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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.

 

In Loving Memories of Strong Women!

Ms Nicey 4th October 2015 – Updated 4.10.2017

It is with a sense of sadness and foreboding heartfelt loss that I once more sit down to write another touching tributes to one of my fellow Townhead and Westmoreland born and bred ladies of substance who departed this life for some quality time of rest. I know I will never be able to find enough words to express my loss to the wonderful person who was Ms Nicey. I am hoping at this time my little tribute will bring some amount of comfort to Ms Nicey’s family as I try my best to do justice to her memory in the only way I know how. I am ever conscious of my little breda Christopher Baugh at this poignant time. I am also thinking of Alganon aka Leeford James, Vernie and young Spoon Boot, Smalling because I honestly can’t recall his name and he is family to my niece Careen Nembhard-Sinanan from Ms Maisie Smalling-Campbell tribe. So right there I covered my family connections in a nutshell.

That’s why I have to first reflect on my own circumstances and say that I am only still here with you “but for the grace of God” to be able to let my voice be heard once again. So let me give praises and salutations to “Mama Lou’s Wash Belly my little breda Ervin and his family/wife Denese” who talked and helped through another difficult patch last week. Without their support to overcome that difficult moment on Sunday when I was having a meltdown… I’d not still be here to write another tribute to my fellow human being. I can let others have a little insight into my own predicaments over the past year since my own Mother died to date. So please I am beseeching everyone “not to be too quick to judge another person” without first taking some times out of your busy schedules to know what is happening in their life.

Despite my predicaments during the week, after making the decision to resign from http://www.lefy.org.uk, to save mine and my husband’s life. I was trying my best to carry on with life as normal as possible. When my daughter-in-law called on Saturday, I was getting ready to go out to a “charity fundraising do”. I reassured her I was ok, and yes I convinced myself I was, but I am good at covering up and hiding from the world. I met a young man and a lady in a wheel chair on the bus who were going to the same function and we got lost and eventually found our way there. I chose to sit with them and enjoy what was on offer. However by Sunday I just could not control the jitters and my body was shaking like a leaf that got struck by a hurricane. My heart was racing and my mouth was drying out, signs and symptoms of my disabilities. I was trying to hide everything from TOM so as not worry him unduly. Because, already matters were taking a toll on his health and our personal life as a couple.

Realising I would not be able to deal with my “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” by myself and the other available avenues would not be of much help. I had to become resourceful, relying on my own resilience and coping mechanisms of survival and call my family. I would like to extend a warm heartfelt gratitude and thanks to those of you (and you already know yourselves) who continue to be concerned enough and have been keeping in touch. I value your support and kind words of encouragements. I know I am like the “pompous old idiot” who have to question why me Lord, but I guess I am not as perfect as my father was in his undying faith in God. I know there are prayers going up all around the world for me and I am ever so grateful. It seems however that God is taking longer on my case and I just can’t fathom out why! I am sure GOD was waiting to introduce me to Barrister Ryan Clement at http://www.ryanclement.com/, to help me in fighting my battles (2017).

Throughout the week I tried to get on with my life as best I could after finally unlocking the noose that was around my neck, choking the life out of me drip-drip-drab. Then I loosen the chains that bound my ankles and made me a “victim of Modern Slavery” once again. Because there are some who are intent on making me a Criminal to return to Jamaica to be imprisoned in the prison promised as part of the package to the government http://www.gov.uk/Number10. That’s why my credibility, good name and character has been blackened and tarnished over the past year. Refer to https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016 to see how I know I am gifted from GOD – 2017. No matter what I do I can’t see a “light at the end of the tunnel”, so I eventually have to accept defeat. However I am just recouping and coming back, because it would be a morbid “SIN if I give up without a fight”. Although I believe in moving on, justice must be seen to be done for everyone. For the likes of those who have been wrongly judged and persecuted to appease the inflated egos of some. Refer to Dr Maria Hudson 2012 Research Paper recommendations for http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers (2017).

Once I pressed that “send button” I became ‘free at last free at last’ in the words of one of the great Black Leaders Martin Luther King. As Psyclops in the tale of the long running saga Dulcimena did say “man born fi drown caan heng”. Suicide will never come into my scheme of thinkings or become an options despite the provocations that I’ve been under this past year. Because I am still much of a Christian who believes that there is no “repentance in the grave” for sinners like me. In retrospects, little did I know that I would become part of statistics because of LEYF and cohorts. For despite appearing in http://www.hctgroup.org Impact Report 2016, of 1 in 5 suicides associated with uneemployment. I was not accepted to do the Mentoring trainings to get back into employment (2017). As my breda rightly reprimands me that “I should not question God” ever. But God I am afraid I’ve still got lots more questions to be answered until I get some closures. Why have the lightning bolts struck me two (2) times in a row over a seven (7) year period and why can’t there be any justice for me? Is this how life is meant to be for the vulnerable and those who just want to make a contribution to bring about change and make a difference.

Now I get that off my chest as this is one of my strategies dealing with my “Chronic Anxiety” so instead of cussing bad wuds, I’ll channel my energies into writing. So back to the primary reasons I am hearing about her death, and writing a tribute to MS NICEY WOLLERY. I’ll have to stop to find out more details to include later. Just something to get my talents and creativity that they are trying to deny me to get my teeth into so I don’t have to focus on my woes, trials and tribulations. I’ll try and tell the story of an exceptional human being who was MS NICEY, in the best way I can in the state of mind that I am at present, having a Nervous Breakdown which caused the resignation (2017). I have known Ms Nicey all my life and considered her family even though we had no blood ties.

The thing that struck me most now about Ms Nicey was that she had her share of adversities to deal with at every stages of her life’s journey. I know about some of her life’s journeys because we had lots in common and we spend quality time chatting woman to woman about life’s knock down, pick me up, etc.… Yet I have no knowledge of her ever faltering, giving up or questioning her fate like I am prone to doing. I was away from home on Friday 2nd October 2015, as l travelled to Milton Keynes http://www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies for AOUG Foundation for Education Research Awards and The AOUG Foundation Lecture at Walton Hall. I was privileged to be in the company of some inspirational and motivating individuals. I listened to the lecture and a flashbulb went off in my head. So now I am presented with some tools to continue more research, about Neuroscience and the Brain that may shed some lights on my situation.

I got home knackered, went to bed, got up next morning and listened to the message from “my best friend – Mertie Legister-Bernard” who is my source of information. Maybe I tried to block it out of my mind pretending I didn’t hear the name properly. Got in after doing my chores, duties and volunteering, sat down and listened again to the messages and it was clear Ms Nicey is dead. I guess I am placing myself in a world of make belief, telling myself that there has got to be another Ms Nicey and not my Ms Nicey. I racked my brain trying to come up with the other Ms Nicey I knew, but they had all gone on before, so no doubt. If my circumstances were different I’d have picked up the telephone to find out what was going on in Jamaica that I should know about, or be on Social Media. But I had to stay put and wait for the news to reach me somehow.

I was thinking she have a bedridden mother and a disabled son to care for. This is just to show how out of touch I’ve become because of the horrendous issues that have taken over my life more than a year ago. I didn’t even realised Ms Nicey’s mother Ms Lou had died this year. As it is “circumstances alter cases” and I am waiting in suspense for someone to get back to me. Now I’ll go delve way back in my childhood memories to see if I can do some amount of justice to the indomitable spirit of the “Lady Who Was Ms NICEY” and hope others will add their memories to my salutations. I have been jotting little titbits down for my book I tell myself I am writing hopefully before my time here is expired!

I have some memories of Ms Nicey going back to the times when my family lived on the Ackbersingh property stretching all the way from Townhead Cross Road/Square to Ground Road. The property also stretch in the other direction going towards my Primary School Townhead. That tells you about the influences of the Ackbersingh family in Townhead and beyond in Westmoreland. I was born on the property where my family lived on rented/leased premises just for house spots like lots of other families who could not afford to buy their own land. The road passing my home lead to Ground Road, into Bull Head territory and short cut for those coming from Hanover to Frome Market with their donkey loads of produce to sell on the way to the market.

