This is so sad and I can understand how horrible contact can be and we had things go missing as well. I use to dread contact but made myself do it for the sake of the children. It was their parents who were visiting and whatever had gone on they deserved the contact with their parents. Believe me it...

This is a real problem because of the learning difficulties. They probably love their daughter and find it so difficult. We had a similar situation and we have been Special Guardians for a number of years. We had contact at our house and we had special tea parties and sometimes we all went out to Mc...

This is difficult for you but this is his mother whatever she has done and is doing. I take it that you are not around when contact takes place which would mean that there would be two of you to see that nothing is taken. Having been a special guardian myself for many years I can appreciate the diff...

I don't know whether I have missed something on this forum but has there been anything about this new Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit. Since hearing about the new Universal Credit taking over most benefits for all working age people and that Child Tax Credit was being incorporated into this Un...

I have had SGOs for two of my grandchildren since soon after SGOs came out over 13 years ago and yours is such a sad story but one with which I can identify because, believe me, we were the most despised people out who had supposedly stolen our grandchildren. We had not of course, because if we had ...

My email has been sent. This bill amounts to stealing our children.

Just to say that our grandson started university last September and he got the care leaver help with bursaries from the university and grants from the local authority with whom he was put into care prior to fostering and Special Guardianship. It was a bit scary at first because we had to re-establis...

ied53 wrote:Fantastic news thank you for sharing. Every good wish for his future

Many thanks.

I hope that it gives hope to all of us that things can turn out well.

It doesn't matter what they do providing they are happy and do well.

An Update on our grandson and information on what can happen when you have SGOs. He has now passed his A'Levels and we took him to his chosen university last weekend. We were able to access not only a university grant but also a local authority grant because he had been on a full care order prior to...

it went thro as normal - strange. In the hope that LLB reads this, I'll say here what I tried to post, which was basically: good to have your feedback LLB, and what you said made perfect sense to me. I especially found the various examples of subject headings a help :) Hi. I have read your response...