Positive social services stories please

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Hi

we have been asked by social services to come and assess my child and our family due to an incident that has happened. I believe it’s a section 17 as they have repeatedly told us this is voluntary. We will agree to it because I don’t want to make the situation worse by declining the assessment.
I am looking for positive outcome stories from parents if possible as I am out of my mind with worry over it all.
many thanks x

At one stage I had regular SS reports (violent and abusive ex, various ridiculous accusations). I always found them sensible, focused on the right questions and they always gave me glowing write ups! (The Family Courts on the other hand...)

Thank you x

My family had a brilliant social worker for many years, they were mainly involved due to disability but helped us through lots of other issues too.

I went on to work in social care (child protection) and the many thank you cards and hugs I've received over the years speak for themselves. I had one woman credit me with saving her/ her child's life.

Advice would depend on how high tariff the incident was.

Is it domestic abuse?

I had a good run in with them. Child presented with a non accidental injury had all the xrays and checks ect and was put into the care of my mum. I was allowed to stay with my mum and children (thier dad didn't stay) while the process was going on. I did all this voluntary as I needed to know what had happened, too. So they did all their assessments and reports, and I got a unanimous vote that the children didn't need protecting.

Throughout, they explained everything to me, and they were just phone call away for questions. It obviously was a very stressful time but the social worker was good with us.

We still don't know what actually happened, but I've had no more dealings with social.

Dad is now an ex as I didn't trust he didn't do it.

Margot this gives me a lot of reassurance thank you x

Carebearsonmybed it’s not domestic abuse no. My child and another child had an incident where they were both undressed. I don’t want to go into too much detail due to the nature but they are young children and my son had heard things from school.

My children ended up on the at-risk register due to my ex's alcoholism. During the initial investigation the social worker we had was ok but not great. I think she was overloaded with work so I made it a point to always make a note of what she'd said and then send a confirmatory letter to make sure it was on paper. There were a couple of instances when I was glad I'd done that.

She was replaced with a new SW who was fantastic. This new one always made it very clear what was expected from me and my ex as well as organising a variety of assistance for my ex's problems. Plus she was so low-key with my children that they just thought she was a friend of mine who popped in occasionally for a chat. Once it became clear that, despite the many chances given, my ex was going to continue drinking the SW made a solid plan for how to manage contact in the future and managed the removal from the register. She really was very good at her job and I owe her a lot.

Thank you HowardTJMoon x