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Had my addendum report for my final hearing next week today, weirdly enough it lasted 2 hours which is a whole hour longer than my original section 7. I feel like it went very well, had a male Cafcass officer who told me that he thought my proposals were very good and that I was very child focused!
Only the other hand though, my video call with my son didn't go so well, he wasn't happy because his mum wouldn't buy him something so he kept telling me he didn't want to see me at weekend or talk to me on call today. Try not to take it personally and try to encourage him but he just wasn't interested this time.
The National Association of Child Contact Centres (nacc.org.uk) has some tips on making virtual meetings more meaningful. There are other sites too. Ideas like building lego, origami etc.
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