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MARGARET HODGE MP AT WORK PLEASE READ, UNDERSTAND AND INFORM OTHERS URGENTLY Adopted children are to be allowed to trace and contact their ‘blood’parents Blood parents and family are to be allowed to trace and make contact with the children who were adopted. ( New Bill to be introduced in Parliament in 4 months) This relates to the discussion document that has been issued/will be issued shortly and have a 4 month duration ( consultancy period) On the face of it appears ideal and quite innocent. BUT NOTE THE WORKING PROCEDURES The procedures will have an effect on the ability of those parents wrongly accused of abusing their children, and who lost their children through forced adoption . The procedures that are intended to apply are as follows: 1…Parents wishing to contact a child who was adopted will have to contact ‘an agency’ ( a special body )…….A middleman. 2….If the child was removed from the parent/parents as a result of ‘abuse’, it is very likely that the ‘special agency’ they approach will not agree to the contact being made. 3….This on the face of it might seem understandable until one appreciates the number of parents wrongly accused of abusing their child/children and consequently the number of children ‘wrongly taken into Care and adopted’ 4….But this is a clever ploy to protect the ‘professionals in perpetuity’& M.Hodge 5….Because as things stand at the moment, an adopted child at 18 might wish to learn about his blood family. In making enquiries he might find that his file will have information stating that he was removed from his parents for his/her own good, and then adopted. ( File marked….” Abusive parents” ) 6…But simultaneously, coming from the other corner, the mother/father might also be seeking to make contact with their child who was adopted when the parents were wrongly accused of abuse. The file would be marked “ Abusive parents” and the ‘special agency would not allow the contact to occur. 7…..But as things stand at the moment, the parents would have an opportunity to explain what occurred and how the professionals used ‘contempt of court procedures and the secrecy of the Family Court’ to effect the injustice in the first place. 8…This would in many cases result in the adopted child then seeking to sue the state after the age of 18 for the loss of a normal family life. The number of such cases could run into the tens of thousands. 9….But if ‘a special agency ‘is brought in to be placed in the middle…….such meetings and possible litigation disappears because ‘the special agency’ would not allow the parents to make contact, the adopted children would never discover the truth, and this also dashes any hope of reopening the cases of miscarriages of justice. 10….This is very important from the point of view of parents wrongly accused of abusing their children. Margaret Hodge MP has been repeatedly warned ( by me and others) that she faces personal claims ( even after leaving office) if after being notified about injustice done to parents and children, she continued with her policy of providing social workers and doctors with an immunity to abuse the very children they are supposed to protect. She has currently restricted the review of cases of ‘parents wrongly accused of abusing their children’ to a few hundred out of the possible tens of thousands, we believe is the true figure. And even these few hundred are to be selected for review by social services……the very people responsible for causing the miscarriages of justice in the first place. ( Attorney General’s decision but M. Hodge has not disagreed) So social services are hardly likely to identify those cases that would identify them at their worst and in which the parents might well take further action in the courts. 11…I contend that ‘the special agency’ put in between parents looking to make contact with adopted children, and adopted children looking to make contact with their parents, will scupper any hopes that parents wrongly accused of abusing their children have of making contact with their long ago adopted children. 12….This condition of allowing a ‘special agency’ or ‘middleman’ to decide whether or not contact will be facilitated ( by providing information about their whereabouts and passing on letters) is a ploy to save Margaret Hodge and the state from the tens of thousands of wronged families taking up cases of litigation against social services/doctors. This will be achieved by denying them access to the case files by reinforcing the initial decision to label them ‘abusive parents’ and hence deny them the opportunity of opening up the case. 13….As things presently stand there will have to be an opening up of cases. If one considers the disrepute of Professor Meadow and his cohorts, the no nonsense attitude of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals( CRHCP )…..See the Law Report today ( 8 April 2004) the tide is turning. 14….However, this new procedure in the Bill to go before Parliament in about 4 months time will provide immunity for social workers and doctors….in per **********What should be done****** Inform MP’s and lobby as many of those concerned about this issue. Parents should also be alerted as soon as possible to what is being planned.