Advice on Section 37 report?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:49 pm
Hi,
My 8 year old daughter is currently being monitored by the LA on a Child protection Plan under the category of "emotional abuse", and has had the same social worker for the last 2 years...however both myself and my daughter do not get on with said social worker, and to the point that in February this year the social worker was pulled from having any sort of contact with my child due to her constantly upsetting and distressing my daughter...a new (nicer) social worker was allocated to to direct work sessions with my daughter but the original SW was deemed the "Lead Social Worker" in the case and that she would still be the main author of any reports, hold conferences etc and make court appearances (court as in private law proceedings to arrange contact with my ex/father of child).
The "lead" has not seen or spoke to my child since December last year, and the new one has done a handful of direct work sessions with my daughter. the new SW, myself and daughter all get along fine and i thought things were going in a positive direction....
Until a section 37 was ordered for court and it was all authored by the lead SW who has not seen myself, my child's father or our child since very early February - and because of this report (along with a few procedural irregularities) my daughter was taken out of my care without warning to live with her father full time, me not seeing my child for 3 weeks, and now only seeing her for 90minutes a week in a contact centre.
i have a solicitor who has serious concerns with the report, along with a judge who also has concerns regarding the report and its authenticity.
I was just wondering if anyone knew / could advise on how and why (or if its procedure) a social worker who has no involvement with either families or the child can write a report like this - bearing in mind that none of the recent work with new sw is included...
This social worker and i have not got along since day 1 and she has been found to be biased and inappropriate before now when writing reports...
None of this makes any sense, especially when the allegations within the report cannot be proven..but meanwhile there's a very upset distressed little girl that just wants her mum..
Any help would be much appreciated..
Thanks
My 8 year old daughter is currently being monitored by the LA on a Child protection Plan under the category of "emotional abuse", and has had the same social worker for the last 2 years...however both myself and my daughter do not get on with said social worker, and to the point that in February this year the social worker was pulled from having any sort of contact with my child due to her constantly upsetting and distressing my daughter...a new (nicer) social worker was allocated to to direct work sessions with my daughter but the original SW was deemed the "Lead Social Worker" in the case and that she would still be the main author of any reports, hold conferences etc and make court appearances (court as in private law proceedings to arrange contact with my ex/father of child).
The "lead" has not seen or spoke to my child since December last year, and the new one has done a handful of direct work sessions with my daughter. the new SW, myself and daughter all get along fine and i thought things were going in a positive direction....
Until a section 37 was ordered for court and it was all authored by the lead SW who has not seen myself, my child's father or our child since very early February - and because of this report (along with a few procedural irregularities) my daughter was taken out of my care without warning to live with her father full time, me not seeing my child for 3 weeks, and now only seeing her for 90minutes a week in a contact centre.
i have a solicitor who has serious concerns with the report, along with a judge who also has concerns regarding the report and its authenticity.
I was just wondering if anyone knew / could advise on how and why (or if its procedure) a social worker who has no involvement with either families or the child can write a report like this - bearing in mind that none of the recent work with new sw is included...
This social worker and i have not got along since day 1 and she has been found to be biased and inappropriate before now when writing reports...
None of this makes any sense, especially when the allegations within the report cannot be proven..but meanwhile there's a very upset distressed little girl that just wants her mum..
Any help would be much appreciated..
Thanks