Month: October 2017

Who is Credible Witness?

Addressing Issues With Jyoti Updated on the 24th October 2017

WB: 05th January 2015 – 15th January 2015. 

Conspiracy of Discrimination Covering Up LEYF Discrimination of Mervelee Myers

In light of the continuing discrimination on the part of the Employment Tribunals in the case of Claimant Ms M Myers v Respondent London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) http://www.leyf.org.uk. Case Number: 2300047/2016, I want the world to take note that this is the second time I am facing a miscarriage of justice by the ET Services. If you are in any doubt about my arguments because the 3 Judges come to a unanimous decisions that Mervelee Myers is not a credible witness? The Employment Tribunal  https://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment/claims/responding.

Please visit http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers to find Dr Maria Hudson of https://www.essex.ac.uk would carried out an interview with me. After carrying out the Research Paper: The Experience of Discrimination on Multiple Grounds Ref: 01/12 made recommendations to ACAS, http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers. Before you do anything else please go to LEYF website to read the 3 Reviews from Jyoti Sharma, Ingrid Curuvija Townsend and Julia Elizabeth Gould to verify that everything I wrote in my concerns about inappropriate practices at BIB from 23rd July 2014 to date are in fact correct. Whilst LEYF was perverting the course of justice, refusing me access to my FILE and my own images on their website, the Reviews were in the public domain.

How The Discrimination Played Out at BIB and Jyoti Sharma’s Role!

I extended the arm of professional friendship to Joyti Bhardwaj, Deputy Manager, when she started at the setting. Telling her I worked with LEYF for 5+ years so knows more than most about LEYF work ethos and she was welcome to ask for any help. After Remi handed over the Learning Journeys, she went through the LJ with me and I explained the way how I do my work. I addressed each question and even said to her there are certain things I do not agree with as the LJ was not being treated as a whole document, but instead all focus was on the observations. She said she spoke to Lynne Kelly about what I said and LK told her someone was coming to address the matter and she would tell her what to tell me. (I was the EYFS Coordinator, Multigenerational Working Approach Facilitator and SENCO at Luton Street https://register.ofqual.gov.uk).

Joyti admitted to me after her handover with Remi that she was confused and did not know what to do. I offered my support and told her about the LEYF Tracking Children’s Progress 0-5 that each LEYF staff were given a copy. I told her I would try and bring in my copy so she could have a look, but I forgot it. I went into the office to ask Lauren to send of the work I’d done in Child’s K’mari’s LJ for Hilda Miller. And saw the BIB copy on the filing cabinet and told her about it. Joyti said she read through it and everything was clear and she understand what was to be done now. (Refer to Jyoti’s review on LEYF website to accertain who is credible witness)

I introduced Joyti to the ECAT forms and gave her copy and told her LK is arranging trainings with Early Years Consultant Stella Louis. I will wait for the training so everyone can benefit. However I have had training and knows what to do, but I have to wait on LK. (Refer to acc-gen@open.ac.uk, http://www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies. I graduated from the OU in May of 2009 before starting at LEYF. But instead of moving up the career ladder, I have been used an abused. Now I have been thrown out like a CRIMINAL, and the ET is intent on affirming the discrimination. What is Judge Freer afraid of?)

Jyoti looked at Chid Tayandre’s LJ and saw the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and ask to take it home to copy. I told her she can copy and take, but I would not allow her to take the original out. She showed to Sao Banya and Sao took copy, she spoke to me about the fact that she would anonymise it and use it as a learning tool for the key children for whom she has concerns. I told Sao I did not mind supporting her if she needed my help. Joyti also showed the IEP to Flavia Foddai and I told Flavia I’d help her if she needed me to. I told both Sao and Flavia I was the SENCO at Luton Street. Therefore had done trainings about aspects of Special Educational Needs (SEND).

I was responsible for doing lots of documenting information and working with other professionals http://www.education.gov.uk/contactsus. I brought in other training materials and shared with the team and Joyti took her own copies. Although I explained things to Joyti she keeps coming back to me asking the same question over and over. When I say such and such is not in my remit, as I did not have a status and did not want to overide my authority. She said she is asking me because I should know (refer to her review). At this point I was getting the impressions that she thought I was responsible for training her? So thinking I could be of more help to her I handed over two of my key children’s LJs.

Explaining that Hilda Miller the area manager was using Child K’mari’s LJ as one of her project. Chid Tayandre’s was different in that I was documenting evidence because of mine and the parent’s concerns about SEND. (Refer to Jyoti’s review about Area Manager. The said Area Manager who have since resigned after the end ot the ET case. Rashid Iqbal also resigned, therefore something must be instrinsically wrong for this to be happening. I was forced to resign after the discrimination that lasted from 23rd October 2014 until I resigned on the 27th September 2015. Everything is documented in my Bundle and I copied the ET at LondonSouth@hmcts.gsi.gov.uk about the Respondent’s compliance with the Court Orders. This was from Mr John Fenton and I meet for the first time on the 15th March 2016.)

I showed Joyti my Activity Planning Folder that I organised and told her I had added the Evaluation part to it. When I went to Luton Street and OFSTED http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents, recommended it on their visit. (When Karen Walker http://www.msatrust.org.uk, who wrote the Tracking Children’s Progress 0-5 booklet, when she started at LEYF as Head of Children Services and Families. She asked permission to borrow and used some of the planning forms, I introduced to Luton Street). I explained to Jyoti about the weekly planning and how the focus activities feed into the weekly planning. Each staff is responsible for doing two (2) activities per week for the 2-3 & 3-5 age groups.

From the focus activity, evidence are documented for the LJ. Joyti would question why I do things a certain way and I explained that working with LEYF 5+ years meant everything I do is centred around LEYF ethos, Core Values, DNA and ways of doing things. Before we went off, I heard Joyti questioning why some children behave certain ways….? I tried to explain the reasons behind the behaviours as I know it would take a little time before she would get to know about each individual child refer to (Jyoti’s review about her Job Description. When I started at BIB, LK asked me to help her as HM appointed her as the SENCO and she did not have trainings or knowledge to do the job.)

I believe I am a very tolerant person and I am prepared to go the extra mile to facilitate anyone especially if they are new to the situation like Joyti. But after coming back from holidays I got the impressions from how Joyti was approaching her work that she is not using her initiatives. For taking on such a Senior Role as the Deputy Manager, mean she is not doing enough to get to grips with her work. Instead she was relying too much on her colleagues to be spoon feeding her and using her status as Deputy Manager to blag her way through? I found that she kept asking me the same questions about things I had gone through with her several times and which she said she understands. But somehow she just could not seem to get it, no matter who explained it to her.

The way she does things can be very disruptive to the routines and leave the children unsettled and I, in particular stressed out. I felt I had to be giving her needs for information to do her job priority over meeting the needs of the children (refer to review). She would chose the time when you are trying to engage with the children to go over things that were already explained to her. I get the impression that she thinks she has priority to getting her questions answered over the needs of the children. I think by now she should have taken her time to familiarised herself with her Job Description and be more proactive in finding her way around by now.

For example she is setting up the table and she keeps walking into the room back and forth with one (1) mat at a time asking who this is, is he/she here? All she has to do is get the register and look to see if the child is signed in or out and set a place. These things are happening when I am trying to engage with the children or doing circle time.

One day she commented loudly why is this child so miserable today? The child in question is TAYANDRE’ and I have to say Joyti this is the child I have been sharing information with you, about my concerns. I am sat at the table engaging with children and Joyti went and takes the LJ, sits at the table and is going through every scrap of information that we went through before. And even that which she took copy. Then she has all these questions… What did his parents say? I showed her where parents commented on the 6 Weekly Review. It says here he has French and African language does he speak any of them?

Now there is a time and place for everything and since we had gone through the LJ before. I thought Joyti should at least be making a profile of the child by then? (But from her review it is evident that LEYF got rid of staff like Karen Walker, Marion Breslin, Mervelee Myers and frustrate others to give up and go like Dearbla, Julie Weise and others who contributed to building brand Westminster Children Society WCS, now LEYF. All because of the agenda of dumbing down, giving away quality for quantity. In the end others were hurrying to dessert the sinking ship. From BIB: Remi, Flavia Foddai, Rujina, etc. New Cross: Deputy Louise, who was the scapegoat when a parent reported LEYF to OFSTED and Social Services. Refer to the parents and former employees reviews).

What really irritated me was the way Joyti kept going through each forms and asking if I had made them up. No I am working with what I have got until I am given the correct ones. Then she is pointing out what are outdated… I was annoyed that Joyti got up and left the LJ on the table and did not remember to get it and put it away securely. I worked too hard on TAYANDRE’ LJ for anything to go missing. I don’t keep copies on my USB. I do the work and delete to make space. I think Joyti has let the status of Deputy Manager get to her head and have lost her focus on how to accomplish her job. Just going around saying I am this or that status don’t get the job done.

Joyti is not the only one, either who has let their position go to their head. I am afraid they can rest assured I have no ambitions to be anything than I am so I am not a threat to anyone’s job?  Joyti took to coming to seek me out when I am doing circle time. She kind of reminded me of those Inspectors when I went to Primary School. She never contributed anything and just questioning and observing my practice. Then one morning I am doing circle time and she comes in. Since I had been working with Rujina to get Tayandre’, Ify and some of the children settling in from baby room, including Adama to join in. I asked Joyti if she would like to take control of the group so I could focus on Tayandre’.

She said she would work with Tayandre’, but instead all she ended up doing was keep asking questions about him – why is he not sitting, etc, etc…? So instead of giving my priority to the children, Joyti expected me to answer her questions. In my frustrations I said Joyti this is TAYANDRE’ whom I have been sharing information with you about. Even then I doubt very much if Joyti got it?  I just don’t think it was by coincidence that Joyti comes to seek me out when I am doing circle time and is always acting out of sorts whether it was deliberate or she knows it or not. So in the pm when I had to do circle time and had Jayden clinging unto me, I asked Sadie to come in with me. I just could not cope with Joyti anymore.

Joyti did come in with Adama but left when Adama did not want to stay, and she did nothing to help her settle.  Sadie who was, I am assuming given her role to carry out on Tuesday when I saw 4 members of staff in the office mouth in mouth had done her job. But exaggerated a bit to make it spicier, I supposed about what I said? My defence in the matter is I was trying my best not to behave unprofessionally to Joyti because I realised I was STRESSED and at the end of my tether? I was doing my level best to keep her away from me as by this time she was getting on my Nerves. Yes anyone is welcome to check my FILE to know why I know when I am liable to behave a certain way if I am unduly provoked?

Some of my health conditions caused me to have other underlying health issues that I have to try and control.  (I have been sent on Medical Suspension, pass fit to resume work. But the discrimination became worse to the point when I experienced paronia. I wrote a letter to Dilys Epton detailed the effects the effects of the discrimination after she did not bother to send me the information she promised when she visited BIB on the 30.01.2015 to try trick me to take out a Grievance. I had counselling a http://www.slam-iapt.nhs.uk/southwark. I presented Medical Reports under the Judges Court Order, so how come the 3 Judges did not see them?

Jyoti’s review detail about her Mental Health Condition that was affected resulting from bullying from the chef. But my discrimination stretched from 23.07.2014 to 27.09.2015 and lasting throughout dealing with the Respondent Representatives. But I have to undergo it all again at the ET and waiting for the Judgement. Now it’s not over yet as I have to be trying to clear my name. Without prejudice, I can only come to the conclusions that the ET Judge Freer is hoping that I wil succumb to my disabilities and both my husband and I will die because we are vulnerable? 

Monday 5th January 2015, Jyoti told me about staff meeting, as I was the last to be informed about plans as this was their way of trapping me. By Thursday her behaviour towards me was just intolerable as she just kept doing these things that was getting on my nerves. Because by now she was assessing my practice, even though, she like Lynne Kelly admitted she did not know what she was doing. Then she keeps asking the same questions and did not seem to be getting it. She and Trainee Deputy Nicola copied some of my work to take to their Deputy Trainings and yet I was hearing things said about me not doing anything. I got the impressions she came back from her Deputy Training to exert her authority wearing her Deputy Manager’s status.

But she chose the wrong person to be her target if that was the case. Each time she presented anything I told her that I will do whatever is expected of me when they are implemented by authority. (I was tired of hearing that I am dismissive of authority and knows nothing. However I have almost singlehandedly transformed Luton Street Nursery. Whenever LEYF wanted a setting where there was evidence of best inclusive practice to show to the world, I was relied on to front the media campaign. I was publishing in http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk and attending consultations on behalf of LEYF. My CV and work can be found https://www.linkedin.com, https://ww.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers and http://www.google.com.)  

Thursday whilst on my break and working on the computer she comes to show me the 2 Year Old Progress Check, saying LK ask her to show to me. I told her LK had already spoken to me about it earlier and showed me the format. I asked if LK could get it on my USB. She still keeps prattling on, so I simply asked if she was finish with what she was saying. She later come to ask Benedicte a question but was unable to formulate it properly, so left to get the book. I said to Benedicte after she left to go find the book that she is talking about the EYFS and she walks in with LK copy. It was funny that Joyti could not formulate a question about the EYFS…?

