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GP said my child is on Child Protection. Confused.

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A2Z987 · 18/01/2022 14:30

Last week had a telephone appointment with my child's GP.
Whilst on the phone, the GP was going through contact details for me and making sure all was up to date on child's record.
GP said "X shows as being on Child Protection..." "is that still the case or do you want me to remove?"
Tbh, I had absolutely no idea my child was EVER on a CP plan, nothing of the sort has ever been mentioned/discussed or brought to my attention before this conversation with the GP.
The only possible things I could imagine that caused someone somewhere to put CP in place are:
When child was a baby, I left abusive marriage to the father. Father had threaten to kill me and snatch baby back to his country of origin. I took legal action to prevent this and did everything humanly possible to protect child and I from him.
Father was convicted at trial for domestic abuse offense.

Second thing that might have triggered a CP alert on child's GP records: 2 years ago, a relative my child (not his father) made some baseless and malicious allegations against me. These were around physical abuse and neglect. Made the allegations to preschool and was quickly rebuffed (no evidence and preschool knew the person was simply malicious), so person made same allegations to social services who also rebuffed them after discussions with preschool. Both places agreed person was being malicious, simply had a dislike of me.

Any social workers or childrens' workers etc on here who could possibly advise me which of the above are most likely to have been the trigger for the CP alert?

I did ask the GP but he had no idea!

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CloseYourEyesAndSee · 18/01/2022 14:32

There is no possible way a child protection plan would have been in place without your knowledge

2 years ago, a relative my child (not his father) made some baseless and malicious allegations against me. These were around physical abuse and neglect. Made the allegations to preschool and was quickly rebuffed (no evidence and preschool knew the person was simply malicious), so person made same allegations to social services who also rebuffed them after discussions with preschool

However this would have triggered enquiries with the GP which is probably what they were confusingly referring to

Widgets · 18/01/2022 14:57

Sounds more like a child protection ‘flag’ on the system which is only usually the case if you have been in contact with children’s social care or they have contacted you regarding a medical issue or incident.
Child Protection ‘plan’ is very different, you would be involved it the plan and made aware of agency meetings etc...

MadeForThis · 18/01/2022 15:05

The GP also wouldn't be able to simplify remove this.

I would phone the GP and clarify what they meant.

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