i need help getting my children out of foster care

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Dear Samanta,

Welcome to the Parents Forum. I am sorry for the delay in responding to your post.

I can see how upset and shocked you are to be separated from your baby. You quite clearly had not expected this and you do not seem to have been given a reason why.

As mum you will have legal parental responsibility for your baby. This means you can make decisions about your baby such as where she lives and who she sees.
It sounds like you did not agree to being separated from your baby. Is that the case?

If you did not agree, then children services must have obtained a temporary court order ( interim care order or emergency protection order ) to give them temporary legal parental responsibility in respect of your baby. The police can give police protection for 72 hours.
When making decisions about your baby, children services should consult you but they can overrule you. The court will grant an interim care order, if it has good reasons to believe a child has been seriously harmed or is likely to be seriously harmed, and that an Interim Care Order is the best thing for the child until there is a final hearing.
Do you know why children services are worried about your baby? During the care proceedings, you may have the chance to get the support you need to improve your parenting. However, as the court proceedings need to be completed within 26 weeks, sometimes parents run out of time. So it is extremely important that you know what you can do to improve your parenting and get help for anything that might prevent you from being a good parent. The parenting assessment should identify what help you need. But also speak to your solicitor.

As well as you having a solicitor to represent you, dad can also have his own solicitor. Your baby would have a CAFCASS guardian and a solicitor to make sure that any decisions that are made are in your baby’s best interests.
Here are FAQ’s about care proceedings .

Who is looking after your baby? When a baby is removed from a parent, children services should place baby within the family and friend network.
So first, baby should be placed with dad unless it is not safe to do so.
If dad is not suitable, baby should be placed with a relative or friend (connected persons) who must be assessed as a foster carer.
If there is no one assessed as suitable in your network, then your baby will be placed in a un- related foster care placement.

You say you will be having a parenting assessment. Here is information about assessments .

The most important thing now is to urgently speak to your solicitor about what has happened. If you do not have a solicitor, then you need to find one who specialises in children law and public law.

To find a solicitor look at the Law Society –find a solicitor .

Sometimes parents are also entitled to have an advocate to help them as well as a solicitor. See I
information about advocacy .


If you need further advice, please post again or call our advice line on 0808 801 0366.

Best wishes,

Suzie

[Samanta]

Thanks you so much Suzie , I have solicitor and I'm having a asesment as well , and I didn't agree to be removed from my baby place , but my baby is with my foscter cares I said I want my baby to be there with people she know and I know and they put me in a diffriend place , but I didn't to be removed they divide like that and ye I do have inter care order I don't know why they did that , they think I'm crazy that I don't know how to loookl after my child and they think I will be harm to my child I something thinking a re this people crazy or what , I love my baby and traing to do my best to be with my baby because I think they dong want my baby to be with me they want to put her with other people that its not her family and **** , but I'm her mother I'm not dead , I'm sorry for how I'm talking but I hope you understand me I have baby girl and I'm becoming crazy that she's not with me I want her back please I will call on a advice number as well but thank u anyway .

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Dear Samanta,

Thank you for posting back. I can see that there are care proceedings and you are having a parenting assessment. It sounds like you might be a care leaver.

It sounds like you are putting your baby girl first by wanting her to be with your foster carers-people you can trust.

Are you in care yourself or are you are a care leaver?

If so here is information information on our young parent’s website for care leavers. It details support you can get such as having a personal adviser and pathway plan. As a young mum, it is really important that you have as much support around you to increase the chances of being re united with your daughter
Here is Become, an organisation who can give advice and support for care leavers.

Are children services worried about your mental health?

If so, there should be an assessment of your mental health and if you need help then you should have a plan for treatment. Often new mums do suffer mental health problems and there may be specialist support for new mums near where you live.
If you did not have an assessment for your mental health there is the risk that children services will say that you have a mental health problem that might affect your baby but you are not getting the treatment that you need.
You should also be able to have an advocate (as I mentioned in my earlier post) to help you go to meetings and court etc. (as well as your solicitor).
Have you had a Family Group Conference?
Finally, has a Family Group Conference taken place or been discussed with you. This is a way of looking for people in your network (like the foster carer but also family and friends on yours and dads side) who could support you to care for your baby.

If you have any questions please post again or call our advice line on 0808 01 0366.

Best wishes,

Suzie

[Samanta]

Hii Suzie , thanks for reply back I'm my self in foster care to . I will get a advocate as well and my health mental is fine , I want my baby back I been to see her I had contact ohh ghos I was crying when I need to see she going again and she's not coming home with me , its really hard I have solicitor I get advocate I will do the assessment , I need to get my baby back please can you help me in some other way ?

[Scraggy20]

Hi my name is **** my 4 kids got put in short team foster care im wanting to know how I can get them back I need to prove to the judge but no one has told me what I have to do is it hard to get them back if your pam assesment comes back negative

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Dear Scraggy20

Please see my response to your earlier post.

Thank you.

Best wishes

Suzie

[Scraggy2021]

Hi I can't find your reply any where on here can you message me again please x

[Suzie, FRG Adviser]

Hi I can't find your reply any where on here can you message me again please x

Hi Scraggy2021

I have reposted my response below from 11/03/21.

Best wishes

Suzie

Dear Scraggy20

Welcome to Family Rights Group’s parents’ discussion board and thank you for your post. My name is Suzie, and I am an online adviser. I am very sorry to hear about the difficulties your family is having. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your post.

I think your children have only recently gone into foster care and there is now a family court case about them. You want to know how to get the children returned to your care. I am not sure if you have already had a negative PAMS assessment or are worried that it might be negative.

If you have already had the assessment, then the first thing to do is to talk to your solicitor and ask them to go through with you what the worries about your parenting are and what help or support you can get to improve the situation. You can ask your solicitor and the social worker if they can help you get an advocate to help you with the court process. If you have a learning disability you should have access to an advocate: there is more information here.

You can also ask the social worker to explain clearly what would need to be different so that the children could come home. You are right that you need information about what the professionals think you need to do so that you can care for your children safely.

Do you have family support or anyone in your network who could support you to care for the children or care for them if you cannot? There may have been a family group conference to bring everyone together to put forward a family plan. If this has not happened, you could ask for it to be set up.

Here is a short guide to care proceedings to help you.

I hope that the arrangements for you to see your children are going well. Here is an updated advice guide for parents with a child who is looked after in the care system during Covid 19 restrictions.

If might be helpful for you to talk through your situation with an adviser; if you would like to do this please call the freephone advice helpline on 0808 8010366, Mon to Fri, 9.30 am to 3.00 pm. Or you can post again with an update.

With best wishes

Suzie

[Scraggy2021]

Hi I need help getting my 3 kids back into my care my social worker is going against me getting them back into my care I have court next mouth but they are wanting to move my youngest daughter to my brother's as soon as possible to see how she gets on there but I'm wanting all 3 back into my care can anyone help on how I can get them back into my care.

[Scraggy2021]

Hi I'm just asking for a bit help they want to try my youngest daughter with my brother does that mean I can't fight for her in court with the rest of the children .