For some reasons I’ve still got this memory in my head of where Nicey’s mother Ms Lou used to live. I could stay at my house and see their yard across the road. Sometimes a truck would bring “Ms Nicey’s stepfather Mass Witney home” and could never work out why. I have this picture in my head of Mass Witney as a “tall, strapping, red skinned man” been taken home in the truck. Mass Witney was Mikey’s dad and that’s all my memory served me up from back when I was 4+ years old. Fast forward to years later when I am living in GaGa Street, but I still have the connections with Ms Nicey’s family. Because Granty Papa aka Henry Salabie practically was like a breda to me and all but lived at our home. He was sent by his mum Ms Ethlyn who is the auntie of Ms Nicey to stay at our house because as Granty told me his mum liked the way my parents and in particularly dad was bringing up the family when we lived at Townhead.

He moved with us to GaGa Street as everyone looked out for the welfare of each other comes what may. All of Townhead and the surrounding communities are one big happy family and most people are related by blood. For those who are not related by blood there are other ties that bind us irrevocable. Ms Nicey had her children Alganon aka Leeford James, Kingsley aka Magma, Vernie, Christopher Baugh, Spoon Boot Smalling JNR. As time went by each and every one of us grew up and went our separate ways, but there are some bonds that cannot be broken. Ms Nicey was amongst the families who moved to the “Truro Project” from Townhead and became owners of their own little piece of property through the distributions of land to the poor who would not otherwise be in a position to buy their own.

Life went on as usual and I travelled to the UK where I called home since June 1992 – 25 years now if anyone is counting. Even I, a “mathematics dunce can work this out” without “beating my chest and counting my fingers and toes” in this day and age. Each time I visited Jamaica, I made it a point of my duty to carry out “my pilgrimage” going the extra miles to visit family and friends near and far. My pilgrimages are marks of respects to my parents, my father in particular because of the upbringing I was brought up and raised with. My father was the one who taught me taking us to visit his ancestral home where he was born on annual pilgrimage. We went to Aberdeen St Elizabeth to pay homage to the NEMBHARD family. Learning about some of the cultures that were inclusive to the St Elizabeth side of my heritage.

My breda ASHTER took up where dad left off, tracking down the family. Then I carried on where Ashter left of and I’d have to plan my visits home to Jamaica with precision. When it comes to Truro which I must confess was one of my “stumping grounds” I’d have to start at a certain point and work my way across the perimeters of the space that is Truro Pen. From Kaka Swamp, to Pallabottom, to Back Street, Truro is a melting pot of cultural diversity that is a tapestry in itself and history. I would have to do my visits in stages and start again another day laying down markers. My elder breda lives at 1st Street in Truro so that tells you all you need to know about my links with Truro.

I have spent precious time at Ms Nicey’s home on each of my visits chatting to her and getting her insights on life in general. I have had dialogues with Ms Nicey long before her mother, Ms Lou came back from the USA to live with her. Ms Nicey was this “fiercely independent woman” that is characteristics of the majority of Jamaican women who faced adversity throughout our lives. She was blessed with a “wicked sense of humour coupled with such dry wits” that I never identified on anyone else. She was “deadpan serious” and delivered her stories without batting an eyelid, about life. She was always relating everything about her challenges, struggles and how she managed to overcome the obstacles that were placed in her way. If you needed any advice about any subject from affairs of the hearts to how to rise up and get yourself out of the circumstances that you were born in.

Ms Nicey was a true “Agony Aunt” of substance because she had been there, worn the t-shirt, read the scripts and no doubt acted in a few of the scenes that would change the outcomes of her life. Anyone who was a lifelong cousin of my breda Granty Papa aka Henry Salabie, friend to my elder breda Balis and his wife Ms Doreen is sure to have answers to the scores about life’s many journeys. Ms Nicey had her ups and down throughout her life like any other person, but nothing ever kept her down for long. Whatever the challenges she rose above them. I recalled one year sitting at her home and listening to her talking about caring for her mother who was bedridden. Coping with her son who was brutally beaten up and now disabled and her own health conditions. But she was still so full of her “plucky self and believed God would give her the strength” to carry on despite the challenges.

There was another time when Ms Bebe aka Cynthia Walters went to look for (Ms Icilma that was the last I saw her as she was coping with her cancer diagnosis and undergoing treatments). Ms Icilma walked with us through a shortcut to take us to Ms Nicey’s home. As usual the “risqué jokes” were very much evident, because when one is in Ms Nicey’s company, one can expect the unexpected. Ms Nicey was not one to make apologies for being the kind of person who she was and takes no prisoners in any aspects of her life of course. What one see with Ms Nicey is what one gets and like a lot of us, Jamaicans who have had our hard knocks in life we are critical of ourselves. But at the same time use humour to help us get on with the challenges of life.

We will not pretend to be someone who we are not and won’t think twice of making a “mockery of ourselves” if it help us feel better about who we are supposed to be. Life has not always being kind to Ms Nicey, but I don’t think she ever once stopped to question God like I have been doing since my childhood, and just got on with her life. She just accepted her fate and to this day I just can’t understand how women like Ms Nicey and my own mother, Mama Lou managed to do it. For many years she looked after her bedridden mother, Ms Lou. One of her son “Spoon Boot aka Smalling was beaten up and left for dead, resulting in him becoming disabled and totally reliant on his mother. So Ms Nicey ended up caring for her mother and son. Then shock horrors of horror another son Kingsley James aka Magma was brutally murdered at his business place out by Toll Gate.

I just don’t know how Ms Nicey coped and managed all the trials and tribulations that beset her, but somehow she did! She got on with the job of caring that she considered her duties as a daughter and mother. And she dealt with the grief of loss in the same way I supposed! Somehow God seemed to have made the likes of the Ms Nicey with the calibre and capacity to take whatever life throws at them! The last time I had a serious chat with Ms Nicey was when my sister Ms Doreen and I visited in January 2014. We talked about similarities between our mothers who were both named LOU. By this time my mother had no memory of me, her only daughter. As per usual Ms Nicey was her “jolly self” and talking about her status as a matured person in her “3 score years and 10” and proud as punch about her achievements despite adversities.

As usual I got my photos before leaving. The next time I chatted with her was the day of my mother’s funeral at the Truro Cemetery. I spotted her sat on Pansy Holland’s veranda so stopped to chat to both of them. We had our usual laughs about life in general. Pansy who is a former colleagues, as we were Basic School Teachers working in Early Childhood Education gave me informed tips. These tips was about helping my #1son Kevin Murray in his campaign as he dipped his toes in the political arena. I never had time to go back and see any one not even Ms Nicey, as that’s how it is on a short two (2) weeks visit to bury one’s mother. However I did get to have a chat with Granty who filled in some of the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzles of our life that Ms Nicey was so much a big part of.

As you might have guessed from what you have read so far there was such close links that existed with Ms Nicey’s family and mine, it was truly amazing. That’s why I am begging and entreating every one of you out there to spare some time to discover your history before it’s too late and you are left with regrets and “more questions of if mi did know” when it is too late. Although I can’t say this time that our family are blood relatives. However one don’t have to be related by blood for there to be a strong link that bind us together. Where I come from Townhead district, Westmoreland, Jamaica especially in the time when I was growing up. The saying “it takes a village to raise a child” resonated in all sections of a society. The society that was empathetic and humane, and aware of the diverse and complex needs of others regardless of their circumstances or statuses in life.

Because my family was as “poor as a Church Mouse” but that didn’t stop us from having “visions and dreams of breaking the cycle of poverty that enslaved” us to a life of doing without the basic things of life. As children we could go to any of the neighbours if we are hungry and be fed. When my father and grandmother were sick, everyone rallied round to help our family. In her later years mama was the “village informal career – nurse” who left her own home to spend time in the homes of those who needed her tender loving care in their times of greatest needs. Mama was not educated nor possessed the intellectual knowledge and skills that would qualify her to pass exams to be a nurse. But what she lacked intellectually she made up with “common sense” which is not readily accredited to some snobs who installed themselves on their “high horses” of superiority (refer to the ET Judges – 2017).

