Hi i WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT I HAVE GAINED FROM THIS FORUM AND TO ASK ANYONE FIGHTING FOR THEIR GRANDCHILDREN DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE KEEP FIGHTING WE WERE TOLD WE HAD PRACICALLY NO HOPE OF EVER GETTING OUR GRANCHILDREN AFTER THEY WERE REMOVED FROM OUR CARE IN MARCH 2014 WE ...

hello can any one help with advice as to how to go about reprsenting yourself in court we ahve just been quoted beteen £5000.00 £20,000.00 plus vat court fees and barister fee to fight our case totally out of our reach so we have no choice but to represent ourselves we need to contest our negitive f...

Hi Suzie we haven't discussed special garduianship with the social worker as we have been told if they dont support fostering they would not support this we would have to take on the judge and childrens services to try and gain SG which seems quite a task as we know nothing about childrens law and t...

the relationship with the childrens parents is very volitile they blame us for every thing that has happened to the extent that when our grandaughter told her father that she had seen us his reply was dont talk to me about nanny i wish she was dead so you didnt have to see her he has been know to bl...

we are waiting for thr report to come through the post the isw told me over the phone that the main reason she did not recomend us was because of the lack of a relationship between the children's parents and us we have offered to go to medation and have a family group conference both of which the pa...

thank you for your reply we are thinking of applying to be party to the proceedings as at the moment all we know is it is going to court again sometime in may we are not in the positon to instruct a solicitor so would have to represent ourselves has anyone any experience in this we have had three ve...

we have just been through an fostering assesment with an independent social worker asigned by our local authority she phoned on Friday to say she would not be recomending us as foster carers for our two grandchildren the main reason being that their parents refuse to have any sort of relationship wi...

Hello has anyone had any experience of attending a family group conference would really appreciate any guidance or advice on what is involved.as we have just received a letter saying that one is to be arranged if the children's parents agree haven't a clue what to expect ?

thank you for the replies we went for contact with my granddaughter on Monday and when we arrived and were waiting to be told which room we would have we heard my granddaughter in the waiting area she appeared along with my grandson and the foster carer he looked at us realised who we were and run u...

thank you for your reply we had a visit from an independent investigator on Tuesday due to our request to take our complain to a stage two complaint she could not understand either why the SW could not provide supervised contact to see our grandsons reaction our feeling is most two year olds say no ...