Whilst I agree that in some cases they are there to protect children and help families I do now believe there is an insidious underbelly to this entire system. Our pleas for help as a family has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears (and believe me I have contacted numerous agencies, campaigners, advocates...

Hi, it's been a while since I lasted posted but myself and my family are still desperately in need of some advice. Following the initial interim court order I posted about which were subsequently dropped social services have now issued another interim court order which does meet the threshold. I am ...

Hi, it's been a number of months since I last posted on this forum regarding an interim court order for my niece. The court order at that time did not meet the threshold however another interim court order has been applied which does meet the threshold. After dealing with social services for a numbe...

Hi Suzie, thank you so much for your reply. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you, as you can imagine things have been very much in the air recently. My niece is subject to a child protection plan, and during the first meeting regarding a section 20 order social services did mention f...

Hi there, I recently joined your boards to hopefully get advice on behalf of my sister. My niece (my sisters daughter) has had social workers from birth due to learning difficulties and diebetes. Last Tuesday the social worker had a meeting with my sister to inform her they wanted to implement a sec...