BBmum - your story angers me too, just by reading it. Keep strong, whatever you do, or at least hide your moments of weakness in private. If they spot you in a 'bad moment', they'll use it as ammunition to pursue you down the mental health route. This is what they do; their involvement, all the insa...

'I am now under the impression that I am being victimised and also harassed by social services.' - you are; it's what they do. They create many many victims among children and parents. 'Are they trying to catch me out in something?' - Yes. they're probably trying to get a random impression of what y...

The incompetence and disruption is unbelievable. I wish you luck with these people. If you refuse 'support' on the grounds you don't need it, you'll be labelled a 'risk'. If you accept support, you'll be in effect admitting you're a 'risk' and you'll receive nothing but bureaucracy, disruption and s...

If a Dad convicted of indecent images has an SHPO which does not include any clause about contact (ie internet prohibitions only), thereby no legal restriction on him seeing his own children, exactly what power does Children's Services have to step in if the Dad ignores them and just goes about such...

Sorry but it really makes my blood boil this default position of social services, and seemingly everyone else, of deeming a guy a 'risk' or even 'high risk' of contact offence with their own children by virtue of having had an interest in (sometimes a very small way indeed) child porn. It actually d...

I'm afraid if Cat A images are present it is certain to go to court, probably for a lot less than that. If, however, there's not a lot of images then your husband should be able to hope for the lightest possible sentence which is a community order (no prison, and a sex offenders rehab work with prob...

Hi Shaftesbury, I'm not a legal expert of any kind, but I have done a lot of reading about sex offender prohibition orders and social services involvement, etc, because of my own situation. In your partner's case, you should have no worries in theory. I read somewhere that once a person is off the r...

Sickening. All these layers, all this bureaucracy and state threat - in the name of God and human decency isn't it plainly obvious that a lusty little act over social media as a teenager for Christ's sake does not equal being a bad father in later life. Zero correlation. Lunatics are in charge of th...

'They have moved the goal post so many times with no reason why yet we have stuck to our side of the plan exactly. The prebirth assessment has gone really well with the social worker actually saying he will make a good dad. She has already stated to me she has more important cases that need priority...

Good news indeed re. Ilseycat. There is hope you and your partner can build a family life, ultimately without an oppressive degree of state interference if you do as told to the letter. Still, I find it difficult to trust them, so capricious callous and disorganized they can be. But they've totally ...