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X feels Xx presents an unassessed risk in respect of spending time with Baby . In addition her older children are aware of their xxx disclosures and she would be concerned about the emotional impact on them if they knew baby was seeing his father. X feels that baby could only be safeguarded if contact was supervised and conditions were put in place around this.
Consideration to be given to whether a Fact Finding hearing is required
What do you think the outcome will be
I'm very limited in my knowledge on this, but I would say that if there are safeguarding concerns, then unless those can be conclusively disproven, a judge would have to order a s7 report, and supervised contact would seem resonable at least while that is happening. However, it is very difficult to predict the outcome as it depends onthe judge on the day.
It's already been investigated by social services and police and both said case is closed because there is no evidence. Cafcass did not have the report before I got sent the letter from them
With such little information it's impossible to predict, but if agreement can't be reached it's likely to go to a contested/finding of fact hearing.
If the allegations have already been dealt with and there's no case open, the court should try and move it forward. It may be that they take a cautious approach and agree for contact to be supervised in a contact centre. If this is offered I would advise that you take it as it's a starting point t and once you can show that you have a good relationship with the child and can care appropriately, contact can be moved out of the centre.
The court will take into account the age of your child, it you can push for contact to be tailored to your child's age and increasing independence from the mother.
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