Mama had that empathy and humanity in abundance, the same like Ms Nicey to cope with adversities no matter the circumstances. And I am sure both were empowered by the God who I like to question in the face of my trials and tribulations. In the end when Mama’s time came, the community rallied round to give back what she gave. Ms Nicey on the other hand was spared that part of the journey experienced by my mother. But I am proud to say I am happy to learn that my mama’s cousin Joyce Saunders-Brown was at Ms Nicey’s call taking her to hospital in her hour of needs. More reasons to value the ties that bind us as a family. So once more I can write about experiences from the cradle to the grave in abundant details. I will therefore refused from subscribing to those who are “hell-bent on demonising me for what I stand for” in order to suit their bloated inflated egos.

As I ponder over Ms Nicey’s legacy, I am more than proud to say I can put her on the same pedestal close to my mother. Because like my mother and many women and men of her ilk whom I have had the privileged to say have touched my life in some ways or another, Ms Nicey deserved to be considered a Saint. Ms Nicey gave of her best in the most unfaltering ways, caring for her loved ones and coping with loss. But God blessed her to give of her best services in times when she was needed. I do not know why God decided to call her home to rest from her toils and labours and I am not going to question God on this one surely! Others will have to pick up the pieces because Ms Nicey carried the baton for such a long period. Her family might be wondering why she had to go without even a final goodbye!

Rest assured that even Mervelee Myers, the sceptic will have to come to the agreement that God has chosen Ms Nicey for His own special purpose at this time. We all have to take a leaf out of Ms Nicey’s book of life and learn to give of our best without complaining and questioning God. We were all made for a purpose in God’s eyes and Ms Nicey completed her purposes on earth. God must have other jobs for her to do and I am positive she has linked up with Kingsley her precious son who was so brutally taken away and are already making plans for her family and friends. If I can achieve even half of what Mr Nicey accomplished in her 70+ years on this earth, I will be proud to say she was an example, a role model and a mentor to me in so many ways.

RIP dearest Ms Nicey and God will do the rest of your work. As I reach out to all the family and friends of Ms Nicey, I have my little breda Christopher Baugh in my thoughts more than ever. Rest assured that your mother Ms Nicey would understand and give all of you her children, but you in particular her blessings. I have spent long moments with her chatting about all there is to know about life and she was yet another of those women I considered to be one of the sisters I was never blessed with from mama and papa. My thoughts are with you all at this sad time.

Song: Some bright morning when my life is ended I’ll fly away home to glory… We are only lent here for a short time and once our work is over then we have to go on to the next steps of the journey. Ms Nicey, your  name will live on forever in our memories!

Today I am reflecting on my life, because I was thinking the battle with LEYF would have been over. Instead I am still here fighting to clear my name and exonerate myself from discrimination. Women like my Mother and Ms Nicey would not allow anyone to take liberties with them and I am ensuring I take my Fight4justice to the next levels to edduate people and breaking down barriers.

Credible Witness at Prestigious HOC!

Nursery World Awards 2017 – Nursery Manager of the Year1
23 September 2017 by Nursery World http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk. 
 
Anjali Deb-Mukherjee, LEYF Nurseries House of Commons Nursery – joint winner
In the words of Anjali Deb-Mukherjee’s colleague, ‘Many managers are good, but few are great. Anjali is a great manager.’
This was never more clear than in March this year, when a terrorist attack in the vicinity of the Palace of Westminster caused the LEYF nursery, situated in the House of Commons itself, to be put in lockdown.
Mervelee Myers Comments: March 2017 when I had to endure the adjournment of the ET Case because of the unprofessional conduct of the Respondent’s Legal Team of Mr John Fenton http://www.personnelconsultancy.com and Trainee Barrister Samantha Jones. On the 4th March when I attended th Nursery World Show 2017, I was stalked by 2 Young White Men. Without prejudice under the persuant of the editor of the Nursery World Magazine for her unreasonable behaviour towards me on LinkedIn  https://www.linked.com. It might be interesting to know that after I was sent to Prestigious HOC on the 17th March 2015, after concerns were raised about my health, nothing was done. Until the 27th March when Senior HR Dilys Epton tried tricking me to go rest from my ordeals with pay. Only for the HOC Manager to escort me out saying I did not have a PASS and Security was High.  The next day there was an invitation to a Disciplinary with my address suddenly changed to suit LEYF agenda.
With parents unable to collect their children, staff unable to leave at the end of the day, and children in danger of becoming very distressed, Anjali kept her team focused, and persuaded the children that they were part of an adventure with the excitement of a possible sleepover. They were given their dinner and put to bed with a story, so when their parents were finally able to pick them up at 10pm all the children were fed, watered and asleep.
Mervelee Myers Comments: How very good that someone must have done some training at LEYF about the Equality Act 2010, Data Protection Act 1989, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, Britsih Values 2014, Security & Counter Terrorism Act 2015 and Modern Slavery Act 2015 amongst other Rules of Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Because now the UK Government http://www.gov.uk/Number10 have a responsibility to all its citizen for them not to be discriminated against. The UNRCR “Articel 14 states that it is a basic entitlement of humans to enjoy their rights and freedoms without discrimination on any grounds”.
Throughout the experience Anjali kept in contact with parents to keep them updated and reassure them their children were safe. The next day Anjali and her team were at the nursery at 8am determined to carry on as usual, in what one parent called ‘an incredible show of teamwork and resolve’.
June O’Sullivan, chief executive of LEYF, called Anjali’s response ‘a proud moment for the organisation’.
Mervelee Myers Comments: Just wondering what they are saying now that Neil King, Rashid Iqbal and Hilda Miller have resigned. Did they try everything possible to hang on to their jobs like I did because of the blacklisting and networking, like I had to endure the discrimination which resulted in the triggering of my childhood traumas into PTSD. I told Dilys Epton about my past and that work keep me going. So how many of those who resigned were pushed or did they jump? Please refer to Jyoti Sharma, Deputy Manager at BIB aka Jyoti Bhardwaj, Review with 2 others on LEYF website.     
Anjali has been managing for more than 20 years. She managed a local community nursery and then two social enterprise nurseries, including leading the first Outstanding nursery in Westminster and then opening the first House of Commons nursery.
Mervelee Myers Comments: I applied for HOC, but was not considered good enough. But as soon as they found themselves in problems, with high staff turnover. Due to the fact that staff have to be Security Cleared that’s when they were applying the contingent clause in the contract that is akin to Modern SLAVERY for me to go there in 2014, whilst I was worried about my MOTHER after I got back from Jamaica. So yes BIGOTS from https://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment/claims/responding, think they would not be found out. When they copied the Respondent Judgement after 5 months of confusions and posted it online. Now who is the Credible Witness? 
Her relationships with parents, who in the House of Commons setting in particular can come from all levels of society, are highly respectful and considerate, and she consistently displays her willingness to go the extra mile to ensure their needs are met in what can be a complex environment.
Anjali has been consistently praised for her confident and kind management style. Staff say she inspires them to work together as well as towards their own personal goals by encouraging and supporting each team member to look at ways to continuously develop practice, and by celebrating and showing gratitude for achievements. One team member said, ‘It is Anjali’s steadfast confidence in her team that motivates us all to always strive to be the best we can be.’
Anjali also has a reputation in the organisation for having established a ‘crèche for staff’, as her nurturing approach to professional development sees a large proportion of her team progress to senior positions in the organisation. Currently, four LEYF nursery managers are described as ‘ex-Anjali’.
Mervelee Myers Comments: The only one I know is Sharon Dhand, at Playhouse Nursery. But if her Statement in the Bundle of the 17th March 2015, is anything to go by. I am asking GOD to guide and protect every employee who have to work with her. Because she is lethal and if she makes up a story, you can end up fighting for your life. I am currently trying to clear my name and exonerate myself from the crap that the ET 3 Judges posted online about me. I have not worked since I resigned from LEYF on the 27th September 2015. I have a 6 line Reference after 6 years of working and a Long Service Awards given in October 2014 when LEYF was Nursery Chain of the Year. But if you read my stories on https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers and http://www.google.com, you will find out what LEYF is all about.  
The House of Commons nursery has no garden, so Anjali takes children to St James’s Park every day, no matter what the weather or circumstances.
Mervelee Myers Comments: From the time I was at HOC on the 17th-27th March 2015, I did not see her take any children to St James’ Park. Maybe whoever writes this, should have a rethink about how it can be miscontrued. I think it would resonate better with the reader if it reads that the staff at HOC take the children to the Park. This just reminds me of how Mr John Fenton tried confusing me from the first time he contacted me, and we meet at the ET on the 15th March 2016. Then it was the turn of Trainee Barrister Samantha Jones who confused the 3 Et Judges. And last but not least http://www.bwbllp.com. Obviously Bates Wells and Braithwaite think I was going to be intimidated by their threats after an absence of 2 years, when the confused judges posted the judgement online.
She also has a creative approach to play-led education. Natural resources and a sense of environmental responsibility have been a feature of the nursery for many years, since Anjali first introduced take-home bags of brown paper and Sellotape for fun time in the kitchen.
She also helps children succeed developmentally and educationally. One example is a child who was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, who through continued support left the nursery at the age of two able to walk and communicate thanks to regular physiotherapy and Makaton sign-language sessions.
Mervelee Myers Comments: My contributions to LEYF and all the other workplaces is a testiment to my work as an advocate of inclusion. I worked as the SENCO, EYFS Coordinator and was responsible for delivery of the CEO-MBE Multigenerational Working Approaches. Refer to acc-gen@open.ac.uk PI: W3323643, http://www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies. http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents. http://www.mqmentalhealth.org/Mental-Health/Mental-Illness. http://www.hctgroup.org.  
 
