I was discussing my post with a good friend of mine over the weekend, and he asked me about how such a thing was allowed to happen and surely there were protections in place at the time to ensure this could not happen, though at the time we were not aware of any protections the protections that were in place were ignored, we had what was known at the time as welfare officers who would supposedly come and visit us to discuss our well being and to find out if we had any problems they could help us with (we did not know this at the time and only became aware of this long after leaving).
These visits were very short and due to their actions the contact with the actual children was even shorter, invariably what actually happened was that the welfare officer would turn up and immediately disappear into the television room with the man who ran the home where he or she would be treated to coffee and biscuits and I now assume would discuss things concerning our welfare or not as the case may be, at a later point the welfare officer would come out and maybe meet us (not in private) ask a few questions and then leave, these interactions rarely lasted more than a few minutes out of a one hour visit.
Another strategy employed was our incoming and outgoing mail was intercepted and tampered with, also if any family members were to ring up we knew our calls were monitored a fact the man in charge of the home laughably denied, however the layout of the home was there was the large house which was the home and a separate house for the people who ran it, and from one of the front windows of the home you could see a side window which had a phone on the window ledge and every time one of the boys were on the phone to others we could see either the man who ran the home or his wife on this phone through the window, it was one of the older boys who pointed it out and also that there was only one phone line coming in so why when one of the boys was on the phone were he or she on it.
I remember clearly one incident which occurred during the school holidays, we had some local dignitaries visiting and I was walking through to another room and saw a boy called Steve using the phone to talk to his family, I noted that the man who ran the homes wife was on the phone at the window also on the phone as walked back, the man asked if I had seen his wife and I told him that she was in the other house listening to Steve’s call this while talking to the visitors, he made an excuse and I went back to what I was doing, at the time I did not consider I had done anything wrong and we all took the listening on the phone as a fact of life, shortly after the people left I was summoned to the office to tod during the obligatory beating I had told him this to embarrass him in front of visitors and I was getting my just deserts , as a result of this we used to go swimming regularly in Buxton however we did not go swimming for a couple of weeks supposedly as a punishment on all of us for my malicious actions, it was not until discussing this years after I left that I considered it was in fact to allow time for the bruises I had to disappear.
As another indication of corruption by social services here is something which happened more recently, my son was assaulted by a teacher at Newbold School he had his arm purposefully trapped in a door and received a graze and subsequent bruising on his wrist on collecting him from school and seeing the extent of his injury I phoned the police to report a case of actual bodily harm and then took him to the doctors. The policeman who was supposed to investigate this matter called on us a few days later informing us that the doctor had stated to him that the injury in question could not have happened in the way my son had described (I spoke to the doctor a few days later and he told me what he had said was he could not categorically state that the injury was sustained in the manner described by my son) we heard no more for a few weeks even though I rang the police regularly for updates, getting tired of this I rang up the police and spoke to an inspector informing him I intended to pursue a complaint of no action against the police, it was at this point I was informed by the police that there had been a child protection meeting held by the social services and he provided me with a telephone number to contact for more information.
The response I got on ringing this number was very instructive, the man I spoke to was highly annoyed and demanded to know where I had got the number it turned out he had been the chair of this highly corrupt meeting, why corrupt you may ask, well for that you need to know the rules governing these meetings, all agencies dealing with the child are allowed to be there ie police school, representatives of the local education authorities and social workers If they are involved with the child, but not the parents, also to ensure the child is protected a social worker is appointed to fully protect the child during the process, also the Childs parents have to be contacted and the whole process be explained to them both before during and after the process, the reason I call it corrupt is that until I had spoke to the police I knew nothing about the process and it had been quietly dealt with and a decision of no further action needed had been taken, it is instructive that the chair of this child protection meeting was just a few weeks from retiring and that also members of the panel at that meeting were also at his leaving party, as a result of my complaints regarding the way this process was handled I managed to get the outcome overturned and also insisted I be given a copy of the original minutes of the meeting, the schools headmaster during the meeting was able to smear me and my family by and I quote “THERE IS INTENSE SOCIAL SERVICES INVOLVEMENT WITH THIS FAMILY” this was accepted by the meeting even though it was utterly untrue and they knew it , as a result of the abandonment of this meeting a social worker was appointed to my son and a new meeting arranged.
My son was then interviewed by this social worker who insisted the interview was to be conducted with just the social worker in a private room with my son I informed the social worker that I would be present at all times and if at any point I felt they represented a threat to my son I would defend my son to the death preferably theirs.
At the second meeting I again insisted on the minutes and got them, the social worker appointed to look after my sons interest stated that during the interview with my son that they felt my son was unclear with his explanation of the events that took place and also he appeared to have been coached in the evidence he did give, putting aside the contradiction in this position, at this point I will tell you my son was a special needs child and he was medically diagnosed as having both short and long term memory problems so even had I wanted to I couldn’t coach him he would just forget , and let us not forget this was two months after the assault took place which was their fault not mine once again I complained and received an apology, big deal eh.
The Social Services are corrupt abusers who are rotten to the core and I have nothing but a pathological hatred and contemptuous and deep loathing for them and the abuses they have committed in the past and the abuses they are no doubt committing as I write this reply and as I have no doubt they will continue to commit in the future.
