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"Sorry for the capitals in the title but it has been one awful day. This is an absolute unabashed plea for the people of Warrington's support. I will try to sum up as quickly as poss...hmm... \n  \nI am in a desperate situation. I need your help and support. We are an honest, self sufficient, hardworking family. My family is being torn apart by our Local Council. We feel we are ACTIVELY being bullied by them, and are being told there are no means for a second opinion or to go over their heads. They seem to think they are untouchable and they do not care they are putting our family in grave danger and it could be avoided. I am the mother to two young children and I have been hospitalised with profuse nosebleeds that they could not control for almost a week. They said it was directly related to stress, causing high blood pressure, and this situation with the council is causing me anguish. They could end my suffering at any time. As it stands I have had to teach my 4 year old daughter to dial an ambulance in case I collapse from my continuing nosebleeds. Preventative treatment is not working at the moment due to the high levels of stress I am experiencing from the council. I could be rehospitalised at any time which means my hardworking husband has to take time off work, my cancer stricken mother has to help with my children and I am torn away from them. I do not want my children to witness again me being taken away in an ambulance, it is traumatic. \nAn independent medical professional has written a statement saying it would be psychologically damaging for my daughter to be removed from her peer group at this point and time. This is due to the fact she has a large strawberry birthmark on her forehead and is currently in the middle of laser surgery at Alder Hey Hospital. This is ongoing treatment every 6 weeks for the foreseeable future until the mark is gone. The mark changes and goes black for up to 10 days after treatment. She needs to, in this independent professionals opinion remain with her peers so as to avoid psychological damage at a delicate time in her life. The council EMPLOYED doctor has received this advice in writing from the doctor and chosen to go against it, I need to know why? Why, other than wanting to damage the wellbeing of our child, would he do this? How can he possibly be allowed to discount a legitimate INDEPENDANT medical opinion without even a consultation with my daughter? \nOur child has been refused admission to a school and despite several changes in circumstances our appeal has been denied, and despite even more SERIOUS changes in circumstances, they refuse to grant us a second appeal. We are awaiting a decision from the government ombudsman. We are seeking legal representation. This is not a preference, we are not typical pushy parents being difficult, please believe us. I have no choice but for Lily to go to this school. I have written a diary detailing everything and my husband has every piece of correspondence from both parties, it is a shocking read. \n  \nI am asking for your support. I am asking for you to ask the council to review the situation. My health is at stake here. My children's health is at stake. They say every child matters in Warrington, but my children have been cast aside, disregarded and treated worse than children living in a place where they aspire to our so called democracy and social care here in Britain. We don't want to have to speak to the press but if our lawyer suggests it we will do what it takes to protect the wellbeing of our children. I am a volunteer and I do a LOT for the local community and hospital bereavement services. I only just completed a bungee jump a few months back to provide funds for a bereavement midwife because the NHS cannot afford it. I have had supporting letters from my local MP Warrington South (Helen Jones) and the head of the charity I volunteer for, asking the council to reconsider on personal grounds and on the grounds that if I am forced to homeschool my daughter as planned, I will have to withdraw from volunteering and the entire community of going to suffer, a very vulnerable group at that...victims of pregnancy and infant loss. No more literature, support group, clothes memory boxes. Nobody can take my place, but I will not have the time to do it if I must concentrate on the educating my child at home. Also the council will be aware that I was filmed by ITV a few weeks ago for documentary regarding my work (they approved some locations), and they are hoping to return for further filming also. If they do this I will be sending them straight round to the council offices for THEM to explain why I have had to give up my position. I am sure the council will find this extremely awkward and I hope they are ready to explain themselves to the people of Warrington and the UK about where this help has gone and why. \n  \n  \nA terrible miscarriage of justice has occurred here, and I want help to have it put right. The council have told us they will no longer help us, to not contact them again, and there is no higher power to go to. How can this be? Every person involved or looking at this case apart from the council can see a horrific injustice occurring. When it is put right the council may have done irreparable damage we have already suffered enough. What tragedy has to occur before they will relent? Do I have to collapse and die next time? Does my son have to be diagnosed with special needs possibly unnecessarily? Does my daughter have to be ridiculed by schoolchildren she does not know to the point of depression? I do not know, all I know is I want NONE of them things to happen, and the council will not help us avoid it. Everyone is suffering and this could be rectified in a very easy way. \n  \nPlease help us, anything you can do to enable our child to be on the waiting list on medical grounds (as she rightly should be) or attain a place at the school would allow our family to begin to repair the damage done by the council to date. You can contact the members of council involved to voice your opinions, as well as local media outlets and our local MPs Helen Jones and David Mowat \n  \nEmail addresses below for your convenience. \njonesh@parliament.uk \ndavid.mowat.mp@parliament.uk \n swoodyatt@warrington.gov.uk \n imarks@warrington.gov.uk \n  \nThe council lso have a facebook page, feel free to post there \n  \nhttp://www.facebook.com/warringtonbc \n  \nFull details of the entire situation can be found here: http://thefightforlittleschool.blogspot.com/ \n  \n  \nI know this has been a bit long winded and I hope I have not bored anyone to tears by this point but we are at such a low ebb as a family at the moment I think we need some support from the public, especially in Warington to spur us on and remind us we are fighting for something fundamentaly right here.  \n  \nThanks very much  \n  \nGemma "
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