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to think that John Hemming is a dangerous man?

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Spero · 24/05/2011 23:04

For all the Hemming apologists - please read this.

www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2011/04/27/hemming-an-abuse-of-privilege/

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BeerTricksPotter · 29/05/2011 23:30

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hester · 29/05/2011 23:31

I'm sorry, cato, I don't understand your post.

yukoncher · 29/05/2011 23:42

cato1
judges don't believe everything a guardian says, otherwise I'd have my child back. Jusges believe everything SS say, hence the forced adoption.

ILoveYouToo · 30/05/2011 09:30

cato1 are you on drugs? Confused Grin

confuddledDOTcom · 30/05/2011 11:18

Not every judge or every social worker. Some judges don't like social workers and they're scared to have them. Some social workers have a reputation that affects how the judge feels about the case, either they know they're rubbish and treat everything with suspicion or they know they're good and likely to get a well presented case. You're talking about people not just a job title they make their own minds up about people.

edam · 31/05/2011 10:09

Not every social worker is the same, that's true. But some are awful. One spent all day Friday constantly on the phone haranguing my sister. Sister is an learning disability nurse. Social worker wanted to dump a patient on my sister - the guy does have LDs but no immediate health crisis that would warrant admission. SW just didn't want to have to pay for respite care - a period of respite was ending but the man's mother still has cancer and can't have him back. So the SW was demanding the man was admitted so she could dump him, inappropriately, on the NHS instead of sorting her own ruddy act out and dealing with the man's very real needs for social care. Was shouting at my sister, threatening her, raising merry hell because my sister, quite correctly, said 'no'.

Obviously this is nothing to do with child protection, but it's a disgraceful way to treat a vulnerable adult. God knows how the other clients left to this SW's tender mercies are treated.

OldMacEIEIO · 31/05/2011 10:46

I can only speak about the few SW that I know personally. Watched them climb the greasy pole over the last decade or so and they are now in senior positions. And I wouldnt spit on them if they were on fire
typical pen pushing mindless cowardly bullying mealy mouthed politically correct bullies.
One of them has been to so many court cases that he now spouts bolloxy legalese in everyday convo
he posted a birthday card to early one morning DD and wrote 'by hand' on the envelope, because thats what lawyers do (apparently) when they dont use a stamp

dickheads

confuddledDOTcom · 31/05/2011 18:57

Edam I didn't say SWs aren't all the same I was talking about judges and how they treat SWs.

I can only talk about SWs I know personally too but they're some of the hardest working people I know. I know some duff ones too but by far more good, hard working individuals.

psiloveyou · 31/05/2011 19:06

I've fostered 53 children over the last 6 years so have worked with many SWs. I can only think of two that really were bad. The rest did a fantastic job under often extreme pressure.
My opinion of JH is the same as that of the op and probably anyone else who works in childcare or who has adopted.

oohlaalaa · 03/06/2011 07:24

psiloveyou - go onto Twitter and search for Vicky Haigh @Legal Aids. John Hemmings was definitely right to interfere over this case.

edam · 03/06/2011 22:42

Any MP has a duty to speak out to protect the fundamental democratic right of the citizen to talk to their MP.

askingforafriend1357 · 29/05/2019 12:52

Sorry to raise a zombie thread ..... but .... this. www.crowdjustice.com/case/support-my-defamation-case-aga/

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