The rambling of David Norgrove.

 In a letter to one of our callers David Norgrove has promoted grandparents as important in a child’s lives to vital. Unfortunately he did not make it legal. He goes on to say that contact for grandparents after the parents split up is still the norm until grandparents take sides and cause trouble.  It breaks our hearts to see our son or daughter split up and in a bid to protect the children grandparents make it clear that they won’t take sides in an effort to give the parting parents the chance to make up.

 The problem starts when the parent who has the children meets another partner and they want the family all to themselves. Then big changes happen. They expect grandparents to take it on the chin that they won’t see their grandchildren any more. The children get used as weapons to get at the other parent and grandparent and bring about separation altogether. Animosity comes out and the other parent, grandparents/children are sadly the losers as the law only favours one parent. This is a very vicious step to the innocent parties when the contact has been very close as seldom is the children’s feelings taken into account.  One day a child has a father and two grandparents then suddenly they don’t.

 Write to your local authority and government asking them to accept the Charter for Grandchildren which focuses on the best interests of the child. Grandparents can be a huge asset to children’s stability, caring, protection early intervention offering huge savings to local authorities.

 Almost 40,000 children are subject to a child protection plan, Children in Need Census reveals