Social services were wrong
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:25 pm
Hi I'm new here
My children were put into the care of my parents in march under a section 20 agreement, this was due to an incident which took place with my violent ex partner! Social services said I misused alcohol, had mental health issues and domestic violence.
At first the social worker just asked me to leave my children with my parents for the weekend, however moments later a police officer took my children under police protection coz of a phone call my ex partner made saying I was going to kill myself (this was not true,it was malicious as I had pressed charges against him), I was told to sign a section 20 and if I didn't the sw couldn't promise that the children would stay with my parents!
9 weeks later I withdrew my section 20 because I didn't think the children should be away from me, the LA took me to court and my parents got a interim child arrangements order!
I have been seeing my doctor for the 'mental health issues' they say I have and he is perfectly happy I'm ok so hasn't gave me any medication, the 'excessive alcohol use' has now been proven false as my alcohol test results are clear, and I've done every domestic violence course they've asked me too!
My sw has one more session to do on my parenting assessment, I feel like she has tried to stop me proving myself in every way, I.e not putting me on work shops, not doing alcohol testing etc....
Before all this my children had 100% attendance at school, made every appointment (doctors, dentist, opticians) they were always clean and fed!
I'm wondering now my tests are back will I be able to ask the children return home? And can I make a complaint?
I've already complained about my sw as she told me she 'wasn't going to tell me anything about what was going on'
Thanks in advance
My children were put into the care of my parents in march under a section 20 agreement, this was due to an incident which took place with my violent ex partner! Social services said I misused alcohol, had mental health issues and domestic violence.
At first the social worker just asked me to leave my children with my parents for the weekend, however moments later a police officer took my children under police protection coz of a phone call my ex partner made saying I was going to kill myself (this was not true,it was malicious as I had pressed charges against him), I was told to sign a section 20 and if I didn't the sw couldn't promise that the children would stay with my parents!
9 weeks later I withdrew my section 20 because I didn't think the children should be away from me, the LA took me to court and my parents got a interim child arrangements order!
I have been seeing my doctor for the 'mental health issues' they say I have and he is perfectly happy I'm ok so hasn't gave me any medication, the 'excessive alcohol use' has now been proven false as my alcohol test results are clear, and I've done every domestic violence course they've asked me too!
My sw has one more session to do on my parenting assessment, I feel like she has tried to stop me proving myself in every way, I.e not putting me on work shops, not doing alcohol testing etc....
Before all this my children had 100% attendance at school, made every appointment (doctors, dentist, opticians) they were always clean and fed!
I'm wondering now my tests are back will I be able to ask the children return home? And can I make a complaint?
I've already complained about my sw as she told me she 'wasn't going to tell me anything about what was going on'
Thanks in advance