Could a past messy home affect homelessness and social services decisions?

[charM89]

Hi me again...

A few months ago we let the home become very messy :( it was bad!
I'm disabled and was going through a bad place and in a lot of pain, we acknowledged this and now our home is clean always!

If we are deemed intentionally homeless due to the messy home and social services do become involved will they take the children or acknowledge that we have cleaned and now keeping on top of the cleaning?

I'm worrying because if we are found that we lost our home due to not cleaning it social services will see this and take the children :(

who is the we and how old are the children?
who intrvened with the messy house and how bad was it?
did you require a professional deep clean?

Why are social services involved?

If your current home is clean, SS won't remove your children on those grounds.

I'm going to be honest as someone who has worked in SS and housing, I know you don't mean messy. Messy is dry laundry on beds for a day. It wasn't like that I assume. Bad excess belongings, cleanliness, safety and so on? No one loses their housing for 'mess'. And I say that knowing that life can get away from you and it can be really hard.

Why have you started another thread about this?
You had plenty of advice on the last one.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/legal_matters/5566631-terrified-of-losing-children

You can’t be evicted for a messy home.

i presume therefore there were other things going on?

are you private renting or in social housing?

It was bad :( I was in bed for days with a bad back and my 17 year old daughter had left rotten food on the kitchen side etc...

Social services were called then and had no concerns as we cleaned it.

Since then it's stayed clean! However we are being evicted from our landlord due to neglect of the property and I'm terrified that when social services are called again they will remove the children even though we have kept it clean

How old are your other children?

The other thread is so much more informative. I'd ask MNHQ to close this one!

You have already asked this question on your last thread, you were given lots of advice, none of which you listened to.

You will NOT be classed as intentionally homeless - your landlord is selling the property.

You've made numerous threads about this, and had lots of advice (including 13 pages of advice on a single thread just yesterday).

Instead of starting another one, you'd be better off seeking support for your anxiety.