Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi,
I am an autistic adult who is a parent. Since having my daughter I went through a terrible time with social services who set me up to fail and removed my daughter from me because I have a diagnosis of autism. It took me two years to fight for my daughter back and through this time social services and Cafcass used the so called deficits of my autism to justify the removal and to stop the return of my daughter. Thankfully the judge saw through this and returned my daughter concluding in her judgment that I parent my daughter to a high standard.
I want to know how many my adults will autism who are parents have been through a similar situation. How many parents with ASD and other disabilities and or impairments are being targeted by social services and having their children removed? If you have experienced this please tell your story because the current system is outrageously discriminative against parents who have a disability and or impairment and I would like to raise awareness of the current failures within the current child protection system which is targeting parents with disabilities and or impairments so that change can happen.
I can see that this post was some time ago but can I please ask what was the out come in the end, I am having a terrible time in a similar situation I asked for help and have been and still am being heavily discriminated against, my human rights have been continuously breeched and I feel my childrens welfare is actually at risk from social care
I proved that the LA broke the law when they removed my baby. I did this by applying for all my records including social services and cafcass, hospital and medical records and pieced together what happened. I exposed the local authority corruption with their own records. I also had a parenting assessment by independent social worker Cathie Long who specialises in autistic parents.
I got my daughter back and we are both suing the LA.
May I just say that there is a massive problem with LAs and family courts targeting autistic parents. Something must be done about it because at the moment it is not in the public view. I believe that there's 100s if not 1000s of stolen children in adoption or SGOs simply because their parents are autistic!!!!