Thank you for your responses. 

We have been in court but OP has now withdrawn the application and does not want to see the child. 

I have made multiple proposals. 

We have agreed on a contact centre. But my concern is every contact centre has had the same sort of response. Where if a supervised parent forcibly removes a child they can’t step in and physically take the child and will just let the parent go with the child. 

I will be going to see the centre this week and will be expressing my concerns and asking for them to explain their procedures. 

Since my post I have received an email from my lawyer. She’s spoken with the ICL and the ICL wants to go ahead to an undefended hearing and give me SPR.

So I’m feeling very relieved that we will indeed have orders protecting the child. 

The child is a 12 month old baby. 

I do intend to co parent as best I can. Though that’s hard with someone who won’t respond with anything constructive and responds with saying he will see the child when the child is grown. 

My lawyer said if I feel the child is too at risk our next visitation is by agreement and is not court ordered so I would not be contravening orders if I withheld. However, I don’t intend to withhold the child. I’m happy for the visit to go ahead as long as I have a plan in place and know the ins and outs of the situation and what I can do. 

Our current orders would still be in place which states supervised access at the centre only. 

So it would be, if I’m correct, that the police would in fact be able to remove the child of the OP we’re to kidnap the child. 

What other things would police consider when trying to determine whether they feel they’re a parent of the child or not? You’ve said that birth certificate is not the only thing that would be used to determine parentage and mentioned child support. Which is why I’ve stated no child support is paid and they continuously state they’re not the child’s parent. 

So other than this? Just so I can learn.