[Solved] Recent dealings with CAFCAS?

I had a call with them recently and they were quite pleasant. She seemed to empathise with me and agreed with me that the reasons contact stopped was unreasonable and said so in the letter to the court. She was friendly and nice to talk to.
When I had my face to face interview last year, she was awful towards me. She was aggressive and rude because she clearly was on side with me ex. However, when it got to the final hearing, I saw her reading the contact centre notes, she put her head in her hands as she could clearly see my ex had lied to her, in the court room, her attitude completely changed towards me and was a lot more positive.

I suppose it depends on who you get. I've never spoken to a male cafcass officer or social services. So I think it depends if you get a man hater or not

I dealt with them 4 months ago for section 7 report. They said they don't see why they should do another s7, as last one is less than year old. Court still made them do another one.

Was same woman as last year. Pretty straightforward. Shes level headed and reasonable. But she asked why did i report ex to legal aid agency and stress her out. Haha. Pretty much gave what i asked for, extra time with kids.

Thanks Guys, much appreciated, yeah I'm just reading through my guides on dealing with them lol.

She did sound ok on the phone but I know not to trust them, I'm thinking this time round just direct her to the numerous police and social services involvement with the latest her own child phoning them because of the abuse, it feels a little different this time with the same allegations as her neighbours, friends and own child have reported her to the police and SS.

My own child opened up to me just before I last seen her and told me about the years of abuse, I'm reluctant to tell her certain stuff as I dont want my child to be punished more and I want her to carry on being able to speak to me if it gets back to her Mother.

Would they automatically tell the other parent exactly what my child told me?

I'm guessing here, but I would have thought that if they were told, and it was relevant (which abuse obviously is) then it would have to be in the Cafcass report. Perhaps your child can ask cafcass what safeguards can be put in place so that your child can speak freely.

cafcass will do their own digging. they check police records, as well as contact local SS. they visited my daughters school to chat to the head teacher about her. they will interview your kids so should be able to get a good picture of what home life is like with mum. cafcass say they are trained to spot parental alienation aswell. do you have any contact with your child at the moment?

thanks guys no i havent seen my girl for 4 months, the interview with cafcass went well and they seem completely different from years ago when i dealt with them last.

it was pretty positive and I've felt loads better than I have over the past 4 months court is a few weeks away.

They indicated they will be doing an S7 so the case may be adjorned to a later date for that to be conducted, I asked if i will get interim contact at the next hearing and she said it depends what allegations the ex will come out with. I didnt really make any allegations as its all there from when her other daughter phoned the police who reported her to SS, I just told them what my girl told me about all the abuse it was very child focussed so we shall see