Mervelee Myers Comments: All I am going to say about this in addition is that like what was posted online at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016, this is not the person I know during the 17th-27th March 2015. I will make sure the stories of how I was illtreated, less than an animal at BIB, HOC and New Cross are shared with the world. The HOC manager can explain to the world why she escorted me out of HOC on the 27th March 2015, stating I did not have a PASS and Security was on High Alert.
For all that LEYF Nurseries claim the 7 Witnesses know about me, I could have gone to HOC and done worse than what occured when Manager #AnjaliDeb_Mukherjee had to put her knowledge about the Contract that was not updated since #MERVELEEMYERS signed on the 7th October 2009, into putting LEYF into disrepute. Therefore LEYF have breached the Contract that they have with the UK Government. Because when Hilda Miller sent me to HOC, without the knowledge of Isabella Glen who was doing the investigations, they have concerns about my Mental Health becuase of allegations that were started by Benedicte Siewe at Remi’s wedding on the 4th January 2015. The evidence is in the Complainant and Respondent Bundles.
The ET Case Hearing lasted from the 28th February to 3rd March 2017 after it was adjourned because of the unprofessional conduct of Mr John Fenton and Ms Samantha Jones. Let the Powers that Be explain their actions.     

Driven to the Brink?

Wo/Man a Plan & God a Wipe Out! 15. 9.2015 Edited 15.09.2017
No one could wipe the biggest grin off my face today after the horrors I’d experienced the past weeks into month into years at the hands of http://www.leyf.org.uk and the establishments and systems in the Mother Country. This started from the time I returned from burying my MOTHER, who died aged 90+ years after suffering with dementia. I was praising God, Jah-Rasta-Far-I, and all the other Deity that is worshipped out in the world. I was motivated after reading Carole Ann Rice http://WWW.REALCOACHINGCO.COM article in the Daily Express http://www.express.org.uk. To fight the negativity called FEAR that Enslave us if we are not strong and live up to our convictions not to be Cowered by those who are Moral Cowards. On Sunday Tom and I had one almighty row and the biggest bust up since we met 14+ years ago. I was mad as hell when he let his fear of what LEYF and others were trying to do to me get the better of him. And he who was so steadfast in the face of adversity, lost his better judgements.

The poor man was so concerned and overcome with fear of what they could do to me that he told me I should take my CRB/DBS http://www.disclosure.gov.uk in to work for them to copy. My poor Tom didn’t know what hit him when I got Dutty and kick off as I let rip left, right and centre. Sorry it had to take supn like this for him to know exactly who I am and he will not dare cross me again as long as we both shall live. But it hurts like hell to know these evil wretches/brutes can be doing this to my Family and I. By the time I got up about 5 o’clockish on Monday morning and ready to leave home, I’d gone to the toilet 4 times. My Stress Incontinence was back full flow that even Tom is concerned. He’d not spoken to me since I blew my top on Sunday f-ing and blinding like a True Jamaican Bad Wud Cussa until my angers subside. I packed spare clothes, tell Tom not to worry, because if they think I am not turning up they made a sad mistake.

I would like the https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-lodon-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016 tell what about this they do not understand and how could I demonstrate to them I have disabilities otherwise? I was excusing myself to go to the loo, so obviously they think I was faking like the Barrister who pulled a SICKIE when she did not prepare the case. And it was not strike out as they told her it would. Because I was representing myself and they think they were dealing wid a big head bud.  I told Tom if I piss and shit up myself I’ll clean-up and carry-on back on the floor. On the bus I am keeping my legs crossed and the #21 terminates at Newcross Bus Garage. I waited and the next #21 terminates and I am thinking with my legs crossed, blinking hell, I am going to lose my DIGNITY and piss pon mi foot.

But as God would have it #136 came, I boarded and got in just in time. I recalled my School Days when children would be called Piss Up & Shit Up and I have a story that is too close for comfort when I am feeling vulnerable, that I’d rather forget. I felt so ashamed each time I remember I was travelling on the underground and couldn’t keep it any longer and just had to let go. Throughout the day I was dragged from pillar to post by the Missis Give Hard-ASSES. (Let LEYF and the ET 3 Judges explain why they take it upon themselves if they did not discriminate against me? I only described my experiences and the persons involved). Ratty Nembhard doan give a Rat’s Arse because these days E. Mervelee I. Myers- Tomlinson is an Empty Vessel waiting to be filled.
These days I won’t let anyone know what I am thinking and just keep calm and carry on as they say.

But I am/was seething inside Kicking Against the Prick as I take the Piss in my Head (Passive Aggressive Behaviours) of the stupid Intellectual Imbeciles. Some of the Crab Lose-ASSES did not get where they are at by fair means. Dis Yardie Yard Gal just got on wid di Wuck as l haffi earn mi kep eina Backra/Miss-Use Big Yard. Wi nuh tan like dem wey lib pon thin air, cigarettes and cups of tea. Suffice it to say I lasted out the day wid the cussed facetyness dat mi haffi put up wid. I kept one step ahead of the wretches, kinning teeth and sucking up to dem whilst tekking di Piss out a di Idiots dem. But I could see others wilting under the pressures and felt sorry for them (Deputy Louise, Selina, Baby Room Staff).

My Gran used fi say “Mi kotch up pon Eye Lash and if dem blink mi drop off”. Well mi intend fi Kotch up pon dem Rass claat Eye Lash until supn else come mi way and if dat nuh materialise dem haffi guh put up wid mi. Or else white squall might haffi tek dem bloody eye mek dem can see mi when dem a galang wid dem antics. If mi did hab Powers dem eyes would look like fi Ms Maud T. Cross my heart and hoping nutn sinister happen to my Loved Ones and those who wish me well. Because in 2008 when the same Evil Cowards put on the pressures (www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents, http://www.acas.org.uk/reseachpapers, sen@southwark.gov.uk), I couldn’t handle it and had to run like a Bullet from the Starters Gun. But everything happen in our lives to teach us supn, so I am more than ready for these Lot’s Wives and Judas Iscariots.

