Subject: Request for Parliamentary signposting: timeline concerning missing daughter, child-services records, and obstruction when contacting MPs
Dear House of Commons Enquiry Service,
I am writing to ask for guidance on the correct Parliamentary route for raising a serious public-interest matter concerning my missing daughter, Emily, social-services records, family-court safeguards, and my recent inability to contact MPs by email because Google/Gmail blocked further transmission.
I understand that the House of Commons Enquiry Service can provide information about the work of the House of Commons, committees, MPs, debates and parliamentary procedure, but cannot pass messages to MPs or provide legal advice. I am therefore asking for signposting to the correct parliamentary mechanism, committee, petition route, debate route, MP route, or other procedure by which this timeline can be placed before Parliament.
Timeline of relevant events and evidence
| Date / time | Event / issue |
| 12 April 1996 | My published research records that Tony Blair, then Leader of the Opposition, visited the White House to meet President Bill Clinton. The article states that a search of Clinton Presidential Library electronic records returns one unexpected result linking “Dunkley” and “Blair” in the same record. I am asking for the proper Parliamentary route to seek disclosure, scrutiny, or investigation of any relevant records. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/09/01/%E2%9C%A6-the-smoking-gun-clinton-blair-and-dunkley-%E2%9C%A6/ |
| 23 May 1996 | A Berkeley-linked document referenced in my research identifies Matt Dunkley and Theresa Mackey giving a presentation to the BSEP Planning and Oversight Committee. The article states Dunkley was a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and Primary Education Officer for East Sussex County Council. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/09/01/%E2%9C%A6-the-smoking-gun-clinton-blair-and-dunkley-%E2%9C%A6/ |
| October 2005 | A Leicester Council report cited in my material states that all new referral information was to be stored electronically by October 2005 as part of the Electronic Social Care Records / Integrated Children’s System programme. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2026/05/17/sexed-up-social-services-reports/ |
| December 2005 | The same material states that the Integrated Children’s System was to be introduced for all new referrals of children and families by December 2005. A Derby City Council report from November 2005 is also described as saying this was a “performance duty” on councils with social-services responsibilities. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2026/05/17/sexed-up-social-services-reports/ |
| October 2006 | The cited council material states that all new information on all cases was to be stored electronically by October 2006. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2026/05/17/sexed-up-social-services-reports/ |
| December 2006 / March 2007 | The cited Leicester report records completion milestones for all cases by December 2006 / March 2007 and states that failure to complete could cost the authority £80,000 of DfES capital funding. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2026/05/17/sexed-up-social-services-reports/ |
| 6 August 2009 | My timeline records that Ofsted wrote to Matt Dunkley regarding an unannounced inspection, identifying concerns including limited social worker capacity, delays in assessments, inadequate written information on files, high caseloads, and inconsistent assessment finish dates. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 2009–2013 | My published timeline records that Matt Dunkley oversaw East Sussex children’s services during this period. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/12/%F0%9F%91%91-prince-andrew-vs-matt-dunkley-scrutiny-disparity/ |
| 2010 | My timeline records complaints involving East Sussex and alleged fabrication of children’s reports, including Ombudsman / PHSO references. I ask for guidance on how such historic safeguarding, records, and complaint-handling issues may be raised through Parliamentary scrutiny.https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 11 December 2011, 00:00 | My material cites Ted Jeory’s Sunday Express report alleging that social workers were pressured to “sex up” abuse claims and make reports more negative to support care/adoption outcomes. I am not asking HCES to adjudicate the allegation; I am asking how Parliament can scrutinise the recordkeeping, disclosure, audit-trail, and accountability issues that arise from such claims. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 2012 | My timeline records that Matt Dunkley was nominated for honours for services to children, young people and families and that he was President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services from 2011 to 2012. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 17 April 2013 | My timeline records that East Sussex announced Matt Dunkley was leaving after 21 years to take up a post in Australia. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| October 2014 | My timeline refers to IBAC-related phone-tapped conversations dated October 2014 concerning destruction of evidence in the Ultranet matter. I ask how cross-border public-office concerns and honours/safeguarding scrutiny may properly be referred. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 15 March 2016 | My material states that Dunkley was suspended from his role as South Western Regional Director in Victoria, Australia, as anti-corruption investigations continued. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/12/%F0%9F%91%91-prince-andrew-vs-matt-dunkley-scrutiny-disparity/ |
