Dear terrifiedmum Welcome to the parent's board. My name is Suzie, one of FRG's online advisers. I am sorry you are going through difficulties regarding your 15 year old daughter and the child protection investigation which is currently taking place. Whilst it is probably a very distressing time for...

Dear jags Welcome the the parent's discussion board. My name is Suzie, one of FRG's online advisers. In your post you state that Children's Services have been involved with your family for the past year. It would be helpful if you could provide some brief background details about the reasons for soc...

Dear Dawny11 Welcome to the parent's discussion board. My name is Suzie one of FRG's online advisers. I am sorry to hear that you are going through such a difficult time with the current Children's Services involvement. You are within your rights to ask that a robust and timely risk assessment is co...

Dear Alfie Welcome to the parents board. I can see that your post concerns two separate family situations that children services are involved in. The main worry has been your partners past history with children services due to his alcohol use and domestic violence as well as your past history of bei...

Dear Don, Thank you for posting on the Parent’s Forum. We at Family Rights Group are very worried about this situation. The fact that your baby grand daughter has been taken to dads home by Mum has put her in a dangerous situation. Due to her very young age she is at a particularly grave risk of suf...

Dear richlizard Welcome to the parent's discussion board. I am sorry to hear that your friend is going through such a difficult time following his separation from his ex partner, and his struggle with alcohol related illnesses. Without knowing the children's ages, and therefore how vulnerable they a...

Dear Littleme Welcome to the parent's discussion board. My name is Suzie, one of the Family Right's Groups (FRG)'s online advisers. I am sorry to hear that you are going through a stressful time with Children's Services involvement with your three children. From the details provided in your post, it...

Hello JXH A section 20 agreement is simply a working agreement between a parent and the local authority. It is not a court order and is not bound by any specific timescale. I think the 26 week time limit you are referring to is the time limit for care proceedings to be resolved? As you are not in ca...

Dear Kitty, Is the court hearing on thursday the final hearing? If it is, at this stage it is very important that you work with your solicitor. The court will listen to all the partys view points and your legal team will have the opportunity to challege the social workers evidence. In particular, ad...

Hi Zubie123, Welcome back to the forum. A lot has changed during the last year and I am glad that children services are now seeing that you were telling the truth about your exe. He is no longer engaging with the assessment process, so during the short court timescale may lose the opportunity of bei...