Later she came out to show me folder that Nicola had given her with planning and advising me what to do with it as Nicola had told her to tell me. I took her again to the Weekly Planning and explained to her how the planning is done again and linking the Focus activity. I said I know that the resource file is a good tool to fall back on, but I would continue using the planning until I was told otherwise. She is telling me that I should just handwrite the activity plans and put in the file Nicola gives her as I don’t have to use computer because she don’t. I told her LK already knows why I do most of my work on the computer (refer to http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection.)

Monday I noticed Joyti was behaving towards me as if she is my superior and I was there to answer the questions she asked even though I had gone through them with her before. I have to be justifying my practice to her even though I realised there are lots for her to learn. However after what happened the previous week I tried to control my irritations and not to let my frustrations show.  

Tuesday of this week I am doing circle time with the younger children, as I prefer to work with them to establish the foundation before they turn three (3) years old. Joyti comes to the door and tells me I should be quiet with the children because she is trying to read and I AM DISTURBING HER! Now these are the -3 who are the focus to develop skills in the Prime areas and they are not talking, singing or doing nothing to develop any of those skills.

Since I spoke to LK on Tuesday I realised Joyti has climbed down off her high horse and is treating me differently. That is why today I offered the hand of friendship and told her if she feels I have offended her in anyway, speak to me about it. I advised her to ask for some time away from the setting to shadow a more experienced Deputy, when she told me she did not have an induction. This is after I spoke to her about the child who is settling in and she said she assumed…? I told her certain things are covered during settling in and she must not ever take anything for granted.

This is my way of covering my back and I do not intend anything I write here to be used against Joyti as I can appreciate how difficult it can be starting out in a new job. I am still willing to help Joyti and anyone else who need my help in getting the job done, because UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. I am only interested in giving of my best and working collaboratively in the team.

Allegations:

Allegations: Setting the Record Straight – Since there were a number of allegations coming back and forth from WB: Monday 5th January 2015 culminating in a meeting between Lynne Kelly, Remi as the witness and I. Out of that meeting I am hearing about a number of ALLEGATIONS that were made against me. Since some are from the wedding and others from within the setting most of which were alleged to have taken place on Thursday 08th January 2015. I have now been made aware that some are orchestrated by Joyti. Joyti in particular is the author of a number of the allegations that are made in the setting. I don’t know why she is behaving this way towards me.

To protect myself I have decided to stop running from my past and stand up and fight for my rights. However there are certain matters that I need to be cleared up. I am not going to sit idly by and let any other person ruined my life, blacken my name and good character and bring down my high integrity that I worked so hard to achieve. Most of all I won’t allow anyone to rob me of my basic Human Rights not to be Harassed and Bullied as I go through the processes of living my life in a productive manner.

However I must let it be known that the past two (2) weeks have impacted on my health, emotional well-being and exacerbated my underlying health conditions. I have gone through the menopause and haven’t had a period over a year. Now I am STRESSED out, and bleeding and this is all due to the actions of some UNSCRUPULUS Colleagues who have conspired to make ALLEGATIONS against me. I am hurting and trying to cope with this deceit because all I have done since joining Bird In Bush is to give of my best! It will be very hard for me to go back to that time when I trust anyone because my life was almost RUINED once by unfounded ALLEGATIONS made against me before (refer to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers).

Update:

At the New Year Staff Party: I was talking to Tania Silva my former colleague at Luton Street about telling Joyti to ask to shadow another Deputy Manager. When I told her I worked with Tania, she said she met her at deputy meeting. Tania told me that Jyoti came to shadow her and she was asking for help with the Home Learning & Language groups etc. Tania said she told Jyoti to ask Mervelee to help her because I know what to do. Yet no mention is made of this when they are trying to frustrate me and disempowering so I can’t do my work. 

Disabilities: In light of my Appeal to the Employment Tribunal and the response of ET Judge Freer to stick his neck out in covering up the discrimination that affected my life from the time I got back from burying my MOTHER. I will be spending the rest of time posting the information to my blog. My only concerns at the moment is for both my husband and myself. I am unable to carry out normal day to day activities to take care of my health. Also I am my husband’s carer and unable to do anything to help either of us. I have never had a HYPO, but have to take care of my husband when he goes into one. We are both at risks becausee of our disabilities. I want the Powers that be to act now.

Petition against Modern Day SLAVERY & Discrimination in the UK!

From: Petitions: UK Government and Parliament
Sent: 24 October 2017 12:17
To: rattynem@btinternet.com
Subject: Action required: Petition “Review of the Employment Tribunal Laws, stopping discrimination of employees.”

 

  Dear Mervelee Ionie Myers,

You’re not done yet!

Forward the email below to your potential supporters.

5 people need to click the link and confirm their support for us to publish your petition.

Thanks,
The Petitions team
UK Government and Parliament

I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?

Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203618/sponsors/new?token=5L4FX4zYlnwpxDnw2DJ

My petition:

Review of the Employment Tribunal Laws, stopping discrimination of employees..

I am part of research, representing myself 2 times at the ET. 2009 & 2016. Both times there are miscarriages of justice. This came about due to direct & indirect discrimination by those in authority who judged me based on my disabilities. Both times the unions abandoned me, I had to do the work.

M Myers v LEYF at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. Please see http://www.leyf.org.uk for the reviews of Julia Elizabeth Gould, former employee. Ingrid Curuvija Townsend, parent and Jyoti Sharma, known to me at BIB as Jyoti Bhardwaj, Deputy Manager. Please follow my blog at mervelee.wordpress.com. Fight4justice http://www.MerveleeConsultancy.uk. Facebook https/www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers. Google http://www.google.com. Time4Justice.

Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203618/sponsors/new?token=5L4FX4zYlnwpxDnw2DJ

  
   

So I can only continue to do what I am good at, writing, since the Powers that be are prepared to continue with the discrimination that have tag me a CRIMINAL in Great Britain after MP David Lammy Review of the Criminal Justice System. Presently I am sat in my house a PRISONER of Stress Incontinence. I have since had to talk sense into my husband about not becoming the voiceless vulnerable that they expect me to be. As long as there is breathe left in my body, I will be telling my stories about what is happening in the Early Years Sector. The discrimination is making http://www.hctgroup.org Impact Report 2016 of 1 in 5 suicides is associated to unemployment becoming self fulfilling prophecy for more and more vulnerable employees.

Whilst at the same time, the unions like http://www.voicetheunion.org and http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers can disregard the plights of us vulnerable employees whose life have been destroyed by unscrupulous employers like LEYF. But not only that the ET Judges are prepared to affirm the discrimination, empowering the employers to continue tearing families apart. They have corruptions at the highest level like http://www.bwbllp.com that are prepared to lay in wait for the ET to preside over another miscarriages of justice. Then they pounce with their threats, getting my https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers and https://twitter.com/rattynem blocked to stop me revealing the truth about Modern Slavery practices in the Erly Years Sector.

Before that I was excluded from https://www.linkedin.com and later the editor of the http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/ think she could shut me up with her email. To make matters worse I was stalked by 2 young white males on the 4th March 2017 at the Nursery World Show 2017. Without prejudice on the advice of Liz Roberts. There are trails of how the discrimination is continuing to impact on me being able to get back to leading a normal life. When I was sent on Medical Suspension, I wrote about my experiences with my Mental Health Conditions that is been used at http://www.mqmentalhealth.org/Mental-Health/Mental-Illness. My experiences with Parkinson’s which is part of my DNA is on http://www.parkinson.org.uk.

I am awaiting closures from the UK at http://www.gov.uk/Number10. I am sure it should not be my responsibility to be righting the mistakes of the ET 3 Judges who allowed LEYF to pull the wool over their eyes about the discrimination I faced from I returned from burying my MOTHER. As a result I will be using this space to publish the correspondence I have been forced to write to the ET, DWP, LEA, http://www.express.org.uk, etc showing how I went about raising concerns. As well as those from LEYF that the ET Judges chose to overlook in their continuation of the miscarriages of justice.

They are only doing this because I did not accept the amount with a clause to make me a VOICELESS VULNERABLE. My Fight4justice continues.

My Fight4justice Continues!

This is yet another correspondence with 10 Downing Street as my Fight4justice campaign continues. I do not understand how the Powers that be can sit by and discriminate against a vulnerable employee and society is allowing them to get away with it? My stories about the discrimination I experienced which cause me to be where I am now at in my life is documented, therefore I will continue telling my stories and be damned. Let them come and send me to prison because I will not stop sharing my experiences until someone begin to listen. My whole life has been destroyed because I refused to accept http://www.leyf.or.uk blood, sweat and tears money to make me a voiceless vulnerable. If I take the money then I could not be telling my stories to expose the levels of discrimination that drive vilnerable employers like myself to the edge.

The following is my email to the PM Office: I wrote to PM Cameron and PM May before about my ongoing discrimination case with the former employers and London Early Years Foundation. As you might be aware they are operating the HOC nursery. The discrimination started after I got back from burying my mother and transferred to BIB, then HOC and New Cross from the 23rd July 2014 to when I was forced to resign on the 27th September 2015. I had to resign because despite being passed fit for work after I was sent to HOC when they they made allegations about me after I raised concerns about the impacts of the discrimination on my Mental Health Conditions. I was sent to HOC from where I was escorted out saying Security was High and I did not have a PASS. I went through disciplinary, but the discrimination continued resulting in a Nervous Breakdown. I had to represent myself at the Employment Tribunal again, and experience another miscarriages of justice. I am part of research into discrimination in the workplace. I need answers now.

Right now I am at the mercies of the UK Government stepping to see that I, Mervelee Myers get the justice I deserve from the Employment Tribunals. On two ocassions I was denied justice after facing discrimination that caused my Childhood Trauma to be triggered into the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Now my husband and I are having arguments because he wants me to keep quiet and let matters go. I am at a very lonely place right now dealing with yet another discrimination that will impact on the rest of my life.

When Paranoia Set In?

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 Mervelee Myers:  Initial Question/Comment: Last Thursday my Norton was uninstalled and reinstalled when I contacted Norton. But later it was saying I need renewal. Days later I was contacted via mobile to say I would be sent a link to click on. That’s not right is it?
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 System:  Welcome to Norton Support, my name is Vaibhav Pania. Please give me a minute to go through the information you have provided.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Welcome to Norton Support Mervelee Myers. My name is Vaibhav Pania. I will certainly help you with the issue. Could you please provide me your active email address and phone number to confirm that there is no data loss in transition and no spelling mistakes as well? I apologize for asking it again.
 Mervelee Myers:  I deleted re Privacy
 Vaibhav Pania:  Thank you for the information. Please take note of case number 32888967 for future reference. You can contact us back with this same number if this chat session is disconnected.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Please allow me 2 minutes while I locate your account details.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Thank you for your kind patience.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I would like to inform you that the call was a confirmation call from our outbound team just to check if the issue has been resolved or not.
 Vaibhav Pania:  If you wish, I can connect to your PC to check if Norton is working fine.
 Mervelee Myers:  So why was I told I would be sent a link to click on? If they did not hear from me in 3 days, they would call again.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Yes, the link was to connect to us via remote session.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Please do not worry about the call.
 Vaibhav Pania:  It was a legitimate call from Norton.
 Mervelee Myers:  I am still not satisfied with this answer. My laptop Norton was uninstalled and now I am not protected. Were you the person on, on Thursday?
 Vaibhav Pania:  No, the agent was different.
 Mervelee Myers:  Can you supply me with NORTON contact phone info please
 Mervelee Myers:  The name does look similiar?
 Vaibhav Pania:  The person was trying to install Norton again on your device but the chat got disconnected.
 Mervelee Myers:  How do you know that? It was uninstalled, then installed and then I was told to renew. y
 Vaibhav Pania:  Due to this, our outbound team called you to connect you back to us so that we can install Norton again on your PC.
 Vaibhav Pania:  When we chat with our customers, we keep a track of what we did on the PC just to make sure if any issue arises again, we can refer to the previous case.
 Mervelee Myers:  Please provide me with the NORTON number now. When did the outbound team calll? a
 Vaibhav Pania:  I apologize as the outbound is not available right now.
 Mervelee Myers:  So you should be aware that you uninstall NORTON, re install and then state that I need renewal
 Mervelee Myers:  Who was the outbound and how do you know so much information about the case?
 Vaibhav Pania:  It must have said renewal because the Norton was not activated after installation.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I know the case because we document the case after the chat gets disconnected for future references if the customer contacts us again, just like you did now.
 Mervelee Myers:  I don’t understand what you are trying to say to me. I have the NORTON installed and it was removed. You reinstall so shouldn’t everyhting have been done correctly?
 Vaibhav Pania:  I need to check the issue for this.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Please allow me to connect to your PC to check the issue.
 Mervelee Myers:  I am still waiting for you to provide me with NORTON contact phone number
 Vaibhav Pania:  +44 (0)20 7616 5600
 Vaibhav Pania:  You can contact Norton support on this number.
 Mervelee Myers:  No I will not allow you to contact to my PC until I get answers. My laptop is at risk because of you. You are still not answering relevant questions
 Vaibhav Pania:  I apologize for the hassle being caused to you.
 Mervelee Myers:  Now do you know what number was used to contact me and by whom?
 Vaibhav Pania:  I apologize but I am not authorized to share the details.
 Mervelee Myers:  Are you sure you are an authentic NORTON rep?
 Vaibhav Pania:  Yes, you are contacting global chat support of Norton and I am a certified Norton technician.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I know the details of your case because the previous agent has documented your case and has written what all has been done to resolve your issue.
 Mervelee Myers:  Something is not right. How can you uninstall my NORTON and leave my laptop at risk and telling me foolishness?
 Mervelee Myers:  But nothing legal was done to resolve the issue
 Vaibhav Pania:  We were doing but the chat got disconnected, that is why our outbound has called you to connect you back to us so that we can resolve your issue.
 Mervelee Myers:  I am worse off than when I contacted you on Thursday.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I would like to inform you that we need to uninstall Norton if the Norton does not work good or if any error is there with Norton.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I apologize for the hassle being caused to you, Mervelee.
 Mervelee Myers:  But the NORTON was working until it was interferred with, how do you explain that?
 Mervelee Myers:  Listen I don’t want any apology, only to be secured by NORTON
 Vaibhav Pania:  May I please know why you contacted Norton support if the Norton was working fine?
 Mervelee Myers:  Are you trying to play smart with me?
 Vaibhav Pania:  Yes, please allow me to connect to your PC to check if your PC is secured by Norton or if we need to install Norton again.
 Mervelee Myers:  I said I wiull not allow you to, until I get some satisfactory answers about you and your oubound agant
 Vaibhav Pania:  Okay.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I would be pleased to resolve your queries.
 Mervelee Myers:  Do you happen to know this number as a matter of fact I will leave it because you say you are not allowed to say.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Please elaborate your concern as I did not get your concern.
 Mervelee Myers:  I will try another source as something is not right. I have being with NORTON all these years and this is the first time I am having this Problem.
 Vaibhav Pania:  I apologize fir this.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Please allow me a chance to assist you and connect to your PC.
 Mervelee Myers:  Are you telling me that all this time you did not get my concerns?
 Vaibhav Pania:  I understood your concern and I want to resolve your queries regarding Norton chat support.
 Mervelee Myers:  No you will not connect to my PC until you know what my concerns are. It seems you are unable to understand written English and I doubt you would my Patwah (Patois)
 Vaibhav Pania:  You contacted previously as your Norton was not working fine.
 Mervelee Myers:  You are bloody contradicting yourself now and confusing me
 Vaibhav Pania:  You were not able to update your Live Updates.
 Vaibhav Pania:  Am I correct?

