Keeping my son in hospital against my will

[TaashenMartian]

My son was born at 34 weeks on the 14th October with a heart condition. For the duration of his life (2 months) we have been in different hospitals. He is now stable enough to go home until his operation but because me and my sons dad had an argument in the hospital social services are involved and they won’t let us take him home. I have another child (a3 year old) who is still in my care and they have no plans to take her away. I want to know if they can legally keep my son in hospital due to safeguarding issues If my daughter is still in my care? Can I legally self discharge him if he is well enough to go home even though social services are involved? They have no reason to take my children from me as all it was was an argument, hence why my daughter is still in my care. But they are refusing to discharge my son until the case is resolved. Can they legally do this? What rights do I have? I feel if there are real safeguarding issues and my son can not be in my care then surely my daughter can’t either? Any advice would be much appreciated. This is incredibly stressful and I just want my son home for Christmas

I'm only interested in the welfare of children, that is the only thing I am arguing for here.

OP says there have been meetings so there MUST be more than OP is saying. OP has said numerous times that these are the ONLY issues so either she is not posting the full details or she does not understand the situation.

It could still be that SS are deliberately lying or have made errors but we can say for certain that there is more to it than these two issues. Whether the ‘more’ is genuine concerns or lies/mistakes from HCPs & SW we won’t know.

Bubbaleo what you are describing sounds like a completely different situation to the OP. It does sound like an awful situation to be in though.

So basically, you're on the same side as me then. I still have all the documented evidence and one day we will get justice for the children.dd managed to keep quite strong up until a certain point. A child mediator met us all regularly to go through the reports with dd. She said the reason dd was staying strong was down to us, the parents. Unfortunately, she was not allowed to participate in the court sessions to say this. Eventually it took its toll and dd still needs therapy to this day. She and our other dc are the reason we want justice. For them, not because of a grudge. Again, thankyou for reading.

I'd like to think so.

Again, I am not saying that mistakes and cock ups do not happen. But in my extensive experience, things just simply do not occur in the manner that OP presents them as. That presentation of events however, is extremely common.

Ok, but in KillerFairy's case, I don't think posters should keep asking what the "off the cuff" remark to gp was. She doesn't have to divulge.

No she doesn't, but neither does she have to attack other posters for caring about children on other thread.

Taashen, still thinking of you and ds. Hope the situation has been resolved and that ds is ok.

OP I hope you manage to enjoy Christmas with both your children

Any update op?