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Sorry it’s long! From the beginning, my ex reported me to social services for ‘n…

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Sorry it’s long!
From the beginning, my ex reported me to social services for ‘neglecting’ our daughter last year. Social spoke to me and deemed this untrue. They gave me the option.. either they completely close the case or they refer me to thriving families as I was eligible for their help. I stupidly picked the second option.
My new support worker came to see me in December. She picked up minor things such as my depression (due to my mum moving abroad and was struggling without her – we were very close and saw her nearly every day) and the fact I didn’t have ‘a stable home due to being evicted once the house we were in was put up for sale so we were put in temp accommodation. None of these effected how I looked after my children. Anyway she suggested I go on a parenting course so I have, I finish it in 4 weeks.
Basically we had a meeting in Feb, she said hopefully by the end of June she should be able to close their case as she said I was so much better than I was when she first met me and she would pretty much go away.
Then end of March came, my daughter had an accident at school, was asked to pick her up so I did, I looked at her face as it was swollen so i took her straight to hospital as I knew something wasn’t right.. turns out she had broken her nose. 2 weeks later my youngest fell off the sofa and bumped her head, i observed her, she seemed fine, 3 days later 5 bruises appeared on the opposite side she had bumped, I had no idea how she got them so phoned 111, they told me to take her to hospital so I did, the hospital then rang social on me for ‘unexplained bruising’ which is understandable, I have nothing to hide go for it. We stayed in overnight to observe her and wait for results of her tests to come back, before we were discharged the doctor told me social have no safe guarding concerns and they don’t want to get involved.
The day after my support worker rang me and asked me what was happening about social, I said they don’t want to know, they have no safe guarding concerns. She didn’t seem happy about this for some reason. She contacted them to clarify this. Next thing I know I have been assigned a social worker to do a risk assessment on me. A week later she told me it was a mistake a social worker was assigned by accident. Then a few weeks later she rings me to tell me that I WILL be having a visit from them, a joint one with her and social (this is tomorrow) I have tried contacting social myself but a message got put through to my support worker who then got funny with me and gave me 21 questions as to why I was trying to get hold of them. She’s asked me to clarify my story about both accidents the one at the school & the one when my daughter fell off the sofa several times!

I was also due to have an abortion at the end of April that she urged me into, but I couldn’t go through with it so when I told her I was keeping the baby, she was not happy and she then said she’d be there until after baby is born?! Even though she was supposed to be closing the case next month.
Everything she has told me to do, I have. I’ve jumped through hoops for this women. But I feel she’s tried urging for this social visit, and she’s trying to get my kids taken away from me. That she’s against me rather than with me.
She deems the accomsdation I’m in not stable enough for the children as we could get moved soon.
I’m so stressed out I’m losing so much weight, I can’t eat, can’t sleep all because of this and its not healthy for my baby. Can someone please tell me if I’m being stupid?!
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