What will be the legal implications since maternal grandparents are still alive?

Hi, My wife and I have SGO over a 10 years old child since 2018. Both parents died in 2016 and we went to a very complex court case involving LA and grandmother. Eventually, 2 years fighting we got the SGO with no strings attached... She is our daughter and she knows all her very sad story and we ex...

"I find it surprising that with the difficulties that exist regarding contact that the guardian supports discharge of the care order which would mean that you would not have the support of children’s services in managing contact. They have share parental responsibility with the mother (and fath...

" Does the guardian support the discharge of the care order?" Yes she does but her concern and everyone's concern is that if the SGO is in place grandmother will go to court every time that she does not agreed with something. " If she refuses to engage with mediation which the court c...

LA proposed contact to be supervised once a month in a contact centre and LA to fund it. We went to the contact centre for a meeting and we were told a few weeks later that they could not accept the case because they never managed to talk to grandmother, by email, text os message because she never r...

I would like to add that in the last year we already tried several times mediation: - A family conference managed by SW where family was present, legal guardian, Several social workers and the result was grandmother walking out of the room. - mediation with "Family group conference", we at...

Hi all, 3 years passed and we are still "battling". The situation is the following: The child is under a care order placed long term with us. LA made an application to dischared the care order and for a SGO be ordered to us. Went to court and the legal guardian suggested to postpone until ...

LA did not agreed to pay for it neither grandmother, sorry, I didn't explained properly. LA recommended contact supervised in a contact centre but grandmother refuses to pay. IRO told LA that they need to supervise it or find a way around it. LA at the moment are telling me that they can't supervise...

Grandmother suggested a contact centre, free, but they do not supervise.
We didn't accept this solution, Social services and CAHMS recommended supervised contact and we totally agree.

We had LAC review and Social worker recommended fully supervised contact in a contact centre paid by grandmother. Grandmother contested, saying that she cannot afford. IRO went along with grandmother and told SW that contact should be reduced and moved to a contact centre but social services to supe...