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Kids dad cutting contact

My daughters dad used to have her over weekends, used to pick her up Friday after school then dropped her off back at school on a Monday and kept her back holidays too, this went down to picking her up on a Friday after school to dropping her off on a Sunday evening which was my idea because he kept on dropping her off at school looking scruffy and would be late. Then he said he wouldn’t be picking her up from school on a Friday and that it’d be in the evening after he finishes work, yet he used to be able to tell work that he needed to pick up his daughter and then he said he was going to drop having her the last weekend of the month because of his mental health so there’s a whole weekend I can’t work, now he claims he doesn’t have her bank holidays cause she always comes home on a Sunday evening, forgetting that she comes home on a Sunday evening so that I can get her ready for school, he doesn’t work bank holidays but now he’s taking away my opportunity to work, I can only have one full shift a weekend now because he’s squeezed and squeezed it down and uses bullying tactics to try and make me think he’s right and that the contact has ALWAYS been that way and I should just deal with it because I’m the mum. How can I stop this? I’m a single mum in the week, I’m doin a college course in the week, the weekends was my only opportunity to earn some more money, how can I make him stop controlling my life