I was speaking on BBC Radio today.

 I was speaking on BBC Radio about the decision not to give fathers or grandparents any rights to their grandchildren and this is what I managed to get over down to *****

 Just before the elections the Daily Mail broke the story that grandparents were to get sweeping new rights to their grandchildren.

These proposed new rights were to eliminate the need to ask a Court’s permission before raising an action for contact. Scotland has been working like that for years with no benefits from it. It only opens the door for lawyers to convince confused grandparents that they could have a case and spend all their hard earned savings to lose in the end. It was all an election scam from the Tory’s which I blew up in their face.

The Government say grandparents are very important in a child’s life but they will not recognise them as relevant persons. All a con.

Fact 1:-

Thousands of broken hearted grandparents from all over UK are telling me they are being ignored, when it comes to caring for their grandchildren, and told by social services “we don’t need to speak to you”. They sob to me on the phone “The children will think we have deserted them”  “I know they will be broken hearted so why are they doing this to us?” Thousands of grandparents can’t all be wrong.

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Fact:- 2 

The Government is paying millions to Woman’s Aid whose primary task is, rightly, to isolate women and children from anyone who is violent, but they have also taken it upon themselves to isolate the parental grandparents, as well, even if they have done no wrong. This is not in the best interests of children to be cut off from loving grandparents. We have requested Woman’s Aid to meet with us to discuss the situation but they have refused.

The Scottish Labour Government created with our help The Charter for Grandchildren to accompany the new Scottish Family Law Bill 2006 but could not get legislation at that time. The idea was to have professionals look more closely at the role grandparents can play in their grandchildren’s lives but again it could not be enforced and they have not entered into the spirit of it. We are now campaigning for The Charter for Grandchildren to be made mandatory or an explanation from professionals why they are ignoring it.

These facts must be addressed before we can start to “Bring Families Together”