What to do if Your Child is Targeted by Social Workers

Christian Voice,
June 2007

 

If your children are being targeted by social workers:

Contact Christian Voice immediately.  We can put you in touch with others who have been down this road and won and who are only too happy to offer advice to those in a similar plight.

If you are asked to take your children to the hospital for a 'checkup' on Friday afternoon, never agree.  Social workers arrange that intentionally to keep you waiting until 5 or 6pm so they can remove your children after it is too late to seek legal help until Monday.

If you have been threatened with having your children removed, teach your children to make reverse charge calls at public phone boxes and help them to memorise your phone number.  That way, if they are taken away, contact will never be lost.

Never sign any documents social workers present to you, even if they say you have to.  Remember that social workers have absolutely no power unless they are working specifically under a court order issued by a judge.  You always have the opportunity to contest such orders in court either before or after they are given.

Never agree for your children to go into foster care even for a temporary period, because in the eyes of the courts this is equivalent to admitting abuse.

Never give social workers more information than the bare minimum.  They will use any information they can against you.  This means you should avoid writing them letters, even when you are upset and feel like you have to.

If social workers ask to look at your medical records, always write to your doctor and request that they be kept strictly confidential.

Read:
Deuteronomy 1:17 - "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it."

Leviticus 19:15 - "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."

1 Samuel 2:10 - "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."

Proverbs 24: 23-25 - "These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them."

Isaiah 5:20-23 - "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ... Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!"

Isaiah 10:1-4 - "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

Micah 2:1-2 - "Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.  And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage."

John 7:24 - "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

1 Timothy 5:21 - "I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."

James 3:17 - "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."

Pray:
for the numerous families being torn apart to satisfy Government's adoption targets.
that this issue becomes high profile in the media, despite all the social services are doing to keep it quiet.

Write:
to your MP and express your concern that children are being removed from their birth parents to satisfy adoption targets.  Many MPs are already under pressure on this issue since so many parents have been contacting them with (often illegally) their horror stories.  If enough other concerned citizens also write to their MPs, they may begin to put significant pressure on the government.  Insist that there be more transparency in the proceedings of Family Courts.  Also ask your MP whether he favours the establishment of an independent watchdog to scrutinise the work of the social services.