Fassit 'in-the-news'.............

Including front-page features in the Guardian Society and Daily Mail. Contact

Fassit UK work regularly with Newspapers/TV Programmes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Mail - January 31, 2008

By DAVID WILKES - Daily Mail

The baby snatchers: Judge orders social workers to hand back newborn child taken from hospital at 4am

"We are aware of this happening in hundreds of cases a year through the sheer incompetence and organisational failure of social services departments.

 

Judge Munby

 

 

ITV - Tonight with Trevor McDonald - November 26, 2007

Don't Take My Baby

Watch the video (Fassit video)  Read Article...

Link to Fassit

 

 

Sunday Sun - September 16 2007

Death sentence for family courts?

PHIL DOHERTY looks at the arguments . . .Sunday Sun

THE Government is coming under increased pressure to open up the family courts after a number of scandals and contentious decisions.

 

 

Camden New Journal - September 6, 2007

Family courts secrecy gags families

Letters to the Editor - Camden New Journal

Unless there is a genuine intention to come clean and admit that the purpose of secrecy is to protect the social workers, paediatricians and other expert witnesses, utterances of “transparency” will be seen for what they are: “spin”.

 

 

Sunday Telegraph - August 20, 2007

YouTube row over social services baby threat

Fassit uploads Secret recording

YouTube audio: The secret recording

A heavily pregnant woman is at the centre of an extraordinary legal battle with social workers after she secretly recorded them threatening to take away her newborn baby. Sunday Telegraph
 

 

West Midlands Liberal Democrats - July 3, 2007

John Hemming MP

 

London Borough of Enfield slammed for closing Fassit website down

John Hemming MP, Chairman of Justice for Families, has criticised the London Borough of Enfield for closing down the Fassit website. http://westmidslibdems.org.uk/news

The Westminster News - June 2007

School sees harm in TV

http://thewestminsternews

Proper media reporting would have warned these parents that the most dangerous place for child abductions is the home. Social Services abduct 4,500 children from their homes annually to meet government forced adoption targets.

Politics.co.uk - June 08, 2007

NSCFC gives its full support to FASSIT in exposing Social Services as being comparable with the SS

www.politics.co.uk/press-releases

The NSCFC wishes to make it known that it fully supports the admirable and necessary work as undertaken by FASSIT to expose the incompetence and inhuman treatment as meted out by Social Services.

BBC - Tees - We Are Teesside - May 22, 2007

Twenty years on

Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis

By BBC Radio Cleveland's Martin Forster
After 121 children were taken from their Teesside families on allegations of sexual abuse, we look at what's changed.  Parents are being taken to courts with no public access, no public records and no jury, and more than three families a day are contacting a support group for parents who claim they've been victimised by social services.  - Fassit UK say's it's It has actually got a lot worse. Things have not changed for the better. Indeed, they have reinforced the situation that has always prevailed.

Mature Times - January 10 2007

Who cares for children in care?

Who cares for children in care? | Mature Times

A organisation called Families Anti-Social Services Enquiry Team (FASSIT) has been set up to help the many parents, grandparents and guardians who believe that their children or grandchildren have been taken from them unfairly, or that the treatment they are receiving is abusive.

Fassit UK Press Release - Thursday 20 July 2006

http://www.fassit.co.uk/fc_name_officials.htm

Added: (Thu Jul 20 2006) Pressbox.co.uk

The absolute necessity for all public officials whose testimony instigated a prosecution in the Family Courts, to be named

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BBC News - Family courts 'to be more open' 11 Jul 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5167432.stm

With a interview from 'Fassit Member' Sharon Fassit Video

Family courts, which decide the fates of hundreds of children, could become more open under new government proposals. It is hoped greater transparency would give people a better understanding of how the courts work. Luisa Baldini reports.

Radio 5  - June 8 2006

Fassit Member on Five Live with Victoria Derbyshire Listen 6.5mb wma

Daily Mirror - April 22, 2006

Years of searching for my girl ended...When I read about her death

As a teenage single mum, Linda Kirkham was forced to give up her daughter Annette. Read the full article.

Fassit were contacted by Linda some weeks ago where we helped in the editing of her story before sending it to different media sources.  More on Linda's story will be included in the weekly edition of Bella Magazine on June 13

Guardian UK - April 19, 2006

Open or shut case

Is more transparency required? Interviews by Mark Gould

Fassit Response in Pressbox.co.uk Fassit UK: Press Release

The full article can also be viewed here along with our correspondents response Click here...

http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story

Felicity Collier

Wednesday February 15, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

BAAF - British Association for Adoption & fostering

Family comes first? Felicity Collier and another attack on Fassit UK?  Her defence of social workers led to attacks by the media, to the extent that hate mail became an occupational hazard. Mary O'Hara meets the woman who has fought to push adoption and fostering up the political agenda

 

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story

Layton Bevan, Co-founder of the group Fassit UK

Tuesday November 15 2005

(Families' anti social services inquiry team)

South Wales Evening Post

 

Father helps parents fight for custody

http://www.fassit.co.uk/swep_article_fassit151105.htm

Fassit Press Release August 31 2005 - We deeply regret that Felicity Collier has misunderstood the work of Fassit. Firstly she is mistaken to say that we are a pressure group. I can assure the public that any allegations we have made is the truth and can be much supported by evidence from the governments own websites.

Pressbox.co.uk http://www.pressbox.co.uk

 

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Felicity Collier of the BAAF - British Association for Adoption & fostering attack on Fassit UK

Collier Writes to every MP about Fassit UK

Felicity Collier of  BAAF Press Release

http://www.baaf.org.uk/media/releases/050823_letter.pdf

Fassit' on Radio Europe to half-a-million Brits

August 28 2005 Full Fassit Live Broadcast from EUROPE - Radio Broadcast from click here  (MP3 file) - Fassit Support Spokesperson Adele invited on 'Radio Europe Spain' to take part in her second public debate on role the social services with Felicity Collier - Chief executive of the charity the British Association for Adoption and Fostering. Link to the recording:

Listen Again on R.E.M. fm - Radio Europe Mediterraneo - 104.8 fm Costa del Sol

 

NOTE: ... I look forward to the next round!

Upping the anti by David Batty The Guardian Wednesday October 5, 2005

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1584769,00.html

The group is the Families Anti Social Services Inquiry Team (Fassit).

Members share information on the web, and mainly consist of parents under

investigation by social services or in dispute with their ex-partner over access

to their children. But its prominent role in the Mail's campaign has put wind in its sails.

Committed and angry, it aspires - in the style of Fathers 4 Justice - to a higher, louder profile.

Read the Feature on Fassit UK

 

Members Letters Published:

Readers Digest | Spiked Central | Telegraph & Argus | Children Now

Send yours to Fassit UK - email: contact@fassit.co.uk

Statement by Fassit UK - August 22 2005

'Lose your children for being to poor'

Daily Mail By James Chapman – Political Correspondent  daily mail

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Vine Show August 18th 2005 on BBC Radio two

The Jeremy Vine Show broadcast

a program on the Social Services in relation to the articles which have appeared

recently in the daily mail

Low IQ Parents - 13.6 MB Play or download the Audio from the Program

‘Fassit Support Spokesperson 'Adele' (North West) takes part in the program

"YOU'RE NOT CLEVER ENOUGH TO HAVE CHILDREN - SO WE ARE TAKING THEM AWAY". Send your Comments on the experiences 'YOU'VE HAD' with Social Services Contact the Show