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Mental illness and shut in syndrome3/1/2024 The parent is not engaging with the mental health treatment or social support necessary to enable them to safely look after their children.Children’s Services would need to prove to the court that there was nothing Katie’s husband Rob or any professional could reasonably do to prevent Katie from feeding Liam with bleach before the court would allow a Social Worker to take Liam into care. For example, Katie is suffering from psychosis, holds the resulting belief that she needs to add bleach to her son Liam’s baby formula and does not appear to understand why giving Liam bleach is harmful to him. The mental health difficulties of the parent are of such severity that the parent cannot safely look after their child, even with the supervision of family members and/or the support of professional agencies, and that the parent is likely to have these difficulties for the foreseeable future.Instead, Children’s Services would need to provide the court with evidence to demonstrate one or more of the following scenarios Therefore, the courts should never allow a Social Worker to remove a child from a parent simply because the parent has mental health difficulties. Therefore, people with mental health conditions have gained the right to protection from discrimination and parents with mental health conditions have gained the entitlement to support from Adult Services in their parenting role. However, from the very beginning of disability rights legislation in the 1990s, mental health conditions have been recognised as disabilities. In the past, individuals who had or had been diagnosed with problems with their mental health were at unjustified risk of having their children taken from them. Historically, there has been stigma and prejudice associated with parenting whilst living with a mental health challenge or personality difficulty. Very strong indeed”ĭebbie, aged 35, living with her four children and with lifelong schizoaffective disorder Living and surviving and managing with all that stress and noise in your head requires strength, more strength than many other people will ever even have to find from within themselves. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that your mental health challenges make you a weak person or a bad parent. Can a social worker take my children away? ![]() I’m a parent and I have mental health problems and/or a personality disorder. ![]() PLEASE if you are feeling suicidal and you haven’t got anyone else you want to talk to, call the Samaritans. Call them now on 08457 90 90 90.
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