My child told school I slapped his face! They called social services even when he retracted what he said!! What now???

[Shoot4theMoon]

My son told a teacher at school I slapped his face for no reason the night before! When asked about it by another teacher he retracted what he said but they had already called social services on me! They are trigger happy about calling SS about people in the school. Social called me and want to go in and speak with my child tomorrow. I’m so worried! What If he says again I hit him in the face? What will social do??

Oh I've no idea on that one sorry @Shoot4theMoon. Hopefully someone with experience will be along soon

If he said you slapped him, that is not being trigger happy to call SS, and many children will retract even when it's true.

What is best to do is engage calmly. It may be that he has misinterpreted something or maybe he's wanting attention or maybe he was telling a tall story and got carried away.

Thank you most of you who were kind to support me, no I didn’t slap him and it is all sorted now the social worker went to speak to him and he said I shouted not slapped and he never used to word slapped, my poor son does speech issues and has been having on going speech therapy for 5 years so iv been in for a meeting the teacher who he told must have his heard him as he said shouted at his face she thought he said slapped across his face. Don’t know how it was his heard as shouted and slapped don’t sound alike even with my son saying them but this is a new teacher not even a teacher she’s a volunteer and was doing group work about reading books the school have said they were never concerned as such but had to follow it through, if they had of been concerned they wouldn’t have been able to let him come home with me that same day he said it which isn’t how things went he was sent home that day and every day since. So it’s all sorted now and when I said trigger happy by calling social services they have called them on my friend about 8-9 times when her child is tried because her other child didn’t sleep and kept the tired child awake. When her child told a teacher her toddler got out of the pushchair while in the nanas care, she’s now left that school as the social worker told her these were all petty referrals that all could have been resolved without the need for social services and just by a phone call between them and the mum. But never mind it’s all resolved now