Got in and my TOM was supportive and I recognise that he is only acting because he is concerned and very much affected by what they are doing to me. I took out my Paperwork, showed and explained to him because he never used to pay attention to what I was saying. There is no way they are entitled to copy my Papers – DBS and they’d be breaking the Rules of Law and http://www.ofsted.gov.uk Regulations as well as the http://www.gov.uk/government/publications. Therefore I do not know where the ET 3 Judges get their Judgement from? So since I don’t exist after 6+ years they can go find my FILE where they take it to their High Paying Solicitors http://www..bwbllp.com and http://www.personnelconsultancy.com to plant the Dirt on me.

Because I keep copies of everything and I know who had nervous breakdowns, in 2 workplaces in the UK and have to represent myself at the ET to try get justice. I know had to run for my life and know of others who have to run for their lives, and trapped at LEYF with no where else to run. Because Marion Breslin resigned and have to end up going back. I was daubed with Shit to Destroy me with the Disciplinary and they have done to others what they are doing to me. Madam (CEO-MBE) got rid of all who are Strong, Knowledgeable and surround herself with the Numbskulls who don’t know Shit different from Clay. If someone committed an Act, why are they still around…? There was the Who-Haw about Men-In-Childcare but where are they now…? Most of those men have either been demoted, left before they could be implicated like the Apprentice B, still with LEYF trying to find a way out or resigned in disgrace like Neil King and Rashid Iqbal.

Today reinforces my belief in the true and living God who is my creator, master and Lord because God turn the enemies amongst themselves to tear each other apart. (Hilda Miller the reason I wrote this article has since resigned, in the hope that she won’t get tarred with the same brush. But I am sorry, I give each and every single one of them the time to reflect and make amends. It’s even worse because of the 3 ET Judges, who I expected to know better). God is showing them signs and wonders to repent of their evil ways and leave the innocent to prosper. Whilst they are busy plotting everything is ravelling around them and they can’t see. Suffice it to say what is hidden from the wise and foolish is revealed to the babes and sucklings. I was pushed from pillar to post as they are left chasing their tails and in exasperations giving me dutty looks. But if only they know how much the feelings are mutual. I love them like when Fire tek Dry Bush a big common and fire a guh bun dem and dem hell a guh hot.

Despite my own waywardness God is always putting me in the mix to see when they taking their foot tie up dem hands all the times. So the Stupid Idiot Hog Muddler and the Cowardly Lie-Inn Smelly Nelly Killer heading out. By the time the LK turn her eyes and see me… Gosh she practically ran out leaving the door opened behind her…. The one who threw the Baby out with the bathwater was ahead. Flabby Beach whale EMR the one I like to call Madam Give Ord-ASS had to call back Madam Coward to close the door. Oh all hell bruk loose cause I was chuckling like nobaddy’s business from the bottom of my belly. Madam Flabby claimed her Big Boss told her to remove her bikini clad Pork-a-Way self from off Professional Site https://www.linkedin.com before she could accept her Friendship Request. And she had to remove her Old Work Place as well, she told me that before she was sanctioned to discriminate against me. Her brother-in-law is JAMAICAN, she told me as well.

Oh la-la this is the same Coward who claimed she had concerns about Mrs Mervelee Myers. They all colluded to break my spirts, destroy my character and blacken my good name after I transferred to BIB on the first day the 23rd July 2014 after I returned from burying my Mother. Because they view me as threats and I was eating a ripe banana, but I did not know at the time that the discrimination started the first day at BIB. But it seems they haven’t learned and this same Boss lied to me when she said she told them off for not turning up when she got her letters – Madam Bruk Em. If they are threats to Ur climb up the ladder… Yet the dried up bitch who a go under UV lamp fi ketch colour even when she nuh like wi… Long Haired Freaky People Need not Apply, Nuh Waan Nuh Ole Nigga Nuh Ras-Ta-Far-I.

I guess she realised or was told that I witnessed what happened with the door and her lap dog of a protégé called back and my little missives (letters to New Cross 6th & 8th September 2015) about door left opened recently. So Madam Dry Foot Hog Muddler come back to come provoke, taunt and frustrate me. She come out in the garden invading my personal space and in my face saying the Agency Staff not doing much so I must stop planning until lunch time. Now this is nearly 3.00 o’clock so I don’t know which lunch time she a chat bout. I calmly say yes HM I’ll do whatever you say. I could have said much more like if they had not breached the Rules of Laws http://www.gov.uk/Number10, there would be no need for the Agency Staff. Or maybe they made another mistake 2 many like my Hospital Appointment http://www.slam-iapt.nhs.uk/southwark.

But I kept my cool and don’t let anyone pull my tongue. Guess she was expecting me to challenge her because she heard and knows from last Thursday that I don’t always take crap from Stupid Idiots and will stand up and defend myself. But she have 30 cronies to back her up because she told me I am SICK when I mentioned about my Chronic Anxiety. (There is stigma attached to Mental Health Conditions. I have multiple disabilities, some of which fall at the top of the most common Mental Health Conditions). I am once more throwing down the gauntlet that the Pen is mightier than the Sword and that Pen will defend me against them every time. I am not afraid of anyone and Hog Muddler is the least of my problems. They can do what they frigging want to do now after they got the Best of 6 Years of me.

Updates: 15th September 2017

Hilda Miller has since resigned from LEYF along with others of her colleagues who were sanctioned to discriminate against me. The original of this article can be found at https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers. My life is an Open Book and this was yet another phase in my transitional journey when I meet rock bottom in another toxic workplace environment. My health was totally destroyed this time almost beyond repair. But I acted on the advice of Dr Crawford about getting Cognitive Behabiour Therapy to find out why I react to certain situations the way I do.

I have since had counselling at the Maudsley Hospital. I have had follow up sessions with www-iopkcl-ac.uk and other providers. I have joined http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/getinvolved. I have been doing research for years and joined http://www.parkinson.or.uk. As well as other charities at http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk, http://www.diabetesorg.uk, http://www.ageuk.org.uk and http://www.cruk.org.

The next plans are to share my stories with others about my journey with Mental Health Conditions and Progressive Health Conditions in later life. This way I want to continue making valuable to the life of other as I am a Carer fro my husband. My life has gone full circle as it has always been, from cradle to the grave and vice versa.

Discrimination – Disabilities, Agism & RACISM

Issues with BIB & Benedicte Siewe By Mervelee Myers 19.01.2015

After events of the past weeks 04.01.15 – and the Emergency meeting tonight 19.01.15, I have no other alternatives rather than to address the issues with BIB team and Benedicte Siewe 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? 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 conditions I am unable to work in the BR and Central Office www.leyf.org.uk should have this on record, as I had told them about this at the interview in 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 out and I was willing to contact CO myself to deal with the matter if the manager wanted me to. The matter was sorted in no time and Rumi went to the BR and me in preschool after I come back from covering at Noah’s Ark. 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 Lynne Kelly, about my situation, not working 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. But I guess I must have been too naïve as usual and trust people too much because 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 & 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 Journeys because that is how I work. I just don’t see a child as my key child, but consider myself to be responsible for providing the EYFS for all of them to reach their individual potential. So I was in the process of collating evidence especially for the children for whom I had concerns (SEND) and getting to know them.

I recalled once Sao Banya 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 LK comes to talk to me and said she was told I refused to do observations and OFSTED www.ofsted.gov.uk, 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. On another occasion I made some rough copy of observations and said to SB that the key person could write them up, but Remi claimed that she did not have any time to waste to write up anybody’s observation they should do it themselves. I noticed however that when SB 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 & dance about it as she and Remi had done. By then I realised it is one rule for me and another rule for others. So 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 the team, 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 as I would like to start up making Homemade Books for BIB https://www.linked.com. 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. I only have 1 observation in Child EA’s LJ from Remi, however since Rujina came she gave me 1 for Child KM-J. 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 when 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 times and accepting some of the changes that were expected. I hear SB using the exact same terms when I explained about taking the CEO Multigenerational Working Approaches from Luton Street into BIB. Since BS raised the Multigenerational – Silver Sunday that I promoted celebrating Theresa Salmon as a volunteer at BIB as her first grievance with me. Because 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, and she is offended? The crux of the matter is I find that people interprets things the way they want to suit their arguments. Because I explained to BS that Silver Sunday was celebrating the elderly folks and this is part of MWA.

