My daughter came home a couple of weeks ago with a black eye over her birthday weekend, with the excuse that she fell & bumped her head on a table. She has a 3 month old baby. She is a care leaver due to CSE & is vulnerable. She has been with this violent man for nearly 2 years. He previously assaulted her twice all fully documented/evidenced by social services & police whilst she was living in independent living accommodation under the local authority full care order. The social services carried out a pre-birth assessment prior to the baby being born. At this point she moved in with his family (mum & dad). When my daughter told her partners mother she had been assaulted before by her son, the mother told her to lie to social services & so my daughter fled back home my house. Social services placed the baby on a child protection plan due to previous domestic violence. She told social services about his mum telling her to lie to them. But then she later returned to be with her violent partner in his family home. I was supposed to do a domestic violence awareness course including his mother, according to the first social worker (earlier this year) then she left & the 2nd social worker changed her mind & said it wasn’t needed! My question is why is it that my daughter has been allowed to stay at this family home when she is not safe. The mother of this violent man isn’t protective of my grandson or my daughter & has proved this several times. What’s going on? Plus I’ve been blocked by my daughter because I have told her she has been hit by him. And I’ve also been told by social services that my daughter has withdrawn consent to share information with me? How is this all allowed to happen? This isn’t me being malicious, the evidence was on her face & he has attacked her not so long ago as I’ve mentioned earlier. They saw her black eye & took pictures. I’ve had to approach family mediation, they have signed off a C100 court form where I intend to apply for a child arrangements order tomorrow, as my daughter has completely cut contact with me & stopped me seeing my grandson.
Any advice or recommendations would be most helpful
thanks