Pressured into SGO

[Babyat70?]

After passing our viability assessment for a reg 24 interim care order, we now starting week 5 and have our daughter and grandson staying with us under our supervision following a hurriedly drafted safety plan ordered by the judge at the first hearing. The 12 week old grandson is deemed at risk from his father following serious sexual allegations from his now adult daughter from a previous relationship. At the case management hearing the judge called me, the Grandfather, into the court and gave my wife and I seven days to accept an SGO the inference being from the social worker the previous day that he would be put up for adoption if we said no, so I had to accept. I had previously asked if there were any other options such as foster care or a residence order but was told no and they don’t do residence orders anymore. They omitted to tell us that it is now called a child arrangements order which we now think would be much more appropriate given the trial next May could well eliminate the only risk they are concerned about especially as two of her friends were independently told by her that she had made the whole thing up. We are both 70 this year and need our daughter with us in the secure environment we have provided until then. The father has agreed to and complied with the no contact with his son requirement. We had our first session for SGO assessment three days ago. Should we be open about our preference for a CAO with supervision at the start or wait until the assessment finishes by which time our daughter might know if she has passed her sole parenting assessment, the concern for which was her ability to prioritise her son over her partner? Surely a permanent SGO at this stage is premature.