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Hopefully someone will come and provide a better answer. We're social services involved at all? My person's conditions state supervised unless authorised by social services which means they have the final say (and prior to our sign off had indicated they'd never allow unsupervised) so they hold the trump card. I am able to supervise but find it draining emotionally and physically having to be on your guard constantly so have stood my ground and said I'll only do it for short spells, special occasions I.e Christmas or birthdays where you would expect the child would want both parents there, and on occasions where there is nobody else available to supervise. I also would not be happy with unsupervised at this point. Not until their conviction was spent, and there was strong evidence my person was actively ensuring their behaviours had changed and stuck to it. Currently they've done the basics to satisfy social services and offender manager but I'd want much higher assurance and commitment before I allowed unsupervised.

Although it won't be a legal restriction it's highly unlikely that ss would allow unsupervised contact unless you are in agreement to that. Depending on your child's age their wishes of non contact would be taken into account if he took you through the court process. Hopefully you'll have this confirmed with ss when they come out to meet with you xxx