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Is there advice from parents who have experienced child protection proceedings?

Yes. See :-

1  About Safeguarding - ‘Surviving Safeguarding’  Parents Guide   

2. About Disability - ‘What is it you want, exactly?’ 

3. About being a very young parent without Child Protection proceedings Teenage pregnancy
Voice Box, Childline’s weekly video chat, features Olga talking about her experience of getting pregnant and having a baby at 15.


4. Very good advice about process from parents. (see below extract)
Please read this excellent blog!


§  Keep a record of interactions and write notes on conversations.
§  Keep a diary of events.
§  Email your notes of the conversations with professionals so there is a written record.
§  Bring someone to support you to appointments or at meetings e.g. so you are not on your own and they can also take notes for you. It is helpful to have someone to debrief with who is not as emotionally involved as you are.
§  However you feel, don’t get angry at professionals or the social worker. The social worker may not understand the special educational needs system. You being critical of other professionals, angry at the social worker or refusing to talk to them, supports the picture they have been given. Give the social worker information and evidence to support what you say. e.g. copies of medical letters, diagnosis letters.  …etc. etc


5  The Law Society and others have prepared  guidelines to  assist lawyers when dealing with litigants in person. Many litigants in person feel the system is stacked against them. This document is an effort to ensure the process works for all. If you are a litigant in person they encourage you to read these guidelines and try and follow the process laid out in your case


6  website - Family Lives.




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  • How to Use this Resource
  • Questions/Topics
    • What is Autism?
    • Free training
    • Related Conditions
    • Child Development
    • Communication Needs
    • Challenging Behaviour or not?
    • CP Legislation in England.
    • Why Children's Services?
    • Accomodated By Agreement?
    • Advice from other Parents?
    • Working together.
    • easy-read, video
    • Recording Meetings
    • CP Support for Parents?
    • Support for Families with Autistic Family Members?
    • Are you a Parent/Carer with a Learning Disability?
    • Difficulties Accessing Support?
    • Charge of Fabricating Illness?
    • Secure Settings
    • If your child enters Care
    • If your child leaves Care
  • The Route into Care by Sam.
  • Overview - Autistic Children in Care
  • Criminal Justice System
  • Campaigns.
  • Useful links
  • Expert Reports
  • CONTACT ME
  • Blogspot
    • Risky Business
    • Complexity
    • Not like that
    • The State of Us
    • Commitment
    • Knowing
    • Positive
    • Adversarial and Punitive
    • Hunger
    • Identity
    • Bias
    • Debased
    • Esteem
    • Language
    • Broken Things
    • Stereotypes
    • Failure
    • Our People
    • Rescuing Children
    • Trust
    • Power Dynamics
    • I want to speak
    • Love and Oppression
    • Grief
    • Respect
    • Perfect
    • Confidentiality
    • EHCP Case Study
    • Unwanted
    • The Market in Care and Health
    • Home Education, Changes Afoot?
    • Edge of Care
    • The Grandmother's Statement
    • Fenestra Serious Case Review
    • Something Bad
    • Something Good
    • If Only
    • Working with Families
    • Letter to my Son's SW
    • Difficult Families
    • Mothers of the Disappeared
    • Validation
    • Blame
    • Ethics
    • Burnout
    • Trauma
    • Too Traumatised
    • Stigma
    • Alienation
    • Abuse and Neglect
    • Seeking Help
    • Experts by Experience
    • Too Difficult
    • I'm Sorry
    • Hide the Knives
    • The American Model
    • Magic Money Tree
    • Waiting
    • Why Wait?
    • Fierce
    • Happy ever after