Lynne Amidon vs the Tavistock

[Ginnyweasleyswand]

Does anyone know anything about this case? It's another Tavistock whistleblower who seems to be saying that her attempts to raise safeguarding concerns were shut down and resulted in discrimination against her, from the look of it. I like to think I'm fairly on top of women fighting for child safeguarding via the courts but this has passed me by. There is a garden (crowdjustice) with not too many flowers at the moment. I have limited funds so need to think strategically what to support... so if anyone knows anything I'd be keen to learn more than is available on the gardening page or via tribunal tweets (link below)

https://tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lynne-amidon-vs-the-tavistock-and#%C2%A7live-tweet-threads

I've planted some carrots - bumping the thread as it seems important!

Thanks, OP, I hadn't seen this one at all.

'My trial has been set down for 10 days in the Central London Employment Tribunal from 13 May 2024 to 24 May 2024. It will be an in-person hearing and I do hope for a large attendance from the public and the press so that they can understand what has happened at the Tavistock Clinic and what I say has been done to me.
My claim is a whistleblowing claim. That means that I say I made protected disclosures to the Tavistock (about child safety and safeguarding) and I claim that in retaliation for making these protected disclosures, the Tavistock did things to me (“detriments”).
In my Particulars of Claim I have asked the Court to find:
a) Institutional collusion between the Tavistock and a local authority to suspend referrals to my Complex Assessment Team because of my protected disclosures – in other words because they were unhappy that I had raised concerns about child safety;
b) That I was placed under a clandestine review by the Tavistock, to keep investigating me without my knowledge and without any terms of reference;
c) That the Tavistock obfuscated the route to reporting safeguarding concerns, in other words to either prevent me from making further safeguarding concerns or to make it more difficult, or to delay any investigation into them;
d) Refusing and / or delaying investigating my safeguarding concerns;
e) Restarting an investigation in June 2022 that had closed in October 2021, shouting and being hostile and aggressive towards me in interviews and spending some 18 months investigating me when it should have been over in 4 weeks.
The Tavistock Clinic denies all of this of course and only an employment tribunal can decide who is telling the truth.
I have also brought a race claim, that I was treated less favourably because I was white.
I am used to appearing in Court because I am part of the Complex Assessment Team which did family assessments for Court at the Tavistock Clinic but of course I am still nervous because this time it is my case and everything rests on the evidence and what happens in Court.
I hope that justice is done and I believe I have a very good case.
If you are able to support me I would be very grateful. Supporting me may just mean sharing my case on social media and talking about my case. My legal team tells me that you can attend the employment tribunal on the day of the trial and that the trial bundle will be available.'

Google 'Whistleblowing and Safeguarding Concerns at the Tavistock and Portman by Dr Lynne Amidon' for the crowdjustice page.

So many women have been mistreated…

Are any of the media picking this up yet, does anyone know? I've just got home and seen this thread.

This is the latest update on the crowdjustice page:

To: My Crowd Funders
My trial starts on Monday 13 May 2024, but it is a reading day for the employment tribunal and so no attendance by the parties.
The proceedings will get going on Tuesday 14 May 2024. Tribunal Tweets will be reporting on proceedings.

Tavistock’s witnesses
Mr Hector Bayayi (Former Divisional Director for GIDS)
Dr Sally Hodges (Clinical Chief Operating Officer at Tavistock)
Clare Scott (Chief Nursing Officer at Tavistock)
Patricia Pemberton (Social Worker, Line Manager or Complex Assessment Team, Line Manager for the Looked After Children and Refugees)
Helen Farrington (Former Interim Chief People Officer)

My witnesses
Sonia Appleby (Former Child Safeguarding Officer) (dependent on outcome of our application for a witness summons)
Dr Lynne Amidon (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
Dr Dan McQueen (Consultant Child and Adolescent Child Psychiatrist, Consultant Adult Psychiatrist and Medical Psychotherapist)
Judy Shuttleworth (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Former Visiting lecturer at Tavistock, Former Chair of the ACP)
I will keep you updated as we approach the trial and throughout.

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Does anyone know what 'dependent on outcome of our application for a witness summons' mean in relation to Sonia Appleby?

I'm still amazed I've heard nothing about this. I can't see any TT from today (which is when it was supposed to start), maybe they're too busy tweeting the Bailey case?

Thanks for this it had passed me by but I've just donated. Do we know how day 1 went?

@Ginnyweasleyswand I think it means they need to compel her to testify rather than her volunteering. This maybe to protect Sonia rather than an unwillingness to testify.

Just bumping this thread as, I'm assuming, the case is happening right now. I admit this one had completely passed me by. There was an article I saw late yesterday in the...Times, I think, that I linked in the general conversations thread. I just found this thread by googling Lynne Amidon's name.

This article

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whistleblower-faced-racial-hostility-at-tavistock-clinic-5p5bmg8dm

if anyone wants to read it there is an archive link in the general conversations thread.

Found another article in the Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-director-said-he-had-no-prejudice-towards-white-people-lzs09tthj

https://archive.ph/SIWTA paywall bypass

Bumping the thread.

Just bumping the thread so people can see what the culture was like at the Tavistock

Popping the archive link in here as it took me a bit of time to find it in general conversations.

https://archive.ph/esvf6

Culture sounds highly politicised and pretty toxic.

Reviving this thread because she lost her employment tribunal but is now going to an appeal tribunal. The judge at the ET allowed a witness to change their evidence mid trial and it is claimed without evidence to support the changes.

Lynne has been made redundant now and really needs some carrots to help fight this case.

More information by looking for Whistleblowing and Safeguarding Concerns at the Tavistock and Portman