Are Child Care Services ever held to account?
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Brief background - Our daughter put on CPP after OH investigated for IIOC. Knock was November last year.
Its been SIX weeks since CPP plan agreed.
We have had Zero communication with SS since then.
Many text messages sent to SW - voice mails left, no answer.
No Core Group meeting.
No 3 weekly visit from SS (mentioned at conferance)
No starting my Supervising Course, documented as starting three weeks ago.
No Risk asesment for OH.
Prior to OH moving out they were round every other day threatening with having our child taken into care.
Called SS who wont give me any contact details for Manager or anyone else in their department. Took my number and assured me they would ring me back (Yawn!).
Other than the generic "Make a complaint" form online it seems SS are totally uncontactable and are utterly unchallengable. I have made a formal complaint but had no response.
With Solicitors costing a minimum of £250 per hour we simply cant afford this route.
Ive looked for contact details of the Director at County SS but nothing.
The only person I can possibly contact is our MP but with the stigma surrounding these offences I doubt they will be likely to get involved.
I am horrified that a govenment body can get away with this behaviour and there seems no way to bring anyone to account.
Yes I am supporting my OH. My child desperately wants him back in her life and is struggling emotionaly with this.
Is ther anything I can do to re-engage SS in moving forward?
Thanks.
Its been SIX weeks since CPP plan agreed.
We have had Zero communication with SS since then.
Many text messages sent to SW - voice mails left, no answer.
No Core Group meeting.
No 3 weekly visit from SS (mentioned at conferance)
No starting my Supervising Course, documented as starting three weeks ago.
No Risk asesment for OH.
Prior to OH moving out they were round every other day threatening with having our child taken into care.
Called SS who wont give me any contact details for Manager or anyone else in their department. Took my number and assured me they would ring me back (Yawn!).
Other than the generic "Make a complaint" form online it seems SS are totally uncontactable and are utterly unchallengable. I have made a formal complaint but had no response.
With Solicitors costing a minimum of £250 per hour we simply cant afford this route.
Ive looked for contact details of the Director at County SS but nothing.
The only person I can possibly contact is our MP but with the stigma surrounding these offences I doubt they will be likely to get involved.
I am horrified that a govenment body can get away with this behaviour and there seems no way to bring anyone to account.
Yes I am supporting my OH. My child desperately wants him back in her life and is struggling emotionaly with this.
Is ther anything I can do to re-engage SS in moving forward?
Thanks.
If your child is on a CPP you should be getting visits every 2 weeks.
I had an intial conference back in November, still to this date haven't had a core meeting but they put the blame on me due to working full time when in actual fact they cancelled 2. They are full of threats, and lies.
Is your OH allowed supervised contact with yoir child?
Hope you're OK - it's a horrible time isn't it.
Also I tried getting legal advice - they aren't interested until it goes to court, they basically sided with SS and told me to think about what I was doing by staying in a relationship.
I had an intial conference back in November, still to this date haven't had a core meeting but they put the blame on me due to working full time when in actual fact they cancelled 2. They are full of threats, and lies.
Is your OH allowed supervised contact with yoir child?
Hope you're OK - it's a horrible time isn't it.
Also I tried getting legal advice - they aren't interested until it goes to court, they basically sided with SS and told me to think about what I was doing by staying in a relationship.
Keep doing everything youre doing youre end. Your SS should have given you their email as a bare minimum. Do you have the chairs email from your CPP meeting? If not there should be information somewhere about the independent body where youll then either find a number or a name of them you can Google and then ring, ask to speak to a chair. They need to be informed that SS one havent seen you and a core CPP meeting should have been made by now. Theyre meant to see you every 10 days on a CPP