FORCED ADOPTIONS SCANDAL - CONTACT CANCELLED

2.06.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sat 3rd Jul 2010

We were horrified to learn last week that a Mother had a note pushed through her letter box by Dudley Social Services at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday evening cancelling the contact with her three children the following day. She was extremely upset as it was her daughter's 10th birthday and she had made a cake specially and bought lots of party food to enable them to have a celebration at the contact meeting. No doubt the children would have been very upset too. If the Mother had cancelled contact at such short notice she would no doubt have been highly criticised by Social Services for letting her children down. Despite the fact that we tried to intervene and ask Social Services to re-consider their actions they refused. Was this in the best interests of the children - we don't think so.

We previously reported on this scandal as follows:-

We are now presently assisting another young Mother who has had her five young children taken away from her because her ex-partner abused her eldest child. He is serving a long prison sentence and so there is no likelihood of him having any contact with the family. However, Dudley Social Services are refusing to return her children to the Mother, again despite the fact that she has never harmed her children and they wish to be reunited with her, and are in the process of arranging for her youngest child to be adopted against the Mother's wishes.

We are now aware of at least six similar cases in Dudley and are aware that this this happening all over the UK.

If you have had your children or grandchildren taken away please contact us and we will see what we can do to help.

We would like to thank the many organisations who are helping people in these circumstances including Justice For Families; Forced Adoption.com and Parents Against Injustice who have been invaluable with information and advice. Also people like Christopher Booker at The Sunday Telegraph who along with people like Bob Geldof and Denise Robertson MBE are all keen to highlight this scandal.

Of course there are children who need to be taken away from parents and we wholeheartedly applaud social workers who intervene to protect these children.

However, it would appear that there are some social workers who are focusing too much on minor cases and who snatch children from loving parents to feed the adoption and fostering industry.