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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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