In Honour of Sisters!

Shared Judith Brissett‘s post — celebrating life.
October 20, 2016 at 8:01pm · Updated 20th October 2017

The #Writer in me will have to take this opportunity to focus a little bit on the importance of #FamilyRelativeAwareness. I was very sceptical at one time when #MamaLou used to name her #Family and I used to join in to say Mama the #RelationshipstopatU, but don’t reach us? I guess because Mama Lou wasn’t much of  talker or storyteller like Papa, we just didn’t take her too seriously. On the other hand Papa regaled us with stories about her family that it seems like I could connect with them even though I didn’t meet or know some of them. Mama on the other hand was totally different, however she was no less proud of her family and take pleasure in naming them if nothing else.

So before further ado, Mama claim the #PringleasFamily. There was the three (3) sisters Ms Maybel, Ms Lizzy and Ms Euphie, but she also spoke about the others This was borne out in the ways she helped to take care of her #YoungerCousin Ms OLGA PRINGLE-Grant, during the time she needed the care that Mama Lou was good at. I guess my own awareness of my family became evident when my #Grandma was sick and the #CousinLambert I called Cuz all my life turn up to ask for #AuntElsie. I was gobsmacked and have to asks, “is she your real Auntie or is that how you call her”? Because in my culture and old fashioned upbringing we put handles or titles to everyone regardless of status in life. However I will leave the rest of this story for my Memoirs and the Legacy for the future generations.

So going back to the passing of #MamaCousin, I was aware of Diane as a #YoungerVersion of her #BigSister Girlie Pringle Judith Brissett at #TownheadPrimarySchool. But later on, one of the things that caused her to stand out was the fact that she joined the Jamaica Constabulary Force and made a #Career out of her chosen calling. I can recall my #PoliceBreda at the time Texchus Nembhard saying some nice things about Women in the Police Force. But most importantly for me, she was one of the #1stWomen from my #Localities that I know to become a #PoliceWoman. I set high stores by such #Merits as Diane Pringle broke the mould and choose another #CareerPath that some would not consider the norms.
Diane Pringle must be applauded for becoming an #Icon4EqualOpportunity and the #Rights4Equality!

We grew up, we have been involved in #Transitions and some of us have not seen or heard of each other until the advent of #SocialMedia and Facebook in particular. So today it is with a sad heart that I write this little tribute as a #Token2zAccomplishment of a Young Lady from Our Neck of the Woods, Townhead, Burnt Savannah and the surrounding communities, whom I admired for her #StrengthofCharacter.

RIP Diane Pringle, you have done your #DutiesonEarth. God has taken only the #Best2Serve in his Jamaica Constabulary Force, wherever that is you are serving.  The Family love you, but God loves you best of all. Sleep on and take your rest. Working on meeting with you in the Sweet bye and bye. On behalf of my Mama’s Family!

Update: Today we celebrate the first year anniversary of Diane Pringle. On the 8th October my family celebrating the first anniversary of my cousin Janet Beeput who died at the age of forty three (43) years old from Cancer. Janet worked at the Funeral Directors that were responsible for my Mother’s funeral, and played a big role in the proceedings. But the most painful thing of all is hearing that Janet’s Mother Joyce Saunders-Brown is at stage 5 Cancer herself. I have spoken to my cousin and she is so positive in her outlook on life, she is an inspiration to me.

However because of what http://www.leyf.org.uk have done to me from the time I returned from burying my Mother. I have not had the chance to grieve and come to terms with my loss. That’s another reasons why I am determined that whatever is online at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016, will have to be resolved one way or another. I have had it up to here by the way I have been treated from 2004 to date in the UK. That’s why I am taking a stance, making my voice be heard on Social Media.

I would entreat anyone who experienced discrimination to stand up and be counted. If I was not resilient I’d probably not be here today, or stark staring mad, and homeless, living on the streets. That’s why when I see people acting some ways, I thank GOD for my recovery. But I am making sure I share my stories. No human being should be treated the way I was in the UK since I got back from burying my MOTHER. To make matters worse, this is the second miscarriages of kustice I experience from the Employment Tribunal. Despite being part of research at http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers.

 

Change is Good!

‎Mervelee Ratty Nembhard‎ to Frome Technical High Sch. Past Students

October 20, 2013 at 6:01pm · London ·

Now that I linked with Hope on Facebook, I recalled this incident. One day got soaked going to school. I arrived at school and the teacher (I could swear it was Mr Henry) asked if I couldn’t walk between the Raindrops to stop me getting wet? I am sure me wid me fass self must have given as gud as I got, because me neva easy even from dem daze!

But you know wat I doan even recall? So teacher sent me over to the Care Taker’s home to go iron me uniform mek it dry. Me swear blind now say the Care Taker was Mr Brown and he related to Hope and Kenton Bernard, but me mighta be wrong? Hear yah nuh a di fuss time ina me life me a guh use Electric Iron.

Dem haffi gimme a lesson in using Electric Iron before me coulda duh di job zeen! All me did use to was di Iron dat dem heat pon di coals ina di fire, and later me graduated to di Tailor/Self-Heater Iron, you hear me! As fi Electricity WE couldn’t afford dat and there was none in GaGa Street fi a very long time.

Then Ms Edna Forrester daughter, Delores aka Coolie Ellis, come from Germany. She build the big house in the quickest of time and give her mum. From then they run Electricity give Ms Ed from all the way out the main road. Ah foreign people did contribute so much to the Economy fi true and if I never left Yard, I’d not have achieved as much. So big thanks for all the Educational Refinements I got at FROME!

Update: I have been living in the UK now for the past twenty five (25) years. Somehow it seems I have gone backwards. I am educated, have the experiences and yet I can’t get a job. I completed another training course today and what am I supposed to do with those certificates? I have been parading them all over Social Media, but that don’t make much of a difference. Do you know why? Because I am expected to do the trainings and studies but not allowed to use my Continuing Personal Professional Development Plan (CPPFP) and Intellectual Properties to benefit myself.

Hence the reasons I have been to the Employment Tribunals two times. Both time I experienced miscarriages of justice. Everyone is too scared to come out and talk about the discrimination they have or are experiencing in the Early Years Sector workplaces. I know what I am talking about because I have been there. It is time we stop letting employers with friends in high places abuse their powers of authority and make us the scapegoats and victims of their incompetence. Then we become the voiceless vulnerables who are afraid of our own shadows.

Making Ends Meet!

Updated 17th October 2017 

I am a Product of PARDNER!

‎Mervelee Ratty Nembhard‎ to MyJAMAICA

October 17, 2013 at 9:14pm · London · 

My recollections of the PARDNER:

Mama the Hedge Fund Manager: Long before I had any sort of understanding about Money Matters, my Mama was the Banker for a Pardner which she took over from another of the neighbours in GaGa Street. The initial conception of the Pardner, I believed was set up by the poor in the community. For the benefit of the very poor who had plans to make a go of an idea. Therefore the best ways of saving up for the essentials of life was to pool the money together so those who contributed could reap the sweet success of their hard work and labours.

Mama took over the Banker position from Ms Vicky, Cecil aka Mass Phantom Gillette missis when she succumbed to ill health and sunsequently died. Mama carried on for many years running the Pardner. People came from near and far to join this lucrative Small Poor People Business to set themselves up for a better life. Some people would throw more than one hand, pair up with others to go half (1/2) and half (1/2). Or they come up with ways to make their chances better in the long run. There were times when they asked for last and first hand draws to maximise their chances of getting business transactions sorted quicker.

 There are no contractual agreements for Pardners and everything was done with more or less verbal undertakings. That everything would be dealt with above board without the need for any one up man-ship or dishonesty involved. Some Bankers usually set a standard fee to be kept in safekeeping. This was just in case anyone decided to take their draw and then decided not to pay back. But Mama never resorted to this tactic as she only allowed trustworthy persons to join her Pardner. Those who joined came highly recommended.

Every one lived up to their responsibilities paying their hand at the agreed times. Mum left it up to the discretions of the people to give the Banker what they could afford. Mum always stated that every one’s circumstances is different, so she never had too much of an expectations. On reflections I am just thinking how everything ran so smoothly back then. As everything was based on trusts and the beliefs in the nature of our fellow citizens. Back then everyone lived up to their responsibility as well as being accountable, which were part of the values that were laid down.

Mama’s clients came from all over the parish and although she had not much formal education. However, attending Primary School, she could sign her name, and spell and pronounce. You’d be surprised how Mum kept records of the people in the Pardner on the calendar? Over the ensuing years my education in knowing people’s names and who they were related to, had begun. From those times, I was being prepared for what was to be a big part of my life. I ended up knowing, as Ms Chicky would say all the Rags, Shags and Shagga-Raggas who lived in Westmoreland and even further afield.

So the Pardner, Traffickers were my first venture into documenting. The Pardner was sometimes dropped of at home by persons ranging in age from the very young to the old. Whoever was at home could collect the money, making sure they kept records of who the money was from. Mama was Banker up to the time when I left Jamaica for the UK in 1992. After that she joined Ms Maizie Campbell’s and last Joy’s Pardner and if I am not mistaken she may still be in Joy’s Pardner still?
So a big shout out to all those honest persons back in the days for whom the humble

Pardner became the bedrock and mainstay of their life and livelihood for poor people. What would poor people have done without the forward thinking person’s from all walks of life, who found ways to take themselves out of poverty? By breaking the cycle of poverty, they disentangle themselves from the chains of deprivations that keep the older generations unable to provide for their family. With the concept of the Pardner, many were able to find the fund for the deposits on their own piece of land. They can lay the foundations for providing their children with the education they need to achieve their potentials.

Updated: 17th October 2017

The Strong Dedicated Woman who was my Mother!

Mama did not need more than the informal education that she got attending Primary School, nor any qualifications to teach her how to be a BANKER for a PARDNER. I noticed that my Mother would always be spelling and pronouncing and that’s how she made sense of her world. She had one of the best penmanship I have ever seen that was similiar to my Father. The way she wrote her “Rr” was the most beautiful sign ever, I used to practice, but never get it right. Like everything else, Mama, undertake in her life, she was a Run-Away-SUCCESS in every sense of the words.

I am darn proud of my Mama and all those other persons who were and are Managing Pardners. I lift my hat to each and everyone and will always remember the dedication Mama brought to her role! That’s why I will not leave any stones unturned until I get closures from http://www.leyf.org.uk for what they have done to me since I got back from burying my MOTHER in Jamaica. After coming back I transferred to BIB and the rest of my story is history. I have tried to resolve the matter with LEYF owing to the five (5+) years of exceptional working collaborations I had working with them at Luton Street. 

I have fought my battles, took my case to the Employmnet Tribunal, hoping to get justice. However I was in for another shock when the ET presided over another miscarriages of justice. I was gobsmacked when they took five (5) months to give me the judgement. But within three (3) days it was posted online. Without prejudice, I believe this was to stop me seting up my online business that I planned with the publication of my first book. Therefore, I will have to put my plans on hold. The agony of the past three (3+) years continue and I still have not grieve for my MOTHER.

