Child Arrangement Order - Non Recent Abuse

[Gealevno86]

Hi All,

Hoping you can help me please with some legal advice around child arrangements via family court.

I have 2 children, a teenage boy and a younger daughter, different fathers. I split from my daughters father 7 years ago and we went through a lengthy process of mediation and family court to agree on contact. Contact is every other weekend, over night stay.
Last year, my son came forward to tell me when he had suffered sexual abuse whilst I was with my daughters father. There was a lot of detail in it and due to the innocence of my son, it was very clear he was telling the truth. Mixed with the fact that he tried to tell me many years ago and I regrettably didn't take it very seriously to which he then retracted at the time.

All was reported to the police and a full investigation has taken place. Unfortunately we are still waiting for counselling for my son. Today we found out that there is not enough evidence to proceed any further with the case.

Amongst a lot of things that I need to sort out, one is going to be the contact between my daughter and her father. Throughout the investigation, I took advice from social services and we moved contact between them to supervised visits so that she can still maintain a relationship with her father.

The fact that the case can't be taken any further has had a huge affect on our household but we were aware that could be the case when we first reported it due to it being historic.

But what happens next? Case closed, return to normal?
I certainly don't want any contact with him. I wont allow him anywhere near my doorstep. I want to maintain the contact for my daughters sake but I want the supervision to remain. But if there's no case, where do I stand with this? What's to stop him taking us back to family court to reinstate the original child order arrangement?

Any advice would be really valuable. I'm not looking to stop contact, I just want it supervised by a professional to protect my daughter. Whilst she has not reported anything of concern, she would have been 2 at the time.

Thank you.

Was your son abused by your daughter's father ? If so why do you want her to have contact ?

Yes, that is correct.

In all honestly, I don't want her to have contact at all. But it's been made clear to me that as she has not reported any incidents, he doesn't pose a risk to her. But in my opinion, she'd have been to young to know.
My daughter wants contact with her father and I have to balance what is right for her alongside keeping her safe. Without a conviction, I don't think I have a leg to stand on by refusing contact altogether.

But please let me know if I've been misinformed.

Is your daughter old enough for a court to go with her wishes? Maybe you could suggest to dd's dad that it protects him from any allegations if you continue with supervised contact for now?

She is 10 so I believe so?