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Today’s Video Of The Protest Against Liverpool Family Court!

About 20 People Are Are The Liverpool Court This Morning. We Are Protesting About The Injustice Of The Family Court. You Still have Time To Join Us, We Are Here Until 4pm.
We Are In Leeds Tomorrow and Derby On Thursday.
Come And Support The National Campaign To Stop Forced Adoption In The UK Family Courts.
Video’s Of Today’s Event Will Be On Line Later.

Ian Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!
Only The Strong Survive, Positive Mental Attitude.
The Truth will Win Through!

Today’s Video Of The Protest Against Liverpool Family Court!

About 20 People Are Are The Liverpool Court This Morning. We Are Protesting About The Injustice Of The Family Court. You Still have Time To Join Us, We Are Here Until 4pm.
We Are In Leeds Tomorrow and Derby On Thursday.
Come And Support The National Campaign To Stop Forced Adoption In The UK Family Courts.
Video’s Of Today’s Event Will Be On Line Later.

Ian & Sarah Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!

Landmark human rights battle by mum of six backed by campaigning MP

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0283.htm
A MERSEYSIDE mum is making legal history by going to the European courts to get back her baby daughter, who was taken away and adopted.
In 2005, Pauline Goodwin, 39, had her three-day-old daughter taken away by social services.
She has not seen her baby girl in 15 months and has since been told that she was adopted.
Ms Goodwin said her fight to get her daughter back had been held up for more than a year because she was never given a copy of vital court paperwork to allow her appeal.
Now the Halewood mum-of-six is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights in a groundbreaking case backed by a campaigning MP.
She said: “When they took her away, I made a promise to myself that I would never give up on getting her back.
“Part of me is missing, because she is gone. My other children keep asking about her because there is a big gap in our family. It is terrible she isn’t here – she needs to come back home.”
Ms Goodwin has five other children and, when her marriage broke down in 2003, she had a breakdown.
She initially welcomed social services help, but never dreamt it would lead to her children being taken into care in February 2004.
Ms Goodwin was told it was because her home was messy and her children had missed school and medical appointments.
Social workers also claimed they had received anonymous reports about them being ill-treated or neglected.
Ms Goodwin said her children were always loved and well cared for.
Because her other children were in care, Ms Goodwin feared the same fate awaited her sixth child when she fell pregnant.
She was born in June, 2005. Three days later, Knowsley council went to court and the baby was taken into care.

Ian Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!
Only The Strong Survive, Positive Mental Attitude.
The Truth will Win Through!

Landmark human rights battle by mum of six backed by campaigning MP

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0283.htm
A MERSEYSIDE mum is making legal history by going to the European courts to get back her baby daughter, who was taken away and adopted.
In 2005, Pauline Goodwin, 39, had her three-day-old daughter taken away by social services.
She has not seen her baby girl in 15 months and has since been told that she was adopted.
Ms Goodwin said her fight to get her daughter back had been held up for more than a year because she was never given a copy of vital court paperwork to allow her appeal.
Now the Halewood mum-of-six is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights in a groundbreaking case backed by a campaigning MP.
She said: “When they took her away, I made a promise to myself that I would never give up on getting her back.
“Part of me is missing, because she is gone. My other children keep asking about her because there is a big gap in our family. It is terrible she isn’t here – she needs to come back home.”
Ms Goodwin has five other children and, when her marriage broke down in 2003, she had a breakdown.
She initially welcomed social services help, but never dreamt it would lead to her children being taken into care in February 2004.
Ms Goodwin was told it was because her home was messy and her children had missed school and medical appointments.
Social workers also claimed they had received anonymous reports about them being ill-treated or neglected.
Ms Goodwin said her children were always loved and well cared for.
Because her other children were in care, Ms Goodwin feared the same fate awaited her sixth child when she fell pregnant.
She was born in June, 2005. Three days later, Knowsley council went to court and the baby was taken into care.

Ian & Sarah Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!

MP requests social services review

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0282.htm
A Norfolk MP is campaigning for less secrecy and more detail when it comes to child protection cases. North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb is worried there is not enough being done to ensure the correct decision to remove or keep a child with the family is taken. He has discussed the issue with justice secretary Jack Straw who is reported to say he will review the situation. Mr Lamb has brought up his concerns after the case of The Webster family who fought to keep their fourth child after their older three were taken from them and adopted. The Websters have now been told they will not be unable to return to the family.

Ian Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!
Only The Strong Survive, Positive Mental Attitude.
The Truth will Win Through!

