Social services

[Coreycristiano]

Hi
Im wondering if anyone has any experience or information .

Currently have a child aged 9.
Medical assessment by social services section 47 deemed child’s injury consistent with explanation from child that dad did to child ( dad denying what he did )

Child lives with me not dad. Dad has two other children living with them.

Police have no further actioned it due to him denying it.
Will Social services see he’s lying and did infact do this and continue section 47 even though child lives with me??

Told to keep child with me and wait for dad to go to court for access.

Dad has long history of violence and domestic abuse on both myself and current partner.

What are the chances of dad getting unsupervised contact??

Will the courts drag all his past up etc? Note him and current partner have already had social service involvement previously and he’s attended parenting course etc.

Tia

Hey, I have been a social worker for 10 years and may be able to help.

The threshold for children's services is that there is a likelihood that harm has been committed rather than beyond reasonable doubt in the court system. I would say if it is in S47 then that recognises that they feel your child has experiences or likely to experience significant harm which is the threshold for S47. S47 can only continue for a 10 day period, then they have to make a decision about whether he continues to be at risk of signciant harm of not, if he isn't having contact with his father and no other issues with yourself at home then I would say they wouldn't be able to meet this threshold and it would step down to Section 17 threshold which is child in need. We often tell one parent to not allow contact and for the other parent to go to court for this, this is a way of managing the risks associated with the other parent. The courts will look at EVERYTHING. They will either instruct a CAFASS officer or a social worker from Children's Services to complete a report, but only if he applies to court. he might not, many parents don't.

Hoping that has helped

That’s great. Thankyou.

so they have other children living in their house with them ( different county ) my county have closed the section 47 our end as my sons safe with me.

what will likely happen re SS their end? Due to them having kids living with them?

will the court take into account the medical evidence even though the police didn’t have enough evidence apparently to arrest?

SS will be informed in their area and likely an assessment will be carried out on their children due to the risk he is perceived to pose, this may or may not be under s47, depends I guess on the info and any information they have on him/family.

The Court would have to consider the medical evidence as the family courts threshold is also about 'likelihood of harm'. but it also depends on what the injury was and the context around it was to know what decisions the court might make. Unlikely the court will request supervised contact unless really bad or if there is lots of concerns

That’s great thank you.

so from a SS point of view from the assessment their end, they have other children living there, have had previous SS involvement I. 2018, what’s likely to come out of that assessment etc??
cos it’s a different area their not telling me anything but I feel I should have a right to know at what their doing about my sons dad that has done this surely. X

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