EDMs (Early Day Motions) relating to Child Protection issues

All campaigners please write to your MPs asking them to sign these EDMs.

All  EDMs (Early Day Motions) relating to Child Protection issues have now been entered onto the parliamentary systems.

The process of Early Day Motions is an effective tool for raising the profile of an issue with MPs. It is something that MPs can be asked to do. Admittedly formal members of government generally don't sign EDMs. They can, however, be asked to send a letter to the minister in support of the proposal instead. The members of government are only Ministers and their Parliamentary Private Secretaries. You can then monitor whether or not the EDM has been signed by any one MP by looking at the URLs below.
 

Three of them relate to the activities of Professor David Southall. This is very relevant to Public Family Law as he was one of the key proponents of diagnosing MSbP (now FII).

John Hemming MP

The eight are:

EDM 2892 MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN COURTS 31.10.2006    
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31526&SESSION=875
That this House welcomes the work of the Chief Medical Officer in relation to expert witnesses relating to medical issues, but expresses concern that medical professionals with conflicts of interest have been allowed to promote prosecutions such as that of Marianne Williams; notes with concern that a false diagnosis of chronic sexual abuse by a medical professional, followed by multiple unacceptable errors by social workers, in a recent case caused a family to be separated for some years when in fact there was no actual evidence of abuse; expresses its continuing support for opening up the family courts so that errors made by professionals are more readily detected and hence prevented and the consequent miscarriages of justice avoided; and calls for a review as to what extent witnesses as to facts should be involved in Crown conferences in criminal cases.
 

EDM 2768 WORK OF PROFESSOR DAVID SOUTHALL (No. 2) 17.10.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31384&SESSION=875
That this House notes that over a large number of years Professor Southall has performed risky, interventionist, non-therapeutic, experiments on babies and young children that have been demonstrated to have caused medical difficulties for some of the babies and young children; further notes that project E5 involved over sedating babies, misleading parents as to the discomfort and risk faced by their babies and giving carbon monoxide to babies with respiratory problems; further notes that this has been reported to the General Medical Council; and calls for the General Medical Council to explain why no action has been taken.

EDM 2767 WORK OF PROFESSOR DAVID SOUTHALL 17.10.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31383&SESSION=875
That this House notes that according to the report written by Professor David Hull for North Staffordshire Trust about the work of Professor David Southall in the report written for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire by Professor McLeish and Dr Durbin, Professor McLeish said that Professor Southall `pursued multiple clinical research studies that were poorly designed and therefore were unlikely to produce new knowledge of worth. More worryingly he appears to have had insufficient regard for the ethical standards that should surround all clinical studies in babies'; believes that such comments are important comments that require proper consideration; is surprised that the University Hospital of North Staffordshire is unable to find a copy of this report; calls for the hospital to find a copy of this report and publish its contents; and further calls for an independent judicial or Parliamentary inquiry into the research and clinical activities of Professor David Southall, the failure of the regulatory system to prevent unethical experiments on babies managed by Professor Southall and the misuse of child protection and judicial procedures both to prevent parents from raising complaints about his research and procure children for his research.
 

EDM 2688 INDUCED ILLNESS IN CHILDREN 10.10.2006
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31291&SESSION=875

That this House notes that guidance from the Department for Education and Skills, entitled Safeguarding Children in Whom Illness is Induced or Fabricated by Carers with Parenting Responsibilities, says that `when a "possible" explanation for the signs and symptoms of illness is that "they may have been fabricated or induced by a carer", and as a consequence the "child's health or development is or is likely to be impaired", a referral should be made to the social services department'; further notes that the effect of the above is to require parents alleged to have induced illness in their children to prove their innocence, rather than to require those accusing parents of inducing illness in their children to prove the guilt of parents; and calls for a review of this guidance.

EDM 2679 TAKING CHILDREN INTO CARE 09.10.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31280&SESSION=875
That this House notes that taking fewer children into care would facilitate the provision for better services for those who have been taken into care; further notes that many children have been taken into care in error in the past; further notes that there is a conflict of interest between social services acting as a supportive service and social services acting as an enforcement-based service; and calls for the Secretary of State for the Department of Education and Skills to review the option of taking the enforcement role out of social services and into a specialist agency.

EDM 2678 PROFESSOR DAVID SOUTHALL'S RESEARCH CASE FILES 09.10.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31279&SESSION=875
That this House notes that Professor David Southall has maintained Special Case files including details of research he has managed on many thousands of babies over a number of years; further notes that it is the view of the Chief Medical Officer that copies of such information should be given to the patients who range throughout England and Wales from Birmingham, through Barnsley to Banbury and Bristol; regrets that the University Hospital of North Staffordshire National Health Service Trust has not as yet done so; and calls for the UHNS Trust to act to rectify this situation.

EDM 448  MEDICAL SPECIAL CASE FILES 07.12.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspxSESSION=885

That this House welcomes the fact that 4,499 hitherto medical special case files will be incorporated into the medical records at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Royal Brompton hospitals; expresses concern that the doctor responsible for this unacceptable situation will be in a position to filter the information that is kept out of the proper medical records; notes with incredulity that the University Hospital of North Staffordshire continues to refuse to indicate whether it will tell patients individually whether medical files on them have been held; and calls for an independent body to be brought in to handle the process of rectifying the medical records.

EDM 447 USE OF MEDICAL RECORDS IN COURT 07.12.2006

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspxSESSION=885
That this House notes the admission of Dr David Southall during General Medical Council Fitness to Practice hearings that incomplete medical records have been provided when requests were made for medical records as part of contemplated legal proceedings; further notes that unless people specifically asked for the contents of medical special case files they would not have been provided with them; appreciates that the content of these medical special case files may have had some considerable bearing upon a number of cases; and calls for a review of all cases where such evidence was kept from the court, so as to ensure that there have been no miscarriages of justice.

The URL for each of them can be used to track with MPs have signed them.
 

Thank you

John Hemming MP