Little bit of advice. We have our 4 and half grandson since September. His contact with his mother was 1hr every 2wks but because of his behaviour afterwards SS reduced to 1hr every 8wk. This is recent development. She saw him *recently* and then not again till May, however last 2/3 days he's saying...

Hi all, we have our grandchild full time since September and to say it's been up and down would be wrong, just when we seem to be getting somewhere with his behavior contact happens again(sees BM 1hr fortnightly), hubby little downbeat as grandchild doesn't respond aswell to him as he does to me, an...

As some know we have our 4yr old grandson since September, he's spent the previous 16mth in Foster care. We have been managing his behavior using training techniques however since breaking up fir Xmas he has got progressively worse, he ignores us, screams, crys or laughs when told no, he will laugh ...

Just not sure what's brought on the sudden change in behaviour and attitude last 4 days, thought it might be him seeing his mum but that was 10 days ago

Thanks, not sure if his mum would be any use. It's struggle how to get him to do something when refuses,

Hi, as some of you may know we now have grandson living with us, he came 8wk ago, he has very loving bond with me especially, however he saw his mum for 1 hr last week which was unsettling for him but last couple days he's answering back and being quite defiant. BTW he's 4, is this quite normal for ...

Hi, can I just say don't give up. Myself and husband failed our initial viability assessment but fought for an independent assessment to be done and we passed that with flying colours and are now proud to be approved family and friends fosterer for our grandson until we get SGO

Can anyone help,, Social services have increased our contact with grandson to everyday and weekends then sleeping next weekend, Foster carer has told him he's coming to sleep here and has started sending few of his clothes and toys., however we are at Fostering panel next week, could they say no sti...

Hi, no news on panel date still, assessor says paperwork with foster team but wish they'd hurry and get us to panel, also grandchild guardian from court wants to observe our contact is this normal as its another person who will be at contact aswell as contact worker and worry in case grandson begins...

I just feel,that everything we do is wrong, we encourage good manners however they're are times he is silly when eating etc but as say contact worker alway comments first. Even we seem to be wrong saying we'll play downstairs rather than CW stood upstairs.Just wish I had someone to talk to