Hi Suzie, Thank you for your reply - the social worker explained to us that PLOs are typically done as the last step before court but with the pre-birth team (that’s only been around in our local authority the passed few years) it’s something they do to have a legal framework in place surrounding th...

Hi, I’ve not been on here for a while but wanted to do an update. We’ve reached the end of the assessment period for our unborn baby now and just waiting for the outcome to be written up. We’ve had 7 direct-work sessions over the last few months and covered things like: prenatal health, stress, atta...

Hi, I just wanted to post an update for anyone it might help. Basically a manager who seems to be quite high up got in touch with my mam and said that the social workers had been saying that they’ve always said they’d recommend supervised, and my mam said that this wasn’t true and we had text messag...

Will children’s services just continue to remove children from my care because of the pool I was left in in 2018? After having two social workers give me a positive assessment to have my children unsupervised and for overnight stays on a Child In Need plan, which was signed off by their manager, onl...

I’m becoming increasingly worried that we’re going to keep being given very positive assessments but the pool will be the thing that stops us being able to progress. When I had my son in 2018 I was given a really positive assessment back then but because of the pool he didn’t come home. We’ve just h...

Hi, Thank you for your reply, it’s been heartbreaking. I’m really beginning to feel that it doesn’t matter what I do, I’ll never been seen as good enough by children’s services. The manager and the social workers are on our side, they’ve been having meetings with the senior manager to argue our case...

Hi, I won’t go over the history again as I have already a couple of times. Basically the social worker for my son and the social worker for my daughter had completed their assessments and recommended they both be on Child In Need plans with me returning to unsupervised and getting overnight stays. T...

Thank you again so much for all the advice! We’ll definitely look into this if we feel it’s needed, we’re hoping it can be resolved in the meantime. We had our first review meeting for the baby this week too, though the assessment doesn’t formally start for another month. They have a rating system w...

Thank you so much for your reply, this is all really helpful! We’ve been told the assessment will start at 16 weeks pregnant, so 3 weeks to go - given we told them of the pregnancy the day we found out, it feels like a long time to wait. We saw our baby today and they’re doing really well, it’s wond...

I was wondering if anyone could give me any idea of what to expect next? My daughter and son are both being out on a Child In Need plan. I don’t know when this plan will start but I’ve been told it’ll be with the aim of returning me to unsupervised family time, beginning with a couple of hours and w...