference designed to help remove the stigma surrounding paedophilia. Consequently, earlier this year the American Psychiatric Association reclassified paedophilia from a psychiatric disorder to a ' sexual orientation ', just as it did with homosexuality in 1973. It was only after an outcry that this classification was scrapped.

Now we need to make a big outcry in Australia to support Tess Corbett because things are no better here. For instance, the ANZ Bank is proud to sponsor the Mardi Gras, even though it is aware that children are exposed to sexually-explicit behaviour at this event. It's all part of the normalisation process.

This process will continue unless people like us do something to stop it.

Please, donate and do all that you can to spread this message

Thank you for your time and genorsity.

Bernard Gaynor
Christ is our King!

PS - If you wish to donate to help keep my blog going, you can do so here . Thank you to all those who have generously donated recently.

As a CONSTITUTIONALIST I must be careful not to place my own personal views in my writings, rather to remain impartial as much as possible in matters.
My views must be expressed regardless of who might be the parties.
I may however make known that in my view same sex marriage are not for states/Territories to determine and marriage was understood by the framers of the constitution to be between a man and a woman.
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Those who are promoting same sex marriage used to complain that what they do in their bedroom should be their affairs. I agree.
However, now it is no longer (for decades actually) in their bedrooms but they are shoving it down or throats
and, while they were arguing that it was only about same sex marriages and would not lead to multiple partner marriages, bestiality and pedeophilia reality is that now the forces are on to pursue this to be accepted also.
Call it whatever you like the kind of arrangements, that now the forces are on that adults can marry not just under age children but those as soon as they are born, but I for one as a candidate in numerous elections never supported this kind of conduct.
Strangely enough the government never dared to take me on about this, perhaps because they know they are guaranteed to be defeated as I comprehensively did on 19 July 2006 with the Commonwealth of Australia.
Being a CONSTITUTIONALIST gives me the edge above lawyers and judges to know what my rights are.
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Tess Corbett as a candidate in an election therefore likewise was well entitled to express her position.
The States are created within s106 of the constitution and “subject to this constitution” which includes all legal principles embedded in this constitution!
HANSARD 17-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE Mr. DEAKIN.-
What a charter of liberty is embraced within this Bill-of political liberty and religious liberty-the liberty and the means to achieve all to which men in these days can reasonably aspire. A charter of liberty is enshrined in this Constitution, which is also a charter of peace-of peace, order, and good government for the whole of the peoples whom it will embrace and unite.
END QUOTE
 
HANSARD 17-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
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Mr. SYMON (South Australia).- We who are assembled in this Convention are about to commit to the people of Australia a new charter of union and liberty; we are about to commit this new Magna Charta for their acceptance and confirmation, and I can conceive of nothing of greater magnitude in the whole history of the peoples of the world than this question upon which we are about to invite the peoples of Australia to vote. The Great Charter was wrung by the barons of England from a reluctant king. This new charter is to be given by the people of Australia to themselves.
END QUOTE
And
HANSARD 17-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
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Mr. BARTON.- We can have every faith in the constitution of that tribunal. It is appointed as the arbiter of the Constitution. . It is appointed not to be above the Constitution, for no citizen is above it, but under it; but it is appointed for the purpose of saying that those who are the instruments of the Constitution-the Government and the Parliament of the day-shall not become the masters of those whom, as to the Constitution, they are bound to serve. What I mean is this: That if you, after making a Constitution of this kind, enable any Government or any Parliament to twist or infringe its provisions, then by slow degrees you may have that Constitution-if not altered in terms-so whittled away in operation that the guarantees of freedom which it gives your people will not be maintained; and so, in the highest sense, the court you are creating here, which is to be the final interpreter of that Constitution, will be such a tribunal as will preserve the popular liberty in all these regards, and will prevent, under any pretext of constitutional action, the Commonwealth from dominating the states, or the states from usurping the sphere of the Commonwealth.
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It seems to me Tess Corbett has the constitutional right to express herself as a candidate as to what she stands for. Indeed, it is essential that the constituents are made aware of her position and if she is for or against certain conduct.
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Obviously the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal would have had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter, for that it is a constitutional matter and as the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal is not a court invested with federal jurisdiction it had no judicial authority to adjudicate upon the matter if Tess Corbett had relied upon her constitutional rights. Still, by hindsight I view she can still appeal on this ground, even if she didn’t raise the ground before.
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In Preston Ice and Cool Stores Pty Ltd. v. Hawkings (1955) V.L.R. 89; (1955) Austin Digest 337.
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It was held that where there is a review/appeal the party having sought such review/appeal is not bound by the grounds used in the original hearing but may refer to other grounds even so, such grounds had not been upon which the original order was based.
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I suggest this email is passed on to Tess Corbett and her lawyers, just in case they wish to use some of the content.
 
