Did ex-child boss Anne ignore parental alienation as she told Boris to end institutional bias?
Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has talked openly about the reasons the government regularly fails to help our vulnerable children.
She also pointed out an ‘institutional bias against children and families’, particularly in the Treasury.
This means, she said, resources are not where spent where they should be to create the most impact on life.
Sadly, she did not mention Parental Alienation directly when she delivered her final speech as commissioner online and challenged the Prime Minister to be is serious about children.
But she demanded has put children at the heart of future plans, including the country’s Covid future.
Meanwhile, recent research headed by Longfield, attacked the disruption to children who are forced to relocate miles from their families and homes and schools by Family Courts.
More extreme cases of abuse and criminality, of a kind which most people hoped belonged to the past, happen with frightening frequency, she said.
Longfield said the government is guilty of ‘deep-rooted institutional ambivalence’ to the 78,150 children it obliged to look after.
Meanwhile, the number of children in care continues to rise – by 21% since 2010 – but council budgets are being constantly squeezed..
As the report came out the County Councils Network admitted that 27% of its members were planning reductions in children’s services.
In 2018, 5,400 children were moved more than 50 miles from their homes; 8,000 children had at least three placements in a single year.
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One Reply to “Did ex-child boss Anne ignore parental alienation as she told Boris to end institutional bias?”
Sadly the status quo with family court represents multiple billions annually, from which many establishment figures, Lords and Ladies, benefit. You are not the only person who knows the extent of corruption in family law in which this example of Ann Longfield covering up to keep the secret of the secret courts secret still is but the tip of an iceberg. Below that tip is a legislature in which an appointed judge who has passed a simple Deputy District Judge exam, can rule with complete autonomy, free from any oversight, and protected in law from any appeals process. As you know from my example, witness tampering by a family court judge is completely acceptable, whereas in any other branch of British law it would be a criminal offense. In every case that is contested in family court, parental alienation and child abuse are a certain outcome, along with enormous payments to members of family law of money that will never go to the child being abused in this process.
But qualified immunity for family law members remains the status quo – and for that reason they cannot call the child abuse of parental alienation with the clear terminology CAFCASS have recorded. That would require a redo of the very fabric of this multi billion pound business.
So; their narrative remains. There is no such thing as parental alienation. Everything is fine for the 10,000 children CAFCASS report as abused by family court judgment annually.