Thank you for your response, we have been told by the social worker that parents are not allowed contact on Birthdays and Christmas outside of their usual contact. i.e A parent could not see the child on Christmas Day specifically as it can be too upsetting for the child, is this the case going forw...

Hello, We will shortly be going to court for what is likely to be the hearing where an SGO is granted. Currently my niece sees her mother 2 times a week via facetime (due to the pandemic). We've been told that this so high to begin with as there needs to be a relationship in case the child goes back...

Hi, Thanks for your reply - it's not that we don't want her here, we would love to have her. We've spent most of her life with her since she was born. Our concern is that in terms of a support network we live quite far away from the rest of her family so we think it's best for that reason (hard thou...

Hello, I hope everyone is staying safe in these crazy times. I have a question regarding the viability assessments of SGO. I'll try to summarise the story so far: My niece has been taken from her mum under a PPO around a month ago, since then she was placed with her half-sister who is being assessed...

Hello everyone - hope everyone is keeping safe! To cut a long story short we've been in constant contact with social services regarding ongoing concerns since around January. Throughout the whole process (and rightly so) SS have told us that they cannot discuss the details with us but that we should...

Thanks for your reply - it's not so much that it hasn't been reported, her sister already has an open case with SS and is working with them - I'm more wondering if there is any worth in me reporting essentially what has already been reported so they can see it's not just one person on a vendetta?

Hello all, I'm struggling with where is best to turn and mostly just needed someone who may have experience in the past I'll try to be as brief, but as detailed as possible. My niece has been living at home and everything was seemingly fine up until just before Christmas. We had apprehensions about ...