The story of my ex-wife, my daughter's mother will be told elsewhere, I thought I would just relate my recent activity with the social services since I moved into the county in 2002.

We moved into the area after finally having the old social services discharge us with a happy wave, we needed to be closer to family and friends and we had high hopes. Now don't get me wrong, things weren't perfect but despite the friction between my daughter and my wife, we tried as everyone does and got on with it.

It was in the late period of 2002 and that I had a phone call from my solicitor warning me social services were on my tail, apparently the sniffing social worker was contacted by my ex wife with all sorts of allegations and she applied to the courts for the right to open a section 37 report.

She finally made contact with us and she spoke to my wife first of all, I watched within two minutes of the conversation and my wife's face was nearly purple, she thrust the phone at me telling me in no uncertain terms that "that woman will never enter my house", i took the phone and introduced myself whereupon a woman on the other end said in a very offensive manner that she must do the section 37 report and we must let her in, I tried to talk to my wife about this and she went mad so I agreed to take my daughter to the local office instead. Now I was nonplussed why this woman was so rude and offensive but tried to work with what I had.

We attended the office and this woman kept me waiting and waiting until finally she appeared, she was constantly glaring at me and my heart sank, we sat down and she started "interrogating" me on all manner of things and I found her tone quite threatening, we then moved onto the situation of the ex-wife, whereupon she bluntly told me that 7 years of court, social services and police records were wholly untrue and that I was to blame and my ex-wife was innocent and misjudged. Now the majority of these records pinpointed the ex wife's activities including myself being stabbed 18 times, daily verbal and physical abuse against myself, physical abuse and neglect against my daughter, multitudes of allegations made against me that each time were foundless and untrue and proven each time as so, all this and more wiped out by this woman.

What was I to do, I objected as calmly as i could, I told her of people to contact, of instances of abuse against my daughter and myself and all I got back was venomous accusations about how wrong I was to allow the mother to be so badly treated.

I finished the conversation warning her that I had contacts in the press and elsewhere and that if she didn't moderate her tone then I would complain to her managers, her reply was "well its your right but it won't get you anywhere..." How true she was.

I had a second meeting and tried again to diffuse the situation, no deal, this woman was after me good and proper and she really made sure I knew about it. She had a meeting with my daughter alone and she came out of this very distressed and emotional, she regaled a tale of being "pestered" into wanting to see her mother, that if she said no this woman just kept on at her, she also told me of the fact this woman held onto her as she had a "rollie" in the garden of the building and when my daughter complained of the smoke was told to "shut up" and she was told to keep the cigarette a "secret".

I went nuts over this and told my solicitor who knew there was a hearing just round the corner, he told me to wait and see and we prepared my statement, at a barrister review in chambers with my solicitor we were treated to a phone call telling us that this social worker had arranged in secret a child protection conference on the grounds that she "didn't know anything of the child's needs" despite being told by the child that she did not want to see her mother.

I would add something in here about her mother in that one incident involved my daughter suffering a murder attempt by her mother who openly admitted it in the end and claimed she "accidentally" strangled her (!) now the social worker at that county made such a monumentous cock-up that the criminal case was destroyed, this was one of many incidents and to this day her mother has never been arrested.

Now at the earliest involvement of social services in this county, I had to allow a joint interview as my daughter had described in great detail a sexual attack upon her, this was said to me before the move but I needed to make sure of the details so waited a while and spoke to her again about this event, lets just say that the details were very descriptive and not something any parent should ever hear happening to their daughter, I approached a police officer who I knew socially and we arranged a visit from the CPU, this didn't happen at first because I was in the wrong catchments area and they didn't pass on the referral but finally I met with an officer and a JI was arranged.

The social worker was incensed at this and proclaimed loudly the mothers innocence even before the interview, my child at the interview described on film the exact same details and also divulged more "events" and my solicitor and I were horrified this had happened but also that we were confident of an arrest.

