any help regarding extension for twins age 3 sgo
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:11 pm
hi really hoping for some advise from people who have been threw what we are going threw
so we were approached by social services asking us to take on my childrens half siblings (twins age 3) under a sgo as both there parents were a no go we were told we would get help with an extension we are now at the end of our assetment and everything is good according to our social worker we and our own children have a really good relationship with the twins as we have been having regular contact with them at our home but the local authority and our council have now said neither would do an extension we have stated we would be willing to move but only into another council property within our area this is to keep our security for our own children and keep our children at there current schools (4 boys age 13-11-11-9 a girl 13) as we cant have any negative impact on our own children 1 is autistic we have a 3 bed council house and already sleep in our living room so my 13 year old daughter has her own room local authority have said they want to place these 2 twins with us pretty soon and that for now they can share our daughters room untill we can find larger accomodation this is because there her half siblings we have been advised this could be approx 2 years at least by our council we were asked about going private rented which we stated we wouldnt want to risk that financially nore risk having to move again we were also asked about housing association but were informed this was the same as private as they only do 5 year tenancy so the risks also there we have stated we wish to remain within council property for security we asked the local authority if they would fund us moving as we have several large summer houses that will need professionally moving we were told no we wont fund removal costs. we would just like to hear if any one else whos got a sgo has had any extension built on a council property or loft conversion etc and what help they received from local authority in sourcing larger accomodation we really want to help these twins but feel as tho we are not being helped 1 bit and the fact the local authority contacted us asking them to take them in and now denying any help feels like a joke we now feel as tho we need to be telling l.a if they dont sort any extension or pay full costs of us moving into a council 5 bed house we wont be able to give these 2 boys a loving home as its going to cause far to much stress any advice plz
so we were approached by social services asking us to take on my childrens half siblings (twins age 3) under a sgo as both there parents were a no go we were told we would get help with an extension we are now at the end of our assetment and everything is good according to our social worker we and our own children have a really good relationship with the twins as we have been having regular contact with them at our home but the local authority and our council have now said neither would do an extension we have stated we would be willing to move but only into another council property within our area this is to keep our security for our own children and keep our children at there current schools (4 boys age 13-11-11-9 a girl 13) as we cant have any negative impact on our own children 1 is autistic we have a 3 bed council house and already sleep in our living room so my 13 year old daughter has her own room local authority have said they want to place these 2 twins with us pretty soon and that for now they can share our daughters room untill we can find larger accomodation this is because there her half siblings we have been advised this could be approx 2 years at least by our council we were asked about going private rented which we stated we wouldnt want to risk that financially nore risk having to move again we were also asked about housing association but were informed this was the same as private as they only do 5 year tenancy so the risks also there we have stated we wish to remain within council property for security we asked the local authority if they would fund us moving as we have several large summer houses that will need professionally moving we were told no we wont fund removal costs. we would just like to hear if any one else whos got a sgo has had any extension built on a council property or loft conversion etc and what help they received from local authority in sourcing larger accomodation we really want to help these twins but feel as tho we are not being helped 1 bit and the fact the local authority contacted us asking them to take them in and now denying any help feels like a joke we now feel as tho we need to be telling l.a if they dont sort any extension or pay full costs of us moving into a council 5 bed house we wont be able to give these 2 boys a loving home as its going to cause far to much stress any advice plz