Yes, I am awake at this ungodly hour!
Magic Changes posted this:
"I'm 7 years retired so I don't know what goes on in court but I simply don't believe that social workers or other professionals deliberately lie and falsify reports. I know there was a recent case that Spero mentioned where reports were falsified - I think it was a clinical psychologist who reported verbatim what had been said by the parent, whereas it was revealed that she hadn't in fact made these statements. It was a bit odd as he was if I recall correctly a very experienced professional but I can't hazard a guess why he would behave in such an unacceptable way"
This made me very sad. To read someone not believing that these basic things go on.
I know someone similar to Magic changes. A retired SW, their whole career worked for SS, previously head of Adoption Team, then Area Manager - so would review all the Work of the Chairs of Child Protection Conferences.
He was saddened in the decline of things in the last 7 years.
Lots of basic mistakes. But also major lies.
Similar evidence as Magic changes and Spero referred to ( I must have missed that link) could someone please re-link?
Similar cases: Educational psychologist giving a verbatim report of a conversation with mother.
Turned out that mother never attended such a meeting, because on the day in question she was abroad, at a work conference, in Paris!!
(And no, this wasn't me, unfortunately I haven't been to Paris for years!!)
But other files and cases, major mistakes. People deliberately phoning up, on purpose, giving false information that is basically 'perverting the course of justice'.
Once a data request was later done (but it's too late by then!!) on another family: A HeadMaster at the CPC, at the professionals meeting held prior to the parents attending the CPC) claiming that mother was unreliable, abusive, possibly lying. All professionals agreed mother was not to be trusted. He said the mother had previously claimed the child had leukaemia.
This was later proved completely untrue. Mother had never such thing. She was supported by her GP and the child's Paed. But that idea that mother was lying, meant that it took 9 months for her to get her 4 children returned to her.
But it set the tone of the whole case. Those kind of things are very damaging.
On a total different issue, not SS related:
My friends mother went into hospital with a minor issue hernia/ ruptured something. Before you knew it she had her teeth removed, no food, and her 4 daughters, asked to sign forms. But later it transpired that underneath the forms 2 of them had signed, were other forms, for the Liverpool pathway. They unknowingly had signed forms for their mum to be ....., killed, basically, whilst reasonably heathy. Took 5 years in a court case to get the death certificate changed.
Surely none of you are naieve enough to think that these things go on?
People cover their tracks. Lying and falsifying of documents goes on. Some partly accidentally. Sine are genuine mistakes, recording things incorrectly. Some so definitely, clearly done on purpose, one does wonder what theses people's motivations are.
Sure does mystify Me!!
I can't believe anyone thinks it doesn't go on.