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Contact centre closed for Christmas and Cafcass

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DrainHole · 23/11/2017 10:13

So my partner has a league or rights question.
So the contact Centre where we have to been take our little one will be not be open the Saturday just before Chrismas and the cort order say he (father of child) is to have contact every week at the Centre for 2hrs.
Where there has been a week off in the past there has been compensation of a missed week and for the next two weeks he would see his daughter for three hours.
So Cafcass have step in (out of the blue) and said that that’s week contact would happen at the offices, not on the Saturday.
Ok the problem is now Cafcass is not involved with any contact relations as the father of the child at the last court hearing has also said “he does not agree with the report” and now he seemed to gone running back to cafcass saying the won’t see his child before Christmas.
The mother has not said yes or no to this meeting at pressent and it has put a hold but will need an answer at some point soon.
Cafcass have not really help the mother or have listened to what she has said and the 2 reports they have created have been very one sided to the father.
And I does not help that he has already been compensated with extra hours already but we not sure if the judge had already taken note of the closure weeks
So the question is
Does she say NO to this none contact centre meet which is out of the blue and have it compensated on the other side of Christmas as a three hour (extended) sessions.
Or agree with Cafcass for this Christmas gift for the father?
Thank you in advance.

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MrsBertBibby · 23/11/2017 11:04

I would you suggest you go along with what CAFCASS are suggesting.

Familylawsolicitor · 23/11/2017 11:59

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GummyGoddess · 23/11/2017 12:24

Do as Cafcass suggests, they have offered a place for contact to happen and your partner does not want to look unreasonable to them by refusing.

MrsBertBibby · 23/11/2017 14:54

Also, this whole idea of contact being "compensated" so he gets his allowance and no more is incredibly unattractive to the court.

Contact centre contact is necessarily very time limited because of the cost and restrictions such as opening hours. It is really off putting to hear it treated as some kind of allocation of time that must not be exceeded.

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