| 11 January 2017 | My timeline states that Dunkley had an interim post at Norfolk County Council children’s services from 11 January 2017. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 27 November 2017 | My timeline states that Dunkley became Kent County Council Director for Children, Young People and Education on 27 November 2017. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 18 January 2019, 3:58 PM | My timeline records that Louise Sargent of Amber Rudd MP’s office received an East Sussex letter stating awareness of matters under investigation by the Irish Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone and suggesting that a scoping exercise would indicate involvement of children from East Sussex social services. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 8 January 2024, 20:57 | My timeline records the then Prime Minister’s Post Office scandal comments in Dorset and asks why historic injustice principles are not being applied to similar family-court and safeguarding concerns.https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 2024 | My timeline records formal complaints and letters to NICCY, UNCRC, ICC and others, plus questions around missing-person records, family-court records, and social-services data handling. https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/06/16/timeline-dunkley-blair-and-clinton-development-of-the-child-services-system/ |
| 22 October 2025 | The Ministry of Justice published its review of the presumption of parental involvement. The GOV.UK page states that the review examined how courts apply the relevant Children Act provisions and the impact on child welfare. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/presumption-of-parental-involvement-review |
| 7 March 2026 | The Ministry of Justice announced that the Government would repeal the presumption of parental involvement through the Courts and Tribunals Bill. The press release states that courts may restrict involvement through supervised contact, written-only involvement, or “no involvement at all.” My concern is that such powers are dangerous where the underlying records are disputed, incomplete, redacted, falsified, or not independently audited. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-moves-to-protect-children-from-abusive-parents-through-new-courts-and-tribunals-bill |
| 17 May 2026 | I published a summary drawing together the Electronic Social Care Records / Integrated Children’s System issue, alleged “sexed up” reports, and the need for disclosure of audit trails, drafts, legal gateway panel minutes, child-protection conference records, LAC review notes, PEP/ePEP records, and manager comments.https://thestealingofemily.co.uk/2026/05/17/sexed-up-social-services-reports/ |
| 19 May 2026, 06:19:04 | While attempting to contact MPs regarding my missing daughter, Gmail/SMTP returned: “550-5.4.5 Daily user sending limit exceeded.” The log then shows repeated MAIL FROM failed errors. |
| 19 May 2026, 06:22:04 | The same log shows repeated SMTP connection/login failures: “QUIT failed.” |
| 19 May 2026, 12:41:44–12:42:23 | A later attempt shows five messages accepted by SMTP. |
| 19 May 2026, 12:42:31 | Gmail then again returned: “550-5.4.5 Daily user sending limit exceeded.” Further emails again failed. |
| 19 May 2026, 12:44:31 | The log shows further repeated SMTP connection/login failures after the sending limit was triggered. |
Google’s public Gmail Help states that Gmail may block sending after more than 500 recipients in a single email or more than 500 emails in a day, with sending usually restored within 1 to 24 hours. Google Workspace guidance also states that sending limits operate over a rolling 24-hour period and that users can be unable to send new messages for up to 24 hours after reaching a limit.https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22839?hl=en-GB
My concern is that an automated private-platform restriction prevented or obstructed a civic communication to elected MPs concerning a missing daughter and alleged safeguarding failures. I have not been given any telephone contact point or urgent human escalation route by Google/YouTube for this situation.
Request to HCES
Please confirm:
- The correct Parliamentary route for raising this timeline.
- Whether this should be directed to a select committee, Commons Library researcher, petitions route, relevant APPG, Speaker’s Office, Procedure Committee, Privileges Committee, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Education Committee, Justice Committee, or another route.
- Whether there is a Parliamentary mechanism for examining private-platform obstruction of correspondence to MPs where the correspondence concerns public-interest safeguarding matters.
- Whether there is a route to ask that MPs, committees, or the relevant House authorities consider the effect of automated email restrictions on democratic access to elected representatives.
- Whether the timeline should be sent to a specific committee clerk or Parliamentary office instead.
I am not asking HCES to pass this message to MPs or to provide legal advice. I am asking for accurate procedural signposting so that this matter is placed before the correct I am also asking for verification of these evidential facts from Parliamentary route at hcenquires@parliaments.uk Online form Thank you for contacting us – UK Parliament .
Yours faithfully,
Martin Newbold
martinnewbold.mn@gmail.com
thestealingofemily.co.uk 
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