Social Services UK and ME/CFS Children
A Cross-Party Group of Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom is putting
together a report on parents who have been accused of Munchausen Syndrome by
Proxy et al. Information is required to put this together to help these
families.
The BBC Panorama Survey on ME/CFS showed that 7% of children from families
questioned had been subject to child protection proceedings; court proceedings
had either been threatened or carried out.
If representative, this implies that seven out of every one hundred children
with ME/CFS will be threatened with being taken away from their parents. Since
there are over 40,000 children and young people labelled with ME/CFS in the
United Kingdom, this represents a considerable number.
We know that the children's ME/CFS charities in the United Kingdom cannot be
relied upon due to vested interests to report this situation accurately. So
often, these miniscule membership charities are part of the problem, not the
solution.
When Helen Sewell from the Observer national newspaper tried to expose the
plight of MC/CFS children in relation to MSBP and contacted Jill Moss from the
Association of Young People with Myalgic 'Encephalopathy' (AYME), this charity
refused to co-operate and tried to get the article spiked. Moss wanted this
article stopped. She stated that because Sewell is an ME sufferer herself,
Sewell was not qualified to write on this issue. That MSbP accusations viz our
children suffering from ME were rare, when all anecdotal evidence from reputable
sources indicates precisely the contrary. That this can of worms was best left
closed. It is to the Observer’s credit that despite the AYME charity
interference, they did eventually publish. But this was the very much watered
down version compared to the original.
We have also recently seen the TYMES Trust children's ME/CFS charity actually
place one of their own child members severely and deliberately at risk from harm
by Social Services through false accusations that it failed to handle correctly
to protect the child. Although the TYMES Trust charity has done good work on
MSBP in the past, this charity has completely lost its way and now attempts to
imprison those who publish evidence in relation to its collusion with the
psychiatric lobby. See The Underbelly of ME/CFS Politics Revealed.
The result of the actions of these children's ME/CFS charities in the United
Kingdom has driven what is being done to these ME/CFS labelled children by
Social Services and the psychiatric lobby further underground.
False accusations of MSBP in relation to the ME/CFS diagnosis is a most serious
and devastating issue for families. See the One Click article entitled Child
Abuse Specialist Runs 'CFS/ME' Centre.
If you and your children have been involved with MSBP accusations, please read
the following and make contact with Oliver Cyriax. Now is the time for you to
have your say in the strictest of confidence.
Please speak up to help yourselves and others. As difficult and heart rending as
this always is, the only way to stop this horrendous malfeasance is to expose it
to the light of day so that others do not suffer as so many already have.
Please contact Oliver Cyriax:
Email: mail@cyriax.freeserve.co.uk
Tel: 0208 748 1081
Or
Fassit UK
Contact Us
Tel: 01639 620 567
Please pass the word.
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Here is a perfectly reasonable piece by DF in the Sunday Times (apart from a
miss-assertion
that there are 12,000 cases a year - not in the originating Consensus report).
The Sunday Times April 23, 2006
Innocent parents accused of abuse
Daniel Foggo
MPs say hunt for abusers may be out of control
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2147749_1,00.html
INNOCENT parents are being falsely accused of abusing their children and
threatened with having them taken into care, according to a report backed by
MPs.
