Showing posts with label bad goverment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad goverment. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Foster children living in cold, squalid 'fire trap', Opposition leader alleges in Parliament

The Tasmanian Government is investigating complaints a family of foster children in the North West was forced to live in a "fire trap" house that had maggots in the fridge and no heating.
The State Opposition used the first Parliament Question Time of the year to air allegations against not-for-profit residential care provider Key Assets.
Opposition Leader Bryan Green asked Human Services Minister Jacquie Petrusma if she was aware of a complaint against Key Assets.
Mr. Green told Parliament the provider was being paid thousands of dollars by the Government but the money was not flowing to carers.
"Some carers are being paid as little as $35 a day for each child and being asked to live in intolerable circumstances," he said.
"In a letter of complaint written to you, the foster parents of six vulnerable siblings from one family tell you they were placed in a four-bedroom house in Burnie in a second story building with windows that wouldn't open — in other words a fire trap — and when they moved in, the fridge was infested with maggots.
"Why are these families being asked to cope with these unacceptable circumstances?"

'Allegations are being investigated'

Ms. Petrusma told Parliament she was made aware of the allegations on Friday.
"These are allegations that are being investigated by the department, and due process will be followed because we are not going to conduct a kangaroo court," she said.
"Any time any allegations in regards to any child, because the child's welfare is of upmost concern, are made they are taken very seriously."
Ms. Petrusma said Key Assets had 56 children in its care.
She was also asked whether the Government had severed financial ties with for-profit provider Safe Pathways.
All children in its care were removed earlier this year following allegations of neglect aired on Four Corners.
The Minister said a process was underway to end contracts with Safe Pathways, but it had not been finalized.

Siblings 'love' their 'mansion': Key Assets

In response to Mr. Green's allegations, Key Assets' Tasmanian director Caroline Brown said the organization had "not received any complaints of maggots in a fridge".
She denied there was a house with stuck windows that was a fire trap.
"In one house, which is a Housing Tasmania property, some of the upstairs windows are painted shut from previous tenants. However, the house has a fire escape which outweighs the temporarily closed windows, which are due to be fixed by Housing Tasmania," she said.
Ms. Brown said the family of foster children cited by Mr. Green "loved" their foster home, which has two heat pumps to keep it warm.
"The six siblings love the house and describe it as a mansion," she said.
"It has six bedrooms and a games room.
"The house also has two heating pumps, which can be expensive but Key Assets acknowledges this and pays the electricity bills," she said.
Ms. Brown said Key Assets prided itself on providing "quality support to our carers".
"The decision by the carers to no longer continue as foster carers were disappointing, but we know that foster care can be challenging and that it's not for everyone," she said.
"In saying that, it can also be the most rewarding thing you will ever do."

Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Criminal Cartel operating in Goulburn Children's Courts

Lawyers in Goulburn who have been given the privelege of working on the "Children's Court Care and Protection Panel" have been caught working as a criminal Cartel.  Children are being unlawfully seized by state child protection departments on Emergency Care and Protection Orders[i], meaning they are removed because the children are at risk of serious harm.
The law says : “A child who is subject to an ECPO is usually placed in the “care responsibility” of the Director-General, but another person may be allocated care responsibility.  Unlike an interim care order, an ECPO and an extension of an ECPO are “final” orders.  Once it is made, the proceedings are at an end and there can be no question of a further court date.  Having made the ECPO, the magistrate is “functus officio”. There is no power to make contact or other orders.” [ii]
Once the kids are removed, the departments legal representative (in this case Robert Hoskins)[iii], has taken his time in filing the application in the courts, which is legally required to be done within three days of the children's removal.  The childrens independent (if that's what you call it) legal representation (Alison Howarth),[iv]  have not interviewed the children, nor did they seek to bring the matter to the attention of the presiding magistrate, of the departments failure to follow the law.
Furthermore, the two other solicitors it seems coerced the parents agree to "consent to establishment" and "consent to orders", which means the parents are agreeing that they do not have the capacity to look after their children, and agree that the kids should be taken into the care of the state.
Unfortunately, these aren't even matters that are required to be discussed at this point in time - as the only issue is Did the department have justification to warrant such drastic intervention into the family's lives and were the children really at Risk of Serious Harm, not were they at serious risk of harm.
So the question is ... what is the magistrate going to do on Monday when the case is actually being heard - even though the ECPO as expired, no orders have been or can be made as this is not your normal proceedings and is subject to entirely different rules.  Will the magistrate do the right thing and make "Final Orders" as is required by law?  Even though this should have happened well before now, and even though all parties have failed to abide by the legislation that applies when children are removed on Emergency Care and Protection Orders?
Further court dates have already been granted by the magistrate - who is also failing to abide by the legislation.  Or maybe he just doesn't know it.  It begs the question, how many other cases have been run like kangaroo courts with nobody who gets paid by the government doing what they're supposed to, in the timely manner they are suppose to, and as is legislated?
How many cases would have to be audited and found to have failed legislative compliance, before the Australian Government, will open its eyes and recognise this as the Criminal Cartel  that it is.  And how many cases state-wide have failed compliance?  Because it is entirely possible that the majority of care panel solicitors (children's lawyers, the departments and the parents lawyers), and magistrates have been unlawfully removing children for a very long time - and with so many people involved - all committing the exact same crimes - all backed by Law Societies who are failing to pull these con-artists in to line, that most legal personnel operating under the BAR are acting in consortium together, driving prices up, screwing customers / clients and tax payers.  So what will the penalties be for these criminals who are running nationwide criminal cartels?

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

SHAME SHAME SHAME ON THIS GOVERMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE CHILD PROTECTION DOC CHILD WELFARE OF AUSTRALIA



SHAME ON THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES YOU ARE GUILTY OF STEALING CHILDREN ALL OVER AUSTRALIA YOU ARE GUILTY OF MISLEADING INFORMATION IN A COURT OF LAW YOU ARE GUILTY OF OF TAKING CHILDRENS LIFES IN AUSTRALIA YOU ARE GUILTY OF FAILING A DUTY OF CARE TO THE CHILD OF AUSTRALIA WE THE AUSTRALIA PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD OUR CHILD TAKEN WITH NO WARRANTS WOULD LIKE THEM BACK IN A SAFE MANNER WE ARE LUKES ARMY AND WE WANT ANSWERS TO A CORRUMPT GOVERMENT DEPARTMENT OF AUSTRALIA YOU BRING LAWS OUT WICH ARE STONE AGE SETTING AUSTRALIA BACK IN TIME SO TO SUIT YOURSELFS IN COURT WE THE PUBLIC DISAGREE WITH CHILD STEALING THIS IS DISHONEST TO THE PUBLIC OF AUSTRALIA WE WANT A INQUIRIE INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES WE WANT IT NOW ON THE CORRUMPTION OF DHS DOC CHILD WELFARE CHILD PROTECTION