So off I went to uni today and, I don't know why, but there has been a change of heart and the little darlings are looking to me to do some teaching next year. This is one hell of a good start to the year and I came home whistling a happy tune. Got an academic paper to tidy up and another to write from scratch.
Hame I came and I cannot believe it. There was due to be a meeting to discuss young mans future tomorrow and it has been cancelled. They have tried all in house places, they have tried all the fostering agencies and it looks as if the only ones daft enough to have this young man is me and her.
Though of course we didn't agree to have him we agreed to take him for three weeks extended to a month. We offered to take him long term if they sorted out education which they didn't so we said he had to be moved to somewhere that he could access education.
So now he is dumped here there is no where to move him to so goodness knows where we go from here.
Well I know where we go, it's specialist residential with education on site at about 7 k a week.
He is off to see his brother next week and he thinks he is not coming back.
This is becoming an epic of incompetence.
I have a meeting in Daycastle about another young person tomorrow, it might all get a bit lively as laddo's SW works out of the same building, he might be about to spend all day locked in the toilet....
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they seem to be incompetance personified.
Isn't anyone there actually looking at the facts?
If specialist resi is 7K per week, could they not simply take 1K of that per week and give it to you in order to purchase a tailored education package locally?
Or is that too simple?
This would be the same mob who would not pay an extra 40 pounds for day service.
So they moved the child to a placement that cost 500 pounds a week more. Which failed within weeks.
A year later, she was 13, she had a steady job - in the sex trade.
Any chance at all they might care to be reminded of that and learn from previous mistakes?
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