Dear tryingtoheal Thank you for your further post. You have stated that the court order says supervised contact when your daughter is ready. Was there any work to be done with your daughter to help her get to this point? I do not know the age of your children but their wishes and feeling regarding c...

Dear QuestionMark Thank you for your further post. In response to your question, if you apply to the court for contact in respect of one child, there is no automatic inclusion of the other child, since you would not be seeking an order in respect of that child. He or she would not be named on your a...

Dear O.S123 Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum and thank you for your post. I see from your post that children’s services (the new name for social services) are working with your family following issues relating to domestic violence and your arrest by the police. You are concerned about contac...

Dear QuestionMark Thanks for posting. I see from your post that you have now had diagnoses relating to your cognitive functioning. You are dyslexic with dyscalculia. In addition, you have learned that you have poor working memory. As a result of the assessments you have had you believe that the cond...

Dear LMBSE1971 Thank you for your further post and apologies for not being able to respond sooner. I am sorry to hear that you had such a difficult Christmas. You continue to find the child protection process very difficult to work with. I am sorry that you are finding the process to be so intrusive...

Dear min Thank you for posting on the parents’ discussion forum. Having read your post it appears that there were private law court proceedings in respect of an application by your former husband for a child arrangement order to have the children from your relationship live with him You are unhappy ...

Dear Tboo Welcome to the parent’s discussion board and thanks for posting. I am sorry that you did not receive a response to your post sooner. Your post confirms that children’s services consider that your children are now able to return to your care and have undertaken an assessment towards this ha...

Dear Sherlock84 Welcome to the parents’ discussion forum and thank you for posting. I see that your post relates to private law contact since you do not think your daughter should be having contact with her father. The advice I can give is only basic as private law does not fall within our remit. Yo...

Dear tryingtoheal, I am sorry that your contact with your children has not yet started. CAFCASS had clearly recommended direct contact as being in the best interests of your daughter. Was there a court order or an agreement made to say that? it sounds like the best way forward is to go back to the f...

Dear LHG1901, I am sorry to hear about the outcome of children services intervention. They had given mum only two options and she has, as you say, chosen the more realistic option that is available to her which is to end her relationship with you. You still have options though. You could be seeking ...