if someone reports you to the council or social services
can you demand to know who has reported you?
thanks...
wizard66 Fri 25/07/08 14:00
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I don't believe you can Wiz unfortunatly:(
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Do you think it was your neighbour wizard66?
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how are you wizzard? can't you guess, it must be the next door neighbour whose kids came into your home and took food from the fridge.
maybe if you ask nicely you might get an answer.
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no.. who would give info if their details would get passed on to the person they're making an allegation about?
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No you can't. They can keep it from you in case of retaliation, no matter who is 'right' or 'wrong'. Sorry
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No, otherwise nobody would ever report suspected child abuse and so on
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I reported my neighbour to the council several times a few years ago. She guessed it was me anyway.
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Question Author
thanks all...
As you may know, over a week ago I had an "incident" (or more specifically mrs wiz had an incident) with a neighbour, whereby I had to telephone the police because of his threats to my family) Yesterday I recieved a letter from the council asking me to go into the office because I had apparently broken my tenancy agreement ( causing a nuisance etc). We then had a letter off social services asking us to ring them. When we rang them they said that they wanted to visit us as they had recieved a 'referal' and had 'concerns' about my stepson. When the social worker came out she said that she had recieved complaints of smacking and shouts from the kids. She had also been informed that I,ve got convictions for violence (many yrs ago and against adults, not kids). She has said that she is going to telephone our doctor, the childrens LEA advisor (my kids are home educated) and even get in touch with their kickboxing instructor. All of this is stressing us all out.
Ive never smacked my kids in my life and my family is everything to me. However, I did ask if the person that I thought it was had reported us and she said no, but obviously wouldnt elaborate.
Im just about at the end of my tether with it all.
Thanks again guys...
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I bet any money it was your neighbour, if it wasn't its all a bit of a coincedence! I think social services would maybe need proof that you were hurting your kids before they could do anything, they are probably bound to act on any thing reported to them.
Keep calm wizard and steer clear of that neighbour of yours!
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My suggestion wiz is as follows, see a good family solictor regarding the intrusion of social services and don't stand any crap from them and make a written representation to the council that you are the subject of harassment and false allegations by this family and insist that the council deal with the matter on YOUR behalf. The council I think has a duty to ALL of it's tenants to make sure that they can enjoy their residency in peace and quiet and that any anti social elements which prevent this are dealt with. This is why they have spoken to you because clearly someone is winding them up. So my point is, play the system and insist that you are the injured party and that it is their responsibility to ensure that their other tenants do not harass your family.
Also you can play that you are being discriminated against bc of your old convicitons. go for the jugular with the council and get a solictor for god's sake regarding the SS, since you're an unconventional family they'll be looking for problems, and you want to counter them at every turn.
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Thanks CAJ1,
The social worker seemed adament that it wasnt him when I asked, but ive got a feeling that hes been reported to. His music is usually on in the day and his kids run wild (not to mention his barking dog and his friends who usually congragate at night in his back yard, knocking back the special brews) but its gone unusually quiet. They are usually screaming at the kids but theres been none of that and if his kids start mouthing off they are taken in and the door shut. Hes been reported to the council before for causing a nuisance (personally its never bothered me before until he started on my kids, and even now, after whats happened I havnt reported him to the council. I find it all a bit petty) I definitly dont think its him but theres plenty more vindictive neighbours on this estate who have bought their own homes and dont like council "rif raf"...especially ones with a criminal record.
And we all know how social services put two and two together and get five.
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NOX.. thanks for that.
Ive got to go into the council on Monday and will definitly take on board what you have said. Ive also obtained the telephone number of probably the best soliciter in Stoke (wish id known about him before).
Ive got no worries about been an "unconventional" family regards home educating the kids (I presune thats what you meant) We have a fantastic LEA inspector who visits every 6 months and is very supportive of us, plus, he is actually my old headmaster from high school and a magistrate to boot
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Wizz, keep calm and dont escalate it by doing anything rash.
Dont stress too much about, the council are duty bound to investigate, but they will soon see it for what it is, a row between neighbours.
If you can use it as a lever to get a move, all to the good.
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hi, i was put in a certain situation as yourself last year. i was reported to the housing association for sub letting my flat when in fact it was only my brother who was looking after my flat whilst i was on holiday for 2 weeks. they would not tell me who had made the report so i decided to challenge them in court to prove my innocense. a couple of weeks later before the court date i received a letter stateing that they had informed the the person who made the accusation against me that it would be going to court and the person withdrew their statement so that i would not know who they were.they decided that they were not going to take any further action against me..it turns out that if you are willing to fight the case in court they must disclose the name of their witness and the witness must attend court. obviously if you do find out who it was you cant turn vigilante and seek out your own revenge and i think the law may have changed to protect the identity of the witness but its worth a try.
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thanks therubster, worth looking into.
Going to see a soliciter next week about it.
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