In the interim I have lost other family members, and I just can’t move on with my life. I am unable to get a job because of the reference of six lines flagging safeguarding. Over the past two years when I did not work, I have had problems with the Benefits Systems. I have never being on benefits before, so it took a bit of getting used to. However even when I was attending the Job Centre every two weeks, my papers were sat in the office. It took the DWP nearly two years to sort out the Housing Benefits. But not only that, on two ocassions I have problems when I was to be granted support to pay the ET fees. Even Her Majesty Revenue and Custom was at it, stressing me out.

But the biggest bugbear is what the ET done posting at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. Because it don’t take any form of educational attainments to understand that the ET only done what they did because they did not expect me to appeal the judgement. What they have done is trigger and exacerbated the disabilities that they claim I did not have. But not to worry I will show the world how the 3 Judges from the ET have discriminated against me. We will know who are the credible witness and how prestige should not be part of the Justice System in any forms. Because that what caused the judges to show their true selves that they are prejudice and bias against the vulnerable employees who are only seeking justice.

I am doing everything to honour my MOTHER. She did not have an easy life, but for her giving up was never an option. I have not worked in two years, but I was thrifty like my Mother and always have something put away for Mr/Ms Rainy Day. However, why should I have to be sucking salt grains, girting my waiste and doing without the finer things of life because others are prepared to judge me? The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child “Article 14 states that it is a basic entitlement of humans to enjoy their rights and freedoms without discrimination on any grounds. However LEYF and the ET 3 Judges have made sure I am denied my basic human rights.  

Have a BLESSED DAY FOLKS! Still working on sum more exerts to pass the time away fruitfully! Pardner, Fire coal toaster, and the first Poor person to own a Baby Buggy are just a few topics on my Agenda!

Empowered Black Woman with Attitude!

Be Judge & Jury!

Mervelee Tomlinson

Mervelee Tomlinson

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LEYF On My Doorstep? Updated 16th October 2017

I had worked with Alev Sagnak before and she recommended me to join Westminster Children Society (WCS) in 2009 when I was experiencing some amount of instability in my life. Since that time WCS has changed to London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) and five (5) years on, I am still working with LEYF. However I am more than glad to say I am happy to be back in South London – Southwark after spending 5+ years working in Westminster. The best thing about my changing journey is that LEYF is expanding business from Westminster where the organisation started over 100+ years ago. To literally all the deprived areas of London, providing better outcomes for young children. I am privileged to be working at the Bird In Bush Nursery that is situated literally on my doorstep in South East London. I started my journey in South London, working in the early years’ sector after I completed my studies at Lambeth College 1997-1999.

I am an older and wiser early years’ practitioner who has been embedded with the LEYF ethos from when I joined in September 2009. Now that I have achieved most of what I set out to accomplish as a practitioner, enhancing knowledge and expertise via studies and trainings. I am intent on using two of my hobbies – photography and writing to spread the LEYF DNA and my shared vision into my South London and to the world at large. Therefore, I am more than prepared to use the knowledge and expertise I fought hard to gain, to help spread the philosophy of LEYF as a beacon of good service provider to the UK and wider world. In so doing, I will start by giving credit where credit is due to some of the extra ordinarily special persons who have travelled on my journey of discoveries with LEYF http://www.leyf.org.uk.

I am therefore, going public so everyone know that I will always be eternally grateful. To those persons for inspiring, nurturing and empowering me to be the reflective practitioner, who developed the listening ethos, whom I have become to date. Therefore, I will have to start off saying a big thanks to Alev Sagnak who told me about the vacancy at WCS. And the fact they were recruiting for practitioners with my level of qualifications in 2009. Believe me Alev and mark my words that if I should win the jackpot, I promise to take you out to my native Jamaica for some fun and frolics and to meet my family who are exactly like me. Next on my list are some super colleagues whom I met at Fitzrovia Community Nursery where I first started. They are Candy, Patricia Session, Ezi and Claire the deputy who started on the same day with me. Candy is in for special mention because she took me under her wings as a novice. Taught me ICT, how to do the Learning Journeys and write up the Activity Planning Forms http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents.

Only a few weeks after starting at Fitzrovia, I re-established contact with Joelle Lax, now manager at Holcroft Nursery. I had previously worked with Joelle when she was only about seventee (17) years old at Lambeth Walk Day Nursery after I graduated from Lambeth College. She recognised me all those years later, as soon as she walked into the nursery and saw me. I later learned that Joelle was one of the youngest managers working for LEYF when she was appointed. It would be rather amiss of me if I did not mention working in partnership with other professionals and outside agencies from the Camden Local Education Authority. I was privileged to be given the opportunity to enhance knowledge via trainings and empowered to make my implicit knowledge explicit.

The early years’ teacher who identified my passion in fulfilling my role as a SENCO was forceful in ensuring I got the trainings to do the role to the best of my ability. And she did not just stop there, she taught me about Every Child A Talker (ECAT), Statutory Assessment, Individual Education Plans (IEP), Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), etc in the short space of time – 6 months that I was at Fitzrovia http://www.education.gov.uk/contactus. I am a believer in change and I was transferred to Luton Street where I was destined to spend 4+ years working with some exceptional, enthusiastic and passionate colleagues. These colleagues were the epitome of professionalism, who have the children and their parent’s best interests at heart. Julie Weiss aka Julie Moye http://www.linkedin.com/mervelee-tomlinson. Julie, who was the manager is first in line for some special praises. She always showed her appreciations for the work I had done.

Since she had the ears of the CEO, June O’Sullivan, she was never stingy in telling her about the good practice that I contributed to. Providing quality standards of work, especially my Learning Journeys and Homemade Books. The CEO in turn would be lavish with her praises for anyone whose work was of the highest standards, whenever she popped into any of the nurseries. However, in spite of this, this is not to say Julie Weiss and I saw eye to eye, are were in agreement to everything. I guess in hindsight I might now have to blame the generation gap. We never think twice about challenging each other practice. But we never lost sight of our different roles and responsibilities in the team and gave each other the respect that were merited to do the job. We both knew we were responsible for being accountable for acting and working as professionals no matter our personal take on any matters.

One of the biggest thing I admired about Julie Weiss is the fact that she would admit when she got her wires crossed and apologised for her mistakes. And we were on differing wavelengths about certain matters, but there was mutual respects between us. We were never afraid to call a spade a spade and then moved unto the most important roles of fulfilling our job descriptions. Stacey-Jane Whitfield, who was the deputy manager was one of the humblest, down to earth person l had the privilege of working with. She never had the time to bother with some of the airs and graces connected to her status as she always had to go that extra mile in getting the job done. Madonna was a tower of strength, who treated me like the big sister I never had. Marcia Girvan cooked up those mouth-watering meals to appease our taste buds. There is Elizabeth Reid, one of the first LEYF apprentice I met at Luton Street and who is a real go getter. This young lady knew what she wanted to accomplish and set out to achieve her goals. She rose to the position of Deputy Manager in Queens Park Nursery.

Updated: Elizabeth Reid and others like Tania Silva have being given the opportunities to rise up the career ladder, now as managers, deputies and various leadership and management positions. But despite being their mentor, I am now out of work for 2+ years with a reference flagging safeguarding. Like at the first workplace where Alev and I meet when we first worked together, they too have been manipulated to discriminate against me. Some of them have blocked me on https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers. I have had other encounters of exclusion when I could no longer access the Nursery World FORUM on https:www.linkedin.com that I contributed to. Then the editor of the http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk, thought she have the rights to join in the discrimination, so I let them know I am not a voiceless vulnerable.

I was stalked by two (2) young white males at the Nursery World Show 2017, the day after the end of https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. In November 2016 when I was celebrating my son’s election win, LEYF got Facebook to block me. On the 21st December 2016, LEYF got the ET to ban me from Social Media. I agreed with condition that it started there and then. Because there were materials in cyberspace over which I have no control. After the ET judgement was posted online, http://www.bwbllp.com had the audicity to contact me after nearly two years to remind me about their threats of the 24th September 2015. Then they get Facebook and https://twitter.com/rattynem to contact me. So I see them off with my correspondences, making my implicit knowledge explicit.

I worked with agency staff Freda and her daughter and Nichole initially when I started at Luton Street and they were a bunch of true professionals who just got on with the job. Their work were outstanding and comparable to LEYF standards at the time, so it is no wonder that they were relied on when LEYF needed their services. I met Tania Silva at Fitzrovia when she came to cover and we ended up as colleagues in Luton Street. She moved on to become one of the Deputy Managers at Marsham Street. We were privileged to develop some great innovative ideas and using our initiatives to promote and implement best inclusive practice during out time at Luton Street. We were empowered and enabled via our mutual enthusiasm in delivering the pedagogy of the expert theorists to support, enhance and extend children’s development and learning. There is Trison Grant who was an exceptional apprentice and I decided to take her under my wings because she is one of us. Jamaican and I could see her potentials as well as her passion for working with young children.

Katie is such a lovely girl who was only interested in giving of her best, doing her work and planning for her future ahead. I was privileged to mentor some of the students like Suzan Murados and Michelle Hoofong to name a few. What can I say about my boy Apprentice Bryan, who I thought had such a bright future ahead of him. If, he had stuck to his guns and completed his apprenticeship? I honestly believed he had a role to play with “Men In Childcare” and I felt let down that he did not stay. However I am hoping that whatever he is doing he is flourishing and doing something useful with his life and not fallen by the wayside? I am appealing that if anyone knows about him to remind him of the role he played in the last LEYF conference that we attended. Andrea Barnes is another lady with attitudes like myself, but with her heart set in the right place. I am hoping she has managed to get her studying back on track and making using of the God given talents that she is blessed with?

I have to raise my hat to Bianca the apprentice who is such a natural in her role. I am hoping she will be inviting me to her babies’ christening of course, so I can get to dress up in one of my posh frocks? Now that I have hit on an idea about developing some teaching and learning tools to use in the early years. I am thinking about Sandra Delgado, who taught me the song that I am thinking of using as my launching pad. As this is an idea in the making, I will have to now get really serious and busy ensuring this is a reality. Surely I have to mention Sunita Bagri who helped to sell my credentials about my good practice. Sharing my story about working in collaboration when I am using my knowledge and expertise to inspire others, to make the most of their opportunities in life. With her spreading the words I eventually got my request for transfer from Luton Street to somewhere local and closer to home become a reality. I cannot forgot Sao Banya, who when she came to Luton Street told me about LEYF take-over of BIB, and telling me to ask for the transfer to BIB.

Sao has been a tower of strength inspiring me to give of my best, because she too has done studies to a certain level like I have done. Most importantly we do work from that shared vision that the expert theorists recommend. The manager Lynne Kelly, has been very supportive, ensuring that she puts certain amenities like the computer in the staff room so I can word process my work and get the job done more effectively. I have been ensconced and literally camping out on my doorstep with my transfer to Bird In Bush in Peckham South London. Now I am just working a stone’s throw from where I live, I have more time for my personal life as a part time carer for my elderly husband. I also have more me time and I can focus and concentrate on some of the things that are important to me like making links and connecting with the local community that I live in. And for all those other colleagues whom I met whilst I covered in other LEYF nurseries – Carlton Hill, Holcroft, Queensborough, House of Commons, Queens Park, Lisson Green, Mickey Star and Noah’s Ark and those that I attended for trainings.

I am eternally grateful for you, allowing me into your settings and sharing your practices with me. Because for every setting that I covered in I came away with some new knowledge and expertise that I did not have before. Now I am indebted and have to talk about the impact of Rachel Parker who accompanied us to that training day out at Community Playthings. She is such an absolute professional who used to attend at Luton Street to do the ITTERS & ETTERS using both top down and bottom up approaches doing her job. I understand that she will be working in South London as an Area Manager and I can only continue to wish her all the best. I believe it was because of her I had the opportunity to attend trainings at Community Playthings where I am now working in partnership with the Darvell School on a none profit level. Using my knowledge and expertise to promote my country’s and my family heritage to a wider audience.

Working Partnerships: Although I did not stay long at Fitzrovia to do much other than support a child on the Autistic Spectrum in my role as the SENCO. I was privileged to work with children and their parents from diverse multicultural background. I have worked in partnerships with tutors, assessors, fellow colleagues and placements facilitators since I entered the early year’s sector when I enrolled at Lambeth College 1997 to the present. Now that I am back in South London amongst the majority of people from my own or similar cultures to mine. I can feel the vibes and realised how much I am appreciated and felt really proud when Caroline Quirke presented me with a star that one of the children made to show her appreciation to my hard work and dedications since I started at BIB. Coming from a time in my life when my hidden disability caused me to stay in the background as I did not want to embarrass myself and lose my dignity. I was able to take centre stage for the Christmas Play and never once stopped to worry about failing. Since living in the UK, I have had opportunities to address my disabilities and empowered myself to integrate into a tolerant society. By so doing I have had chances to develop my confidence and even though the disability is still part of who I am. I have come out of my shell and is able to do something productive with my life.