During this time I left the wife for a little while and spent the time at my fathers, we were all worn out and a break is always a good rest cure, so still waiting for an answer to the JI, we spent a few weeks at my dads. Now this social worker rang me up there and told me rather smugly that she was right and that the mother was innocent, I indicated to my brother to pick up the extension and he listened in, the social worker then went on to tell me she had "told the police" that I had forced the allegation, that her view was the mother was innocent, and of course the DI and social worker involved took her professional view on board and dropped the investigation, I challenged this woman on this and I told her she had interfered in a criminal investigation and she had used her position of trust to pervert a valid investigation, she seemed not bothered by this and then advised me to stay where I was and take up residence with a notorious Landlord who shall we say makes the Krays look benign.

My brother in a former employ was a Police and Criminal Evidence Officer with the Met and he was absolutely disgusted with what he heard, I returned home later that week and spoke further with my solicitor who plainly thought this some sort of wind up as he had never heard of such a thing.

The CAFCASS officer attended my place soon after, he seemed to be friendly and sympathetic and we discussed openly the problems we were facing, I also discussed with him the problems with the social worker and he seemed to be sympathetic about that, I suspect he came at the behest of the social worker and you will see why in a moment, I said I was considering a series of serious complaints against the social worker but I told him that this was to be treated in the strictest of confidence, he agreed to this in front of my wife and we talked some more.

Little known to me was that he left the property and phoned the social worker and told her that (he got it muddled) I had made serious complaints against her. The next day she rang up and started shouting down the phone, "I know what you have done, I know you have complained about me, you wait, I'll make it so hard for you in court, I'll have that kid off of you, you will regret this" my wife listened at the earpiece but the stupid social worker had jumped the gun, I hadn't complained about her as yet but I soon remedied that with a 14 page complaint.

Court came and after she claimed a few glories for herself when it was my GP who should have been thanked, she told the court that she had decided my daughter should see a psychotherapist, this was in the face of my GP referring her to a Psychiatrist but the social worker cancelled that referral and my daughter had to see a weird Dr who seemed very strange.

Also the social worker was taken off my case and a new one appointed, my complaints were totally ignored past the six week time limit but I persevered, the new worker seemed better and we tried to get back to normal, well you guessed it, it doesn't go back to normal with that department and I was due to find out about the velvet glove over the mailed fist.

Still no complaints response so launched another and asked my MP to intervene too, we were coming up to mar 2003 and the first conference, the new worker still hadn't contacted me so the conference was run by the old one. I had an advocate from a solicitors firm with me and she recorded every single things this woman did, she also did this in the face of the senior solicitor for the county and her team manager, neither who would admit she had done anything wrong.

The conference started and she attacked me straight away decrying me as an evil father, us as a couple meting out abusive and cruel punishments, discussing all sorts of inappropiate matter with the children, made a hell of a lot up from the records by pinching a lot from the ex-wife's records and portraying it as me, now I stood my ground and with a calm attitude answered her allegations with truthful legal and evidential challenges, this sent her wild, she became more and more aggressive, abusive and flustered, I told her flat and straight that her records were wrong and would she like to see the right ones, that her opinions at that point were worthless and that she had no rights whatsoever in calling this conference when it was plain to see she was doing it out of spite and revenge with a view to remove my child.

She harped on about the cruelty issues, the cruelty issues that included harsh punishments, written by her self "the child is suffering exceptionally harsh and cruel punishments as she told me she was sent to bed, put in the naughty corner, not given tea or not allowed to watch cartoons, she said to me this happens when I am naughty..", where's the violence I would expect to match that sort of claim, the pin down, the abusive treatment and at this I stood up and laughed in her face and told her point blank she was talking "B*ll**ks", needless to say my child was registered BUT my two stepsons were NOT, they were hardly mentioned and that I conclude is because they wanted my child for her mother and this I can see now was part of the deal.

That was the last I ever saw of her but her report lingers on still now as current workers draw on it for reference even though it is totally fictitious.

Weeks later, we met the new social worker, being near retirement age, she presented a more mature aspect and we decided to give it a go to work out the differences, our next door neighbour spotted her and she went berserk, don't trust that one, she said, I had a series of serious complaints against her upheld, she is evil and she will split you up. To this day I wish I had heeded these words but this social worker seemed to want to help and we were having behavioural problems with my daughter so again reserved judgment.

BIG MISTAKE.... Within a few meetings, this social worker started insisting we seperated and knowing my response worked on my wife, she was worn out and really just wanted a quiet life, the social worker used the tactic of "get them out, we'll cure the child and you can all get back together again", my wife bought it and suddenly I was homeless and living in a B&B on the coast. My daughter thought it great as she had me all to herself again which really was the problem with the stepmother, she was jealous of her. Well we applied for housing and saw this worker a few times and the next conference came up.

