Emma Arran

Health/Social Care Trainer/Assessor
Fellow of @wcmtuk @SchSocEnt
Previously Director @PeerSolace
Social Work (BA), Clinical Sciences (Cert He)

[Emma Arran @EmmaArran2]

This is my story of speaking out about child abuse in a statutory setting in Lambeth.

A vulnerable, threatened child, shared with me, an abuse disclosure. I supported them to attend the police station; they were scared to talk.
#SafeguardLambethChildren #ReformChildProtection

[UK Column @ukcolumn]

Whistleblower: Social worker brutalised by Met Police and Social Services for daring to protect children

https://t.co/ZQrlJdnRaj

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

Glad to provide a quote for @CPMorris1234 thorough book on Letby. He has interviewed an impressive number of experts in depth who have raised doubts about the science, statistics and fairness of the conviction. Cleary, these now need to be tested in a legal setting @ccrcupdate

[Bournemouth HealthBus @BHealthbus]

Women aren’t absent. They’re being missed by the way rough sleeping is counted.

Across the same 101 local authorities, the Women’s Rough Sleeping Census identified more than three times as many women as the official government snapshot.

Read more: https://t.co/J6T82nE1JH

[Emma Arran @EmmaArran2]

@MrHumanityGives
@MrBeast

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[Hannah Summers @hansummers]

There were failures by multiple agencies to protect Sara & the review found there was a notable lack of consideration given to her race and culture. Good summary here from Chris Barnes for @seethrujustice https://t.co/OVBvH6QX2F

[Hannah Summers @hansummers]

A safeguarding review into Sara Sharif's death makes utterly devastating reading. This was a case where "a great deal of information especially about the risks posed by father" was available yet "no-one joined up the dots". https://t.co/Hw4S4gsP7C

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

It is five years since Lucy Letby was arrested for the third time and put in prison for almost two years before coming to trial. Imagine that. So much now suggests that her conviction was unsafe. I can only urge those who pray to pray for justice.

[Jade @watchfultreetop]

It beggars belief the torture this young lady has been - and is still going through - it must be a living hell
#LucyLetby

[Dr Svilena Dimitrova @NeoDoc11]

All it takes for a miscarriage of justice to happen is for the prosecution to present misinformation as fact, and for an incompetent or ineffective defence team to fail to adequately challenge it. That combination alone can put an innocent person in prison - while the CCRC @ccrcupdate refuse to intervene because, as long as both sides technically had access to the evidence, the failures are not considered to be their problem.

It is therefore no surprise people are afraid to speak up - they should be as it’s objectively unsafe to do so if those in positions of power are responsible for the said failings. The system makes it frighteningly easy for a miscarriage of justice to be engineered. And this is not just limited to the criminal courts; the same pattern appears in employment tribunals, professional regulatory hearings, including the GMC and NMC, the family courts etc etc.

I used to believe that clearly documented evidence would protect you - but whilst it is true that good documentation matters, none of that helps when the other side has recruited supporters, has access to hired guns via an expert system that has little, if any, meaningful regulation, and when your own defence team is incompetent or ineffective.

The lesson? Speaking up is not safe unless you are in the extremely lucky position (currently as rare as hen’s teeth) to have a competent leader with integrity who makes the time to listen and examine the evidence.

In the meantime, anyone curious about how NHS staff can be scapegoated through the criminal justice system need only examine the Letby case - it provides a disturbing playbook.

And for those interested in how scapegoating works in employment tribunals or GMC proceedings, the HCSA (the hospital doctors’ union) has even published guidance on how employers scapegoat. Now so common that it warrants its own manual - I have shared it before but it’s worth sharing again.

https://t.co/d9nVLRkfqD

@drphilhammond @DavidRoseUK @PeterElston1 @Michelehal7344 @VeraBaird @MartynPitman @MichelleWelshMP @ShabanaMahmood @DavidDavisMP

[Kate Shemirani @KateShemirani]

Lucy ‘patsy’ Letby … the trial to cover-up for the state.

Dr Steve Watts was once Assistant Chief Constable of Hampshire. He designed the national police procedure policy for investigating deaths in hospitals.