The CEO is passionate about it and it would be good on her CV if she knows about MWA, 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 BS and Flavia Foddai have 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 BS to do her research about MWA I am assuming she is carrying a grudge as Carolyn Quirke was the 1 who asked this question in the meeting? I kept wondering why she kept saying “I AM SCARED OF YOU” after I started, but 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 BS 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. BS 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 TS until after I had finished and called LK to come and join in the photos. BS made up her mind to judge me from I started as she kept saying she is scared of me. And during 1 of the RM 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.

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 Room Leader, everyone have the right to talk about matters to do with our work as we were not there only to be dictated to. I only became aware of BS’s reason for saying why she don’t celebrate anything when SB 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.  Because in the RM BS said we should ask the parent’s permission before we do activities with the children. And 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 is part of the Policies & Procedures and the EYFS, OFSTED Welfare Requirements. Things only became clear when we started the Christmas activities and BS 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 I was doing the shape people activity with the children when BS 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 BS if this 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 RL. I asked her if this meant I have to justify my work to her before doing them. And I have done studies and trainings to give me the knowledge to provide a balanced curriculum http://www.open.ac.uk/ceremonies. 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 FF’s attention and asked her to tell BS what she told me to do with the shape persons, but I realised FF is reluctant to speak to BS. So I explained, FF told me I could use the shape persons as display in the Maths Area http://www.jbsf.org.uk and http://www.resourcesforautism.org.uk and http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk and http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/parents and http://tiny.cc/NPLpractice and http://www.nurseryworldshow.com/london and sen@southwark.gov.uk and http://www.hctgroup.org and http://www.gov.uk/government/publications. 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 (Louise Cooper Teach.Nursery http://www.leyf.or.uk). Whilst recognising the fact that I am new to the setting so I have to respect the way how the BIB team do their job. I had already brought copy of the Every Child A Talker form and given it to LK and she and Mewe Mechese 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 HM brought the ECAT forms over.

When Stella Louise Early Years Consultant, visited LK told me that she was organising ECAT trainings with SL for all the staff. I introduced the Activity Planning, providing a copy for all to see when I done the first Focus Activity and started my folder to document evidence of how we support, enhance and extend children’s learning in the areas of the EYFS. OFSTED had picked up on the fact that the 3-5 years old teaching were lacking in the Specific areas. During one of the RM, BS was talking about some matter that came up at her trainings with Gary Simpson & Gill Springer 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 BS 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 1 of the observation forms that is used and BS asks “WHAT IS THAT?” I explained what the form was and told of the fact that LK said HM had taken the forms in and went to my locker to get a copy to show the team.

I realised BS had a different approach to her work from mine, but 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 (I was the EYFS Coordinator & the SENCO at LS). So whenever she gives 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, but since I mostly focused on the younger children I just got on with the job. One day she asked if I think I was confident enough to practice with the children because FF was on break. It was obvious from the question that BS 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 ahead on the day of the Christmas Play when the children were getting ready and we were practising. During a lull in the practise 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 BS 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 SB displayed on the window sill home. BS 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. But 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 BS said lots of things about me primarily that I was not happy. And 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 BS is the one who has made up those stories about me (refer to LK Statements in the BUNDLES https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016). 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 letters would know I am writing about THERESA after I have done my Research for a Case Study.

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. But after what SB 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 implementing before. Everyone knows that I have been making Homemade Books 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 Weise now Moye https//www.linkedin.com, 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 (Sky News). The CEO applauded my efforts and took one of those books to work on to be used as a learning & teaching tool for LEYF. So she knows about my passion and I read her blogs and follow her on Social Media http://www.lefy.org.uk.

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, when 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 BS & 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. But she said she was advised not to discuss the matter. 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 BS 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 LJs, I have to make my jottings as a memory jogger, so when I am ready to write up I have the information to hand. As for Jyoti Bhardwaj , 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 BS 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 JB keeps coming to the door to peep on me in the preschool only to ask me if I was on my own. And when I said I am here with 2 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. But when I went to report her saying I am disturbing her, she can’t understand why.

JB realised I know what she is up to because since I spoke to LK she changed her tune towards me (refer to JB Review of LEYF). 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, but I was inducting her from she started. 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. 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 FF 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, but BS 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 BS 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 MWA and 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. Treating me like an outsider whilst at the same time DESCRIMINATING against me by Harassing & Bullying me. Hiding behind some perceived offence of which I did not knowing did any such thing – telling her to do her RESEARCH about MWA?

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 JB. Instead she puts it in my FILE, but how is she able to understand things from my point of views and concerns are? 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 2 weeks and I intended to give to LK, but 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 O’Hollaran 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. NO abused her power of her authority breaching my Basic Human Rights when I was feeling vulnerable because of my health conditions – DISABILITIES. 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, JB came and is saying the same kind of things even though it is evident she haven’t got the faintest clue about practice (refer to JB Review of LEYF).

Update: 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.

 

A Matter Of Time

This is the Evidence that LEYF do not want the World to see. Well the world need to know about the DISCRIMINATION face by Mervelee Myers. Straight out of the Horses Mouth.
 
Julia Elizabeth Gould reviewed LEYF Nurseries – 1 star 25 March 2016 ·
I worked for this company for 2 1/2 years. I was grateful for them taking me on as a first job. But not for all the stress and health problems that came with it. I feel sorry for all the lady’s at my nursery who I left behind. (I have currently experienced PTSD dealing with the judgement that was posted online at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016.) 
For a company who tells us to be brave, nurturing, inspiring and fun. How do you expect your staff to accomplish such things with all the over worked hours and piles of paper work that you so happily force upon them. We are there to nurture the children of the future but instead worry so much on how tidy the rooms are and how outstanding the learning journeys are. There is no time left in the day to nurture let alone have fun. (I would like for http://www.lefy.org.uk to share my contributions to making the Organisation a model of best inclusive practice whilst I worked at Luton Street. If not my life is an Open Book and my contributions are all over Social Media. In particular at https://www.facebook.com/public/Mervelee-Myers and http://www.google.com.)
Maybe now the company has stop concentrating so much at making more money by opening more and more nurseries you would take a step back and see the amount of stress and over worked your older nurseries have become. Maybe think about staffing them too, to lift the weight of over ratio’s and 25 key children per person would just be a start. (LEYF was too busy trying making out MERVELEE MYERS is UURICA-LE by sticking labels that can’t peel off unto me. They lost sight of the bigger picture and the rot set in when there were a spate of resignations starting with the Head of Children Services & Families in 2013. I have since found documentations to explain the the deciusions that were made)   
I watched a handful of good and honest members of staff leave the nursery I worked at and finally came to the breaking point of where I ( at the age of 21) had to leave for my own health. (Please now go and do the research and you will find out what LEYF done to me from I returned from burying my MOTHER and transferred to BIB, HOC and New Cross. But yet they have associates, {that will be named} to cover up their breaching of the Rules of Law.)
 
Now can I ask the Employment Tribunal 3 Judges to examine their conscience about how they went about affirming the DISCRIMINATION by LEYF Nurseries? Honestly I am a generous person, but if anyone is going to join to left me vulnerable the way I have been since returning from burying my MOTHER… I am going to act and revert to the PTSD of Self-Preservations that I managed with my #EarlyInterventionStrategies from Puberty.
 
