Heather Bell

Advocate

[Jim Goddard @JimGoddard1]

I thought I'd send this round again as the deadline for applications is tomorrow. The project (see below) focusses on the past half-century of care experienced campaigning in the UK. We'd really love to have a suitably qualified care experienced person in this engagement post:

[Peter Fox 🦊 @Peter_Fox59]

Edmund Rice Catholic schools considering cutting ties with abuse-plagued Christian Brothers - ABC News https://t.co/iUFhroWdMm

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Attention Western Australian Clannies
The fairies 🧚‍♀️ got into our diary

‼️Correct date for Perth social is Tuesday 15th September ‼️

Please bring a plate to share
🍑🍓🍌🍒🍊🍎🍇🍍🍉

Enjoy yourselves 💙💛👕

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

#ChristianBrothers lawyer #HowardHarrison thought $83,000 was too much to give to the men so terribly abused in WA orphanages
#shameful

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

#PeterClinch #ChristianBrothers is worried about #Redress & being taken to the cleaners Still in denial #CARoyalComm

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

More #CLAN signs outside #RoyalCommission StGeorge Terrace #Perth
#justice #redress #pedophiles #christianbrothers

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

After firm questions from Chair #ChristianBrothers admits boys did not get education but put 2 work but CB try to worm out of responsibilty

[Gaye @GayeB38]

@CLAN_AU @2teabags Their lawyer #HowardHarrison showed his complicity in #ChristianBrothers crimes. He’s as big a disgrace as they are.
💙💛

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Good to see Father Kevin Dillon 👏one of the good guys still speaking the truth
He said many years ago #CatholicChurch needs to be on their knees begging for victims forgiveness
@Pontifex @Pope_news
@BenCarrollMP @AlboMP
🛑 giving taxpayer$ to
#EdmundRiceEducationAustralia

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Details of 4Corners show at 8.30 tonight
Can’t bare to watch the BS from #ChristianBrothers
#ChristianBuggers,lied for years at #RoyalCommission, selling CB properties to #EdmundRiceEducationAustralia for paltry $1
NO shame,ethics,morals
⁦@AlboMP⁩ ⁦@tanya_plibersek⁩

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

$ for ChristianBrothers Best Defence
But NO $ for Victims of ChristianBrothers
Remembering late GeoffFitzpatrick victim of CB #WilliamHouston abused St Augustines Boys’Home Geelong
police ignored 20ys
#EdmundRiceEducationAustralia #Treacy
@RichardMarlesMP @AlboMP
#SpringSt

[Heather Bell @Heather29639796]

Watching 4Corners
Horrendous so called Christian brothers!!!Nothing Christian about them😡😡😡

[Heather Bell @Heather29639796]

Edmund Rice Catholic schools considering cutting ties with abuse-plagued Christian Brothers https://t.co/hJVkd4y6m9

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

2books off to a Clannie in #WesternAustralia
1st book
Behind Closed Doors is an account of Vic stateward sent to Winlaton for care read how ⁦@VicGovDHS⁩ & her Father failed her tragically🥲
2nd book A Scattering of Roses - the author was in WA Parkerville Children’sHome

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

To all of the Clannies who are Dad’s
Here are some of the father’s books from our library for you to read

Happy Father’s Day to you

#Dads #Fathering #Fatherless #FatherFigure
#Dads&Daughters

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Malcolm 83 with Father’s war service photo
1st time he has seen image
I asked him if he had met his Dad ?
“When I was a baby, he was a flash”
Thinking of all the men who never meet their Dad’s

#FatherlessSons #Fatherless
How did Malcolm learn to be a Dad?
#SouthAustralia

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Welcome to our new member Carl a Victorian & South Australian #stateward
He was in Vic Homes BerrySt, Allambie, #Wogana FamilyGroupHome #Ararat

SouthAus Magill, Brooklyn Park

#SouthAustralia

[Jolanda C @Jolanda04]

⚠️There is a serious flaw in the way institutional complaints can be handled, particularly where children are involved.

Something happens to a child. The child reacts. The institution records the child’s reaction while minimising or denying what caused it. The child becomes “the problem”.

The parent sees what is happening and complains. Instead of independently investigating the conduct complained of, the institution responds, refers the complaint internally, accepts explanations from its own staff, or closes the matter.

The parent persists because the underlying conduct has not been investigated.

That persistence then becomes part of the narrative: the parent is difficult, repetitive, unreasonable, causing problems for the child, the school or the institution.

Eventually the focus shifts from investigating what was done to the child to managing the parent who keeps complaining about it.

Once that happens, every further complaint can strengthen the adverse narrative about the parent, while the original conduct becomes increasingly obscured.

👉A response is not an investigation.
👉An internal comment is not an investigation.
👉A review or appeal is not an investigation.
👉A decision not to investigate is certainly not an investigation.

And an allegation that was never investigated must never later be represented as an allegation that was investigated and disproved.

This matters enormously for child safety. Parents should never become less credible merely because they persist in reporting conduct that has never been properly investigated.

Complaint management must never become complainant management.

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Arthur is 101 yrs
We visited & spent a few hours recording his childhood as Vic StateWard in 4orphanages‼️
He has never met Father or seen a photo of him
We are trying to find him

Thanks for donating #RAAF war pay book to Australian Orphanage Museum
@bencarrollMP #SpringSt

[CLAN 🇺🇦 @CLAN_AU]

Thank you everyone for your get well wishes I am much improved, can’t kill the old boiler yet 😁
Also thanks to all Clannie’s, who have rejoined CLAN with their membership fees
Appreciate the trust you place in us 💛💙
#CareLeaverAdvocacyMatters