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by golden oldie
Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:21 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: Contact survey
Replies: 7
Views: 11189

Re: Contact survey

Hi filled it in but found it didnt allow for, if you had children that came from more than one dad

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by golden oldie
Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:22 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: Missing mum
Replies: 26
Views: 30785

Re: Missing mum

<t>Hi A family support worker did the Life Story book for two of my g/ds and have been useful as a starting point when the girls have asked questions but to be honest they are factually incorrect if we were to nit pick as they were based on factually incorrect records the SS held and on the rambling...
by golden oldie
Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:52 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: sgo allowance
Replies: 16
Views: 20040

Re: sgo allowance

<t>Hi we are kinship foster carers and get the allowance and just recently went to panel to be approved for SGO and were amazed that the financial package was agreed to be the same as what we get now less the extra for birthdays etc this was NOT means tested by any means. However we are still waitin...
by golden oldie
Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:39 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: What Are My Rights to Stay as Kinship Foster Carer
Replies: 5
Views: 6109

Re: What Are My Rights to Stay as Kinship Foster Carer

<t>Hi all I can say is we are kinship foster carers for our g/ds and have been so for over 5 and half years. We were made permanent foster carers after four and half years as the LA knew that the return to Mum was not going to be possible and therefore made us and the children feel more secure in th...
by golden oldie
Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:56 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: Meeting today with SS
Replies: 2
Views: 4126

Re: Meeting today with SS

<t>Hi we never had any training at all and we are Kinship foster carers we have been for 5 and half years we have had to fight to get recognised to be allowed any training at all. This was only agreed last summer when Ofsted wanted to know why foster carers and friends and family foster carers were ...
by golden oldie
Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:21 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: I dunno,,,oh yes I do!
Replies: 10
Views: 11509

Re: I dunno,,,oh yes I do!

Hi you are so very very right the children are the most important!!!! x

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by golden oldie
Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:09 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: pongo99
Replies: 19
Views: 38507

Re: pongo99

<t>Hito answer maybe a few of your questions from what happened to us. In the first year of our g/d's being with us we thought we would help to promote contact by saying we would have contact between Mum (our daughter) and her daughters at ours well all I can say was it was a nightmare with my daugh...
by golden oldie
Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:38 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: sgo letter
Replies: 18
Views: 20114

Re: sgo letter

That is most interesting Mama T and something we will look into it[:)]

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by golden oldie
Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:02 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: SGO- not being consulted
Replies: 4
Views: 5093

Re: SGO- not being consulted

Hi I am most interested to know the outcome of this, as we too are kinship carers in the process of getting SGO.

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by golden oldie
Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:35 pm
Forum: General/Archive
Topic: Don't know which way to turn
Replies: 68
Views: 67536

Re: Don't know which way to turn

I absolutely second that Irene!!!!

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