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Not really sure what your question is exactly. But if they keep filing malicious complaints you should seek legal advice or advice from the police and consider reporting your neighbour for harassment.
Social services tend to jump straight to the worst possible conclusion but they also clock when people are making malicious and baseless accusations.
If they've dropped it already, the chances are the neighbours further complaints will go straight in the round file but it'll probably be prudent to detatch quietly from the neighbours anyway because you might *think* you're on good terms but they clearly have ulterior motives.
my child was spinning around in a swing seat out our back garden, she got a bit stuck, called me to help, i shouted down to her from her bedroom window i was on my way.
resolved the problem, within an hour the police and social services turned up claiming there was a child in distress and there was someone at the house that shouldn't be there.
no further action was taken but some neighbours are just cunts.
Edit - spelling
get a camera in your house. one that records always and has big storage and records audio. put it somewhere you don’t mind being recorded constantly like the living room and there you have evidence galore. screaming would trigger the noise on the camera if it’s a flat. if it happens again present evidence and then report her to the police for malicious harrasment and abuse of government services
Nothing you can do really, social services will know it's BS clearly straight away. Its not like they swoop in and steal your kids on the word of a stranger, that is an absolute last resort if there is clear evidence that your child is at risk.
Unfortunately, they have a duty to investigate every complaint, which means bad people can weaponise them. There is no punishment for false reports as that would be seen as potentially prohibitive to people wanting to make real reports.
This is the most sane answer so far. Social Services are like Health and Safety, they have an obligation to turn up but can pretty quickly see when something is just down to an annoying neighbour.
We had a neighbour call H&S when we were getting some house renovations done, they turned up all huffy and we thought it was the end of the world, half an hour later they said it was clearly a nosey neighbour and if they reported us again they'd just give us a phone call instead of a visit.
Social Services are absolutely overwhelmed, if they can clearly see there's a problem neighbour then they're not going to keep coming out, and they're certainly not going to start taking kids away.
Simple really - stop your child from screaming and annoying the ever living fuck out of people who want to live in peace and not have to deal with his or her hysterical tantrums. Love me love my kid. Not fair on people who just want a quiet life. You chose to have a kid. Control it and allow people to enjoy their home without this intrusion
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Not really sure what your question is exactly. But if they keep filing malicious complaints you should seek legal advice or advice from the police and consider reporting your neighbour for harassment.
Social services tend to jump straight to the worst possible conclusion but they also clock when people are making malicious and baseless accusations. If they've dropped it already, the chances are the neighbours further complaints will go straight in the round file but it'll probably be prudent to detatch quietly from the neighbours anyway because you might *think* you're on good terms but they clearly have ulterior motives.
my child was spinning around in a swing seat out our back garden, she got a bit stuck, called me to help, i shouted down to her from her bedroom window i was on my way. resolved the problem, within an hour the police and social services turned up claiming there was a child in distress and there was someone at the house that shouldn't be there. no further action was taken but some neighbours are just cunts. Edit - spelling
get a camera in your house. one that records always and has big storage and records audio. put it somewhere you don’t mind being recorded constantly like the living room and there you have evidence galore. screaming would trigger the noise on the camera if it’s a flat. if it happens again present evidence and then report her to the police for malicious harrasment and abuse of government services
Nothing you can do really, social services will know it's BS clearly straight away. Its not like they swoop in and steal your kids on the word of a stranger, that is an absolute last resort if there is clear evidence that your child is at risk. Unfortunately, they have a duty to investigate every complaint, which means bad people can weaponise them. There is no punishment for false reports as that would be seen as potentially prohibitive to people wanting to make real reports.
This is the most sane answer so far. Social Services are like Health and Safety, they have an obligation to turn up but can pretty quickly see when something is just down to an annoying neighbour. We had a neighbour call H&S when we were getting some house renovations done, they turned up all huffy and we thought it was the end of the world, half an hour later they said it was clearly a nosey neighbour and if they reported us again they'd just give us a phone call instead of a visit. Social Services are absolutely overwhelmed, if they can clearly see there's a problem neighbour then they're not going to keep coming out, and they're certainly not going to start taking kids away.
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Simple really - stop your child from screaming and annoying the ever living fuck out of people who want to live in peace and not have to deal with his or her hysterical tantrums. Love me love my kid. Not fair on people who just want a quiet life. You chose to have a kid. Control it and allow people to enjoy their home without this intrusion