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‘Stop Injustice Now’ Video & TV Channel

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A TV Channel That Shows The Protests & News To Do With Social Services, This Will Show You How They Get It Wrong Too Many Times! Help information and advice for families with children experiencing frustration in working with social services in child care proceedings.
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/Stop_Injustice_Now_TV_Channel.htm

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

‘Stop Injustice Now’ Video & TV Channel

Description:
A TV Channel That Shows The Protests & News To Do With Social Services, This Will Show You How They Get It Wrong Too Many Times! Help information and advice for families with children experiencing frustration in working with social services in child care proceedings.
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/Stop_Injustice_Now_TV_Channel.htm

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

‘Stop Injustice Now’ Video & TV Channel

Description:
A TV Channel That Shows The Protests & News To Do With Social Services, This Will Show You How They Get It Wrong Too Many Times! Help information and advice for families with children experiencing frustration in working with social services in child care proceedings.
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/Stop_Injustice_Now_TV_Channel.htm

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

‘Stop Injustice Now’ Video & TV Channel

Description:
A TV Channel That Shows The Protests & News To Do With Social Services, This Will Show You How They Get It Wrong Too Many Times! Help information and advice for families with children experiencing frustration in working with social services in child care proceedings.
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/Stop_Injustice_Now_TV_Channel.htm

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

One woman’s release will not end the injustice

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0629.htm
Like Gillian Gibbons imprisoned for the crime of calling a teddy bear Mohamed, I know something of the havoc wreaked on families and individuals by the topsy-turvy morality of the authorities in Sudan. After the coup in 1989, the regime arrested me – I was a trade unionist – and imprisoned me for more than a year, although I was never told what crime I had committed. I was tortured in the “ghosthouses” for two months. For the first month my family had no idea where I was. But the arbitrary nature of the regime in Khartoum does not affect only those wrongly imprisoned. Perhaps even more disturbingly, it also affects who is allowed to remain free. On Wednesday the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will tell the UN Security Council that the two men who have had an arrest warrant issued against them by the court for the murder and mayhem that have ravaged Darfur in the past five years have still not been handed over to face trial. One of those men, Ahmed Haroun, wanted for the destruction of villages in South Darfur, is now enjoying all the perks of high office. But Haroun is not any old minister – he is the minister in charge of humanitarian affairs. Like the plot for the bleakest of satires, Haroun is responsible for the welfare of the same people whose lives he is accused of having destroyed. As is so often the way, the plight of one person has come to highlight a far wider concern: the Sudanese Government’s ingrained utter disregard for fundamental rights. We must channel our outrage at the punishment meted out to Ms Gibbons into bringing to an end the Sudanese Government’s attempts to thwart international justice. The British Government’s efforts to secure Ms Gibbon’s immediate release deserve to be applauded. But in the interests of justice, it must also act on the bigger picture. Using its influence on the Security Council, Britain can help the international community to take the first steps towards justice for the millions that have suffered in Darfur. At the same time we must try to ensure that the hard-won peace agreement between North and South Sudan is put into force – that will also mean ending arbitrary detention, torture and restrictions on freedom of expression across Sudan.

