Dear Beau Welcome back to the family and friends carers’ discussion board and thank you for your further post. You have been aiming to obtain a Special Guardianship Order (SGO) for your grandson at a court hearing planned for September. This will give you parental responsibility for him and allow yo...

Dear Alibaba Welcome back to the kinship carers' forum and thank you for your post. I can understand that you are nervous about attending the fostering panel. I can see from your previous posts that you have been very proactive in challenging an initially negative viability assessment and then progr...

Dear catapillar 2018 Thank you for your post and apologies that you did not receive a response sooner. I see from your original post that you sought a special guardianship order (SGO) but it appears that order was not made and you are caring for your nephew as a connected person foster carer. There ...

Dear Starzza29, Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. I am sorry to hear about the difficult situation you are in and I hope that the following advice is of some help. You say that your step-daughter’s father and her special guardians have made the decision recently to st...

Dear Loveablenan2022, Welcome to the kinship carers forum and thank you for your post. I am sorry to hear about the difficulties that you and your family have been facing recently and I hope that the following advice is helpful. You say that you received a negative outcome from a viability assessmen...

Dear nannaj1, Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you. I am sorry to hear about the difficult situation you are in and I hope that the following advice is of some help. You say that you have a Special Guardianshi...

Dear famersboy, Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. You would like to know how to withdraw an application for a special guardianship order. You will need to get the court’s permission to withdraw your application. To do so you can either make the request orally if the p...

Dear Summer, Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. I am sorry to hear about the difficulties that you and your family have experienced. You say that your grandson has said that he wishes to return back to the care of one of his parents but you are concerned about this. Fr...

Hi again, is it right for grandparents not to be allowed to see the grandkids at all? My daughter was told that grandparents would be allowed to see them once a month at the end of the month, that should have happened last Friday, the CS worker told my daughter today that grandparents are not a sig...

Dear Selfie, Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. I am sorry to hear about the difficulties that you and your family have been facing and I hope that the following information is of some help to you. You say that your niece is currently living with you after she refused ...