[Solved] Should we be worried

Hi there

Whenever we look we find good and bad, I would suggest that rather than worry you should adopt cautious optimism. 🙂

Guardians aren't often appointed but we do have a recent case where a members children were appointed a Guardian and the outcome was very positive! Eric14 now has residency of his children and I think it's fair to say that was partly due to the inclusion of the Guardian, who was able to see through the mothers deception, something that had been largely absent from other professionals at the beginning of Eric14s case.

Best of luck with it

Things may have not worked out in that particular case but hopefully things will be different for yours.

When my son was in court at the end of last year, my granddaughter was appointed a guardian and her own solicitor because the mother is showing signs of implacable hostility. Things are not running smoothly. We are waiting for our third guardian to be appointed in less than 4 months due to the other 2 going off sick. They promised that time would have increased from 2 hours to more within a few weeks but because of them keep going off sick, we are still on only 2 hours.

We had a Cafcass officer originally before we were appointed a guardian and he had the time increased by 1 hour every couple of weeks but the mother stopped contact, so that never happened.

I hope your experience works much better than ours is at present.

Thank you both, They have been requested to arrange Contact as Mother has Child so Scared of his Daddy...She has, from the Beginning( 2 years in almost) been Implacable Hostility.

In a recent form of Communication with another Caff Cass Officer ( Safeguarding check) Made these recommendations to the Court and this is what the now Appointed Officer has to Comply with.

Initial Advice to Court

Cafcass safeguarding is complete.

The Court should consider releasing all relevant papers from the previous proceedings, reference no. xxxxxxxxx, into these current matters.

It may assist the Court if the parties file statements regarding the allegations and concerns raised.

It may also assist if advance police disclosures are sought, once the parties provide specific dates/times of the alleged incidents occurring during handovers.

Cafcass may assist the Court further by completing a section 7 report about Mr xxxx enforcement application, regarding the long term arrangements for xxxxx, who he should live with, who he should spend time with and any risks posed to him by his parents.

The parties’ are suitable to attend a Separated Parenting Information Programme (SPIP).

The parties are not suitable to attend Family Mediation.

The Mother has yet again made allegations which can be proven to be False ( all attempted handovers have been recorded) . She advised Caff Cass that she had reported My Son to Police..Then in last Hearing she advised it was only Logged with Police. She has to produce that evidence by this week.

She has refused SIP,S Course twice previously . On Solicitors advise we are to Play Recordings to Caff Cass as it can be clearly heard with her saying "No Judg e will tell her what to do"

Hi There,

I would mirror what has been said already, if you go looking you will always find things that trouble you, but it's only the bad side of things that get listed on line as the better things don't need to be discussed as they just happen and people move on.

Keep a clear head and look forward and don't focus too much on what you have read.

GTTS