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School have just been to dads to make sure he was OK, as soon as school turned up, ex jumped in the car LEFT the eldsest and said to the teacher "cant stop Ive got a plane to catch!"
Im just dumbstruck this morning.
Lost for words.
I'm confused, I thought your eldest was with you and the dad had already left?
He still is with me, hes still at his old school.
We also though he had left, he told eldest he was flying out on Tuesday / wed (cant rememebr what he said) Clearly hes lied.
Im just waiting on the social worker ring me now. No wonder the eldest is such hard work, hes really going through the mill. Why tell a child lies? Why?
...had your eldest left school and gone round to his dads then! Is that why the school,went round there? Still a bit confused, sorry!
Yeah, sorry, I was all pent up didnt explain properly.
Ex told eldest he was flying abroad on Tuesday / Wednesday.
Eldest has walked out of school this mroning.
Teacher rang me to say he was going to look for him.
In the mean time, dad rang me at work ranting about how [censored] I am, how I cant even keep him in school and what should he do with him cause he had a flight to catch!
Then the teacher called me again to say edlest had turned up at dads (dad must have rung school), and they were going to go round and check he was OK given the child protection issue which came about last friday.
Half hr later, teacher called again to say he had taken the eldest to my dads. he said he was horrified at the lack of concern from dad, said his priorities were clearly with that of his lady frined and not of his son who was in a terribly emotional state, and he was desperate to get away for this flight!
Ive got the social worker ringing me in the next 20 mins (she says!)
Ah ok... Poor boy.
Well I hope you get somewhere with the SS. They need to support your application for an emergency residence order and you should push them to do so.
Im confused now :/
They said eldest is fine with me. If he was to go back to dad there would be massive concerns because of his malicious, aggressive behaviour.
They are now pulling away from the case because they have no concerns with me.
They advised to move schools and cut all contact, if he wants contact then he needs to apply through the court.
I should submit an emergency application as soon as possible.
I dont feel comfortable with that.
Hi,
I would say comfortable with that or not you need to submit the forms, the father hasn't shown any responsibility towards your son so he needs to be with you where he can be cared for and helped to get over what is happening.
When the father returns he will have to then decide what he does but your son will legally be with you so he would then have to apply for contact order ect again.
It may not seem fair to do this while the ex is away, but I don't think you have much choice as if you wait until he gets back then you will have longer to wait to get this sorted and if SS are on side with it then I would get the forms sorted ASAP.
GTTS
What aren't you comfortable with crocs?
Forms going in Thursday.
Just not comfortable with SS pulling away like that. No offer of help, nothing. How can it go from a child protection issue last Friday to pullin away this friday?
...they can be like that, they only seem to deal with crisis but nothing in between!
Greyling may be able to give you some pointers about how to deal with them and get the best from them, he seems to know a bit about it!