An Advocate: I have empowered myself over the years during prolonged studies, trainings and research. I did not only have to deal with my hidden disabilities, but had to cope with my child, who was misdiagnosed with multiple disabilities. That is why I am an advocate of inclusion. Thereby doing research into how best to implement and promote inclusive practice to stop even one child and their parents going through what I went through as a young inexperienced mother. I am proud to be a member of the LEYF team, who is proactive in shaping the lives of the young children who may need some forms of early intervention strategies to get them pass those initial hurdles that I had to deal with for myself and, with my own child. As the CEO rapped at the 2013 Staff Party, I am proud to be a be-LEYF-er and is more than happy – 5+ years and counting… I am looking forward to spending the next 10 years until my retirement when I will be packing myself off to my paradise in the sun. Hopefully I will be in a position where I can be of service in helping to develop Special Educational Needs and Disability services in Jamaica. Using some of the vast knowledge I had gained in the UK and most importantly as a LEYF employee?

Benefits of having LEYF on my Doorstep: I can easily pop home if I have an emergency or even check on my husband whose age, ill health and other underlying conditions are causing me much concerns. Working closer to home has really given me greater peace of mind. I have been using some of the time I spent travelling to good effect in particular, when I have deadlines to meet working on children’s Learning Journeys. I can come a bit earlier and stay over late as I am no longer in a rush to travel the two (2) hours that it once took when I was working far away from home. I am a stickler for keeping promises to myself and others if I set myself any targets or deadlines. I just don’t like to let myself down and my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) will not allow me to either. So I am stuck in my routines of giving of my best or left feeling I am letting myself down if I cannot reach my targets. But hey, life goes on and so does the work and as long as I can do my little bit to help any child achieve a positive outcome in life. I am more than satisfied and know that I am making a contribution, preparing the future generations for their roles in life?

Now that LEYF is literally on my doorstep and I am now working in South London where my journey actually started after being away since 2009. I am looking forward with much glee to continue using my enhanced knowledge in spreading the word about LEYF DNA and ethos as one of the service providers that gained the status of being a beacon of outstanding quality to be aspired to. At Bird In Bush where I believe and feel I am secured in the bosom of people and communities that I feel I am more in tuned with and relate with much better. I know I have finally found the perfect platform to give of my bests in my chosen career of working with young children that I had chosen all those years ago. In addition I have empowered myself so I can indulge in my other passions of photographing and writing? I am looking forward to more changes that will benefit the deprived communities of South London. And most importantly the children and families who will benefit from the changes that are bound to take place in order for there to be progress in the communities through the different capitals.

I am more than contented with my life as it is panning out before me. I am not asking for much else as I honestly don’t think I have much ambitions left to climb up the career ladder. But neither will I become complacent and drop my guards either because of past experiences when I had to come crashing back down to earth with a terrible thud? On second thoughts I would love to win the National Lottery so I can hurry up and return to my native Jamaica. I would be more than happy to focus on working in the area of Special Education and indulging in my passion of writing. So in the meantime I will be carrying on giving of my best at Bird In Bush, LEYF that is literally on my doorsteps and trying to motivate myself to develop my expertise in other areas? However I will not be complacent in whatever roles and responsibilities I take on as I am only prepared to give of my best.

I have seen my publications in http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk. I have written to http://www.express.org.uk about my struggles with Mental Health Conditions. My article that I have written when I was on Medical Suspension appeared on http://www.mqmentalhealth.org/Mental-Health/Mental-Illness in 2015. At https://worldreferee.com/referee/valdin-legister/bio, I submitted the information. I have been publishing on LinkedIn. I have found some of my articles used on http://www.parkinson.org.uk. I have corresponded with http://www.gov.uk/Number10. The LEYF solicitors and representatives of the ET http://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment/claims/responding. With http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk. With http://www.disclosure.gov.uk. With Southwark Council sen@southwark.gov.uk. I am to be found on some Social Media Platforms as I intend to share stories of my experiences to help in breaking down barriers. The barriers erected when recommendations to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers are not considered. So I ended up with another miscarriages of justice by the ET because the judges are biased and conceited.

I am more than grateful that I have been empowered to put some of the things that once bothered me behind me. And move forward with all the enthusiasms that I can conjure up. I know what I am talking about as my old folks were fond of saying “she who feels it knows it?” What more can I say other than we are living in a world where we are not always tolerant and prepared to try and find out how others tick as we are more self-centred and looking out for “me, myself and I!” In the meantime I am here wondering what changes are going to be taking place by the time I am old and greyer and ready to retire to the LAND of my BIRTH? I have had so much joy when I worked as a Basic School Teacher and that is my primary reason for wanting to go back to make my contributions to Early Childhood Education.

Update: 16.10.2015 & 16th October 2017

I was harassed, bullied and inimidated into removing this article by one of my detractors, Hilda Miller, who told me at the time I knew nothing. She made some other negative comments that I won’t even publicise at this time. Because for someone who knows absolutely nothing about me or the work I’d done during 5+ years of dedicated services was beyond my ken. Now I am defying the bullies and putting the article back and be damned if they wish, for taking a stance for equal rights and justice for the vulnerable. I am celebrating Black History Month and showing I am no COWARD!

I am proud of my heritage as I am discovering the DNA that is part of my Roots. I was told that there was some German Blood, Mullattoo and I am questioning if there was Chinese as well. My cousin Osbourne Nembhardt who is doing Our Family Tree reassured me there is 90% African, some Dutch and Scottish! They are welcome to do their next best because I am a Fighter with the Maroon Blood that Nanny of the Maroons and all the National Heroes used to fight to defend Jamaica the Land of my Birth.

I am one  Proud JAMAICAN who is going to stand up and fight for my principles, values and beliefs. No one is going to stitch me up and send me back to no “Funded Prison 4 Criminals – I am not a Criminal”. I might have a touch of “Mental Health Issues”, but they are responsible for pushing me over the edge! 27th October I celebrate the birthdate of my Father, Uncle and Auntie, three (3) of my Grandmother Irene sixteen (16) children.

The ET Judgement: I am still having to wait for closures. The judgement is posted online and I am waiting for the Employment Appeal Tribunal to do what they intend to do. In the meantime I am left in limbo. Two (2+) years I am still without a job. I was planning on starting an online business, with the publication of my first book. However everything is on hold. I am now thinking of starting an online News Magazine, reviewing stories of interests that impact on why I have been discriminated against in the UK from 2004?

Written by: Mervelee Myers. Early Years Practitioner, Carer, Advocate, Writer.

See & Blind, Hear & Deaf!

Honouring: People of GOD – Sunday Worship 17th September 2017

My Christian Upbringing

I am sat listening to the Sunday Service on BBC Radio 4 as is the norms, when I have to do my utmost to keep up with my Christian upbringing, even when I am having one of my crisis. Because I am mindful of the fact that despite the struggles that my parents went through, my Father never ever lost faith in GOD. My Mother who had a Christian upbringing, but was somewhat of a rebel like me in her younger days, even showed her faith in GOD, as she got older. I am/was proud when I go home and was told of how she participated in her Church Activities to the very end. Due no doubt to the fellowship she had with the Townhead Baptist Church and the local communities at large. As I am reflecting after eating the breakfast my husband prepared for me, I am thanking GOD every day for each small mercies that have been bestowed on me.

I know exactly where the blessing are from. Yes for those spreading rumours that my husband can’t turn duck off of nest, that’s so not true. Because without him, I would not have survived all that have happened to me since I was introduced to him in 2001. Now I am thinking that some of the persons who I was introduced to have the best influences on my life. Those who are waiting for my husband to die, better be aware that at this stage in my life, I might die and leave him. Because he has been my Rock, ensuring I am looked after, when I am unable to manage and control my disabilities and Mental Health Conditions. I am sure I listened more keenly to the Sunday Worship, when I hear the name Rose Hudson-Wilkin, because I can still remember the first time we meet. This was when I attended Housing for Women AGM info@h4w.co.uk and I still have the flyer as proof, because I am a hoarder.

I was transfixed when she described her years growing up in Jamaica, because they were similar to mine. She mentioned she was going home to talk to her Mother to get relevant information for her Biography. I had no knowledge that her family was from the local communities of Westmoreland. However I was in for the discoveries of my life when we started chatting during the break. She mentioned her cousin Dockie and her Grandmother, Ms Fran Desport from Burnt Savannah and I just couldn’t get enough. Because, now it’s time to pay attention to all the people who my Mother used to claim as her family. But we were sceptical of this been more than her wanting to be in with, the well to do people. However I had started listening to my Mother about, who are my family when I discovered that my cousin Lambert Thompson was really my cousin.

He came to look for my Grandma and upon asking for Aunt Elsie, I enquired of him, if she was his real Auntie. Then I discovered another of my cousin who was a Driving Instructor and someone I knew visiting the area, but only know we were family’s years later. I must be honest that my upbringing was fraught with struggles from the time my Father was struck down with Parkinson’s at an early age. I must confess that from thence, my perspectives about how I viewed myself changed and I was always looking for acceptance from others. And that’s why I am passionate about breaking down barriers. Since Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the Preacher and I am listening to her talking about being called to serve the Ministry of GOD, from the age of 14 years old. I was mesmerised once more, hearing her story which she told the first time we met.

Today marks the centenary (100) of a WOMAN, ordained to the church as a Priest in the UK. Now I will have to go do my research about CONSTANCE, the first Woman Priest, who served in the East End of London. The Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin is serving in the East End of London too, following in the footsteps of a great trailblazer CONSTANCE. That’s why I was more than grateful to be afforded me the privileges to be learning about Women in the Ministry. As Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin elaborated about the ordnance of WOMEN as Priest in the UK in 1994, I am fortunate to live in a time when Equal Opportunity must be the rights of everyone. As the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 14 states that it is a basic entitlement of humans to enjoy their rights and freedoms without discrimination on any grounds.

When I meet Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin at the Unveiling of the African & Caribbean War Memorial www.acmemorial.com, at Windrush Square, I spoke with her briefly. I reminded her about the occasions of our first meeting, and telling her I am in the process of publishing my first BOOK. I have been in her company on a few other occasions at the Jamaica Independence Service celebrating the milestones of our Nationhood. I was privileged to be in her company at Westminster Abbey at Evensong when I meet Mr Neville Lawrence and other dignitaries. Sad to say I was looking forward to the publication of my book in September, but that will not happen now. Instead I am still engaged in seeking justice for the ill treatments that ruined my career, destroyed my health and leave me out of work for the past two years. Because www.leyf.org.uk think they are above the law and have friends in high places.

However I am in for more struggles with the ET that presided over another miscarriages of justice that is even worse than before. They have affirmed the discrimination in the forms of the vendetta that LEYF carried out to destroy my life. Stripped me of my dignity and robbed me of my entitlement to the basic human rights not to be discriminated against. That’s why been a Writer, I am adopting “Until the lion learns to write, the hunter will always tell the story”, from Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE. Another reasons for my Fight4justice and other Social Media campaigns to share my stories with those who need to be informed. Each time that I face challenges in workplaces, there is a pattern that is repeated. This goes back to my childhood when my life was changed when my Father was struck down with Parkinson’s from an early age.

To briefly recap, I have been facing challenges from the time of my Dad’s illness to this day. I have been documenting my experiences through my stories so they are available for anyone to whom they might be of benefit. That’s why I have now decided to use my Action Plan from the Training over the next six (6) weeks to continue sharing my stories and not wait to publish books, because they may never see the light of day? I am doing exactly what the ET done by posting their biased and prejudicial judgement online in the here and now by sharing stories. Because of yet another miscarriages of justice by the ET, I think GOD has finally revealed to me my purpose in life. I am convinced that my purpose is to share my story and take up ADVOCACY as an Influencer, who is an Expert Authority on subjects from cradle to grave, to help others.

This way I will be empowering myself using my knowledge, creativity, talents and passion to show others that there are ways to becoming an overcomer, and not remain a victim forever. One does not have to stay a VOICELESS VULNERABLE forever if they equip themselves with the tools to help themselves and others break down the barriers. The discrimination that are put in place in the fine prints of the CONtrACTs keeping us enslaved as scapegoats and victims of the psychopaths, who see our passions as threats to their incompetence. Then they have to keep us in our places with claims we are dismissive of authority. But what or whose authority are they talking about, when they don’t have a clue?

Because of the prolonged mistreatment by http://www.leyf.org.uk, their associates in discrimination and now the affirmation of the discrimination by the ET again. I have lost my ability to function and carry out normal day to day activities. This was from I returned from burying my MOTHER and transferred to BIB, HOC and New Cross. The terrible experiences led to me revisiting my childhood traumas when I had lost my ability to function in public from around the time my Dad took sick. Without knowing, I had taken on the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s whenever I have to perform in public, or had to perform under pressures. I was prescribed medications for my conditions from an early age, in my teens. However I decided to wean myself off taking it after I completed my studies at the OU, www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies. Now I think I am been penalised for managing and controlling my disabilities without relying on prescription medications. But I am aware of the side effects and don’t want to get addicted, as that would make my like even harder to bear.

But as my step-son, Trevor says everything happens for a good and wise purpose. That’s why it was ordained for the ET to take five (5) months to give the judgement and three (3) days to post online. Because now is the time for the truth to come out and set the innocent and vulnerable employees who are enslaved in workplaces free. But most importantly for me to meet the person who is ordained to support my Fight4justice www.MerveleeConsultancy.uk campaign against those that think they are above the laws because they have friends in high places. They can use the blood, sweat and tears money that are made from discriminating against employees to pay off unscrupulous so called professionals to do their biddings. Destroying the lives of employees and their families.