Gerrit
 
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A FOOL IS A PERSON WHO DOESN'T ASK THE QUESTION BECAUSE OF BEING CONCERNED TO BE LABELLED A FOOL.

Katter urged to dump candidate over gay comments

Updated Fri 26 Apr 2013, 2:11pm AEST
Tess Corbett Photo: Tess Corbett has been pre-selected for the south-west Victorian seat of Wannon. (Hamilton Spectator: Abby Hamilton)
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Federal independent MP Bob Katter is being urged to dump an election candidate who likened homosexuality to paedophilia.

Tess Corbett has been preselected for Katter's Australia Party (KAP) in the south-west Victorian seat of Wannon.

Speaking to a local newspaper about Labor's anti-discrimination bill, she said people "should be able to discriminate" in some cases.

"I don't want gays, lesbians or paedophiles to be working in my kindergarten. If you don't like it, go to another kindergarten," she told the Hamilton Spectator.

When asked by the paper whether she considered homosexuals to be in the same category as paedophiles, Ms Corbett replied: "Yes."

"Paedophiles will be next in line to be recognised in the same way as gays and lesbians and get rights."

    We asked if this incident had changed your opinion of Katter's Australia Party. Read your comments.

The Liberal Member for Wannon, Dan Tehan, says Mr Katter should disendorse Ms Corbett.

"I think that Bob Katter definitely needs to seriously consider that," he said.

"The comments deserve to be condemned. I think they're a real test for Bob Katter.

"If he stands by these comments by an endorsed candidate of his party, he deserves outright condemnation as well."

Greens leader Christine Milne says KAP is fostering discrimination.

"Demeaning and abusing and undermining people who are gay, that is completely unacceptable," she said.

"For a long time people have thought of Bob Katter as some kind of joke, the man with the hat. Well, it's no joke."

Labor frontbencher Penny Wong, who is openly gay, says the comments do not reflect the values the vast majority of Australians have.

"I don't think bigotry has a place in our society," Senator Wong told DMG radio in Adelaide.

"The thing that always worries me when I hear these comments is I think about young gay and lesbian Australians, maybe some in country areas, who hear these things from public figures and the message they hear is that they're not OK.

"And I don't think that's a good message for any child to hear.

"To seriously say in today's Australia that someone who is gay is akin to a paedophile is completely offensive."
'Not afraid to say it'

Bernard Gaynor, a Queensland Senate nominee for KAP and the party's former national general secretary, defended Ms Corbett's comments via Twitter, writing: "I wouldn't let a gay person teach my children and I am not afraid to say it."

KAP has released a statement saying the party "will not be used by people to air and promote their own personal preoccupations".

The party's national director, Aidan McLindon, says the controversy surrounding Ms Corbett's comments is "a storm in a teacup".

He says the party's executive will look into the comments but he believes Ms Corbett has been misquoted.

"I'm not defending what she has or hasn't said, but I haven't seen anywhere her comparing gays and lesbians to paedophiles," he said.

"I certainly don't wish to enter that debate, but I certainly haven't seen it anywhere from her quotes that she's compared them.

"I think what she did say, and this is not defending anything she did or didn't say, but what she did say is that if we start giving minority groups such as gays and lesbians those rights, that would be the next step."
Controversy

Mr McLindon says he expects the controversy to go away by tomorrow.

"Tomorrow you'll find that an MP from the Labor Party will tweet something to the Liberal Party and vice-versa," he said.

"It'll be a whole new controversy tomorrow.

"You can only do so much from a national director's point of view. That'll be something that we'll discuss in terms of how candidates conduct themselves, in terms of what the party stands for."

Yesterday Mr Katter told Fairfax Media Ms Corbett had made a "stupid statement" that detracts from the hard issues affecting farmers.

"If someone has made some statement like that, I'm bloody sure the party will be making arrangements," he said.

"The party is not interested in that, it never has been, never will be."

The ABC has sought a response from Ms Corbett.

Lynton John Moore, a 30-year-old former detective first class constable, was today warned by District Court Judge Ron Birmingham that a jail term was "almost inevitable" when he is sentenced next week for possessing child exploitation material and failing to obey a data access order.

In sentencing submissions this morning, defence lawyer Mark Andrews told the court there were "two different Lynton Moores, each of whom is impossible to reconcile with the other" - the ambitious police officer and basketball mentor from a deeply religious family and the other who had harboured a "deep dark secret" and "regrettably strayed into areas involving child pornography".

