Consensus :- Family Law Reform

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The Complaint on Family Law Proceedings in the UK

 

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Mismanagement: Social and Family Policy

Mr Bruce Clark, DfES: 2000-2005

 

MISDIRECTION of SOCIAL POLICY

Assessing Ordinary Parents  as Abusers

Assessing Ordinary Children as Victims

 

Re: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy; fabricated or induced illness; shaken babies; medical evidence; taking into care; adoptions; re-classification of sick children as abused children;

the misdirection of Social Work, Child Protection and of the Family Courts

 

19 July 2005: Initial hard-copy distribution

Restricted until:  19 September 2005

 

NOTE ON THE CONSENSUS PROCESS

 

Documentation:

 

This document is the third part of a three-piece suite of papers lodged by Consensus with the Permanent Secretary (DfES), five Ministers (DfES and DCA) and the relevant line managers cataloguing the mismanagement of family policy in two sectors:

 

- private law Family Law cases

- public law Family Law cases

 

In both sectors, the mismanagement shows common features; - in particular, of internal departmental processes contrived by Government officials (or a Government official) in such a manner that policy-as-envisaged by Ministers was replaced by wholly different policies; with one policy substituted for another whilst it was officially maintained that the original policy continued under development.

 

Documentation lodged to date consists of:

 

    1.   26 April 2005 – the originating document summarising the case in both the private and public sectors:

 

          (i)   Private Law: Section 8 contact disputes / Early Interventions /Child Contact and Adoption Bill

   

          (ii)  Public Law: MSbP / Shaken Babies / Social Service interventions / Child Protection / adoptions

 

   2.   20 May 2005 – lodgement of full particulars re the Private Law mismanagement of EI and Section 8

 

   3.   19 July 2005 – lodgement of full particulars re the Public Law mismanagement of MSbP etc (herewith)

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Procedure

 

On 28 April 2005 the DfES Permanent Secretary Sir David Normington responded on behalf of the initial recipients (see Paragraph One above) with the undertaking of a full departmental investigation. A prerequisite, agreed thereafter by Consensus in correspondence with Sir David Normington was the submission by Consensus of full particulars in relation to (i) Private Law (ii) Public Law. Item (i) was lodged on 20 May 2005; Item (ii), on 19 July 2005.

 

As of 19 July 2005, the DfES was in a position to commence its investigations.

 

The covering letter from Consensus to Sir David, which accompanied the 19 July 2005 papers, noted that the objective of Consensus was structural change. A timetable of two months from receipt of the MSbP papers was suggested by Consensus as an appropriate span for the Department to respond with the indications of good faith sought by Consensus.

 

A copy of this letter from Consensus, if not appended to this document, may be available on application from the Permanent Secretary.

 

Private Law: Confirmation of Mismanagement by Mr Bruce Clark

 

On 17 May 2005 the DfES, in response to various requests, furnished Consensus with the Minutes of the first DfES Design Team meeting (of 17 March 2004) on the Private Law Section 8 EI reform project. These Minutes confirm, on the Department’s own records, the charge against Mr Clark:

 

   - by the time the Design Team first met, the approved EI project had been buried and was lost without trace

 

During the period October ‘03-March ‘04, when the EI project underwent its unauthorised disposal, the EI project was under Mr Clark’s control. The Private Law issue is concluded in the Appendices at Endnote ix

 

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