I'm hoping for advice as I'm extremely worried.
I've lived with my father and been his main/sole carer for the past four years. Around six months ago, he had a fall and went into hospital where it was decided that he needed a care package 4 x daily to assist with personal care, meals etc. This helped greatly as I also work and was having to juggle all of this for him around working and looking after my 3 year old who I'm a single mum to.
Once carers were establised to get him up in the mornings, shower him, make meals, put him to bed etc, and he was used to the situation, I decided it was time for me to find my own property, to move out and make a permanent home for me and my DC, as I had been bearing a heavy burden being his carer for 4 years and my DC also deserved a home to call our own. It had been not only a heavy mental burden juggling everything but also physical, as he was having falls and I was having to single handeldly lift him up off the floor, and back onto his chair and this would often turn into him struggling against me, hitting out at me, telling me he would get police involved etc as it was "assault" according to him. Even things such as helping him walk to the toilet (he can manage to walk, but with a zimmer frame and is quite unsteady/unsafe), with me walking beside him and putting my hands on his shoulders and back to straighten him up so he that he was more steady and didn't fall, was met with him lashing out and shouting about it being "abuse". It was really difficult.
I bought a property in January and have been slowly spending more and more time at my new property as it was being done up. Over the past couple of months, he has been quite bitter and resentful at my moving out, saying that he'll hardly ever see my child, that I was "taking DC away from him", that he'll miss DC etc. But this was interspersed with us getting on fine. We do argue, a lot, we've always just been that way since I can remember. But no falling out has lasted more than a couple of hours.
Fast forward to last Wednesday, I called over to his with some shopping as I hadn't been over for a couple of days. The door was locked and lights were out. I knocked for ages but no answer. I called the care company office who advised me that he was safe but they couldn't tell me any more. Following this, I contacted the social work department; a social worker got back to me to advise that my dad didn't want to see me and asked me to stay away from his property. That was all the information they could give me and that's all i've heard since.
This evening, i had a missed call and a voicemail from the police, saying that its "nothing to worry about" but they will call back later on this evening, so could I please answer any calls.
I do suffer from anxiety and know that I tend to catastrophise but I am very much panicking now as contact from the police, coupled with social work having advised me that i've to stay away from my fathers property at his request, which sounds like a safeguarding issue, sounds like he has made some kind of serious allegation/s against me.
What can I expect from here? If he has made allegations against me, will I end up being arrested/charged? I'm sitting here panicking that I'm going to be arrested, go to court, put in prison etc. I have never abused him. Yes, verbally we argue a lot, but that is our way. It's also coupled with frustration and carer burnout to be honest. But I have most certainly not been abusive. I'm so worried that they will believe whatever these allegations are and that my entire life will end up being affected and ruined.