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

One woman’s release will not end the injustice

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0629.htm
Like Gillian Gibbons imprisoned for the crime of calling a teddy bear Mohamed, I know something of the havoc wreaked on families and individuals by the topsy-turvy morality of the authorities in Sudan. After the coup in 1989, the regime arrested me – I was a trade unionist – and imprisoned me for more than a year, although I was never told what crime I had committed. I was tortured in the “ghosthouses” for two months. For the first month my family had no idea where I was. But the arbitrary nature of the regime in Khartoum does not affect only those wrongly imprisoned. Perhaps even more disturbingly, it also affects who is allowed to remain free. On Wednesday the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will tell the UN Security Council that the two men who have had an arrest warrant issued against them by the court for the murder and mayhem that have ravaged Darfur in the past five years have still not been handed over to face trial. One of those men, Ahmed Haroun, wanted for the destruction of villages in South Darfur, is now enjoying all the perks of high office. But Haroun is not any old minister – he is the minister in charge of humanitarian affairs. Like the plot for the bleakest of satires, Haroun is responsible for the welfare of the same people whose lives he is accused of having destroyed. As is so often the way, the plight of one person has come to highlight a far wider concern: the Sudanese Government’s ingrained utter disregard for fundamental rights. We must channel our outrage at the punishment meted out to Ms Gibbons into bringing to an end the Sudanese Government’s attempts to thwart international justice. The British Government’s efforts to secure Ms Gibbon’s immediate release deserve to be applauded. But in the interests of justice, it must also act on the bigger picture. Using its influence on the Security Council, Britain can help the international community to take the first steps towards justice for the millions that have suffered in Darfur. At the same time we must try to ensure that the hard-won peace agreement between North and South Sudan is put into force – that will also mean ending arbitrary detention, torture and restrictions on freedom of expression across Sudan.

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

One woman’s release will not end the injustice

Full Story:
http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0629.htm
Like Gillian Gibbons imprisoned for the crime of calling a teddy bear Mohamed, I know something of the havoc wreaked on families and individuals by the topsy-turvy morality of the authorities in Sudan. After the coup in 1989, the regime arrested me – I was a trade unionist – and imprisoned me for more than a year, although I was never told what crime I had committed. I was tortured in the “ghosthouses” for two months. For the first month my family had no idea where I was. But the arbitrary nature of the regime in Khartoum does not affect only those wrongly imprisoned. Perhaps even more disturbingly, it also affects who is allowed to remain free. On Wednesday the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will tell the UN Security Council that the two men who have had an arrest warrant issued against them by the court for the murder and mayhem that have ravaged Darfur in the past five years have still not been handed over to face trial. One of those men, Ahmed Haroun, wanted for the destruction of villages in South Darfur, is now enjoying all the perks of high office. But Haroun is not any old minister – he is the minister in charge of humanitarian affairs. Like the plot for the bleakest of satires, Haroun is responsible for the welfare of the same people whose lives he is accused of having destroyed. As is so often the way, the plight of one person has come to highlight a far wider concern: the Sudanese Government’s ingrained utter disregard for fundamental rights. We must channel our outrage at the punishment meted out to Ms Gibbons into bringing to an end the Sudanese Government’s attempts to thwart international justice. The British Government’s efforts to secure Ms Gibbon’s immediate release deserve to be applauded. But in the interests of justice, it must also act on the bigger picture. Using its influence on the Security Council, Britain can help the international community to take the first steps towards justice for the millions that have suffered in Darfur. At the same time we must try to ensure that the hard-won peace agreement between North and South Sudan is put into force – that will also mean ending arbitrary detention, torture and restrictions on freedom of expression across Sudan.

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

Report says services are improving

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http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0628.htm
A new report says that social care services provided by Wiltshire County Council are adequate and the capacity for improvement continues to be uncertain. Wiltshire social care chiefs promised to continue working together so local people get the care services they need. The performance assessment was produced by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI). The assessment covers 2006/2007 when the county council was facing significant financial pressures. In the report CSCI inspectors praised the creation of the re-ablement service, the way people in care have their dignity protected, that there is efficient and timely service for people who need it, and the fact that people in Wiltshire are quite safe compared to other parts of the country. But among the areas for improvement were engagement with people using services, more choice over the provision of domiciliary care providers for people, more work should be done to promote healthy living, and develop a range of universal community based services. However, throughout 2007 the county council has been developing its relationships with other care and health organisations and undertaking a wide range of service modernisations. John Thomson, county council cabinet member for adult social care, said: “This inspection relates to 2006/2007 when we faced widely publicised difficulties and this is not the same service it was then. “We had no option but to make a number of very difficult decisions about how we would provide services in the future to ensure that they are sustainable and that they would meet local needs. “We believe we have turned the corner and that people are beginning to see real improvements in the services we provide but change does take time. “The real picture is that we are working closely with our colleagues in other health and social care organisations to start delivering range of services that will deliver high quality services for the long term.” Jeff James, chief executive of Wiltshire Primary Care Trust said: “It’s in everyone’s interests that health and social care organisations work closely together to provide the best possible care for the people they jointly serve. “Since October last year, when Wiltshire Primary Care Trust was created, the PCT has worked closely with Wiltshire County Council. Both organisations face financial challenges but there is a strong shared resolve to use our resources wisely to provide seamless support for patients and users. The CSCI report looks back to the past but we are working jointly now to build for the future. ”