Ingrid Curuvija Townsend reviewed LEYF Nurseries – 1 star 29 August at 18:38 ·
The staff turnover at marks gate has been awful causing so many other issues. Does nobody look at the effects of one person leaving before making the decision to move another 3? Now the deputy manager will also be leaving and she is the only person that reassured us during all of these changes that remained consistent and was always someone we could talk to. The children are unsettled and as a parent I feel awful leaving my child in the care of strangers I get my husband to pick up and drop off most days as I get too upset with all the chaos in the nursery.
(Just go back and look at my correspondences with LEYF, BWB http://www.bwbllp.com, http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk, http://www.express.org.uk, http://www.gov.uk/Number10 and the LondonSouthET@hmcts.@gsi.gov.uk to name a few about my concerns. This was yet after appearing in Dr Maria Hudson 2012 Research and her making recommencations to http://www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers.) 
 
All is needed is for the Employment tribunal 3 Judges to listen to the 7 Witnesses between the 28th February – 3rd March 2017 to understand what my Witness Statement was about. Everything is in my BUNDLE, that the Barrister #SamanthaJones did not want to be used as evidence. 
Now it is left to people who have come into my life and is trying to help me rebuild on online business http://www.peachespublications.co.uk. And http://www.ryanclement.com/. Without them I might probably have become the stastictics in http://www.hctgroup.org 1 in 5 suicides are associated with unemployment. Yet there are some who are so SCARED to speak out against the Modern SLAVERY Practices the LEYF operate.   
 
Jyoti Sharma reviewed LEYF Nurseries – 1 star 12 March ·
I said Goodbye to LEYF couple of weeks ago but I feel that I left my mission unaccomplished and I am still struggling to overcome the LEYF addiction I have, however I do feel that by moving on I have done one of the best things for my overall well being.
(Jyoti is so right, and I do admire the fact she realise what was happening before it was too late. However, I did not have much of a choice, from when I take the stance not to be DISCRIMINATED against at KINGS. Thats when I was let down by the Establishments and Systems I thought were in place to support, advice and protect me from the way I was left for my ChildhoodTraumas to be triggered into PTSD, each time I experienced bereavement and loss that were responsible for my Hidden Disabilities.)
Leyf is an organisation which has high aspirations and to achieve these aspirations LEYF likes to push its staff as much as it can without sorting the issues or giving them enough support etc. Staff at Leyf get dead busy and no extra help or time is offered to them to manage the enhanced work load. As a deputy manager I had so much to do with out having any admin day or some time off the room. I was working as a deputy, a Senco, was in the ratio 5 days a week, had key children, doing extra hours, deputy’s extra work and 3 hours a day commuting and on top of all this putting up a bully chef. I was also put in the ratio when manager was absent which also put extended pressure on the staff when I had to leave room.
No doubt Staff will find themselves unable to cope with added pressure. They are already under huge pressure as due to large number of agency staff and few apprentices they end up having 15 to 20 key children each. (I used to do the job of 3 staff from I started with LEYF, but I was used to it, because of my own personal experiences of studies and being an informal carer from the age of 7 years old).
Eventually passionate staff who want to do a good job get stressed, frustrated and drained and finally bound to leave (Refer to the ET Case Mervelee Myers v LEYF Case Number: 2300047/2016).
Unpassionate staff also leave due to separate reasons. In addition to fix the staff problems which I mentioned above another important thing LEYF must do is to upskill and empower their management team as they are directly responsible for staff well-being for example I had to put up a bully chef which affected my mental state (The ET turn around after I was asked to provide Medical Reports, saying I did not have DISABILITIES. But more worrying was the fact my RACISM claims was strike out repeatedly) to the extent that it nearly put me off coming to work every morning and myself (deputy manager) and the manager could not address this effectively and fairly I believe due to lack of confidence and skill or may be sometimes management’s habit or a will to ignore issues like this but who paid the price undoubtedly me.
There are job competencies there for the staff which every one needs to meet but they are just a piece of paper. This ‘Chef’ does not meet any of these competencies, intimidates the staff however still comfortably working at LEYF under the nose of even Area manager who is (I hope so) well aware of his day to day actions.
(Just a little information about the Area Manager that Jyoti mentioned, she is no longer with LEYF. But first she was transferred from South London after complaints that Jyoti has referred to, to Barking and Dagenham. But the same thing happened when she was threatened with a beating like what happened in South London. The Head of Children Services is no longer with LEYF and so are many of whom were the antognists who first started when the DISCRIMINATION was santioned. I will be calling for an Inquiry in the operations of LEYF from whenever time they decided to change the Model to a Money Making Machine instead of the intended Early Years Provisions of the Pioneers of a 100+ years ago)
 
Thanks #JyotiBhardwaj for listening to your conscience and putting this out there in the Public Domain. I know most of what happened to me at BIB was sanctioned. Wishing you well in all your future endeavours. If I was that person who LEYF Nurseries tried making me out to be, I would not have spared the time to induct and advice you. Please contact me if you can?

How The Vulnerable Are Tricked!

Mervelee Myers

Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP

10 Queen Street Place

London EC4R 1BE

27th December 2016 & updated 8th September 2017

Dear Sir/Madam

I would just like to take this opportunity as a matter of curtesy to acknowledge the fact that despite London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) http://www.leyf.org.uk trying to mislead you into taking up their case against me, you did not. I am thankful that you did see sense and identified the discrepancies in their arguments that caused you to send out email/letter to me on the 24th September 2015. Otherwise your Law Firm might be forever linked to the incompetent, corrupt and unprofessional organisation that (LEYF) has become since late 2013 or there about? Now that I have come to the end of the ET Case and received the judgement at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions. I know exactly how unscrupulous are those in Power of Authority that I thought were there to protect vulnerable employees. And I will have to let you know I think BWB is no better in light of the letter that was sent to me on the 16th August 2017. Therefore I am putting all correspondences in the Public Domain, so the world can see what I am up against.

In retrospect, I wrote an “Open Letter” in October 2015, one of four that were also sent to the UK Government at http://www.gov.uk/Number10. The Union VOICE at http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk. The Daily Express Newspaper at http://www.express.org.uk because I contributed to the Mental Health CRUSADE and seek their advice about my situation at work in confidence. Although there were no acknowledgement of the letter and the attachments, I am satisfied that my arguments were taken into considerations why services were withdrawn from (LEYF). I sent in the second correspondences after learning that my email was used for online DBS application which was withdrawn. I still did not get any response.

I was sent an introductory email on the 09th March 2015 by Mr John Fenton re: Agenda For Case Management At Preliminary Hearing as the Defence representing (LEYF). When I meet Mr Fenton on the 15th March 2015 and he asked for a consultation after the Hearing, the first thing I asked about was (LEYF) Solicitors at http://www.bwbllp.com that contacted me on the 24th September 2015. He failed to address my query, and brushed the matter aside. This would turn out to be how Mr John Fenton go about the Employment Tribunal matters until the 21st December 2016 when he admitted that he is not a Solicitor and has never told anyone he is. At the same time telling me that he would have to make an offer of £3,000.00 of the original £4,000.00 because cost was going up. He asked the ET to release me from the Court Orders Oath, so they could try to trick me into signing my rights over to them, and that’s what he told me in the presence of the persons who accompanied me to the ET. Then he said he was not aware about the offer of £58,000.00 in the Telephone Conciliation. And yes I was tricked about the TC until I had to get in touch with the ET about the arrangements.

Mr John Fenton left me with the impressions that he is a Solicitor and in my correspondences, I refer to him as the “Respondent’s Solicitors”. You might be wondering the reasons why I am contacting you about this matter. I am trying to make this as specific to the point, because you were the first to contact me re my grievances with (LEYF). I have since been using your information in my Fight4justice campaign on Social Media. And owing to information that recently came to light, I would like to make an attempt to correct any misrepresentations of the facts I placed in the public domain. Owing to the facts of the deceits of with email of the 16th August 2017, I want the PUBLIC to be aware of the nature of the indirect discrimination that I am facing from all quarters because LEYF have friends in high places and can pull the wool over the eyes of even the ET.