Mr Andrews said the consequences of Moore's offending had been catastrophic.

He had lost his reputation, career and standing in the community and prison would be particularly hard for the former policeman who would most likely have to be housed in a segregated unit, Mr Andrews said.

The court was told thousands of images and videos were found on several devices police seized when they searched Moore's home in June.

He told police he could not remember the passwords for the encrypted files and said he had last accessed them about two months before they were seized - but the computer crime squad discovered the files had been accessed two days before the devices were seized.

Mr Andrews said child pornography was "far from a victimless crime" and Moore was "acutely aware of the impact of his offending".

Judge Birmingham told Moore he had to view the material before he could sentence and warned him a jail term was "almost inevitable" when he is sentenced next week.

After listening to this interview with Pru Goward Minister of FACS NSW it is obvious she would have everyone believe that every child removed by FACS NSW has used syringes on the floor and baby shit in the corner. Nothing could be further from the truth. Check out the video below where the Queen of child stealers breaks down and cries while she apologises for forced adoptions, a law she is bringing back in...

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Once children are placed in adoption there is no way out with the adoptive parents not able to return children to other foster carers.

Almost 20,000 Australian children are living in foster care, removed from their biological parents for their own safety, and as the number of children in need of foster care rises, the number of carers is dwindling.

The long term prospects for many of the children are not good, with high rates of imprisonment and homelessness, and poor education outcomes.

A number of states are looking at how to deal with what is a crisis in foster care.

In NSW, Cabinet has just approved reforms to the adoption process, aiming at encouraging open adoption as a more permanent and stable arrangement than foster care.

More than a quarter of all the children in NSW juvenile prisons have come from care.

    This article represents part of a larger Background Briefing investigation. Listen to Kylie Grey's full report on Sunday at 8.05 am or use the podcast links above after broadcast.

Ted*, an inmate at the Reiby maximum security juvenile justice centre in Sydney, was seven when he was made a ward of the State and put in the care of DOCS—now the Department of Family and Community Services. Ted is now 15.

‘I left my mum when I was about five years old and I went to live with my nan. My nan never used to feed me when I got in trouble so I used to smash her window to get in to get some food, me and my brother, and she just put me in DOCS when I was about seven years old. Ever since I’ve been in DOCS,’ said Ted.

Today almost 20,000 children need foster parents, and they are increasingly hard to find.

Julian Pocock is the head of public policy for the Berry Street organisation in Victoria, which has been involved in child welfare since 1877.

‘With an aging population there are fewer people who are available to take on the role of being a foster carer,’ said Mr Pocock.

‘Secondly, through issues like family violence, mental health, substance misuse, particularly alcohol misuse, we have many more families struggling to meet the needs of their children and many more children needing to removed from their families and placed in care. And within the foster care system itself, we have a system that has remained remarkably unreformed for a century.’

Foster care agencies are now actively looking to recruit carers from groups in the community that were not encouraged in the past, such as same sex couples, young people and singles.

They’re desperately needed to take over from the current, aging generation of carers.

Some of the biggest reforms to child welfare in a generation are on the table as state and territory governments re-think how to provide long term care for these kids.

In NSW, the government wants to solve the problem of the foster care merry-go-round by relaxing the state’s adoption laws.

NSW Family and Community Services Minister, Pru Goward says children need a safe and permanent home.

‘They need their own history, they need permanency, they need someone to call Mum, they need to be able to act up and know that Mum is still there at the end of the day and isn’t ringing the foster care agency saying take this kid back I can’t manage him,’ said Ms Goward.

‘I have met kids at 19 or 20 who have had 20 placements, 20 families to live with. Why do we wonder when those children are more likely to be homeless, more likely to be illiterate, more likely to be in juvenile justice and more likely to have had a baby at 13 or 14 themselves when they’ve never attached, they’ve never known trust because they keep being moved.’

‘I think in the great departure from the orphanage model of 50 years ago we lost sight of the importance of providing a form of open adoption that would enable children to stay in touch with their birth family, their relatives but also gave them a permanent home.’
Youth in detention Image: Ted (not his real name) at Reiby, a maximum security juvenile prison for boys in NSW. (Kylie Grey)

The NSW cabinet has just approved a reformation of the state’s adoption laws, which will be introduced into the parliament by the end of the year.

NSW will be the first state to actively encourage open adoption of children in the Out of Home Care System, but other states may follow.

