First child contact hearing tomorrow and no Cafcass safeguarding report has been issued

[Soopermum1]

The hearing is tomorrow morning and, as of yet, the Cafcass safeguarding letter has not been sent. It was supposed to be sent yesterday, as per the court order.

Ex's solicitor will not exchange position statements until they receive the letter. So, even if the letter arrives today, she'll need to speak to ex so I doubt I'll get his position statement until the end of the day.

What can I do? This does not give me much time to prepare.

Still no information from Cafcass, court or ex's solicitor. I am representing myself so am worried I will be walking, unprepared and unsupported into a minefield.

Have you called Cafcass to chase?

No, should I?

Given the timing, now, I'd prefer the hearing to be postponed

Have you still not heard anything?

You can contact the court first thing in the morning - or even turn up there - and ask for the hearing to be adjourned.

Just tell them you have not received the safeguarding report.

They will adjourn.

I emailed the court at 4.30pm, cc ing his solicitor and she immediately sent the statement. The court has sent me the details for the call tomorrow. But still no Cafcass statement.

This happened to me and the court wouldn't proceed until they had the report. It was postponed 2 months to sort it. They didn't decide that until we were in the first hearing.

Do please go to court in the morning. They will sort it there and then. Good luck.

(By "sort it" I mean adjourn.)
I too had to represent myself so I feel for you.

Ex's solicitor wrote a position statement saying it was being submitted without seeing the Cafcass safeguarding letter and she would change it after she's seen the letter. I thought we both were to submit the position statement last month, well ahead of the Cafcass letter deadline. I'm so confused and his lawyer is very slippery.

Is it normal to send/ resend position statements after Cafcass reports have been issued?

How did everything go today? Did you manage to get adjourned?

No. It proceeded, the Cafcass safeguarding report came through 15 minutes beforehand with a note saying they did this to protect the applicants and/ or children. Don't know if that's a standard thing or not 😳

As predicted, a full catalogue of violence and abuse was documented so it's onto the S7 report and another hearing in the summer.

His solicitor seemed rather flustered.

Well done for getting through today.
Hang on in there.

@soopermum1 is your ex having interim contact op?

No @Pebbledashery no contact (relief)

@soopermum1 God such a relief. My ex is very violent and cafcass saw straight through him.. But he's currently having interim supervised in a contact centre.. We have a fact finding in summer where he is just going to lie and lie.. I'm praying the section 7 makes some kind of recommendation that doesn't put us at risk of further danger. We were removed from our county by children's services and relocated to safety away from him. This monster has no idea where we live.
Do you have a fact finding listed x