Re: Am in need of adivce please help

charityworkgirl wrote:
Hi all,

am in need of advice i have my neice staying with me and she is
refusing to return home her mother my sister passed away 6 years ago
and she lives with her father and two other siblins from what i can
gather home life is all but a nightmare drinking, phyical abuse not to
her but her witnessing it on a regular basis and problems at school to
she is only 9 soon to be 10 i have contacted child services and my
solicitor to see what can be done but have been told all a can do is
apply for a residancy order which ive been told will be hard as the
family residance is over 200 miles aways so she wont be able to see
siblings every day which ive heard is going to be difficult to convince
a court it is in her best intreast but the child is adiment that she
wont go home and i to be honest dont feel happy to send her back or
happy that her other siblings are still their any advice on residancy
orders can any one give me many thanks will be gratefuly recived


She is telling you that the kids are being physically abused by a drunken
parent, you have reported this to social services and they've just sent you
away with advice about applying for residency orders?

That's really unacceptable - firstly they have a duty to make those kids are
immediately safe, and secondly they should be supporting a widowed parent to
care for them well. Taking the children away, even to another family
member, is a third and last-option choice.

I suggest that you should repeat your concerns to social services, and
insist upon speaking to a manager. Many councils now use multi-purpose
call-centres, and last time you may have been talking to a clerical-level
customer services droid. Say that you want a letter from them confirming
the concerns you have reported, and the action they are going to take.

If you don't get anywhere, ring the Police and report it again. Same
process, don't be fobbed off by a civilian call-taker (it's not a Police
matter, ma'am) just keep insisting you are reporting violent crimes against
children and you want to know he crime number which has been allocated to
this report.

Well done for listening to the kid and taking her seriously - she's lost her
mum too, and she must be pretty miserable.





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