Social services

[Sweet89]

Hi all. I'm looking for some reassurance as I'm feeling very upset and worried.
My son is 9 years old and currently being assessed for autism and adhd, we are almost at the end stage of assessments so will have a diagnosis soon. For the past few months he has been threatening to get a knife and hurt himself, this is usually during a meltdown, it doesn't happen often. Recently one day before school he had gotten upset and threatened to take a knife in school so of course I have to mention it to his teacher. Fast forward to today, I receive a phone call from social services in regards to a referral made by school regarding the knife incident. They asked if I had any support to help with his behaviour and that was pretty much it. Was it schools duty to report this type of incident? Or are they concerned that I am not a good parent. If it was a report of concerns about my parenting would social services have left it at that?

I realise I worded something wrong. So he didn't threaten to take a knife into school, he threatened to grab one in school and hurt himself

It was right for the school to pass on any concerns. A referral doesn’t automatically mean the school have concerns about your parenting.

Is DS receiving support from school? Have you had a carer’s assessment and DS an assessment via the disabled children’s team or are social care going to undertake them? Have you had a home OT assessment in order to make the home safer? If you haven’t already you need to remove DS’s access to anything he could use to hurt himself or others.