Under open adoption the legal responsibility for the child is transferred from the state to the adoptive parents, and the child’s birth parents, siblings and extend family have contact, as opposed to the more common process of closed adoption.

Ms Goward is hoping changes to the adoption legislation will encourage more carers to come forward. Under the plan, birth parents whose children are removed will be given a strict timeframe to show they can care for them again.

For children under two, the birth parents will be given six months, and if the child is over two years old, the birth parents will be given 12 months to prove they can be good parents.

Ms Goward says the provisions are in the best interests of the children.

‘We talk a lot about the rights of parents: this is actually about the rights of children. We should be putting children at the centre of what we are doing here,’ she said.

‘Yes, six months for a woman who has a serious drug addiction and a serious history of domestic violence is not a lot of time, but if you are removing a child that early you can be sure there has been prior history and our commitment is to work as hard as we can with that mother to enable her to address the issues that stop that child from having a safe life.

‘For every day that you leave a child in a home where there is serious drug addiction, there’s needles on the floor, there is poo in the corner, there is nothing in the fridge, the child is filthy, the milk gets adulterated, there is a prospect that the child takes the heroin and the domestic violence is a horrendous factor for a child to see between its parents or between its mother and the new boyfriend, every day you leave a child like that you damage that child.’

However, the provisions have upset some in the welfare sector who say the timeframes are not long enough to allow birth parents to restore their ability to be good parents.

National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell believes one way to get fewer children in Out of Home Care is to work on keeping families together.

‘When a child goes into care and sometimes it's not just the clean thing that they come into care and then they stay there for 18 years,’ she said.

‘For many children they go in and out back to their birth families and when they leave care, they go back to their families. So I don’t think that we can ignore the birth family in all of this. Whatever that issue was that led to that child being removed like substance abuse or domestic violence or mental health issues, we need to be addressing that as well because ultimately that child will most likely go back to that environment and if we haven’t addressed those issues in that family, the child and their siblings will still be exposed to all of those things.’

*Names have been changed

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Reporter Kylie Grey

The importance of families should be obvious, but apparently it isn't to the old three establishment parties. Families are vital to the wellbeing of this country. In the light of the recent proposed legislation UKIP are making it clear that it is not good enough.

A member of the policy working group on Children and Families, Michael Curtis said: “The proposed new legislation does nothing to improve a system which is out of control and which has significantly contributed to the unnecessary splitting up of thousands of families throughout the UK.

"If anything, the proposals will devolve more responsibility to the Local Authorities and enable them and their officers to make more decisions outside of a Court framework and so remove the legal right to challenge them. Such actions may well reduce the pressure on the courts and save the Government money, but in a situation where there is evidence of bad decision making within the Local Authorities and by its officers, this can hardly be called a responsible move.”

UKIP admits that the challenge with any legislation where children and families are involved is to strike a right balance.  Where the successive governments have failed is in their understanding of the needs of changing society and the fact that more support services for parents and families are needed, like those which have just been proposed by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to help parents deal with children demonstrating repeated behavioural problems. Had this Government invested developing such support programmes earlier then it is probable that there would have been a significant drop in the number of cases where children are taken into care.

Whilst hidden, there is little doubt that the new Bill is part of the Government’s agenda to cut costs. Indeed it is a brave move for any Government to put the very basis of our society at risk just to save money, but this is clearly underlying the new proposed changes.

The current system certainly needs to change. With more and more Local Authorities failing and this set against more children entering a process which has been proven time and time again to be unfair, corrupt, biased and, more seriously, central government target driven, a drastic review, not new legislation is needed.

Within the past year the whole world has seen the shameful nature of our ‘secret service’ of social services and our ‘secret Family courts’ and ‘forced adoption’. It is reckoned that at least two out of six homes in an average street have had, at some time, a social service intervention. This is a measure of scale to which the unmonitored power of social services has grown.

There is nothing in the new legislation to correct this, but rather a policy line that will enable it to grow.  UKIP notes with concern the removal of basic parental rights from the decision making process in the cases where children are to be adopted or taken into care and the removal of the legal duty to work with parents and to help them resolve their problems before or after the child is taken into care.

Also the removal of the adoption panel scrutiny could mean that a child is placed with adopters, even though their parents did not consent, and without there have been any external scrutiny of the plan for the child to be adopted. This has particular significance for the reforms in Clause 1 of the Bill, which could well make the position of the parents more difficult in Court hearings.

More worrying, the Bill shows to what extent the Government is set on destroying the ties with the natural family once the child is in care. The new proposed legislation will remove the legal duty of the Local Authority to consider wider family placements.

