Fassit
was founded in 2005. A non-governmental voluntary
organisation independent of Local Authority Social Services Departments.
Fassit provides a website containing information and advice for
families with children experiencing frustration in working with Social Services in Child
protection Proceedings.
Initially a organisation looking to change views over the legitimacy and
ethics
of ‘forced adoption’ the organisation has grown to encompass support for
individuals at any point in the investigative processes operated by
Children's Social Services.
Fassit are trying to protect all children where massive legal resources and
support can be better used on keeping children at
home with their families and not completely wasted on unnecessary court
proceedings.
[Children in care cost the taxpayer an
average of £2,500 per child, per week-more than four times what it
would cost to send a child to Eton.]
Fassit are finding that social workers are removing hundreds of children
from innocent parents each year through sheer incompetence and
organisational failure what could best be described as blatant discrepancies
between the evidence presented at Court by expert witnesses (social
services; health; education etc) and the actual events or material facts of
the case.
We do not condone any action by any individual that threatens the
safety, wellbeing or emotional development of a child, this includes actions
taken by Social Services Departments, Local Education Authorities, Child and
Adolescent Health Services and Local Authorities.
Where our views diverge
from the prevailing political and statutory services view is in the
belief that many of the problems we, as a society, face today are
avoidable if social care agencies were given proper funding and were
scrutinised more and held accountable for their methods and actions.
The health and welfare of families,
children and young people is not something that can be made ‘cost
effective’ – the benefits of intervention are most often long term and the
savings, in the long run, are less crime and more productive
individuals with health pro-social skills.
Fassit's belief is that the role of Social Services as providers of
social care is incompatible with the duties they discharge as
investigators of alleged or likely abuse. There is no separation of
powers, indeed many social services departments have dispensed with
specialist child protection teams in favour of multi-tasking roles for
individual social workers. Families are increasingly being faced not
with allegations of abuse but of the potential to abuse, how such
potential is quantified remains a complete mystery.
From its early days Fassit has campaigned against ‘forced adoption’
where there is no recourse, in law, to return children home after an
adoption order is granted if the grounds for the adoption are found
not to have existed. Such situations do occur and on a more regular
basis than social services would want the general public to know.
If social care agencies continue along the road of being seen as
indifferent, unapproachable and ‘out of control’ then you can be
assured that families will withdraw form any attempt to seek help with
their problems.
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