We have a court order in place, having been taken to court multiple times by my son's father who was and is abusive.
Over summer, he kept him for 14 days and threatened to call the police if I tried to retrieve him. He's only legally allowed to have him 6 days in a row maximum.
This has meant that I had only seen my son for four days in three weeks so if I didn't have him this weekend, it would be four weeks by the time I was able to spend meaningful time. I communicated this to my son's father but he said he wanted him and if I turned up to school, he would phone the police.
It turned out that his dad is in Greece this weekend anyway so I decided to turn up anyway because I wasn't sure what what was going on given his dad was abroad and not spending the weekend with our son anyway.
When I arrived, they'd said someone had come to pick him up and and his dad had instructed that my son must leave an hour early to avoid me. The school did this no questions asked and I don't know where or who he's with. He's only five.
I'm really annoyed at the school for doing this. We've talked at length about previous times my son has been withheld or not allowed to attend school and we had an agreement that they would seek consent from me first, as the resident parent.
I just feel so unsure and want advice from others about how to go about this with the school and his dad and would you also be concerned? I want to know if my son won't be staying for a full weekend with his dad and would like emergency contact numbers and the address of the person but I don't know if that's reasonable.