VIC Father contacted by Child Protection - restricted visits

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Law2me

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My son was contacted by child protection and advised he could only have supervised visits to spend time with his daughter. He is separated from his partner and three children. He had been seeing his younger daughter regularly on a fortnightly basis.
Prior to Christmas he contacted child protection after his daughter advised him she was not allowed to go with him. His older daughter had made accusations to her school therapist which was reported to child protection. He made contact with child protection only to be advised that he could only have supervised visitation which he refused because untrue allegations were made. He was told he had to prove he was a fit parent, he requested her email to forward testimonies on his behalf.
A few days after he contacted the child protection worker and asked for her supervisors contact details, to which she advised him the case had been dropped.
However when he contacted his daughter she advised she was not allowed to see him until June. Clearly he is very upset because he has not received any notification of any action being taken.
Welcome any advice regarding this matter.
 

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He needs to bring the hammer.
Time for Parenting Orders
 

Tim W

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He goes to a lawyer who works in the area of Family Law
 

TW38

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My son was contacted by child protection and advised he could only have supervised visits to spend time with his daughter. He is separated from his partner and three children. He had been seeing his younger daughter regularly on a fortnightly basis.
Prior to Christmas he contacted child protection after his daughter advised him she was not allowed to go with him. His older daughter had made accusations to her school therapist which was reported to child protection. He made contact with child protection only to be advised that he could only have supervised visitation which he refused because untrue allegations were made. He was told he had to prove he was a fit parent, he requested her email to forward testimonies on his behalf.
A few days after he contacted the child protection worker and asked for her supervisors contact details, to which she advised him the case had been dropped.
However when he contacted his daughter she advised she was not allowed to see him until June. Clearly he is very upset because he has not received any notification of any action being taken.
Welcome any advice regarding this matter.
How did he contact the child protection worker? Do not communicate through phone calls; make them through emails and texts. They can deny what they said. Another step is to ring the DHHS and ask for the worker's supervisor's contact details. Also, do not rely on lawyers; they don't work against child protection, and I have had a judge tell child protection and their lawyer off for wrongdoing against me. My lawyer needed to tell the judge about the lies report (not errors) to express the inconsistencies about me being incapable of being a parent and that their treatment towards me is what caused me to look like a perpetrator. Make sure to get a report from third parties like psychologists, doctors, etc., because child protection lied in the report about what my psychologist said to them, and my psychologist was not happy about that. Make sure the psychologist or anyone else whose words child protection manipulates tags your son into their communication with child protection so your son can have evidence to use against child protection. My lawyers failed to do that for me because they were reluctant to tell the judge how child protection was defaming me in the reports. So you can't rely on lawyers. The good ones will tell you to collect every bit of evidence, and my lawyer did not do that. Turns out, they were all breaching the discrimination law against mental health disability. The issue is that they don't learn EVERY LAW. So be sure to check the child protection manual and see how many things are in there breach laws: there are many.