Now my daughter hadn't been to school in a few weeks and I knew I could not attend with my daughter so asked them for a child minder, they agreed and I attended the venue. I was told at the door to the conference that "the child minder had called off" and I couldn't go in, I was slightly worried at this as it was highly irregular and at this time the chair asked to see me, although I cannot prove it I think he was told to do this to get my child away from me so that the social worker could do something I will come to in a minute, I spoke to the chair, agreed that as there would be no way to get her off the register that I reserved judgment on registration to which he said in the conference that I agreed which is not the same, I collected my daughter and went back to the B&B.

No-one said anything to me, they waved me out of the door and I thought things were OK, it wasn't until 5 weeks later that I was told that my daughter had "volunteered" an allegation against my wife of being "kicked & punched", the first I knew about it was when my daughter bumping into my wife (still separated) in Lidl's told her of this social worker making her tell something bad on her, that week I found out the story and the next saga begins.

The social worker told me that the allegation had been made and that her superiors had "forced" her to attend my address and persuade me to allow a JI (remember though that my daughter had a JI not a few months previously), I said I would take legal advice and the worker tried to force me to agree there and then, her words were "don't blame me, I am the messenger and I don't agree with this but my managers insist", "I must leave here today with your permission", "You will give permission for this as otherwise it will cause great problems for you", suspicious, I told her again NO and I asked her to go, I then rang my solicitor who reminded me of the previous JI where my daughter had free forum to make these allegations and didn't, that it was not in the child's interest and also it was not ethical to give a child with "dislikes and differences" with her stepmother the very tool to actually do some damage or denounce her. I wrote a detailed response including this and also a legal statement from myself which showed pretty much that there never was an occasion where A) I would not have noticed such an activity B)At no point did my daughter approach me with such a story C) that my daughter never developed any suspicious bruises, marks or abrasions at ANY time.

I was forced to sign an "agreement" not to allow my daughter near my wife, I said that it was illegal, that it was not in their purview to interfere in a marital situation and that I considered this as blackmail, the social worker said "think what you like, if you don't sign, we'll make you because we will take your child away", I said I was signing this under duress and wrote so on the agreement, her words were "so what"

This statement was treated with all due disrespect and scorn that I expected and the pressure was on, twice weekly visits from this person trying to force me to agree and I at that time levied a complaint due to this and other problems against this worker, as soon as that had happened, she would not see me in attendance without this poisonous clerk called Sue, they tried their hardest to threaten and coerce me and my daughter threw a spanner into their works, she realised what I was going through and told the social worker that she never said she was being "kicked and punched" and she told her straight " that she hated her stepmother but her stepmother had never hurt her", all hell broke loose, the social worker and friend lost her cockiness, indeed they looked ill, they began shouting at me in the family centre that I had coerced her, that I had forced this "retraction", that they didn't believe it and that they were going to look into my dealings as they had "suspicions".

I saw the social worker between October last year and February this year 5 times for three minutes in the departments car park to collect my fuel money, this point will have relevance later.

The November conference came, now I was promised by social services that if I completed a list of goals then my child would be taken off the register, this was totally reneged upon, the chairman would not let me speak, the social worker was kept out of the conference and replaced by her team manager therefore denying me my right of a Q&A session, so I challenged the team manager but to no avail. 6 members in absentia voted without seeing my evidence and this I take to prove a prearranged verdict. I would like to put the final dialogue between myself and the team manager prior to final vote counting...

Myself: I see nothing here that defines a risk, can social services or others here define a risk?

No Answer

Myself: OK, I will take the translation of the guidelines here, can anyone here using the guidelines translate today's information into a definable risk?

Chair: its not as simple as that

Myself: Yes it is, either she is at risk or she isn't

Silence

Myself: OK then I will make this into an easier task, Is my ex wife even though she threatened a snatch attempt three weeks ago, considered a risk to my child?

Team Manager: No

Myself: Is my current wife considered a risk to my child?

Team Manager: No

Myself: OK then it only leaves myself then, do social services consider me as a risk to my child?

