sueb wrote:
1st Social services should have got involved --but as most of you know they are never there when you need them.
2nd. the Solicitor should have (we know now) put in an Emergency Protection Order, but owing to either being corrupt or totally incompetent we have had to wait 18 months, and the court still haven't looked at the case. In this time my granddaughter as suffered more and more abuse (mentally)
Court applications are to settle disputes, not "push" SS into doing a job.
A solicitor isn't likely to progress an EPO unless the situation demands an EPO application. Solicitors have a professional standard to work to. Even then, the solicitor is more likely to want SS to apply for the EPO and not the parent. EPO's are not limited to PR holders.