The Benefits of Empowerment and Having the Right Person in Your Corner

Inspired Thinking “It’s no use saying ‘We are doing our best’. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary” Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965). I am glad I have been empowering myself so I can quote from the great leaders and philosophers, past and present for obvious reasons. Some lived their lives with deficits and limitations of physical and mental disabilities, yet they never let that determine the outcome of their lives. I am making comparisons because I managed and controlled my disabilities from childhood, until they were triggered and exacerbated into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in two (2) workplaces here in the UK. The first time was preparation for the second to be doing what is necessary to succeed. Because once more I am let down by the establishments and systems in place to dispense justice, the Employment Tribunal.

That’s why I do believe that it was not just by chance that the ET take such a long time to decide the judgement. This happens so that I could get the opportunity to meet Barrister Ryan Clement. He is responsible for playing the biggest roles in doing what’s necessary so that I succeed and overcome the years of discrimination that LEYF imposed on me by breaching the Rules of Law. Not only that they pulled the wool over the eyes of everyone, convincing the ET that they are angels who were looking out for my best interests. That’s why, there comes a time in each and every one of us life when we just have to trust another person with taking over and doing the best. When we are unable to do it for ourselves. I have put all my trusts in Ryan and GOD, knowing we have to succeed to free others from been enslaved in workplaces throughout the world.

Despite there is a Modern SLAVERY ACT 2015, but from my experiences, discrimination is worse now than pre the SLAVERY ACT 1807. Since I have been forced out of work, I have had the opportunity to talk to people who shared similar experiences to mine in workplaces and its worse. I had to resign because despite holding on, so that I did not make the mistakes that cost me the other job (refer to Dr Maria Hudson 2012 Research Paper Ref: 01/12, www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers), I had to give in. Although I carried on, dealing with allegations, gagging, traps, trumped up complaints, investigations, transfers, medical suspensions, treated like a criminal, provocations, harassment, bullying and intimidations… By the time I reached breaking point when something had to give. I was having a nervous breakdown, but if you look at my Social Media, you will realise I stick to my Fight4justice to the very last.

Writing is therapy and part of my early intervention strategies that I have been using from childhood, even when I could not put a name to it then. Also documenting and recording my experiences through storytelling is my defensive practice. I only know this when I studied with the Open University. It was only via studies that I empower myself to change my lifestyle, applying a holistic approach to dealing with my hidden disabilities. By which I could live a more fulfilling life and maximise my potentials. That is/was until my experiences of discrimination in two (2) toxic work environments, with management and leaders who sanction the discrimination. As I have been saying, I know GOD has a purpose for me to fulfil before I am unable to do anything about it. That’s why I do not agree with those who tell me that I must not question Him. Of course I have to argue with GOD to get the answers to what are my next moves.

Just a brief pause to introduce some of the persons who are instrumental in seeing my dreams materialising into realities. I meet my tutor Danielle Williams, from St Lucia and some wonderful peers during the six (6) months I studied. This was to gain another qualifications as a Learning Support Assistant (LSA) with www.hctgroup.org, at STORM Family Centre. I don’t know what I am going to do with all these certificates, because I can’t get a job with them? Pauline Peart the assessor came on board and I am grateful for the support. I meet other persons throughout all walks of life, at other free training sessions, like JT Foxx, Gerry Roberts, Tony Robbins, Andy Harrington, etc. And sharing experiences helped me to have a better understanding of how the ET works especially if one have a case that involves disabilities. There are others who I meet at STORM who I can’t even put a name to. However I appreciate the fact that when I am in their presence, they acknowledge that we meet and they remember me.

That’s why I cannot understand what led LEYF Leaders and Management to sanction the discrimination at BIB, HOC and New Cross from the 23rd July 2014 until I resigned. Then throughout, until the ET Case that ended on the 3rd March 2017. But to compound matters for the ET Judges to prolong the punishment, taking five (5) months to make the judgement, is beyond my ken. Then to post online, severing any hopes I have of setting up my online business. It was only because I decided to follow my calling, registering for free online trainings that I meet Winsome Duncan. She is my mentor and the rest is history. But the biggest gift of all is the introduction to Barrister Ryan Clement, when she was not clear about the Legalities in my first book that I wanted to publish. This book was to be my launch pad for my online business. But it is on hold at the moment.

Despite the hiccoughs caused by the ET judgement, I am still taking it one day at a time to achieving my goals. Every day I am more thankful to GOD for bringing these people in my life, to help accomplish my goals, one step at a time. As Philosopher George Santayana said “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it”. That’s why I clung on to the bitter end despite of the effects the discrimination were causing on both mine and my husband’s health and emotional wellbeing. Because I had taken a stance in another workplace, not to be discriminated against. Therefore LEYF will have to give an account as to why two (2) former employees and a parent can write the reviews that they did, on their website. The three (3) who reviewed LEYF are Julia Elizabeth Gould, Ingrid Curuvija Townsend and Jyoti Sharma listed as Jyoti Bhardwaj in the ET case Bundles.

Because Jyoti is/was the Deputy Manager at BIB who was sanctioned with others to discriminate against me. Her review was done on the 12th March 2016, just before the Preliminary Hearing on the 15th March 2016. This was when my RACISM claims were referred for review by the Judge. But we all know the outcome of that and LEYF and their Legal Team must be charged with perverting the course of justice. Furthermore they were not operating as a Legal Entity. Mr John Fenton who prepared the ET3 Form and the case acted unprofessionally throughout. He only owned up when Barrister Samantha Jones, too acted unprofessionally. She told the judges she did not prepare the case as it was to be strike out. Most of what is in the judgement are the words of Ms Jones from the day she introduced herself to me and throughout the hearings.

That’s why I will not leave any stones unturned to expose LEYF for thinking they are above the law because they have friends in high places. I will borrow another quotes from the Daily Express www.express.org.uk, Magazine. From where I learned so much about writing and honing my skills over the years, even when they are all the same when it comes to treating us equal. The things they say… “You cannot create experiences. You must undergo it” Albert Camus (1913-1960). Luckily I had turned to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/publoc/Mervelee-Myers to document my innermost thoughts when I could not find anyone with the time to share my concerns. So now I can refer to the Daily Express Columnist “Tech Don’t Lie” as one of my mantra in how to keep my Defensive Practice. When LEYF sent me on Medical Suspension to deny me my basic rights of earning a living, my stories was used on www.mqmentalhealth.org/Mental-Health/Mental-Illness.

All I am going to say there are lots of Ryan Clement out in the world, who are going beyond the call of duty, helping others like me. Their contributions cannot be measured in monetary values, as without him I might have ended up being another of the www.hctgroup.org HCT Group Impact Report 2016: 1 in 5 suicides are associated to unemployment. During the Telephone Conciliation, the Judge took umbrage when I refuse to accept £58,000.00 because there was a gagging clause. I know as I told the three (3) Judges when they tried imposing a Social Media ban that there are matters in cyberspace over which I have no control. But the judge could only think of supporting LEYF, telling me they have to protect themselves from me, so it was not about principle, but money. But who have protected me from the time I returned from burying my MOTHER, to now?

It is only now since I was introduced to RYAN that I am beginning to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. I want each and every one to find a Ryan Clement, like I have been introduced to mine. We need to get our inspirations from the Ryan Clement of this world who are Humanitarians. I know I will have to find the time for a proper testimonials. But I know that will come with my writing when I am no longer under this pressure to clear my name and exonerate myself as I told Dr Maria Hudson in 2010.

In the meantime please get to know RYAN CLEMENT at http://www.ryanclement.com/. Your life will be enriched and GOD will continue blessing him and his family.

Update: 15th October 2017

Breaches in the News: Southwark Council

In light of some recent revelations in the news over the past months, I would like to make mention of the Daily Express www.express.org.uk Bungling council made 21/7 suicide bomber’s helper their poster girl. I am saying this because the council involved in this controversy is none other than www.southwark.gov.uk. Southwark Council SEND Section was involved with Kings College NHS Foundation Trust in destroying my career. I sought their supporting raising concerns about inappropriate practices and this led to me eventually having my childhood traumas triggered into PTSD. I eventually had to resign because of my health and end up losing my job when the ET carried out the first miscarriage of justice against me. Luckily for me I was part of the research when recommendations were made to www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers.

I raised concerns with www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents and my concerns were pushed under the carpet. I contacted the Local Safeguarding Board when I was studying with the OU as part of my CPPDP, but all that happened is I was blacklisted and networked against for taking a stance against discrimination and my career ruined. That’s why when I volunteered with www.resourcesforautism.org.uk and the council think they could demand my work, I told them where to get off. I reminded them about how I was treated at KINGS and for them to keep my correspondence for future reference. That’s why when I have to start on benefits, I make sure keeping my defensive practice. I don’t let them bother me, as I realise some people feel threatened by my knowledge.

The Harvey Weinstein Saga

I am appalled at this story for a number of reasons, but I am not surprised. When I worked at KINGS, I used to raise concerns verbally and when they were not addressed put in writing. To get rid of me, they used my vulnerability against me. They get my colleagues to make allegations and even a parent was part of the plot. Therefore I am weary of getting involved with cowards who would sell out their own mother, like Judas Iscariot done to JESUS. Staff were threatened to cover up the discrimination. Today I am aware that employees have to earn a living and can’t be relied on to come forward and speak up about the Modern Day Slavery Practices they are having to deal with in workplaces, especially in the Early Years Sector. Another discovery I am making is how terrified people are of coming forward to share their experiences in the workplaces.

But we don’t have to look any further than what is happening with the Harvey Weinstein saga. I have been raising concerns, sharing my experiences with some of those claiming to be championing the causes of those of us who are vulnerable, especially if we suffer with Mental Health Conditions. But what kind of receptions do we get? Look no further than online at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions.ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. Is it any wonder that the society will be dealing with all this repeatedly? Because those who are in charge of dispensing the law are friends with employers like www.leyf.org.uk so they are allowed to get away with murder. Can someone please tell me why I have to go back to the Employment Appeal Tribunal to have closures that should have been sorted out already? How long am I supposed to wait to get justice, so I can move on with my life? That’s why I am telling my stories.

Written by: Mervelee Myers FD (Open)

Early Years Practitioner & Basic School Teacher: West Indies & the UK 1986-1992 & 1999-

Carer: From childhood

Advocate: 2004 to date

Volunteer: 2015

Writer: From childhood

Storyteller: From childhood

The BIB Schemer 23.07.2014-16.03.2015

Issues with BIB & Benedicte Siewe 19.01.2015

After events of the past weeks 04.01.2015 – and the Emergency meeting tonight 19.01.15 I have no other alternatives rather than to address the issues with BIB team and Benedicte in particular. Because I know from prior experiences that if I just sit back and let matters take their course, one day I might live to regret not acting at my perils? (Update: See https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016 to see how I experienced another miscarriages of justice. This is after Dr Maria Hudson recommendations to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers in 2012. I was interviewed at my home as part of this research in 2010).

When I visited BIB before starting on 23rd July 2014, I was told that I was to work in the Baby Room. Because the staff were already assigned and BR is the only place where there is a position. I shared the information with the manager that because of my disabilities and health conditions I am unable to work in the BR. Central Office (CO) should have this on record, as I had told them about this at the interview in May 2009. Since then my conditions have gotten worse and I have additional ones now which makes it even harder to manage. I however said I could carry on working in the BR until the matter was sorted, and I was willing to contact CO myself to deal with the matter if the manager wanted me to (refer to Jyoti Sharma and 2 other Reviews at http://www.leyf.org.uk, which I was aware was out there. But only got hold of recently).

The matter was sorted in no time and Rumi went to the BR and me in preschool at the start of the new term. Hilda Miller the area manager came and said it was she who said I should work in the BR, but was happy the matter was resolved. Everyone made me feel welcome and when I spoke to the manager about my situation, why I did not work in South London since 2009. She reassured me I am in BIB now so there was nothing to worry about. I was the happiest I was ever being for the longest while and I made sure to let everyone know (refer to Social Media at https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers). But I guess I must have been too naïve, as usual and trust people too much. Before long I realised all was not as they should be.

Because I was new in the setting and did not have any key children so was more or less floating between the BR and Preschool. I thought I would take the time to get to know the children. When Rumi was transferred to the BR, I took over her key group. But I was using the chance to capture evidence for all the children to put in their Learning Journey (LJ) because that is how I work, whilst I was floating between rooms. I just don’t see a child as my key child, but consider myself to be responsible for providing the EYFS (I was the EYFS Coordinator at Luton Street) for all of them to reach their individual potential. I was in the process of collating evidence especially for the children for whom I had concerns (I was the SENCO at LS) and getting to know them. (Refer to the Equality Act 2010, http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents, http://www.dh.gov.uk/publications).

