Dear dollyg, Thank you for your post and welcome to the parents' forum. You have been with your partner for a year and half. You knew each other previously. You have 4 children with your ex-husband. Your current partner was convicted of an offence against his ex-partner, which was serious. You say t...

Dear CV4TG6, Welcome to the parents' board and thank you for your post. You say that your children are on a child in need plan. You have been in a relationship with your partner for 3 months. The father of your children has raised concerns as your partner has a history of domestic abuse - he was arr...

Dear TiredDad2, Thank you for your post and welcome to the parents' board. You say that 12 months ago your children were placed on a child in need plan. You did not agree with this and said that this originated from an inaccurate family assessment after an attempt to get support for the children's m...

Dear JulyBabyComing, Thank you for your update. You say you have reached the end of the assessment period for your unborn baby and that you are waiting for the outcome of the assessment to be written up. Your social worker has told you that there is going to be a PLO meeting soon. You have been told...

Dear Janderson9 Thank you for your post. It is good to see that you have now agreed to the assessment. I know that you have stated previously that the father does not wish to be involved with the pregnancy, but children’s services may wish to satisfy themselves that he does not wish to be involved. ...

Dear WE56Y7 Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum and thank you for posting. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. I am sorry about the difficulties that you are experiencing with your local authority regarding your son. You say there are no safeguarding concerns, but your son ...

Dear Squiffy Welcome to the parents’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser. I am sorry to hear about the difficulties that you are having. And that you are finding children’s services’ involvement stressful. It can provoke anxiety for ...

Dear Hauntingly Silent Welcome to the parents’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s’ online adviser. Congratulations on the successful return of your daughter to your care. It is good to hear that she is settling in well although missing her sibling...

Dear scaredandlonely19 Thank you for posting again on the parents’ discussion forum. You have given the background to how and why your two children were removed from your care, and you have asked specific questions about applying to discharge the special guardianship orders under which they live wit...

Dear Greyo1010 Thank you for posting on the Family Rights Group parents’ discussion forum. I see from your post that you mention that your children’s mother attended Gwent drug and alcohol services. This suggests that you are in Wales and, unfortunately, this matter does not fall within the remit of...