Thanks for that link Baldric, looks like AOG is making daft puns instead of commenting on the content.
// Ms Barnard was asked if she had been questioned over claims she told a foster agency supervisor, Malcolm Blissett, to “tidy up” reports in the case.
It was alleged she told him to remove leading questions and put some of the apparent claims by children into direct speech in order to comply with professional guidelines.
Ms Barnard replied: “I knew there were complaints made against me.”
In 2010 police dropped their original investigation into the abuse saying the sheer number of allegations made the claims “implausible”, the court heard.
Ms Barnard is then said to have carried out her own investigation, including discussing the case with a chiropractor who had contact with one of the children, contrary to the guidelines.
Ms Elliott said: “You were aware there was no ongoing police investigation. Did you decide to carry out your own investigation?”
Ms Barnard said: “I wouldn’t call it investigating but I did make inquiries.”
She also failed to tell police she was a patient of the chiropractor - despite allegations that the chiropractor was involved in abuse. //
So the Head of Social Services held interviews with the children which allegedly lead the children. She asked for the statements to be rewritten to take out the leading questions, arguably to falsify their context. It is unclear if this was done before or after the poluce concluded in 2010 that the allegations were 'implausable'.
Meanwhile she discussed the case with 'someone accused of abuse'. Are we to read that as one of the defendents?
Some odd elements about this prosecution