Can a social worker influence someone to be against me?

Question

Me and my partner have had to separate for assessments to be carried out to assess my risk of being able to live together with our baby.

However we share the same social worker and a month ago when information from a police report was disclosed my partner was still close to me.

Last week the social worker went to visit my partner and disclosed the information to her mum and since then our relationship has broken down.

My partner said to me in a message that the social worker made me out to be deranged and someone she shouldn't be with and that I intentionally committed the crime.

In my police report nothing was quoted with saying I had intentions, this is just an opinion expressed by the social worker.

I'm just wondering if a social worker has the right to make accusations to attack me and add fuel to the fire and be biased or shall I seek legal advice?

Thank you.

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Bro seek legal advice. I'm pretty sure that a social worker is stepping out of line by dramatising the information that she has come across and started a fight with your partner through her mum... What's the social worker doing talking to her mother for anyway she is not involved in the situation other than being your girlfriends mum. And why do you have to live apart from your girlfriend and baby... Was your crime in some way violence against women or babies.?

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There is no proof that is what the social worker said.

It's very possible that is how your girl friend's mother or your girlfriend interpreted the information they heard.

If they didn't know about your record they should have and you should not have kept it a secret.

Was that the only thing on your record or were their other things?  

Get a lawyer if you think you were misrepresented.

Can a social worker influence someone to be against me?

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