Social services - absolutely terrified
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Hi,
I don't know if this is the right place to put this but my husband is up for sentencing this week or next and all of a sudden the thought of social services and supervised contact etc is scaring the hell out of me.
He has a brilliant pre sentence report, 2 psychiatric reports that all say how remorseful he is, the offences were linked to mental health rather than predatory behaviour etc. Then today we had an updated PSR which completely disagreed with everything, said the psychiatrist was wrong, the first PSR was completely wrong and she literally disagreed with everything. Luckily, our solicitor has said that a judge almost certainly won't believe one bad report over three really good ones.
Anyway, because of this new report, Ive all of a sudden become really aware that social services are going to become involved and it's not going to be over once he's sentenced, it's just going to get harder.
Can someone please tell me what happens?
If the SHPO does say about unsupervised contact with children, will he be able to have supervised contact straight away when he comes home after sentencing? Will I be able to supervise? My Dad lives with us and he's fully supportive so I always assumed that was a good thing. When he comes home (he was remanded), he has to live with his mother and the plan was to stay at his mothers with him all of us, until social services approved him coming home but now I realise that's probably not going to happen. I'll have to stay with him for a few nights a week at his mothers if I can have my parents have our 8 year old son. But can he still see him while the risk assessment is going ahead?
My little boy just wants his daddy and it's breaking my heart. I genuinely don't know how much more I can take, it feels like my life is being ripped apart every 5 minutes and just when I think things will be okay, my world shatters again.
I don't know if this is the right place to put this but my husband is up for sentencing this week or next and all of a sudden the thought of social services and supervised contact etc is scaring the hell out of me.
He has a brilliant pre sentence report, 2 psychiatric reports that all say how remorseful he is, the offences were linked to mental health rather than predatory behaviour etc. Then today we had an updated PSR which completely disagreed with everything, said the psychiatrist was wrong, the first PSR was completely wrong and she literally disagreed with everything. Luckily, our solicitor has said that a judge almost certainly won't believe one bad report over three really good ones.
Anyway, because of this new report, Ive all of a sudden become really aware that social services are going to become involved and it's not going to be over once he's sentenced, it's just going to get harder.
Can someone please tell me what happens?
If the SHPO does say about unsupervised contact with children, will he be able to have supervised contact straight away when he comes home after sentencing? Will I be able to supervise? My Dad lives with us and he's fully supportive so I always assumed that was a good thing. When he comes home (he was remanded), he has to live with his mother and the plan was to stay at his mothers with him all of us, until social services approved him coming home but now I realise that's probably not going to happen. I'll have to stay with him for a few nights a week at his mothers if I can have my parents have our 8 year old son. But can he still see him while the risk assessment is going ahead?
My little boy just wants his daddy and it's breaking my heart. I genuinely don't know how much more I can take, it feels like my life is being ripped apart every 5 minutes and just when I think things will be okay, my world shatters again.