I am calling for an independent reviewing body to intercept if a family under the scrutiny of Children's services feels with merit, that they have been persecuted and/or their human rights have been wavered. At the point of being placed on child protection or during care proceedings, if there is reason to believe that the social workers have done something fundamentally wrong/failed to get the facts before sentencing a family to draconian measures. 

 Here is the origin of my demand for change, hold on tight...

In January 2024 I had a traumatic birth owing to clinical negligence causing my baby to turn breech in the last moments of labour. It meant an emergency C-section (which i'm sure have affected my fertility) and it gave me PTSD. 

BUT, my baby was born healthy. So I sucked it up and got on with it. I needed support following surgery, the local authority wouldn't honour the hospital's PROMISE to offer home help as my partner wasn't very committed (sadly).

The midwife visited on her allocated guidelined days and miscalculated the baby's weight, thinking he lost too much, by day 9 she insisted on 'blue lighting ' my baby to hospital. I told her not the same one they nearly killed us in. So we went to North Mid. 

The stress of going into another hospital made me shake, so I took diazepam to endure the trauma id have to revisit (more than normal dosage) i was upset, so I went onto my flat kitchen roof for  solitude and a cigarette. My mood and actions scared the midwife who didnt know this is a regular thing for me to do, misinformation was passed onto the hospital from the ambulance/midwife and whilst my baby was being checked over (and found to be a good weight) -i was being sectioned! 

To make things worse, my partner at the time who is a narcissist was lying about me to NHS staff causing concerns unduly. So he's the main reason for a week in a secure unit! But here's another reason why I was sectioned...

After my baby's weight and vitals were checked, they done an illicit drug test (POCT) on him. I don't know why but this action has ruined our lives. It came back positive for 'methodone'.

So the staff (with thanks to my ex for doing his coercive bit) believed that i had either during pregnancy, transmitted this drug to my baby, or via breastfeeding. 

I didn't know this at the time. So they sent that bedside tested sample to the lab for 'formal' testing which came back in the morning at negative for all substances which is what I would have expected. But we weren't told this until a child protection conference. Whilst sectioned, my mental health and physical health were not good. I covered up my distress for being wrongly implicated for 'poisoning' my baby so I could leave. I also done a urine test so they could see i didnt take this drug methodone. 

You'd think with my test negative and the formal lab test for baby's sample being negative would have put an end to this. But the NHS decided that my baby was showing signs of withdrawal on the NAS for half a day...so they treated him without telling parents with oramorph (morphine) -unnecessarily.  

This is where my life was over.

The referral was sent to Social Services. 

They held an Initial Child Protection Conference on the 12th February 2024, and said that the threshold for significant harm was met whereby my baby's weight got too low and we let it happen without medical intervention,  and the methodone test. 

They didn't even get the full report from the hospital, but I'm seeing evidence that the NHS staff lied to cover their backs for unnecessary treatment to my newborn. If the social worker did her job right, she would see she couldn't hold me accountable for significant harm- because she only declares the initial findings, not the outcome following further investigation. And if she wanted to declare significant harm-it should be from the NHS because they treated him without a need to - negligently. 

I appealed and it was prematurely rejected.

This was all within a month of my baby and I nearly dying at the hands of clinical negligence. And instead of support and empathy. I was treated like a criminal and I was being punished for crimes the NHS were responsible for. No support. Just punishment from Enfield Children's services. I protested, I complained. I showed them evidence to prove my innocence but they were so bad. No duty of candour. I asked for my subject access request - it was 30% redacted 

Whe. I finally made a formal complaint about a terrible team manager, it was ignored, and a social worker visited my ex push him to set me up to fail, promising him the kids, and for a narcissist, this was a bonus. 

He coerced my teenager.  And he set me up to get arrested for false allegations. Unfortunately this meant the kids were taken on an Interim care order away from me and him. 

The social workers were victimising me for complaining. And they rushed the case to court as soon as my ex called the police (they told him to do this, as well as telling him they would put a 'good word' in for him) i had 3 months bail which turns out the police were harsh with me because social services lied to them about me, to make me look like a bad parent. My ex also would try control me through lying to authorities about me to get me monitored which he KNEW WOULD RAISE MY ANXIETY DISORDER. 

I didnt quite know how badly controlling  and coercive he was because he would keep changing tactics to catch me off guard.

Fast forward.... the Local authority withheld the facts from the court that would absolutely affect the outcome of this case, they lacked their duty of candour. I've been reaching out about this Injustice of being g on a cp plan and care proceedings as a result. And nothing is sticking. I have 6 kids.

My ex has been reporting false info to take my kids from me.

My ex and social services did a nasty series of cruel and emotionally abusive acts. And nobody would listen to me...

We need to change this. My family was all I had. And I feel like I'm dying without them. Even now, the court ignored all my evidenced claims regarding both these parties.

So I feel alone. Aching for my babies.

Help me and others to get justice and implement this option of an independent reviewing body, to step in when we say that injustice is going on at the hands of the government's employees. 

Thanks for reading 

C