IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE IS IT?

[Alison J Stevens]

Children that have been taken into Care wrongly are going to be traumatized even more, its just basic common sense that when an emergency protection order is instigated,and a child is taken from hospital,or a school,and don't get contact with Parents and siblings for several weeks,are going to be left confused, this will relate more to younger children,say a four year old,and could possibly have in their mind, that Mun,and Dad don't love me scenario,and have been dumped.

I remember back to 1986, when my Son was taken into foster care,after a place of safety order was instigated,after he-sustained a leg fracture after jumping from the side of the bath and landed awkwardly.

The time scale from him being taken to the day we saw him again was three weeks, the trauma for a small three year old boy,was that he thought he was being taken away for being naughty.

Children that are returned to Parents face as much trauma,and could also need psychological help, but very little help is offered.

On a personal basis it took us at least three years to get our sons behavior back to the happy go lucky child that we had before he was taken,and no we had no help, to deal with his mood swings, the effect it has on other siblings is a concern as well, because in our case, his older brother was left in our care.

Older children, should have some understanding of the reason, why they have been taken,and under new Public Law Guidelines the local authorities have a mandatory duty to invite older children,and teenagers to child protection case conferences.

BASIC COMMON SENSE WILL TELL YOU THAT ANY CHILD REMOVED FROM THEIR PARENTS WILL BE NATURALLY TRAUMATIZED, ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.




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[Melizza Moore]

My boys are definately feeling it. One of them on a few occasions has created a mini panic before sadly getting in the taxi. Last week his two brothers went to get in in it, but he had hidden within the centre. We had to go look for him. The youngest one ( almost 7) keeps saying " I wanna come with you". My heart breaks inside when I tell him "its the court order" that has done this. And the evil social workers who think Im a bad mummy. Its not rocket science to realise they themselves say we are fantastic parents.