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Would you go and speak to a neighbour who reported you to Social care?

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Wonderingwhat2do2 · 05/09/2024 11:50

Context.
Said neighbour is a few doors down and is feeding off information from an immediate next door neighbour whom I have had a falling out with. Neighbour a few doors down knows me to speak to me in the road so I am very disappointed they didn't just knock on the door and speak to me. They are also not aware of the challenges I am currently experiencing regarding DD's behaviour and the reasons why. Said neighbour is also calling up my DDs school asking for information and has been kindly told by school to mind her own.
Should I go and speak to her ? not confront in any way as we all have a duty of care and I understand that, but just to put her in the picture as to what is going on.

OP posts:
T1Dmama · 08/09/2024 22:57

Nope! I wouldn’t speak to her.

You have a choice now…. Either smile and wave whenever you see her, or totally ghost her!

Reugny · 08/09/2024 23:20

emmaloo14 · 06/09/2024 23:43

Actually this isn’t true, I have been a social worker for 15 years and in most instances we do tell people what the referral is and who the referral is made by if we have the details. Keeping secrets doesn’t work in our job.

just in case anyone is worried if you want to make a truly anonymous referral either withhold your telephone number or do it via the NSPCC but make the referral x

Then why would SS tell the parent the wrong person unless they want to cause trouble?

The next time I get told something like that then I will ask the name of the individual social worker to make a formal complaint about them deliberately misleading the parent in order to cause conflict with their neighbours.

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