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

Shamed professor who accused me of murdering my son has ripped the heart out of my family

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http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0627.htm
A mother falsely accused of murdering her ten-year-old son by a controversial paediatrician has revealed how the devastating allegations haunted her family for a decade and threatened to rip them apart. Mandy Morris, 42, was referred to only as Mrs M when she gave video evidence from Australia against Dr David Southall at a General Medical Council hearing in London last week. The professor was found guilty of “abusing” his position and wrongly accusing the grieving mother of killing her child. The GMC’s Fitness To Practice panel will decide next week whether he has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct which could lead to him being struck off for life. But for Mandy and her family – who recently moved to Australia to begin a new life – it has been a painfully long wait for justice. And only now, in the wake of the GMC ruling, does she feel able to tell the story of her ten-year ordeal for the first time and the devastating chain of events that saw her younger son taken into care. Mandy, who has agreed to waive her anonymity, said: “We had a child who had committed suicide. “But Dr Southall’s allegations that I had killed him ripped the heart out of my family and stamped on it. My younger son was taken into care. “Had we not been so strong, and clung together, he would have ground us into the dust. “We kept telling ourselves that we were innocent and that the truth would come out. “But it has taken a long, long time. It would have been a shorter sentence – and less painful – if I had faced a court and either been cleared or convicted. “We have lived with these slurs for a decade.” Mandy’s nightmare began when her eldest son, ten-year-old Lee, committed suicide in June 1996. Lee had been bullied at school but he had shown no signs of unhappiness the day he came home, went upstairs and hanged himself, by his belt, from a curtain rail in his bedroom at the family’s three-bedroom home in Oswestry, Shropshire. There was no suicide note and a coroner recorded an open verdict at the inquest. But seven months later, in January 1997, as Mandy, her husband Simon and their younger son Dale, then eight, were moving house and still struggling to cope with the tragedy, they were dealt a second blow – thanks to the involvement of Dr Southall. Mandy was packing the family’s belongings when two police officers arrived at their home and demanded that she reveal Dale’s whereabouts. “They wouldn’t tell me why they wanted this information,” she said. “I wouldn’t answer their questions because I was confused and terrified. They stayed about an hour, then left. “I had no idea what was happening, or why. I couldn’t understand why I was suddenly being treated like a criminal.” A few minutes later, two social workers arrived, demanding answers to the same questions and telling Mandy they planned to put Dale into care. Again, she refused to answer, but after speaking to her husband later, she agreed to go to the police station for questioning. Meanwhile, Dale was collected and taken straight to a foster family by council officials. Only three days later – after rigorous questioning at the police station – did Mandy learn from her solicitor that child expert David Southall had become involved in her case after being alerted via one of her colleagues at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital where she worked as a cleaner. He had declared – without even meeting her – that she “almost certainly” suffered from Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, a controversial condition named by the now disgraced Sir Roy Meadow, which claimed some women harmed their children to get attention for themselves. Dr Southall was later to meet Mandy, when he insisted she had murdered her eldest child. He suggested she had stolen drugs from the hospital, drugged Lee and waited till he fell unconscious before stringing him up with his belt, then calling an ambulance. He concluded that her youngest child was also in danger – which resulted in Dale being put on the At Risk register, snatched from the family home and placed with a foster family in Oswestry. Only after two months of meetings with child “experts” and health authorities, and repeated court hearings were Mandy and Simon able to retrieve Dale from care. Southall, meanwhile, attempted – unsuccessfully – to have police reopen the inquest into Lee’s death. Mandy said: “When police first came to the house about Dale, I had no idea what was going on. We were still in shock.

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