Dear UKjeff27 Welcome to the Family Rights Group Parents’ Discussion Forum and thank you for your post. My name is Suzie, online adviser, at Family Rights Group. I am sorry that you are having such a worrying and difficult time because of children services’ (new name for children services) involveme...

Dear Boobop16 Thank you for posting again. As previously advised, your daughter is 16 and the social worker should take into account her wishes and feelings in respect of any plan in place. She does not have to engage so it is important that the social worker ensures that whatever is being suggested...

Dear Gutbuster Welcome to the Family Rights Group Parents’ Discussion Forum. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. Thank you for making your first post as I see you joined the forum some time ago. I am sorry that you find yourself is such a difficult and distressing situation due ...

Dear Har1Her1 Thank you for your post and please do not worry about the posts you make, I am sure that your fellow posters are happy to offer support and the benefit of their own experiences. I can see that you are still going through a very frustrating time trying to get appropriate help for your s...

Dear amicipat Thank you for your further updating post. Your heading of shocking revelation seems appropriate having read the content of your post. It is really good that you have a solicitor whom you and your daughter appear to trust acting on her behalf. You say your granddaughter was forcibly rem...

Dear Tonyp, Welcome to the Parents Forum. Has the child protection conference taken place? Have a look at our FAQ’s about child protection. I would expect a probation officer to be invited where a parent or another relevant adult is on probation. The probation officer is likely to be in a position t...

Dear Darren, Thank you for posting back. While children services are carrying out an assessment of your risk to your daughter, I would expect them to be very cautious as they would not know your risk. So supervised contact is the norm in these circumstances. However, by the end of the assessment the...

Hi Boobop16, Sometimes children services will say that if a parent does not work to a child in need plan and access the support being offered that this will increase the risk to a child. Then it may be escalated to a child protection conference to see whether a child protection plan is needed. You o...

Dear DupedDad, Children services carry out a section 47 enquiry or child protection investigation if they suspect that a child may at risk of harm. So I expect that your son’s allegations against mum would have resulted in a further section 47 enquiry shortly after he made the disclosures. The secti...

Dear Minnie, Thank you for posting back. I can see that the court decided that there should be a full care order but that the girls will be placed with their father and you will have a high level of contact-every week-supervised by children services. Although it is not the result you wanted (and thi...