Team Manager: Of course not!

Myself: Right, then why is she being registered then if she is not under a definable risk here today

Team Manager: To force a condition of compliance from you and to force a condition of trust

Myself: But social services have not given me anything to trust with, I find that last sentence offensive and an abuse of a legislation to protect children, I find this highly disgusting and want it recorded so.

Team Manager: Nevertheless, she will be registered here today because we need you to work with us but if all goes well I can assure you she will be deregistered

Myself:: Recorder, can you record those last passages please for the minutes

Recorder: Yes I already have.....

And she was registered again under the emotional category, now at this point, the school began to give me a hard time but their report highlighted major things such as "one day turned up at school with unkempt hair", "once hid in the playground instead of coming into classroom", "she keeps complaining of being bullied but I have not seen any evidence of this and she is not being bullied".

My daughter since returning to school in the september, was being bullied chronically, it was never dealt with because one of the teachers children was the ringleader, my daughter started inventing illnesses so not to attend school, refused kicking and screaming not to go in and I kept listening to the teacher, that was until some of her friends and their mothers started telling me of her being bullied too. I spoke again to the teacher and was told flatly that "bullying is not going on in this school", I pointed out it was a unique school then, I then said about friends and their parents all saying about the chronic bullying, "Oh well, I would take what they say with a pinch of salt, I wouldn't believe them". Now at this time the school were taking a very keen interest in me as a case study, unbeknown to me they were interrogating my daughter daily, asking her if i had pictures of naked children on my computer, asking her if I hit her really hard and hurt her badly, you get the picture, I challenged the teacher on this and she said it was her right to ask these sorts of questions and I told her that they were not and she replied that the social worker wanted her to keep "tabs" on me. She also began daily spying on my wife and increasing the pressure on our stepson who also attended the school.

At this time I started voluntary work with InterGov, an online police force, this being just before Xmas 2003, all i did was give advice to people suffering con artists on the internet, nothing more, nothing less and not sinister or immoral whatsoever (www.intergov.org You tell me if there's anything dodgy about that lot), due to a privacy clause I had to download my emails from the site without prying eyes and my daughter had developed a habit of looking over my shoulder, I told her she could not read these emails and said to go and play in her room, she asked to go out and I said no as it was raining. This came out during the next interrogation at school and I was summoned into the classroom where I was accused openly by the teacher and headmistress of downloading pornography, I went understandably berserk as I knew exactly what sort of porn they were referring to and no-one will ever call me one of THOSE, I pointed out to them if I wanted to download adult pornography then I was not breaking any laws but I do not and did not watch such rubbish and told them the same, I offered my PC for inspection, I also offered them to contact my ISP to check my logs to see where I have been on the net, totally ignored and they told the social worker that I was into all sorts of dodgy stuff.

A miserable Xmas came and went, just before Xmas a directions hearing with no exciting news except my ex wife attacking me and my barrister again, the new year started and a culmination of many letters between myself and the management of the department came to fruition.

I was offered a one on one meeting with a senior child protection manager, I eagerly accepted anticipating showing her as agreed my evidence, well I should have know as the social workers team manager was there and this woman the manager was not even going to listen to what I read out let alone read anything but I tried. The team manager told us both that things were difficult but social services were also looking for a way out, I was also told that the first worker had resigned and I asked why then in a year they had not dealt with my complaint and they seemed to think it too late to do anything, well, if she isn't there then the managers take the blame, I was not told anything untoward and left slightly bemused but not overly so.

Now two weeks prior to this, the social worker as then wanted a meeting to let me meet my new social worker, I told them curtly that no social worker would attend until I had spoken face to face with the management, bad idea, I did meet soon after the management meeting and met a young man who took an instant dislike to me, it was that obvious.

Now referring back to the school for a moment, two things happened, firstly I was told that a very well known drug dealer and heroin addict was working in the school and because I complained about this secondly my 6 year old stepson was assaulted by his teacher, now he has ADDH and can run amok but he was slapped hard in the face in front of the classroom full of his friends. Now here is where a school oversteps the mark extremely badly...

