If your child half sister

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Was now getting social services involvement due to their behaviour at the resident parents home, would you expect their half sibling to be assessed too?

Depends on what the outcome of the assessment is.

No...

Sorry just asking as I've been made aware by the mom to be prepared for my child to be assessed. But not sure how that should happen ? She doesn't live with us and the behaviour doesn't happen here only over there, but because my partner is both their dads my child could be assessed too according to her.

No. That's not how it works.

No.

Surely it would depend on the circumstances. It’s not hard to think of certain reasons that they might deem issues in one child to also be relevant to another child with whom they share a parent. Not to say that they necessarily apply here.

Social services tend to help the whole family not individual children. If your child is resident there, then that they are a half sibling is irrelevant. If their sibling is displaying challenging behaviour it will be effecting them, they live in the same house, then of course their needs should be considered by SS.

but because my partner is both their dads my child could be assessed too according to her.

I would think it depends whether social services suspect the shared parent to be the problem.

The fact that you said "mom" leads me to think that you're not in the UK, in which case we can't tell you what SS will do as they operate differently in different countries.

How many times will people come on here saying Mom must be American when it's used in England as well. (Birmingham and the West Midlands especially). They don't call it social services in the states it's child protective services, anyway.

If your sibling spends time with their sibling and the dad or step parent then of course they will want to be seen by SS too, if they have no contact with dad, half sibling or half siblings other parent or anyone within the household, then maybe they wouldn't need to. But if they spend time in the household they will be part of it

It dos depend a bit why the half sibling is under SS though whether it's due to SEND or due to child protection reasons.

Not due to sen, it's just down to her behaviour in general, running away etc. she comes to us every other weekend

All this happens at her mothers house and whilst with her friends over that way

dont think they would get involved for that reason tbh how old are both children ?