Abuse and secrecy surrounding the case of a brave Stafford mother is to be reviewed by Minister for Children Ed Balls.

This from Stafford’s local paper:

‘Stafford’s MP has written to the Secretary of State for children and families on behalf of a mum who claims her son may have suffered physical and emotional harm while in foster care.

And this week police confirmed they are reviewing the allegations.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has told police files contain details of alleged physical and emotional harm.

She battled for two years to be given access to the files, which were withheld by Staffordshire County Council. They should have been handed over within 40 days.

The distraught mum showed the Post a report containing claims her son, who was under 12 at the time, was ‘flung’ against a wall and faced verbal abuse. The files show the boy said at the time he did not feel safe, had self-harmed and threatened suicide.

She was never told of the incidents.

Last week authority chiefs said they had always acted in the best interests of the child and assured us any allegations would have been investigated ‘properly and fully’ at the time.

But now Stafford’s MP David Kidney has confirmed he has written to Secretary of State Ed Balls about the mum’s plight.

He told the Post he had not yet received a response but added: “I am glad to have supported her in her fight to get the files.”’

The idea of Stafford’s social services investigating anything properly and fully is something of a daft concept. Three weeks after The Slog revealed how a crooked psychiatrist had been swindling the Council (and destroying the lives of innocent mothers) for several years, they have neither acted nor responded. Several more articles, emails and phone calls have gone unacknowledged.

I applaud this mum wildly. While the Slog has tried to help, her success is overwhelmingly the triumph of a human spirit refusing to be snuffed out. Referral of anything to Ed Balls is like posting a letter into a Black Hole….but every little helps. This lady has led the way for others. They must now show the same bravery in taking on the Controlling State.