Refusing to allow contact weekend to go ahead

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Scenario - contact weekend coming up where child (6) would normally be spending the weekend at Father’s home in London. He lives in a flat with shared entry way and staircase. There is also another child (16) living with Father who I know from social media was out socialising in central London on Saturday.

At home we live in an isolated area of South Wales, with very few neighbours and a large garden. Neither I nor child have left the house since last Tuesday.

I am extremely reluctant to allow contact to take place this weekend, not least if he passes on an infection we’ll struggle to cope as I’m a lone parent with no family or support network.

AIBU to say that contact should not proceed as planned? The country is on a lockdown for goodness sake and he wants me to take a child hundreds of miles to where there’s currently a hotspot of cases??

When that particular post you refer to was made, the UK legal community, cafcass and government were very clear on child arrangement orders

Cafcass has never at any point said that children must have contact under any circumstances. Your advice was incorrect at the time, and I pointed this out ten minutes after you posted it.

Just no, don’t send a child to the area which has the most cases, just common sense. This is what is best for the child.

Thank you TooTrusting and OP for this thread. It has been really helpful. I have vulnerable person living with me and have been concerned about shared care of my DC.