This is amazing n so many levels.
The first of which is that this man has made no effort to see the child he helped to create, the council approached HIM to advise him of his rights in terms of access.
When challenged, the council advised they were 'following guidelines' which again takes some understanding.
First of all, how does this situation get written into 'guidelines' in the first place, and second of all, how does anyone with a heart and a brain think that following them is a way to behave?
Something has gone seriously wrong here, and speaking personally, someone needs to be directly accountabale, and punished for this crass nonsense.
As anyone on here who knows me at all will know, I do not advocate violence, but if I was the lady involved, and anyone said to me that 'lessons have been learned', I would not hesitate to punch them.