“I followed the Letby trial daily and remember thinking, “When are they going to get to the evidence?” and it never arrived. There is no evidence whatsoever.”

https://t.co/nf63MvSPSq

[Amanda Against Abuse @AmandaAgainstDA]

When you’re a victim of abuse, anger becomes something you’re taught to hide.

You’re expected to stay calm. Be polite. Be the bigger person. Even when you’ve been failed, gaslit, ignored and blamed.

But anger is a normal response to trauma. It’s what happens when injustice keeps repeating and no one listens.

Still, the moment you show it, you’re labelled “difficult”, “unstable”, “aggressive”.
Your anger becomes the problem instead of what caused it.

You learn to silence it. To cry in private. To apologise for emotions that were never wrong in the first place.

But anger doesn’t make a victim dangerous.
It makes them human.

It’s the body’s truth screaming to be heard after years of being silenced.

And it deserves understanding, not shame.

[Natalie Page @NataliePage]

"Suicides linked to domestic abuse should be investigated as potential homicides, say UK families"

Landmark meeting in Westminster heard from string of relatives who say laws are not being used to pursue prosecutions

📰: https://t.co/h3IklSO1Sy

[Dr Jenny Thatcher @JennyAThatcher]

I was born homeless, my mum was schizophrenic & my dad a heroin addict, who was in prison & died of AIDS. I experienced institutional child sexual abuse, I'm dyslexic & was illiterate until 11 when I received specialist help. Yes I included my hard worked for DR title in my bio!

[Ryan Daigler - Exposing Narcissistic Abuse 🚩🚩 @Ryan_Daigler]

Narcissists seem to intuitively grasp that prolonged stress wears down a person’s health, clarity, and resilience. They’ll engineer situations that keep you in a constant state of tension — endless small disruptions, subtle invalidations, shifting expectations, manufactured urgency — all while acting like they’re just “trying to help”.
It’s a form of covert attrition warfare.
They don’t need to blow up your world in one dramatic event; instead, they can drip-feed anxiety until your body and mind are too depleted to think clearly or fight back.
And because they’re careful to make the stress look circumstantial or self-inflicted, if you call it out, you risk sounding paranoid or “overreactive” — which is exactly the trap they want.

[Marymungo&midge @Marymungom87371]

NHS England Deputy Director agrees that Lucy Letby’s case, should never have gone to trial.

#LucyLetby is innocent, she was scapegoated by two incompetent cowardly Consultants, Dr Stephen Brearey & Dr Ravi Jayaram.

[Emma Arran @EmmaArran2]

@Laurenncaul Congratulations, really excellent results

[Nadski @nadski65]

Every day, people are shocked by what happens inside the family courts.
This is a true story — one of many.

A mother received her first barring order in 2022 — not because she posed any risk, but because Cafcass said the father “needed a break” from proceedings. The reason given was that “the child has been in court since the age of four.”

But a child is never in court. Children are the subjects of these cases — not the participants. The only trauma this child experienced came from the system itself.

There was no evidence of harm.
No Section 7 or Section 47 safeguarding report.
No finding of neglect or abuse.
The custody was changed solely on a prediction of possible future emotional harm — not proven risk, not facts, not evidence.

When the mother later returned to court, simply trying to enforce contact because the father ignored the order, she was met with yet another punishment — a second barring order, this time for three years, issued on Cafcass’s recommendation.

She wasn’t given the safeguarding report that the court had directed Cafcass to disclose before the hearing. It took over a year and a half before she finally received it — and when she did, the report had overlooked clear evidence and still call for another barring order against her.

This mother was a litigant in person, fighting without legal representation.

Even the judge proceeded despite knowing the safeguarding report hadn’t been provided in time/ at all.
This is not justice. This is a system that punishes persistence and silences the parents who speak up.

When will Cafcass truly put children at the centre of their decisions?

When will judges have the courage to say, “I made a mistake” — and put things right?
@SheraFamily @hansummers @Jessica_E_Brown @DrJessTaylor @MoJGovUK @JudiciaryUK @MelanieBridgen @DrProudman @DavidLammy @MyCafcass @NACCCofficial @The_HCPC @Panorama @BBCNews @GBNEWS @benhabib6 @SarahTaylo89428