This parent has shared her story about her struggles with social care workers and proper practice regarding Child Protection Conferences in terms of timeframes. There have been several lie, inaccuracies and false allegations from the social care team. There is clearly a lack of knowledge of SEND and mental health within the Children's Social care team which, in cases like this one, have a detrimental impact on the child and family but with nothing seemingly been done to improve this known weakness in the service.
"Not the first time myself and daughter have had bad experiences with Services which have led to trauma and fear. And unfortunately find ourselves back in this situation again!! Been placed on a section 47 due to my daughters impulsiveness which comes from her many different diagnosis, but surely social services should be following their own guidelines especially after the circus of a show the last time around, for instance sending a police officer with a social worker trained in section 47 to my home with no notice to see my daughter but the social worker they sent is the old one who used to work with us and actually lied about doing a referral to Barnardo's which I have proof of and actually made a complaint about, why would they do that? Then getting a phone call on Monday 15th August from an Advocate for my daughter but the Child protection conference is on Wednesday 17th one full day notice really isn't acceptable! And I'm supposed receive the report 48hrs prior to this and once again I didn't I received it around 11.15am Tuesday 16th. And I was also entitled to spend sometime with the conference chair and this was never offered although I did mention this in the meeting I was told by that the Advocate for my daughter was this person and I know that this is not true. When the police officer came back out the day after with another social worker I felt as though I had no other choice but to try and force my daughter to speak with these people and she just wouldn't they then proceeded to go up my stairs and talk through the door which has a hole in to my daughter who at this point was getting increasingly more distressed as she told them and shouted at them No and to go away she was also naked in bed, they came downstairs after about 15mins and I asked the question of what happens if she won't talk and they said they will keep coming back out so I said you are not the only ones she won't speak to. These people are clearly not taking into consideration that my daughter has very complex needs I rang early help myself to get some support but once again I feel as though I've let my daughter down massively because I feel as though we've been tricked because I was told to access the MaC (making a change team) I had to consent to social services involvement but I thought at the most it would be a child in need not child protection and I believe fully it is going to make things worse. We have in the past been on this and it never helped us in any way shape or form and the work they promised never happened and to many lies where told."
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