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Hi.what can I say?..hugs. The site has been unused mainly for a few weeks so maybe thats why nobody repiled to you. This is the first time in a couple of months I have actually read anything on this site. Hope to see your comments again.

Hi Stephen,

Hope you find your way back here. So sorry for everything you've been through. Whatever respite, time away from your son that you can have has to be a good thing for you. Take care.

Hello all, just a thank you for the folk who replied and for the support received from people on here, Since last November Lee had been in secure accomodation Lakewood in Bangor Co Down, after the facts report things really did start to happen, at last the powers that be recognised the problems Lee has, it was like my head stopped banging of a wall, as a result of the facts team report Lee was deemed suitable for a placement with a private organisation and yesterday his social worker and i took him to Wales, i shall be visiting him twice a month, it was 1 of the hardest things i have ever had to do, leaving him with tears in my eyes and hoping and praying the right thing has been done, but i cant see any other option, will keep you's up to date on his progress. Stephen

Hi Stephen, Ive just got round to reading your story and my god, i could be reading about my own child and the troubles with social services lies and the CPS.  Was it Prestwich Hospital Facts Team that did the assessment because it looks virtually the same as my sons.  John Hickling and Dr Kenny Ross.  They were very good but unfortunately Social workers took absolutely no notice and my son was locked up for Criminal Behaviour.  That was about 3 months after the Facts report was done, 2 years ago. He was in a 5 hour police chase having stolen a 2tonne truck and was going round trying to hurt people he didnt like in it.  The solicitor said that he was horrified having watched the footage on the chase.  Guess what, hes now locked up again,  3rd time in 2 years.  This time on 5 charges, for 3 of the charges he got a 12 months sentence each, to run concurrently and a 6 year driving ban, so for 3 years he would have served 6 months.  Hes not 15 yet.  Within 2 weeks of him being locked up, it went to Crown Court and he will be out in 2 months, having served only 4 months of a 3 year sentence.  I know that with this disorder, he will never learn but he is a danger to himself and others including myself when he is on the outside.  Social Services, rather than spend money keeping him out of the area and me safe, keep moving him back where he can walk to me.  He is violent, he hides knifes everywhere, he breaks in the house and steals everything and he is always drunk and drugged up.  Ive told social services that when he comes out this time, if they move him back local then they had better watch this space because I will blow them publicly out of the water, they wont know whats hit them.

 

Kazza

update, went over to visit Lee last Thursday, and my god what a change, 2 weeks in and the scruffy 15 year old is now tidy, calm and very placid. He even made me a cuppa, and that certainly would not have been Lee before, The isolation from his peers and the 2 to 1 is working well, highly motivated staff and the welsh countryside have really had an effect on Lee, long may it continue. Stephen

Stephen,

Congratulations!! I am so pleased for you, and the scruffy kid, too. : )

 "Long may it continue"...Amen.