Petition regarding parents of autistic children & stories of false accusations

 http://www.parents-protecting-children.org.uk/news.asp 

"Some clinicians, therapists and social workers seem to be using erroneous diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and / or 'Attachment Theory' as a substitute for MSBP or FII - this is particularily dangerous for families in which parent, child or sibling has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Psychodynamically / psychotherapeutically trained therapists and clinicians do not have the skills and experience to assess or understand Neurological Diversity. Many wrongful observations are made, which if they find themselves in the documentation of the family courts become 'misunderstandings which take on a life of their own' - often with tragic consequences for families who find themselves torn apart for reasons which they cannot understand. The secrecy of the family courts prevents confused and vulnerable parents sharing these erroneous reports with Autism experts who could understand, interpret and assist if only they were allowed to do so. 

Inevitably there are cases where an entirely explicable childhood accident, often the result of interaction with a sibling, is presented by panicking social workers and clinicians as non accidental injury by the parents. Children are sometimes removed from home for no valid reason whatsoever. 

In a bid to encourage supposed independence, ill trained care workers are misunderstanding the situation of vulnerable young adults and making false assumptions which lead to the removal of these young people into a care system which they do not understand and where they do not want to be. One of these in North London made headline news in 2010 when the young person was finally released and reunited with the family. Social workers do not seem to have learned from this mistake and there are others in the pipeline. 

On 23 April 2004 (Hansard) Tim Loughton MP used my name and evidence of my correspondence with Harriet Harman and other Labour Ministers, to berate the then Secretary of State for Education for not doing more to stop these false allegations of MSBP / FII and to prevent these children wrongfully entering the care system. In the ensuing six years the then Government did nothing and the situation got progressively worse. Mr Loughton now has responsibility for adoption and has the chance to act to remedy the situation before it is too late." (from Nov 2011)

 http://www.parents-protecting-children.org.uk/news.asp 

"Some clinicians, therapists and social workers seem to be using erroneous diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and / or 'Attachment Theory' as a substitute for MSBP or FII - this is particularily dangerous for families in which parent, child or sibling has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Psychodynamically / psychotherapeutically trained therapists and clinicians do not have the skills and experience to assess or understand Neurological Diversity. Many wrongful observations are made, which if they find themselves in the documentation of the family courts become 'misunderstandings which take on a life of their own' - often with tragic consequences for families who find themselves torn apart for reasons which they cannot understand. The secrecy of the family courts prevents confused and vulnerable parents sharing these erroneous reports with Autism experts who could understand, interpret and assist if only they were allowed to do so. 

Inevitably there are cases where an entirely explicable childhood accident, often the result of interaction with a sibling, is presented by panicking social workers and clinicians as non accidental injury by the parents. Children are sometimes removed from home for no valid reason whatsoever. 

In a bid to encourage supposed independence, ill trained care workers are misunderstanding the situation of vulnerable young adults and making false assumptions which lead to the removal of these young people into a care system which they do not understand and where they do not want to be. One of these in North London made headline news in 2010 when the young person was finally released and reunited with the family. Social workers do not seem to have learned from this mistake and there are others in the pipeline. 

On 23 April 2004 (Hansard) Tim Loughton MP used my name and evidence of my correspondence with Harriet Harman and other Labour Ministers, to berate the then Secretary of State for Education for not doing more to stop these false allegations of MSBP / FII and to prevent these children wrongfully entering the care system. In the ensuing six years the then Government did nothing and the situation got progressively worse. Mr Loughton now has responsibility for adoption and has the chance to act to remedy the situation before it is too late." (from Nov 2011)