Dear LMBSE1971, Thank you for post. I am sorry for not posting back earlier. I imagine the review conference has already taken place. If it is still to happen, have a look at our information about child protection review conferences . Essentially, the conference will be similar to the initial confer...

Dear Runnermum, Welcome back to the Parents Forum. I can see that the private law proceedings are still ongoing and your children remain with their father at the moment. You say your hands have been forced and you have decided to separate from your partner. The social worker is saying that an assess...

Dear Win198, Welcome to the Parent’s Board. I am so sorry to hear that your daughter was roughly handled and shaken by dad when she was 5 weeks old. I can’t imagine how worrying it must have been at the time. You must be so relieved that she is fine and now thriving in your care. You are worried abo...

Dear SMK2016 Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum. I am sorry that you have been having such a difficult time over the years with your ex-husband and his family which has resulted in the children being placed in their father’s care. You are also now having problems with contact with you children...

Dear Reyna Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum and thanks for posting. From your post I see that you have a number of issues regarding children’s services relating to your grandchildren being removed from your daughter, their mother’s care. You have not sought any specific advice but I thought ...

Dear Justmygirls Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum and thank you for your post. You are clearly very distressed that your children have been removed from your care by children’s services and, you are now in care proceedings, as a result of unexplained bruising to your two children. Any unexpl...

Dear Xriverwolf Welcome to the parents discussion forum and thank you for posting. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. I am sorry to see that you baby daughter was removed from your care and placed with an adoptive famil. In response to your question whether you can oppose the a...

The only part I'm unsure of, is she asked what we could both do to minimize the risk (me and partner) I said well baby is 5 months old and I'm always around, she said "well you have to sleep, you can't supervise 24 hours" so what is it that I'm supposed to do to reduce the risk? And how i...

Dear UKparent Welcome to the parents’ discussion and thank you for your post. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. I am sorry that you and your partner have, as you say, ‘gone through a tough time’ with children’s services (the new name for social services). You say that children...

Dear StrugglingMum101 Welcome to the parents’ discussion board and thank you for your post. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. I see from your posts that you originally had children’s services involved because your partner was arrested in respect of indecent images of children....