Couple Trying to Save Grandchildren From Council Care Banned From Seeing Them... After Speaking To MoS

Social workers have cancelled a pre-arranged access meeting between a couple and the grandchildren they are trying to rescue from council care.
Their decision follows revelations of the family’s plight in last week’s Mail on Sunday.
Graham and Gail Curlew received a letter on Monday – the day after we published their story – suspending the meeting with the children, a girl aged eight and a boy, six, that had been due to take place yesterday.

The letter, from Norfolk County Council, signed by Graham Wright, its area director for children’s services, criticised the Curlews, from Sheringham in Norfolk, for involving in the case their local MP, Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, and journalist Anne Atkins, a family friend and who wrote last week’s report in this newspaper.

The council had originally ruled earlier this month that the couple would no longer be allowed to see their grandchildren. But that decision was rescinded at a meeting two weeks ago attended by the Curlews, Mr Lamb and Anne Atkins, where it was agreed they should be given access, albeit under the supervision of social workers.

Builder Mr Curlew, 53, and his wife Gail, a 48-year-old seamstress, are committed Salvation Army members who have long made it clear that they want to foster or adopt their grandchildren, who were taken into care because of the turbulent lives of their parents, the Curlews’ daughter Claire and her drug-addict partner. Instead, they have seen their access to the children steadily eroded by the council.

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