Dear Wayhar85 Welcome to the Board and thank you for your questions. When children are in care and there is a Care Order in place the local authority as well as the parent(s) have parental responsibility for the children. Children who are under an order generally live where the local authority has p...

Dear Moomoo21 Thank you for your question and welcome to our Board. I am sorry but I am not going to be able to give you an answer either. Here is a link from Citizen’s Advice about what might be required of you as a witness. Here too is information from the Government website about witnesses and go...

Dear Fightingmumma

I am sorry to read of your distress and need of support. Match Mothers may be the organisation that can uplift you.

Here is a link to their website.

Best wishes

Suzie

Dear SAE0524 Thank you for your response, I hope by now you have heard what was decided at the strategy meeting on the 3rd. For your information Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 has some helpful information, do start reading from page 86. I hope this document will be useful. Best wishes S...

Dear VB2008, Thank you for your post. You say that your son is has been in care for the last 7 years. You say that the circumstances around this were unusual and unjustified, and that you now do not have any contact and do not receive any updates from children's services. You have tried to contact t...

Dear Mimi3, Thank you for your post and welcome to the parents' forum. You say that you have been with your husband for 10 years and that you have 3 children. For 5 years, he was abusive towards you. You say this ended 2 years ago and that since then his behaviour has changed. You recently told him ...

Dear Mumtobe2024, Thank you for your reply. I am sorry to hear of the stress you are experiencing. Whether or not children's services endorse a move to unsupervised contact may depend on a number of factors, including the outcome of any risk assessments and the extent to which you work with services...

Dear Anxiousandscared Thank you for your post and welcome to the Parents Forum. I am sorry to read about your family’s situation and that you have not been given a clear ‘picture’ of how to proceed with the involvement of children’s services in your family life. You have said that there is a section...

Dear dollyg Thank you for your further post. You state in your post that your partner was not deemed a risk until you decided to be in a relationship. From your previous post I see you mentioned that your partner had been released from prison with many conditions, this suggests that he is considered...

Dear Silverado, Thank you for your reply. You say that you will contact the social worker but that you are not sure if children's services are relaying different expectations to you and your wife. You say that your wife says that children's services have identified distress in the children and is at...