With a Government which is currently pushing hard on adoption and the creation of new processes to fast track this, how does it expect to meet the demand for adopters created by its policies?  There are already some 4,600 children who are currently authorised and waiting to be placed and this is without the cases currently in the courts. Every day sees more children added to this list, and this will only increase if the new proposals go unchallenged. It is clear that once more the importance of cost saving has overridden logic, and in this case the need to restore and not remove one of the essentials of society, namely the Family.

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Banardos is not so clean as they would like to be portrayed in the media.

Their income is as follows:

A. Fundraising 11%
B. State Government 70%
C. Federal Government 10%
D. Other Revenue 9% . They heavily dependent on government funding for fostering and adoption to survive.

The business model is dependent on the supply of suitable children to be viable.

Bernado's Advertising to adopt the 40,000 children in OOHC "The New Stolen Generation"

They're also the same scum responsible for thousands of kids being abused years ago. Why do they get second chances when parents are just crucified?

Pauline Says: This organisation Barnardos is as corrupt as DHS!! They assist families with disabled children to have respite once a fortnight weekend or similar and before you know it, the mongrels have your child full time and they have a compiled dossier of every visit etc the carer had at your home!!! Absolutely hate these lowlife DHS lapdogs!!!! The carer put my child in respite house EVERY night she could because her future mother in law ran one of the organisations that funded the Barnardos respite house!! I have been on the waiting list for funding for OVER 10 fecking years!! And still waiting!!!

Waters tells Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay foster parents are in it for the money

With the new adoption laws that Pru Goward is pushing for set to be brought in by the end of the year, Barnardos is set to make the most money from these adoption laws.

Goward looking for adoption changes for children stolen from parents and in foster care

Barnardos is only one of the few organisations that is now making money from children stolen from Australian families

A Time to Invest in Australia's most disadvantaged children, young people and their families

Keep an eye out for Barnardos in the news and you can also expect a multi million dollar advertising campaign to lull people into a false sense of security. Barnardos are not giving needy families help to keep their children. Barnardos are cashing in on children stolen from needy families.

Life Without Barriers Exposed - Kids For Cash

(CNN) — Living conditions at the home where a 11-year-old was handcuffed by the ankle to a post on the front porch, with a dead chicken around his neck, were so bad that a North Carolina sheriff said it was “an environment you wouldn’t want to walk through, much less live in.”

“It was filthy, feces on the floor, holes in the wall,” Union County Sheriff Eddie Cathey said. “The bathroom, you could see from outside of the hall into the bathroom. Sink was trashed. No running water.”

CNN’s Nick Valencia said the house, located south of Monroe, had piles of garbage and abandoned and rusted-out vehicles in the yard. He also said the area had an overwhelming smell of urine and feces.

“As bad as you think that house was on the outside, that’s probably the cleanest part of that place,” Cathey said Sunday.

The 11-year-old boy and four other children, ages 8, 9, 13 and 14, were removed from the home. Authorities learned about the situation after a deputy responded Friday to a complaint about a hog at a neighboring house saw the boy wearing a T-shirt and jeans shivering outside.

Wanda Sue Larson, a supervisor with the Union County Department of Social Services, and Dorian Lee Harper, an emergency room nurse at CMC-Union in Monroe, face charges of intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury, false imprisonment, and cruelty to animals.

Larson also faces charges of willful failure to discharge her duty as a public official. Cathey said Larson has worked with his agency, as well as others around Union County.

Harper reportedly lived at the residence with Larson, who was not present at the time of Friday’s incident. They had adopted four of the children and were serving as foster parents for the 11-year-old.

Cathey said there was a room where the 11-year-old was cuffed overnight to a 3-foot piece of railroad. The sheriff said four of the children, including the 11-year-old, slept on blankets in the room.

Neighbor Steve Mills recounted an incident from the past summer when one of the children came up to him.

“The littlest one was running up the street, crying, hollering, he was panicking, come up here ‘Mister, can I have something to eat, I’m starving. Can I come in please?” My wife was going to go in there and make him a sandwich if he’s hungry,” he said.

“We didn’t think anything of it because the other two boys came up, saying “He’s new.” So we just figured he was just getting used to the area and being with a new family and his new siblings and so we thought nothing of it.”

Cathey said all of the kids appeared to be underweight for their ages, and they were hungry after being removed from the home.

“We took them immediately and bought them pizza. That’s what they wanted was pizza and that’s what they got,” he said.

Cathey said Harper has requested an attorney and Larson is cooperating with authorities.

Harper and Larson are expected to appear in court on Monday morning.

The children are in the custody of an outside agency.