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I talked to CAFCASS and they told me they are not dealing with it now and i should call the socail worker, i have called them today and they will call me back tomorrow.
but CAFCASS did say if i do my own drug test it may help, but the court may or may not order another one, but they said it will not do any harm doing my own and it would show i am doing my best to have contact.
they said the court may not order a section 7 report.
is it good that CAFCASS are not involved?
I thought only CAFCASS do a section 7 report if ordered by the court
CAFCASS are ordered as part of any child court hearing. They specifically state that social services were previously involved in your case. They have referred it back to your local authority social services I guess mainly cause they are too busy but also to consider whether a section 7 is carried out. This is to my knowledge is a fact finding mission going through the evidence to weight up whether the allegations have any truth to them. Clearly preparing for these problems eg with hair and blood test would help your cause. You need to carefully go through all her allegations and have a response for everyone so you can press ahead with improving contact.
Good luck
Its not just because CAFCASS are too busy, but also because SS were previously involved, and have the time to do a more in depth report and continue reporting/checking on the family and basically the safeguarding concerns are pretty serious. Generally in my area if the Court have been informed of SS involvement, they will not involve CAFCASS but get SS to do the report.
It will certainly help if you do drug and alcohol tests. If you produce a copy of the results to the Court prior to the next hearing you should provide SS and the ex solicitors with a copy also. However, saying that, you should have permission to file the reports with the Court, i.e. via a Court Order.
I also would not get the tests done too early, i.e. if your next hearing is September, you want the reports to be as up to date as possible, i.e. August/September.
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