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Hi Jazz,
from my dealing with court/cafcass, cafcass only answer to courts. when your hearings are over and you have a final order written up, they will write to you, that cafcass have no further role to play and case closed. And if you have any safeguarding issues then contact local social services. if your not happy with cafcass, you could make a complaint with them:
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/contact-us/feedback-complaints-adults/
You can raise your concerns with the court and if necessary, challenge Cafcass at a final hearing. If the court feel it necessary they can order further reports. You can't just ask for a different report or social worker without following the proper procedures.
Well friends, my final court trial awaits. I've just discovered that I have to do this on my own, so I'm back here to vent my frustration at the whole process.
My court case has come down to 2 days a month! and that is what we are going to trial about and it's what my son does not want with his mother - 2 extra days a month. But if he doesn't want it, why should we agree to it?
Anyway, my son has stated that he doesn't want 'Anything to change' and nobody has listened, from the beginning to now. This process has been a joke from the beginning: CAFCASS made a random judgement based on assumption and nothing else, I visited court 3 times and each time they didn't have the right paperwork and ultimately, CAFCASS didn't turn up to court once. In my last visit to court, I had to show the judge a document on my phone because she didn't have it!
The biggest disappointment has got to be the fact that nobody listened to my son's wishes. He stated his wishes to stay (mostly) with me from the very beginning and yet a year on, we are still haggling over time he doesn't want to lose with me.
Any advice anyone? My sanity has taken quite a hit in the last year!!
hi,
how old is your child?
if you hate the mother, you should still encourage your child to spend time with both parents, unless ofcourse theres serious reason not to.
Wow! Thanks for this. I'll take a look 🙂
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