Hi Suzie, Still no good news I'm afraid. We attended the reconvened panel hearing earlier this month. I did not feel the Panel were particularly impartial. The Chair actually answered some of our concerns on behalf of the LA! He stated that the Statutory Guidance 'Getting the Best From Complaints', ...

Hi Suzie, not great news I'm afraid. It seems as though the LA have not spent the past 2 + months reinvestigating, merely using that time to come up with more ways to deflect blame. The 'amended' Stage 2 report was received yesterday afternoon, which hardly leaves us any time to prepare, as the reco...

Hi Suzie,

Many thanks for your help.

Quick update. They have set a date to reconvene the panel. However, I am disappointed that they have only retained one of the original panel members, with two new panel members sitting.

I will let you know what happens, if anything!

Thanks again

Hi, Thank you for your responses, I really appreciate all the help I can get! Suzie, do you know if we should be allowed to contact the independent chairperson of the Stage 3 panel? We don't want to speak to him about the investigation, merely to seek their views on the cancellation of the reconvene...

Hi, Forgot to mention. We wrote to the courts regarding the legality of my granddaughters contact returning to being unsupervised, which we felt was going against a court order. Long story short, the court ordered an emergency hearing. The Judge stated that it could not make any rulings, as it was h...

Hello again! We have moved on somewhat since I last posted. We received the second SAR papers, which left us with more questions than answers! Some documents had different sections redacted than the first time of receiving them and we received a number of documents which had not been made available ...

Hi Suzie, Can I ask, do you know if they acted lawfully, when they made a 'best interest decision ', regarding my granddaughter's contact arrangements? If you recall, it was a court order which stated that contact 'is to be supervised by the LA, CSC did not have this amended at court. They state tha...

Hi all, Very long story, so I will apologise in advance! My son was in a relationship which lasted for 8 years and produced two gorgeous children. When the youngest, my grandson was 5 months old, his mother began an affair and I ended up with my son moving back home and devastated. The mother had ch...