Child’s father works but CSA won’t listen

My daughter was seriously assaulted by her partner. He left her and a child battered and bruised in the snow. The social services gave us a stark choice take on the child or he goes for adoption.

We paid a solicitor £3,500 to get guardianship for the boy aged 2 and a girl aged 3months. My daughters partner was working on the millenium dome at the time and on some good money.the c.s.a claimed they were unable to trace him. he returned to the town and was unable to bully or frighten me. he told me he would never pay a penny.

He was unemployed for a month or so after his contract finished in london. however an acquaintance told me he was working at a local dock as a stevedore.

I informed the c.s.a. and gave them the firms address and his national insurance number. i was promised that both he and the firm (global engineering ltd) would be prosecuted.

We went abroad for christmas/new year. when we returned to the u.k. In mid january i had days lying before i returned to work. i called in at the court and spoke to the clerk. she informed me that the childrens father was not on any “to appear list”in any court within our area goole selby brough. I spoke to the c.s.a case worker in sheffield where i was informed it was an administrative error.

I phoned sheffield again two weeks later. they told me both the childs father and his alledged employer had denied he was in employment. that same afternoon i opened my weekly local newspaper and on page 2 the banner headline told the story how a worker had been trapped whist helping unload a ship on a private dock. it was the childrens father who had sustained the injury and a global spokesman confirmed the air ambulance had medevacced a worker. i cut the story out of my local paper and sent it to sheffield with an inquiry as to why they (the cs.a.) had not followed through with the promised prosecution. i phoned sheffield again the following week and was told my case had been transferred to falkirk in scotland. falkirk told me it could take up to six weeks for the paperwork to be aligned. six weeks later falkirk told me that my location (goole, england) was not in their territory and that i could phone bournemouth as they now were in control. bournemouth told me it would be up to six weeks before the paperwork could be aligned. i phoned after a month and my case was to be handled by liverpool. god bless the scousers because a wonderful girl there told me straightaway the very first time i called they did not deal with my area and that all my paperwork was in belfast
belfast.

I can honestly say belfast has and still is an absolute nightmare. i will give them credit because i have been lied to time and time again from day 1 to the last time i had contact with them on 2.4.12. they too refused to believe that the childrens father had been working for global engineering. i forwarded them copies of both letters i had wrote to c.s.a. sheffield and itemised phone bills to prove how many times i had wriiten/spoke. i sent them the item from the local paper which described the accident and globals representative. still no prosecution for either. i had in over 3 years recieved not one penny from either the childs father or any one. eventually the compliance division of the c.s.a. respnded to the volume of complaints and i was told abruptly i would recieve 98 pence per child per week from the childrens fathers benefits.

The father was working for a builder doing a renovation on the very estate here i live. i photographed him at work and sent it to belfast. i recieved a letter that said he was on benefits and that i could be prosecuted for breach of his privacy.

Eventually the c.s.a. conceded that 98pence per week per child was too little and that they had acted unfairly .

I was then awarded after three and a half years based on the sum i still recieve (when he pays) of £1.33 per week per child

As a footnote the childrens father recieved in excess of £175,000 in 2009 for compensation for his accident in 2003.

The c.s.a. refuse to acknowledge this and insist he is on benefits. The east riding social services? goole social services. now this a story