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From: “Rebecca Butterfield”
Date: 13 February 2014 12:33:57 GMT+2
To: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ,
Subject: RE: Core Assets

Dear Mrs Xxxxxxxxx

Thank you for your email.

Firstly in respect of our telephone conversation last week, I did speak to the Guardian about your concerns, and he contacted you to make an appointment to visit the children on 9th February 2014. I therefore cannot accept that I simply failed to respond to your concerns.

Secondly, I feel that you have perhaps misunderstood my earlier email to your father. I am certainly not suggesting that you should not have raised your concerns with Core Assets. I think that would have been completely appropriate for you to have done so. My concern (and the Guardian’s concern) was the manner in which this was dealt with, as I had previously confirmed that during the referral process you would be able to discuss your concerns about safety with Core Assets, and certainly before any contact between the children and their Father would have taken place. I felt that it was unhelpful that the proper process had been circumvented, and that if you had concerns, it should have been you who raised them with Core Assets.

In any event it appears from Mr Ferreira’s emails received this morning that I had misunderstood his position, and that he had never planned on accepting the terms of Core Assets in any event, so whether or not they will now accept the referral seems to be a moot point.

The Guardian has been concerned by Mr Ferreira’s conduct, in particular the re-posting of information about these proceedings on his public blog. His position in this respect will be confirmed in his position statement due to be circulated tomorrow, and we are considering the most appropriate way to deal with this issue.

I trust this clarifies the position for you.

In the meanwhile, I confirm that I have received your application to enforce the undertaking from the Court, and note that this has been issued alongside the existing proceedings on 28th February 2014.

Kind regards

Becky Butterfield
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