MUNCHAUSEN'S SYNDROME BY PROXY IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND

EDM number 405 in 2007-08, proposed by John Hemming on 27/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Children's social services, Diseases, Health services, Health staff and professions, Mental health and Patient rights and complaints.

That this House notes that Fran Lyon and Marianne Key are emigrating to achieve security for a family life following false allegations of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy by medical professionals in the North East; further notes many other cases of false allegations and misconduct by the same professionals; regrets reports of incidents of explicit triumphalism by social workers who have prevented parents seeing their children at Christmas; and calls for the law to be changed so that providing evidence of misbehaviour by professionals to regulatory bodies is never contempt of court.

This motion has been signed by a total of 10 MPs.