Foster Carer Approval Blog

Foster Carer Approval Blog

FOSTERING BLOG Skills to foster – what can you not accept – placements offered and turned down. We  have been approved. We were contacted, by phone, by the Agency Decision Maker who explained that this would be followed up in a letter – which arrived a week ago . We...
Foster Carer Approval Blog

CAMHS

FOSTERING BLOG. John,( names changed )  aged 15 has now been with us in placement for just over two weeks.  We attended a meeting with his Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service ( CAMHS ) Worker yesterday. After last week , when the transport had failed to arrive...
Foster Carer Approval Blog

Fostering Panel Blog

FOSTERING BLOG Yesterday, at our Initial Fostering Panel One Panel member , who was a former foster carer and a retired prison governor addressed me, “ Jayne, You have held some pretty responsible leadership roles. How do you think you will cope, as a foster carer,...
Foster Carer Approval Blog

Initial Fostering Panel

FOSTERING BLOG So the culmination of our decision in late May came at 1.30pm today. We both have really full lives and whilst we both happily share experiences we have remained independent throughout, including having our own interests, friends etc. It is therefore...
Foster Carer Approval Blog

Fostering Panel

FOSTERING BLOG Tomorrow the fostering panel will meet to decide whether we are suitable to foster. Having made the decision several years ago that we would like to give a child/ children a foster home the time was now right, and in late May we began to look into...
Foster Carer Approval Blog

Professional Failings

FOSTERING BLOG I had long conversations with Alan, several times in the weeks before he left us , after lockdown,  to start his 3rd year of the 5 years that  he plans to spend at University. I felt it was important having parented him in a therapeutic way for 7 years ...
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