Adoption increase fails to stop baby deaths

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0281.htm
A dramatic rise in the number of newborn babies seized by social workers for forced adoption has failed to reduce the murder rate among babies.
Despite the action by social services, intended to protect children at high risk, the number of deaths has actually grown.
Critics claimed that the figures showed that social workers were tearing apart innocent families, while failing to protect babies at the greatest risk.
The concerns will add fresh weight to The Sunday Telegraph’s “Stop the Secrecy” campaign for greater openness in family courts.
At present, judges sit in secret when deciding adoption cases, raising fears that miscarriages of justice go unnoticed.
Earlier this year, the Government abandoned plans to let the media publish anonymised reports on cases.
In 1995, when 540 newborns were removed for adoption, there were 17 murders in which the victim was less than a year old. A decade later, in 2005/6, 1,400 were taken, yet the murder total rose to 24.
Liz Davies, senior lecturer in social work at London Metropolitan University, claimed the failures were due to new techniques introduced following the murder of Victoria Climbie.

Ian Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!
Only The Strong Survive, Positive Mental Attitude.
The Truth will Win Through!

Death sentence for family courts?

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0280.htm
THE Government is coming under increased pressure to open up the family courts after a number of scandals and contentious decisions. Those for change say such incidents have proved that the authorities require public scrutiny to ensure they do their jobs properly. Those against say it could harm children at the centre of sensitive proceedings. PHIL DOHERTY looks at the arguments . . .
IN May last year, Harriet Harman, then Minister for Constitutional Affairs, said: “It is impossible to defend a system from accusations of bias and discrimination if it operates behind closed doors.”
Many campaigners saw this as a prelude to the family courts being made open to the media again.
Harman’s statement followed a series of high-profile scandals — including mothers being wrongly jailed for murdering their children — on flawed medical evidence which is often used in family courts as well.
Yet, when the changes did come, announced earlier this year by Justice Minister Lord Falconer, they did not include the courts being opened up.
More than 200 MPs and a growing number of former heads of social services, judges, solicitors and even Government Ministers are now campaigning to change that.
Ironically, it has long been believed that the courts were closed to the media in 1989 because of the Cleveland child abuse scandal, where around 120 children from Teesside were taken into care thanks mainly to evidence from experts using what was, even then, not an accepted method of diagnosis. It has now been wholly discredited.
The scandal came to the public’s attention after a media campaign, and many of the children were returned to their parents.
Charles Pragnell, a former senior social services manager, was involved in exposing the Cleveland Sex Abuse scandal. He said: “Many parents report that social workers and medical witnesses often fabricate, embellish and distort evidence against them. Some have even been found out in the law courts, but judges have just ignored it.
“Often, so-called evidence owes more to fanciful speculations and imaginative construction than to the presentation of observed facts. Unproven, discredited and scientifically fraudulent and other professionally disputed theories of child abuse are often presented to courts as facts or to cover up the absence of evidence. This is why the family courts must be opened up to the media.”
Ian Johnston, chief executive of the British Association of Social workers, is quick to disagree. He said: “We fought for 25 years to get independent regulation and in 2000 the Care Standards Act came into force.
“Social workers’ practices have improved considerably in recent years and we don’t feel that having open courts will improve those practices further.
“In care proceedings there is always going to be conflict and differences of opinion and we need to be very careful that we do not base perceptions of social work on one side of the story.”
A Justice Ministry spokeswoman said: “We need instead a new approach which concentrates on improving the information coming out of family courts, rather than on who can go in.”
Recently, the Sunday Sun highlighted the story of Fran Lyon — an expectant mum who could have her unborn child taken from her by Northumberland Social Services.
It is claimed she suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Msbp, where the sufferer harms somebody — usually a child — to get attention.

Ian Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!
Only The Strong Survive, Positive Mental Attitude.
The Truth will Win Through!

MP requests social services review

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0282.htm
A Norfolk MP is campaigning for less secrecy and more detail when it comes to child protection cases. North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb is worried there is not enough being done to ensure the correct decision to remove or keep a child with the family is taken. He has discussed the issue with justice secretary Jack Straw who is reported to say he will review the situation. Mr Lamb has brought up his concerns after the case of The Webster family who fought to keep their fourth child after their older three were taken from them and adopted. The Websters have now been told they will not be unable to return to the family.

Ian & Sarah Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!

Adoption increase fails to stop baby deaths

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0281.htm
A dramatic rise in the number of newborn babies seized by social workers for forced adoption has failed to reduce the murder rate among babies.
Despite the action by social services, intended to protect children at high risk, the number of deaths has actually grown.
Critics claimed that the figures showed that social workers were tearing apart innocent families, while failing to protect babies at the greatest risk.
The concerns will add fresh weight to The Sunday Telegraph’s “Stop the Secrecy” campaign for greater openness in family courts.
At present, judges sit in secret when deciding adoption cases, raising fears that miscarriages of justice go unnoticed.
Earlier this year, the Government abandoned plans to let the media publish anonymised reports on cases.
In 1995, when 540 newborns were removed for adoption, there were 17 murders in which the victim was less than a year old. A decade later, in 2005/6, 1,400 were taken, yet the murder total rose to 24.
Liz Davies, senior lecturer in social work at London Metropolitan University, claimed the failures were due to new techniques introduced following the murder of Victoria Climbie.

Ian & Sarah Walton,
Fighting For Justice In The Family Courts!