A madly busy day again today – so a bit of a blog cheat to point you at the PoliticsHome write-up of my BBC appearance:
Ms Feathstone called for the injunction preventing Nevres Kemal [the Haringey whistleblower whose lawyer wrote to four ministers] from speaking about her warnings over Haringey social care to be lifted.
“She must be unmuzzled. She has to say what she knows and that has to feed in to the investigation,” she said.
The injunction she said was part of a “culture of closing ranks” which had caused some of the problems in care at the council.
“It’s absolutely obstructive. You have to think that everyone is acting on behalf of their own interest to protect themselves,” she warned.
I have also tabled an EDM (a form of Parliamentary petition):
That this House welcomes the Government’s announcement of an independent review of child protection services across the country; and calls for a separate independent public inquiry of Haringey Council’s child protection services in order to restore confidence in the child protection system in this borough.
It’s been signed by 16 MPs already – and if yours hasn’t signed it, you can send them a message asking them to sign very easily via www.writetothem.com. It’s EDM 2487.
Lynne Featherstone 
Listening to her on Radio recently, made me think of my wife and her complaints about where she works (Thankfully, although she deals with child protection, it is in a middle class area now as once it was a pair of the poorer areas and also The Highlands when we lived there). It’s all so narcissistic nowadays, where people have given up service to others for self-indulgence and self-service instead i.e. as guilty of denial and negligence as those they are supposed to be helping (sweeping things under the carpet/ moral cowardice/ nit picking perfectionism about things that don’t matter, while ignoring the serious tasks at hand – gutless wonders paying lip service to the job, rather than getting their hands dirty doing what needs to be done/ self congratulatory/ favouritism and dictatorship (bullying) as opposed to independent working in an adult manner (childishness in other words): They want you to doubt yourself, so that they can convert you to their way of conformist thinking in other words, instead of seeing the truth and telling it i.e. The Emperor’s New Clothes and the little boy who told him he was naked; they want you to take your bribe and shut up. Lastly what changes things isn’t money but conscience and consciousness – which is why government spending on Education and Health is achieving nothing (The Ostrich Syndrome): Money doesn’t solve problems as any child given presents rather than the time and attention of their parents shows and society is no different).
If you publish this comment, please let Nevres Kemal know about it or send her a copy because as Margaret Mead, the anthropologist said ‘The only thing that changes the world is a dedicated bunch of people, fighting for the same cause’ to paraphrase what she said.
There should be a law which criminalises any attempts to stop, threaten, harass or generally prevent “whistleblowers” from bringing to the public’s attention any matter which adversley affects public health, safety, finances etc.