Thursday 3 September 2009

chchchanges

The house has gone into change mode.

For a while now it has been coming that young P was going home.

The district were fantastic and understood how having a child in your family for 5 years means they form attachments, they also understood that we and our kids have attachments too.

Fostering meanwhile have checked everyone of their boxes is ticked though they could not tick the ones about turning up for meetings as they had not attended one about this young man in over a year.

Still he has gone now, of course MSN is buzzing, the last thing we did was buy him a laptop so he can stay in touch.

The end is in sight for us as foster carers.

We get on well with the districts, the CAMHS team and us have built up a good working relationship, the nurse has walked the second mile to make sure young P is being looked out for. Education in this area, we work very closely with them.

The single thing that stands out for me is the letter we got off P's mum, talking about what it all meant to her. That's a proper reference, written by someone to whom you made a difference. Sort of makes all the other nonsense worth putting up with.

No the fostering team percieve us as a problem.

Their campaign of low key harrasment rather blew up in their faces, but they are planning to block any further use of us.

So it's find a new career time I think.

Time to reinvent ourselves.

R

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