Cafcass Child Impact Report

[littleoldone]

Hello,
can anyone add anything or advise who has had a similar situation?

Firstly, I have one child who has always lived with me since birth, never had any issues father has good relationship with child. We split when child was 6mo.

We fell out due to a decline in his mH, he was abusive and I tried to get him prescription meds by calling making him appt at doctors. He was given meds but didn’t take them after week 1. I paid for some counselling for him and that failed due to coronavirus.

Then he became abusive and threatened to kill me and various other voicemails and txts.

He followed me and bullied me.

Eventually, I called the police and reported and he was charged with malicious comms.

I managed to get a non mol order which he broke numerous times and got a suspended sentence for although I still maintained contact via relatives for him with child.
He then became worse and I moved and cut contact to safeguard.

I recieved a c100, I replied he wants contact every other weekend and half holidays.

This has lead to cafcass safeguearding report

He has a stream of convictions, but they have noted I have previous addiction issues on file stated as historical. I am 9 years clean and do not drink at all. I now have a good career and this is recognised in the report.
His probation officer reported him to Marac independently for fixation on me this year.

His last conviction was for DDriving last month. One year after getting license back for same issue.

cafcass report from phone call states the author of next report would have to make recommendations for any contact. The next being child impact report.

does anyone know what that report is ?

any advise would be appreciated greatly, how long does this process take ?

best x

A child impact report will give the court information about the child's needs and experiences. In your case, it should look at the domestic violence and consider the impact that has on your child and on parenting. It may, of course, also look at other issues.

Thank you, should anyone else be able to add their experiences with this I would be grateful.

also, @prh47bridge do you know how this happens? Where ? What it actually entailed ?

Best

I'm not clear what they've done so far but your OP suggests it is a phone call with you. If that is the case, they will want to talk to your child alone. They will also talk to you and your ex and may speak to other people if relevant. They will then write up their report. You should get to see it before the next court hearing.

Yes, with us (a few years ago now), they spent time with my DD alone in person. Then some time with me (and i assume with him). Also spoke to school etc.

Thank you both.

So we’ve just had the safeguarding report which says at the bottom, any interim arrangement for time with the father will need to be at the discretion of the writer of the impact report.

No hearing date has been set as yet.

I haven’t been told what’s next other than the above and that paperwork arrived a couple of weeks ago after a phone call.

I am finding it very stressful and without clarity over next steps it’s worse.

Ive heard these things can take a year to resolve ?!

I feel like that’s not good for my little one time wise .

Fingers Crossed, it won’t take forever for them to conduct what ever they need to conduct and make a decision on visiting his father or not.

Best

I think the report would look into what contact will impact on your child now and in the future - I’m going through all of this atm and had a section 7 report done - it’s hard to see on paper anything negative and I straight away feel defensive as I have always been a constant in their lives and because he now wants more time - our lives are literally on hold and dependent on what strangers decide .. It’s so hard when you have to hand over the ppl that mean the most to you when it goes against your natural instincts- hope you get some stability with a proper plan soon x