I recalled once Sao came to ask me about the observations I was writing and said I should put them in the child’s – Child B’s LJ. I said I had done them rough and the key person could write them up. She claimed that I was to transfer them on the observation forms because I had done it, so I was responsible for writing on the forms. I said I would only do so if I was given time out and she came back to give me the time to do it but not before arguing with me. But I was surprised when Lynne Kelly comes to talk to me  (see LK statements for ET). She said she was told I refused to do observations and OFSTED would be coming any time soon, and they would need to see them. I reassured LK that she could rely on me to get whatever work done as I always stick to my words.

(Update: I have being part of Ofsted Inspections from I started working in the Early Years Sector out of Lambeth College in 1999). On another occasion I made some rough copy of observations and said to Sao that the key person could write them up. Remi claimed that she did not have any time to waste to write up anybody’s observations, they should do it themselves. I noticed however that when Sao wrote an observation for Child M, she wrote it rough and gave it to me to copy on the observation form. I just got on with it and did not make a song and dance about it as she and Remi had done (refer to CEO contribution letters). By then I realised it is one rule for me and another rule for others. Since I was the newcomer I refused to upset the applecart.

Although I tried to capture children in group activities and documented observations, some of my colleagues, either don’t take account of them or just leave them where I handed them over. So of late, I focus on documenting the information for my key children and get on with the job. I would like to start up, making Homemade Books for BIB. But time does not allow as I have to be dealing with one thing or another like making sure I record what have been happening since the beginning of January 2015 (refer to Jyotie Sharma and the 2 other Reviews). I only have one observation in Child EA’s LJ from Remi, however since Rujina came she gave me one for Child KMJ. All I done is asked Rujina to write her name on the piece of paper and pasted it on the observation form.

Remi said she was given the job of implementing LEYF ethos at BIB, but the others were not supportive and reported her to LK. I noticed the conflicts Remi spoke about especially during Room Meetings. The others told Remi the nursery is not LEYF, but BIB, and no one was going to bring anything from outside there. They did not care where we come from, and I just viewed those arguments as the BIB team refusing to move with the time and accepting some of the changes that were expected (refer to Louise Cooper article re transitions). I hear Sao using the exact same terms/narratives, when I explained about taking the CEO Multigenerational Working Approaches from Luton Street into BIB (refer to CEO letter Nov 2014). Since Benedicte raised the Multigenerational – Silver Sunday that I promoted celebrating Theresa Salmon as a volunteer at BIB as her first grievance with me.

She claimed when she asked me… and she cannot even mention the name – Multigenerational or Silver Sunday – LK have to supply the answer. I told her to go and do her research and she feels that I was rude in saying that to her? The crux of the matter is, I find that people interprets things the way they want to suit their arguments. I explained to Benedicte that Silver Sunday was celebrating the elderly folks and this is part of Multigenerational Working Approaches. (Update: Now a setting in Clapham developed the model, integrating the young and old sharing the same environmental spaces. I was doing a Case Study when I worked at Luton Street. If LEYF did not lose sight of the bigger picture, they could have taken the brand as their own).

Instead they were too busy perverting the course of justice and making the life of employees who build their organisation a living hell. See the ET Judgement at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. LEYF have collaborated with their cohorts in the systems and establishments to join in the direct or indirect discrimination from the time I returned from burying my mother to representing myself at the Employment Tribunals. The CEO is passionate about MWA and I told BS it would be good on her CV if she knows about Multigenerational Working, so it is best for her to do her research.

I never for the life of me, knew I had offended anyone by telling them to do their research. Because for me research is carried out as part of the job anyway. After listening to what both Benedicte and Flavia had to say tonight about me telling someone to do research. I am flabbergasted and is left to assume that was where I went wrong. Because of me telling Benedicte to do her research about MWA I am assuming she is carrying a grudge as Carol was the one who asked this question in the meeting? I kept wondering why she kept saying “I AM SCARED OF YOU” after I started (update: refer to my RACISM claims strike out repeatedly by a Judge Martin). Today things are beginning to become much clearer. I noticed that tonight she was so traumatised that she is literally shaking and could not get her words out.

Then she is saying things that even if “I Don’t Come To Work Tomorrow…?” I just can’t imagine what I have done to Benedicte to be getting this sort of reactions from her in a room full of colleagues. So I will now have to make sure I am never alone with her as I don’t want her to make any more ALLEGATIONS against me? I can remember clearly when I made the Book of Cards with the children and decided to extend it to include all the grandparents and Child Zac wanted to make the card. Benedicte asked what that was about and when I told her she said “ME AND ZACHARY DON’T CELEBRATE NOTHING”. At the time I thought it was very strange of her but it never dawned on me why as per usual I always take people at face value.

I never got any support doing the celebrating and singing for Theresa until after I had finished and called LK to come and join in getting the photos for promotions. Bendicte made up her mind to judge me from I started as she kept saying she is scared of me. During one of the RM, she said she felt we were not giving her the respect she deserved. Because she is the youngest and she felt she is the only one who should be talking, as the Room Leader. All I said at the time was for her to get on with the meeting because I never enquired of anyone’s age when I started. And although she is RL everyone have the right to talk about matters to do with our work as we were not there only to be dictated to (refer to Contract Sections).

I only became aware of Benedict’s reason for saying why she don’t celebrate anything when Sao told me. When I started the Black History Month celebrations and the children were making flags and shape persons to reflect their diverse multicultural identity.  In the RM Benedicte said we should ask the parent’s permission before we do activities with the children. Since I was only doing activities to support, enhance and extend the children’s development and learning across the EYFS. I could not see the reasons for getting permissions, as this was part of the application processes. Things only became clear when we started the Christmas activities and Benedicte could not stop herself from showing her disapprovals.

But because I have worked with colleagues who are Jehovah’s Witness and this is the first time I am coming across such reactions. I had the impressions that we are not allowed to make our religion and politics part of our work, but I could be wrong? Anyway because I am into celebrating all kinds of festivals as part of my Job Description in promoting equal opportunity I never for a moment thought celebrating Christmas should be an issue and just got on with the job. The day after Stella Louis visited (update: refer to the http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/ re Nursery World Awards 2017. Lynne Kelly made allegations about what SL said to her about me being a Negative Influeence in her statements at the ET.

I intend to get to the bottom of this, because I did not know SL until I meet her at BIB about three times in total, briefly. Except for one time shen she observed me doing an activity and give me constructive critisism). I was doing the shape people activity with the children when Benedicte come to ask why I was doing that activity. Since I had been doing this activity over a period of time, differentiating it for the age groups. I asked Benedicte if it is the first time she saw me doing the activity and she said no but she wants to know what it is about because she is the Room Leader. I asked her if this meant I have to justify my work to her before doing them? I have done studies and trainings to give me the knowledge to provide a balanced curriculum.

She said because YOU HAVE A DEGREE IT DON’T MATTER. When I began to justify my arguments about her saying my Foundation Degree didn’t matter she said that is why I don’t talk to you because I am SCARED. I took her by the shoulders, sat her down on a chair and said “I AM A TACTILE PERSON SO I HOPE YOU DON’T MIND ME TOUCHING YOU?” I SAID PLEASE DON’T BE SCARED OF ME, I AM HERE TO HELP YOU AND YOU ARE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB! After I’d finished speaking to her I got Flavia’s attention and asked her to tell Benedicte what she told me to do with the shape persons. I realised Flavia is reluctant to speak to Benedicte. I explained to Benedicte that Flavia told me I could use the shape persons as display in the Maths Area.

I tried to fit in as best as I could and thought I was doing a good job implementing and promoting LEYF ways of working at BIB. Whilst recognising the fact that I am new to the setting. I have to respect the way how the BIB team do their job. I had already brought copy of the Every Child A Talker (ECAT) form and given it to LK and she and Mewe Mechese (refer to MM note re Rumi’s wedding) promised to look for it on the computer. As far as I am concerned I had done my job and the rest was up to LK. LK later told me that Hilda had brought the ECAT forms over.

When Stella visited, LK told me that she was organising ECAT trainings with Stella for all the staff. I introduced the Activity Planning Forms, providing a copy for all to see when I done the first Focus Activity. I started my folder to document evidence of how we support, enhance and extend children’s learning in the areas of the EYFS. The OFSTED Inspector had picked up on the fact that the 3-5 years old teaching were lacking in the Specific areas. During one of the RM, Benedicte was talking about some matter that came up at her trainings with Gary Simpson & Gill Springer at CO.  This was about working in partnerships and speaking to parents about their children for whom there are concerns.

She mentioned Child TA and Child Abdul and asked what the key persons were doing. I told Benedicte I had spoken to LK the SENCO and Child TA’s mum about my concerns and what I was planning to do. Some mention was made about the ECAT form as it is on one of the observation forms that is used and Benedicte asks “WHAT IS THAT?” I explained what the form was and told of the fact that LK said Hilda had taken the forms in and went to my locker to get a copy to show the team.

I realised Benedicte had a different approach to her work from mine. I was not there to question her practice only to do my job and try to inspire and motivate the team to work toward LEYF standards that I am accustomed to. Whenever she give instructions like duties for the day I complied and even go a little further helping out where I can as part of the team. During the Christmas seasons when it was her time to do the Circle Time she did not practice with the children. Since I mostly focused on the younger children, because I was being treated like the Apprentice, I just got on with the job.

One day she asked if I think I was confident enough to practice with the children because Flavia was on break. It was obvious from the question that Benedicte was not trying to get to know the person who is Mervelee Myers. But had already made up her mind about me so she was just sticking to her jaundiced view of being SCARED of me, for what reasons only she knows. This came to a head on the day of the Christmas Play when the children were getting ready and we were practising. During a lull in the practice she asked what was happening and she was going to sing Wriggly Fish.

I told her we should carry on practising the Christmas Songs as we should not be changing at this late stage now it is almost time for the play. She said you know I don’t sing Christmas Carols and I said you don’t have to, and she flounced off. I just cannot understand why Benedicte got so worked up about the Christmas celebrations because I did not noticed ZACHERY’s mum acting in any way different over any of the things she objected to. Zac asked to make the Silver Sunday card to take home when I said it was for grandparents. Mum came in a pointed out the Trinidad flag on the Display Board and talked about it with him. She asked if she could take the Snow person’s cup Zac made that Sao displayed on the window sill home.

Benedicte was the one making a big fuss over the whole matter. I realised everyone is afraid to talk about her practice in front of her face. I have heard whispers that I am not going to repeat about her. I have always being told from I was little that hearsay cannot go to law and if I say someone say something and they say they did not. It is my word against theirs and that is not what I am about. But I have to make sure I put in writing that lots of things were said before I got to the wedding about work and Benedicte said lots of things about me primarily that I was not happy.

Since that was the  first thing LK said to me on the Monday when she called me to the office, I am going to say now that Benedicte is the one who has made up those stories about me. Saying I am not happy with management along with the other things I was alleged to have said about other staff at CO. I have absolutely no dealings with some of those staff so I don’t know what I could have to say about them. Everyone who reads the CEO letter would know I am writing about THERESA after I have done my Research.

I have been working with LEYF for 5+ years now, so I am sorry in case I offend anyone. I do most things the LEYF way and all I was doing is trying to help BIB to work within LEYF ethos. After what Sao said tonight I will refrain from upsetting anyone. However as a More Knowledgeable Practitioner I think it is only right that I be allowed to do the job role that is in my Job Description without barriers, constraints and limitations placed in my way. Since I come to BIB I have introduced practice that was not been implement before. Everyone knows that I have been making Homemade Books (https//www.linkedin.com). As part of my practice to show how we carry out certain of the EYFS curriculum and the CEO knows about this.

Hence the reasons she endorses the Write up I am doing on Theresa Salmon. Julie my former manager at Luton Street was the one who told the CEO about my projects of writing Homemade Books on one of her visits when we had the media visiting. The CEO applauded my efforts and took one of those books to work on to be used as a learning and teaching tool for LEYF. So she knows about my passion and I read her blogs and follow her on Social Media. At the recent staff meeting I felt picked on and most of what were said were done to belittle and undermine the work I have done over the 5+ years I worked with LEYF and what I since brought to the BIB setting.

Only at the time I did not know the reasons for the reactions I was getting. On the Thursday after the SM I saw Benedicte & LK in the office when I was leaving and little did I know what was in motion. The next day I got in and even thou I heard LK had gone to CO for an Emergency meeting. It never dawned on me it was about me until after LK came back and we were supposed to have a meeting. She said she was advised not to discuss the matter by the CO team. However during the supervision LK was so distraught about the matter I couldn’t help but apologised if I had caused her any distress.

Even then it never dawned on me that Benedicte was the one making ALLEGATIONS about me and this story started from we attended Rumi’s wedding. This only became clear on the Monday when we had the meeting between LK & I & Remi as the facilitator. I was gobsmacked by some of these allegations and then there were those matters of things that happened in the nursery. I was accused of not doing anything much and all I do is writing. I have explained that in order to do the excellent work especially on the LJ, I have to make my jottings as a memory jogger. When I am ready to write up I have the information to hand.

As for Joyti, I realised that she is taking out her incompetency on me and trying to use me for a scapegoat. She goes out of her way to provoke me to get a reaction out of me and has linked head with Benedicte to wind me up. Because how else can I explain that me asking someone if they had finished speaking to me to be RUDE? Then Joyti keeps coming to the door to peep on me in the preschool only to ask me if I was on my own. When I said I am here with two children she saw that as not giving the correct answer to her question. Of course before I was aware of this fact everyone was going to LK complaining about me. When I went to report her saying I am disturbing her, she can’t understand why.

