Subject: Formal Referral to UK Supreme Court – Prolongation in Public Office and Harm to 430,000 Children
2025-06-25
Dear Cabinet Office,
This morning, once again, there has been no reply to my communication — just another auto-generated message from a delay-driven system. Let’s be honest: if your intention is to ignore crisis, to bury suffering, and to avoid responsibility — then mission accomplished.
You build programs to read and sort emails.
You deploy software to automate responses.
But when it comes to real human tragedy — safeguarding breaches, child abduction, institutional failure — suddenly your system shuts down. The AI goes blind. The accountability disappears.
Quite frankly, if you cannot operate complaints, Subject Access Requests, or Freedom of Information processes during times of crisis, you have no right to operate them at all.
I now call for this matter to be formally referred to the UK Supreme Court under the principle of prolongation in public office — the continued obstruction, deflection, and moral abdication by your department while harm escalates.
We all learned just last week that a girl missing for 14 years was found dead in Devon. That is the same amount of time I have spent fighting for my daughter’s rights, and being stonewalled by departments like yours — while lives unravel.
Yesterday, a young woman reached out to me directly. She had grown up believing her father was poor, “broken”, and too helpless to come for her. Now, as a young adult, she finds the truth: that she had been lied to, and the only barrier was a £1,000 plane ticket to Africa — something the system refused to support. She was taken. She was misled. And no one was held to account.
Is this the fate of my own daughter?
Is this what happened to the 430,000 children whose Child Trust Funds remain unclaimed — stripped from families, labelled, relocated, and erased?
The 2015 NSPCC briefing stated clearly: 500,000 children were in peril. And yet nothing was done. Now those same numbers show up again — in missing CTFs, in hidden case files, in software that never replies.
This is not an accident. This is policy by silence.
You don’t need better software.
You need to face the people you’ve harmed.
You need to answer for what you’ve prolonged — and for the families whose lives you’ve shattered.
I expect this matter to be escalated to the UK Supreme Court, and I expect a response — not from your software, but from a human being capable of understanding the gravity of what you’ve done.
You faced with real human tragedy — safeguarding failures, data breaches, state-sanctioned abductions — you retreat behind platforms and processes. You pretend the software is blind. But this is not blindness. This is policy.
I now formally request this matter be referred to the UK Supreme Court under the principle of prolongation in public office:
The continued, deliberate inaction of government departments while lives are being destroyed and children lost to the system.
Let me be clear:
Last week, the body of a girl missing for 14 years was found in Devon. That’s the same length of time I have been fighting for the rights of my daughter, locked in a bureaucratic loop where departments shield each other and no one answers for anything.
Yesterday, another young woman contacted me. She had grown up believing her father was poor, absent, broken. That lie kept her in the dark for years. Only now does she discover the truth: he was cut off from her by a system that refused to help him pay a £1,000 flight to Africa. That was the cost of her childhood. That was the price of silence.
And now I ask the question again:
Is this the fate of my daughter?
Is this what happened to the 430,000 children whose Child Trust Funds were never claimed?
Let’s stop pretending these figures are random.
In 2015, the NSPCC submitted a briefing to Parliament warning that 500,000 UK children were at risk — in peril due to systemic failure. That figure was heard. It was known. And still, no action.
Now, a decade later, your own government figures confirm that 430,000 children’s CTFs are unclaimed — lives gone dark in the data, separated, erased. This is not coincidence. It is consequence. And it is evidence of a state system that has disappeared children, either by silence or by design.
And sitting in the middle of this system is a name you still won’t say out loud:
Dunkley.
A man deported from Australia — and yet whose methodology, structure, and policies live on in your child services system. A man who enabled, through bureaucracy and deception, the removal of children from their families, the creation of “closed material” cases, and the sealing of truths behind government infrastructure.
I accuse him — and those who enabled him.
And I accuse this government of maintaining a system built in his image.
So let’s stop pretending this is about software.
You don’t need better platforms. You need accountability.
You need to look these families in the eye and explain how their children vanished into policy.
You need to explain how, in 2025, the same systems that were warned about in 2015 are still swallowing lives.
Refer this to the UK Supreme Court — and if you refuse, I will take it there myself.
Yours sincerely,
Martin Newbold
thestealingofemily.co.uk 
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