In the future even if I decided to mention Bates Wells Braithwaite, I will ensure that the public is aware that the company acted professionally in all matters dealing with the correspondences during the time you represented (LEYF) so there are no ambiguities in the role you played.  As yet I still do not possess the legal knowledge or expertise to carry out the work of representing myself that was forced on me since 27th September 2015, when I resigned. I am just learning willy-nilly, as I go along, and that’s why I think I will be trying to go into ADVOCACY, because I have met so many former employees with similar experiences to mine. Now I am letting BWB know that since they did not acknowledge my correspondences, it must be taken that they were not in aggreement with the statement that they acted professionally. Therefore I will have to show the world, by sharing so they know that there are unprofessionals like BWB that are willing to drive a person with my disabilities to commit suicide. HCT Group at http://www.hctgroup.org already have me down in the Impact Report as a statistic of 1 in 5 suicides are associated with unemployment. When you consider I told HR Dilys Epton about my PTSD caused from my Father’s illness from early which left him unable to work and caused me to become PARANOID of not been able to work to provide for my needs. I know for a fact that’s why my FILE is taken away to use the information to use my VULNERABILITY to destroy me and my dependents. Refer to the eamil to HR Dilys Epton dated 14th March 2015.

I have been dealing with Mr John Fenton from 9th March 2016 as (LEYF) Solicitor. However even I was perplexed by some of the things he’d done as the case progressed. Without prejudice I am sure I was doing a better job preparing my case from the beginning than he was doing. We were in court for 20 – 22nd December 2016 hearing, with the Respondent Barrister Ms Jones. Like Mr Fenton told me when he decided he wanted to talk, he was there to advise me, offering me a Commercial Settlement.

Mr Fenton said he knew I could not deal with the STRESS of going to court, so I asked if he’d seen my FILE. The only place Mr Fenton could have got information about my disabilities is from my FILE that was withheld from me before I left Luton Street Community Nursery on the 22nd July 2014. Despite making attempts to collect it, I was never successful. I left (LEYF) employment without getting access to my FILE in the end. I already know how unscrupulous Solicitors and Unions work, because this is the second time I am encountering such practices. That’s why they will not be allowed to get away this time round, as I am empowering myself to expose them for what they are.

Well Ms Jones introduced herself as (LEYF) Barrister, but saying she was there to advise me, just like Mr Fenton did at our first meeting. The pattern was a well establish one, if I was gullible enough to take the bait. She said the offer was still on the table, but the case would be struck out. Ms Jones admitted to the courts she did not prepare the case, my witness statements was packed with lies and I did not comply with the Judge’s Orders, so it was waste of time and money and she did not want me to question the witnesses. I might ask questions that are irrelevant. Yet Mr Fenton is the one who did not comply with the Judge’s Orders as can be seen from my correspondences that I copied the ET into each time. I was expected to remember every single details, despite the whole world knowing that I CANNOT function under PRESSURES and I know the triggers for my disabilities. Yet the 7 Witnesses were exempted because Ms Jones who did not prepare a case got her wishes. I would like it be known that all Ms Jones did throughout was redicule me about my disabilities – STRESS INCONTINENCE and my need to use the toilet.

When the judges did not strike the case out, the Barrister claimed she was not feeling well. She later asked my Step-Son if he had legal trainings. The next day I turned up at court and the Barrister was absent. The clerk of the courts told me she called in saying that she have contagious sickness from yesterday and her doctor placed her under quarantine, not to leave home for forty eight (48) hours. The case was adjourned but not before I was once again gagged by (LEYF). However I complied on the grounds that the gagging could only start on the 21st December 2016, because I have materials in CyberSpace that I can’t retrieve. Ms Jones acted unprofessionally pulling a SICKIE that the ET called her unfortunate illness. But they could not see my urgent need to use the loo when I asked to go, because I could not hold it. Also there were 3 Medical Reports from the Judges Orders and the Occupational Health Doctor’s. Dr Crawford advised me to seek Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to find out why I react to certain situations the way I do. I got counselling at http://www.slam-iapt.nhs.uk/southwark. So I can’t understand what else I was supposed to have done to prove my disabilities. Maybe save the clothes that I leaked in for the ET?

The lifting of the “OATH” was so that (LEYF) could get to talk to me to try give up and sign my rights over to them. In the process that’s when Mr John Fenton said he is not a Solicitor and has never told anyone that he is. He seems to have developed the same memory loss he mentioned in the ET3 form about me. Now I realise why the Barrister came to court without preparing the case and continuing with the discrimination started on the 23rd July 2014 when I transferred to BIB. I am just giving prior warnings why I might have to refer to the correspondences of the 24th September 2015 to defend myself in court and in the public domain.

I set up my Fight4justice Page wwe.merveleeconsultancy.uk and intends to branch out into Advocacy after the case is finished on the 3rd March 2017. I am hoping to refer to the company as operating under the remit of the International Rules of Law, Country Legislations and Codes of Practices and Conducts in turning down (LEYF) as a client. I am sure I will not be doing any such thing in the light of the unprofessional actions of the 16th August 2017. And BWB still don’t have the decency to acknowledge receipt of my correspondence. All BWB intended to do was to harass, bully and intimidate me, but I will be fighting to the death. If it become too much for me to bear and I can’t take no more. I will make sure the world know of all who are responsible as I told HR Dilys Epton in my email of the 14th March 2015 http://www.leyf.org.uk.

Once again thanks for listening to me and giving me a voice to tell my side of the story before jumping to conclusions when no one else would, because I am not a legal entity. But now the ET states in the judgement that Legal Entity do not discriminate, people do. Well I want the world to know who are the people that discriminate against me at LEYF and their associates from the 23rd July 2014. It is online at https://www.gov.uk/employemt-tribunal-decisions/ms-m-myers-v-london-early-years-foundation-2300047-2016. When the ET judges without prejudice take 5 months to copy and paste LEYF Summary and post online in 3 days. Yet when I called the ET to find out what was happening with the case I was given excuses about lack of resources and heavy workloads. That’s why there will be more Stephen Lawrence, Soham School Girls, the Dunblane School, Megan’s Law, Victoria Climbie, Milly Dowler, Damilola Taylor, Baby Peter and the Grenfell Tower.

I am eternally grateful and will continue to be proactive in using my experiences in helping righting the social injustice and inequalities perpetuated against the vulnerable employees by employers like (LEYF). Now I would like to refer BWB to Dr Maria Hudson 2012 Research Paper Ref: 01/12 – The Experience of Discrimination on Multiple Grounds. ACAS: research@acas.org.uk and http://www.acas.org.uk/rearchpapers. By now BWB must that I will not be promoting the company as professionals to be emulated throughout the rest of my campaigns. Because they have shown by the way they go about the indirect discrimination that they are worse than vultures waiting on me to die by committing suicide, hench the harassment, bullying and intimidation.

But yet when I use the only means availbale to stop myself committing CRIMINAL OFFEBCES, I was penalised by the ET. I would like the Public to help me to show that I only became the person discribed online by the ET after I got back from buring my MOTHER, transferred to BIB and the plots started to DISMISS me from my job. Barrister Samantha Jones keep saying it at the ET, the same way she keeps reading out the Facebook post that I’d written as a result of the passive aggressive behaviours to stop me getting in trouble by committing criminal offences. I want others to decide when I became that person who was struggling to save myself from the PTSD caused by LEYF and the associates. Lets see who is honest enough to find the truths of the matter and decide whether or not I have disabilities and is a credible witness. Because the ET must have already made up their minds, so only went through the functions of the hearings. If Ms Jones illness was an unfortunate one, my disabilities were diagnosed and I provided the evidence. Even when the Equality Act 2010 state that one does not have to have a Medical Diagnosis to prove they have a disbility. Mine are complex disabilities that I think the ET think I could turn on and off like a tap. The way Samantha Jones pulled a SICKIE for 48 hours.

Kindest regards.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Mervelee Myers FD (Open)