Fermenting festering part the one (a)

Something I left out of the scenrio yesterday was the baby.

Now we consideredit one of our biggest success stories that the Bigger V got all the way through her time with us being just herself and not have a little miniture V in tow.

In fact to be honest I am not sure how we did as she was certainly a very popular girl.

But anyway V has finished up with a baby, which she abandoned last year.

Really, when you look at her life story you wonder how she could be expected to be a mother to anyone without an awful lot of help and support.

Naturally, this was not what leaving care are about, despite this she managed to do a pretty good job most of the time. Up until the point the wheels fell off her life again.

So anyway the baby looks set to go for adoption and that is "good". You see the service gets a tick in the box for every child it has adopted and you can find people to adopt babies.

So, if a former looked after child has a baby, lacks the skills to parent, does not get the help they need, has to pretty much go it alone until they have to give up the child then thats called a "good outcome".

I wonder if parents out there would think about how they might feel to have a child taken from them because they cannot adequatly parent, now imagine that their background was not that stable anyway and they didn't have much self esteem to loose anyway.

But I had to include this as my post yesterday was so negative I had to go back and include something positive.

It is a "good outcome" isn't it????

R