My stepson did not tell anyone because his teacher told him if he said anything then he would get worse...! two of his classmates were so shocked they told their parents and my wife was told by them, she asked my stepson and she had noticed the day previously a hand mark on his face but assumed another child had done so, she rang the school up and demanded to see the head with a school governor immediately and took them to task over what had happened. The school were quick of the mark and dealt with this incident most outrageously, the deputy head sent the teacher home and denying the children all legal protections had them in one by one and told them that they did not "see anything", the two children and my stepson however were given more stringent instructions and all three were called liars and told they were bad children for lying so much. Not once were these children afforded a responsible parent, not once were their parents contacted or permission sought, these children were at the mercy of a school hell bent on a cover up

The school released a statement to the parents but excluded my wife and the two other parents involved, the reason being as they openly called the "three children involved" blatant and malicious liars, that the teacher had witnesses with her at all times (disgraced drug dealer and heroin addict) and that she had never once raised her voice to my child ever when at the end of many a school day she could be heard across the field screaming at him and I am not exaggerating either and this was witnessed by many parents.

I told social services of the drug dealer in the classroom and they promised to act right away, the headmistress told me that she was not required to "perform police checks" as it might offend potential volunteers, I said that was rubbish and pointed out the tragedy of Holly and Jessica but she was adamant that she was right and I was wrong, I told the social worker and the promise of action never happened.

You see, the school and social services namely the social worker had decided to deal with me, it took three weeks to get rid of the drug dealer and I was to pay for that because the dealer was donating quite a bit to the school fund from her "sales", the school wanted blood and it was going to be mine.

February two weeks after the meeting with the manager and team manager, I was called the day before the conference to attend a meeting between two team managers, thinking it was to do with the conference I went in tin and came out white hot with anger, for you see, the managers had decided that enough was enough and asked me to surrender my child to them, plain as that. No reason, we want your child. I told them to get stuffed and if they wanted my daughter then they would have to fight for her in court and I was told that was their intention and it was a matter of "when" instead of "if"

I was given the report for the conference and they scuttled off and no wonder why for the social worker and the school had done their bit and wreaked their revenge, bearing in mind that there still was no evidence offered, the social worker claimed a tale of woe and abuse that would have the knowlessmen in tears at my harsh and cruel treatment of my child, how I persecuted this mother who was not a drug dealer or heroin addict whatsoever and how I had mercilessly driven her out of the school, how my daughter was "constantly dirty, unkempt and in poor condition", how my daughter "constantly hid in the playground because I had told her it was alright", how that the social worker had got it wrong with my wife and wanted the JI on me to verify the abuse going on in her life....the lies and accusations went on for quite a while.

Now at the next hearing of court in March this year I had a little surprise for them, I had the newspaper article of the drug dealer getting raided again and how it mentioned her long term abuse of heroin and the amounts by the carrier bag full of drugs the police removed, she claimed they were planted of course but they found her fingerprints on the bags. Now this woman I found out has also a social worker, a social worker who has been in the premises when this woman openly jacked up, a social worker that answered the door when she was there to the dealers customers and chatted amiably with these "customers" yet this dealer cum addict's three children despite living in a violent household, despite watching their mother needle her arm with syringes, despite the children being in a poor and unhappy state, this woman has never had them registered on the risk register, they have never been considered at risk whatsoever by this social worker who valiantly berates concerned parents on how this "poor person is little understood and there is no risk from a heroin addict so please be nice to her" Well unless social services claim Aids and Hepatitis are no risks, well we're alright then aren't we?

I took my child out of the school the day before the conference, I was told I could not but I exercised my legal rights despite serious threats from all agencies if I dared to go against them, she remains at her new school settled, cared for by the staff and un bullied.

The Guardian ad Litem destroyed social services case, she pointed out one thing to the judge, social services never once attempted any form of work, help or advice with me, all they levied out were threats and orders.

The social worker diagnosed me as mentally ill and I was forced to undertake two medical examinations, one by a Psychiatrist, one by a Psychologist, I passed these with flying colours and I have been told that I am stressed but NOT mentally ill whatsoever.

All claims have been proven since February and March, my daughter was reregistered this Monday but I don't think that she will be next time in November.

I attend court this month, social services case is this: I attended the property and it was un tidy........

Yep, that's it, they are hoping for a care order to remove my child because she left some toys out in the front room.

I WISH THEM LUCK!!!!

RPSSUK.