The purpose being contact for the looked after kids with their real parents.
Fostering is an interesting job always about the children and rarely helped by the Social Work dimension.
That said the childrens SW are a pleasure to work with it's the fostering service that has ideas above it's station.
Annual review on Monday and they are coming to explain our inadequacies to us.
Of course we might have our own take on this and a few points to raise..
But I digress, yesterday we took one of ours to meet his mum and had a nice suprise. His sister has moved home, she is one of the lovliest we ever fostered. Of course her life, just like most looked after children has been a mess. She has just dumped her latest boyfriend a lad calculated to make your heart sink at the best of times.
But, she ran out of the house and threw her arms around management, saying:
"Thank you for looking after my brother, I know he's safe while he's with you."
In the scheme of thing it does not count for much. But, when they come down on monday with their sour faces and boxes to tick I know what will help me get through it.
R
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