Joyti realised I know what she is up to because since I spoke to LK she changed her tune towards me. Then on Friday when I spoke to her about the child settling in and she presumed….? I told her to ask to go and shadow in another nursery where she don’t have the responsibility of being on the floor. She begins to apportion blame saying she did not get an INDUCTION. As far as I am concerned she has been in the setting long enough to pick up tips about how to perform her roles and responsibility by now (refer to Jyoti’s Review on LEYF website). She spends her entire days writing in her book and standing round doing absolutely nothing.

Then when I am showing her evidence of the children engaging and learning from the enabling environment provided from the planning. She took the planning form down to asks Flavia what the initials I wrote meant. I rest my case that nothing we told her from she came to the setting has sunk in and I don’t know when anything will? She realised I know exactly where she is at so that is why she is disgruntled with me. I could do what she is supposed to be doing with my eyes closed. And then she has the nerves of hiding behind her status of being Deputy Manager and at the same time abusing her position. Benedicte is also doing the same and sees a shadow behind every corner waiting to take away her post.

They can rest assured because l am not interested in anyone’s position. Since I have learnt or deduced that Benedicte is responsible for those ALLEGATIONS that were made against me. I am adamant that I never said those things, I would like it put on record that she must have some axe to grind. Or have motives for doing what she is doing to me. The only conclusions I can come to after tonight’s meeting is that she felt I have offended her for telling her to go do her research about Multigenerational. I made sure the children celebrated the Christmas Play. And because she don’t celebrate anything because she is Jehovah’s Witness, then I have done something terrible to her?

She is holding a GRUDGE and she thinks by going to LK with those ALLEGATIONS she could get rid of me. Pity she don’t know I have been through even more than this and I am still fighting on. However I am not just going to sit back and allow her to gang up on me with the rest of BIB team and treat me like an outsider. Whilst at the same time DESCRIMINATING against me by Harassing and Bullying me. Hiding behind some perceived offence of which I did not knowingly done any such thing – telling her to do her RESEARCH about Multigenerational?

LK said she did not read the letter I gave to her today in place of the meeting we were supposed to have on Friday with Joyti. Instead she puts it in my file, but how is she able to understand things from my point of view. I hope LK will take the time to read my concerns about all the persons involved in making these ALLEGATIONS about me and reading between the lines. Because if she is not careful some of these same people will be causing trouble for her as they want to take over her job. I have written a full account about the two weeks and I intended to give to LK. I have thought better of it and will be using same as my Defensive Practice because I don’t want to lose tracks of how the events unfolded. One day who knows, LK might need it when they show their hands and come out in the open with their plans?

Nicola

I will never forget what Nicola did to me and this is one of the reasons why I am very weary now of the people who are around and me and endeavour never to let my defensive mask slip again. Nicola abused her power of her authority breaching my Basic Human Rights when I was feeling vulnerable because of my health conditions. She tried to stich me up making false allegations about my professional conduct and the way I do my work. Although I moved on from the incident, I believed she came to BIB and tried to cause trouble stirring up conflicts amongst the team and pretending she had the interest of BIB at heart.

But all she was interested in was making a name for herself as she tried to curry favour and climb up the career ladder. I can attest to this fact after she visited Henry Fawcett and called back to say how the place was dirty and nothing was going on there. I was left to wonder what had she gone back to report about BIB. As she came in with her superior airs after OFSTED visited saying nothing was happening. Strangely enough, Joyti came and is saying the same kind of things even though it is evident she haven’t got the faintest clue about practice.

Updates:

Matters have escalated to the point now where I don’t know what else to do to please everyone concerned. I have even decided to give up my rights just so I can survive, but to no avail.  

 

Prepared by: Mervelee Myers FD Open.

Updated: 12th October 2017 as part of my Fight4justice campaign.

 

The Stigma of Mental Health 10.10.2017

Dealing with the stigma of Mental Health – Updated

I would like to share my views about some issues that have affected me from I get back from burying my Mother and transferred to a new work environment on the 23rd July 2014 at http://www.leyf.org.uk. Since that time there have been new laws, legislations, codes of praticies and conducts implemented in the UK to safeguard everyone. There is the British Values 2014, Counter Terrorism & Security Act 2015 and the Modern Slavery Act 2015.   The ill treatments resulted in me experiencing Mental Health Conditions when my Childhood Traumas were triggered into the Post Traumatic Stress Disorders that resulted in me getting counselling at the Maudsley Hospital http://www.slam-iapt.nhs.uk/southwark.

My main concerns are varied on the day we are celebrating International Mental Health Day for a number of reasons. But primarily because of the recent judgement from the Employment Tribunals at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. I would like everyone to stop long enough and spend some time examining their conscience finding out why an employee who is as passionate about working with children, young people and families can have her life turned upside down after yet another bereavement. This is the second time I have taken my case to the ET to gain justice. The UNCRC “Article 14 states that it is a basic entitlement of humans to enjoy their rights and freedoms without discrimination on any grounds”.

But instead of getting justice based on my claims of discrimination on the grounds of disabilities of “Chronic Anxiety, Arthrites and Diabetes“, it is clear from the judgement that there is another miscarraiges of justice. Dr Maria Hudson 2012 Research Paper the Experience of Discrimination on Multiple grounds made recommendations to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers then. Fast forward to 2017 and I was left to represent myself because of unscrupulous Unions. Then the Solicitors acted unprofessionally, showing that some who are supposed to be metering out justice fairly will stoop to committing criminal offences. Over the next few months, I am seeking closures about the way I was mistreated in two workplaces that impacted on my Mental Health Conditions.

The following is a letter I wrote to http://www.express.org.uk as part of their Mental Health CRUSADE. Over the years, I have been sharing my stories about my experiences of living with Mental Health Conditions and Disabilities from childhood. My articles are being used on http://www.mqmentalhealth.org/Mental-Health/Mental-Illness. Stangely enough this was published on the 3rd April 2015 when I was on Medical Suspension. Part of the plots to destroy my health and deny me, my Basic Human Rights of earning a living to provide for my Basic Needs. The more I research myself, the more I am uncovering how writing about my experiences are helping to breaking down barriers. On the Parkinson’s website http://www.parkinson.org.uk, I discovered two articles. One in 2015 and the other in 2017.

However dispite all my best efforts in trying to get a job, it has been two years and I am no closer to finding one. I tried setting up my own business, but the ET judgement put paid to that. In summary the ET Judges claim that I do not have disabilities, I am not a credible witness and Legal Entity do not discriminate, people do. Well I want the world to see who are the people responsible for the discrimination of Mervelee Myers on the two separate ocassions she was forced to represent herself at the ET. Not only that my RACISM claims were strike out repeatedly by a judge. They tried stitching me up about the Telephone Mediation. So I started my Defensive Practice, as the same thing happened with my benefits and the DWP and http://www.southwark.gov.uk/benefitscontact.

If I did not stand my grounds not to be discriminated against, I would probably end up homeless and have more Mental Health and Disabilities issues to deal with. It toook almost two years for my Housing Benefits to be sorted out. The way I was treated by the DWP triggered and exacerbated my Mental Health Conditions.  Below is the letter to the Daily Express. Hopefully it is self explanatory?

 Hi Mr Jeory

I have been following the Mental Health CRUSADE campaign in the Sunday Express over the past weeks with keen interests.  This matter is of grave importance to me because of personal experiences I’ve encountered throughout my relatively short life (I am nearly 60 now).  The reasons I am making contact is to congratulate the team on taking up the fight for people who have been faced with (Mental Health Conditions and the issues to do with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities SEND). Some of us do not have any forms of sounding boards to air our circumstances and situations in dealing with conditions that are considered as TABOO. (Dr Maria Hudson https://www.essex.ac.uk, Research Paper Ref: 01/12 made mention of the stigma attached to Mental Health Conditions).

Maybe if I share a brief account of my own personal experiences you will begin to understand why I have become a sceptic of all gift wrapped packages.  From an early age I was confronted with the tragedy of witnessing my dad’s decline which lasted for over ten years.  He had Parkinson’s Disease along with some other health conditions.  However it was the Parkinson’s that caused our family the most concerns as it affected every aspects of the family welfare.  I can recall the tremors that turn into the shakes at the beginning, until his total loss of mobility and everything else that is eventually destroyed as a result of the deterioration in his health.  As a teenager I began to question my faith, asking why my dad who had lived and served God had to suffer so much.

The onus was left on my poor mum to take on the reigns of responsibilities that was once my dad’s as well as her own job as a mother. In the end my mum was faced with caring for my dad and her mum who died within a month of each other.  (I discovered from my counselling that my Mother may have suffered from Mental Health Conditions from she was a Young Lady, owing to a nymber of factors around her own poverty and caring for her own family. Her Father died of Stomach Cancer shortly after the death of her other daughter from Epilepsy or Fits.  Mama had two children born within a short space of each other during the time she was caring for her Cancer Striken Father and the Death of her Daughter. But one of her children was not thriving. However she got help from her Best Friend, who took the child home and did not return him until her was better).

My granny eventually succumbed to one of her many strokes. (Diabetes is in my DNA from both sides of the family and I have a diagnosis since March 2012. I am working with a number of organisations including http://www.diabetes.or.uk, http://www.cruk.org, http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk, http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/research and http://www.iopkcl.ac.uk). Imagine my own devastations when I realised my dad’s condition was hereditary, and from an early age I began to get some of the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.  To cut a long story short, I immediately have to alter my life, and I know I was prevented from achieving my full potential because of my DNA over which I had no say.  Therefore with time I learnt to adapt to my condition and refused to become a VICTIM, and have always been aware of my Limitations.

However I recognised I had problems with my family situations and was only able to give it a name DEPRESSION after coming to the UK. I decided to take up studies to improve my prospects of securing gainful employment to make a better life for myself.  I always joked about the fact that I managed to pick up all the defects from the both sides of my FAMILY. (I have a diagnosis of Chronic Anxiety in 2006. I needed to have evidence of my disabilities to do the Health and Social Care examination at the http://www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies. The course was sponsored by the union UNISON, but they let me down when I needed support. Now http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk, is playing the same dirty tricks. But this time I did not resign and two years after I have not worked, they are still taking fees. Now they trying to trick me to give up my Membership after colluding with LEYF to discriminate against me).

Now I have seen in today’s edition about the role expected of workplaces in supporting their employees who have experienced Mental Health.  However my arguments are totally against sharing your predicaments with your employers as this can be used to one’s detriment and place a Label of Deficit Model that is used to discredit a person when one is at their most VULNERABLE.  At this point am talking from personal experiences when I Self Referred because I was concerned about matters affecting my work, and for which I needed some answers.  This was used against me, and in the long run when I needed the support of my GP because I had told him about my Parkinson’s Disease, I was given a kick in the teeth.

(I have since done my research and come up with the fat that I was right all along. I do have “Atypical Parkinsonism”, and it is documented that it is hard to diagnose and hard to treat. Therefore I can exonerate myself and clear my name as I told Dr Maria Hudson who made recommendations to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers).

This caused so much havoc in my life that at one difficult period, I thought I would have been swept overboard by the tide of upheavals and emotional baggage I was left to deal with.  My unfair treatment further exacerbated my DEPRESSION that I found it hard coping with life.  Even thou I had swallowed my better medicine and moved on I am reminded daily of these unpleasant events in my life because they keep reoccurring at work.  I have been placed on a system where I am been Networked against, so I cannot break the mould and move on.  To make matters worse am now been penalised in my job for doing the work am paid for. They are trying to get information about people so that they can use it against them.

I can recall when I first came to the UK a friend told me that in the UK never tell others the TRUTH. As they can’t deal with truths only lies, and am beginning to see the reality only after too late to my detriments.  My life has been turned upside down because of who I am, as well as my knowledge, values and beliefs. I feel trapped without seeing a way out of my dilemma (refer to the ET judgement Myers v LEYF 2016). Although I will continue following your campaign I can’t help but say I will continue to hold my opinions and keep them to myself, find solutions for my DEPRESSION without getting my employers involved.  Anything you say can come back to haunt you at a later date when you least expect it.

Even thou I have no one to share my concerns with I would prefer die than involve people at work.  This is because when concerns are raised they are shoved under the carpets by inexperienced Managers who lack knowledge, values and beliefs to deal with those concerns. (Refer to the three Reviews by a parent and two former employees of http://www.leyf.org.uk). Fore and foremost US older employees are treated with disrespects whilst facing all kinds of DISCRIMINATIONS over which we cannot do anything for fear of been LABELLED.  Since I do not have a voice and have no one to talk to I will be brave and stop myself from becoming a VICTIM by finding my own remedies.  The one good thing about this is I am a very resilient person and refused to give up without a fight. I won’t make the same mistakes again by challenging Social Injustices and Inequalities.  Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but…

Thanks for being my sounding board as this means so much to me especially when am at a low ebb in my life trying to stay in the UK coping with the decline in my mum’s health.

My contributions to breaking down barriers can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers. LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com. JBSF at http://www.jbsf.org.uk. Twitter at https://twitter.com/rattynem. NWM at http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk. SLP at http://www.icsouthlondon.co.uk. HCT at http://www.hctgroup.org.