Unsuitable foster carers

tehone

Dippychick wrote: »

Oh dear

Sadly there is so much money attached to foster caring.. loads of unsuitable people do it.

If there weren't that amount of money attached though, would many do it?

So it's difficult.. so many kids needing homes...

I just feel for the children going to carers who don't do it for the right reasons. Vulnerable children are in care...and they need good supportive carers :mad:

Imagine being taken from your Mum.. and placed with someone who couldn't care less? How awful.

There isn't a lot of money in fostering if you do it properly/fairly [I know] however it is true that it is possible to run it like a business, which I've seen.

In my experience a lot of children would be better served using a tiny fraction of the money and other resources [used in fostering them] having people help support them in staying with their parents.

My original advice still stands to the OP - I understand you not being specific on some internet forum - however clearly write down what you've seen, be factual and only draw inferences from what you've presented - do not be vague. Social services will be better placed to act if they have good clear information. If things don't happen fast enough and they get children placed with them and you believe them to be in danger/see soemething then do ring the appropriate authorities.

One thing I will say, is that sometimes it is hard to draw the line between parenting/behaviour that is rubbish/not what you would do and stuff that is actually definitively wrong [I'm not disagreeing with you - just trying to point out the difficulties in a situation like this]

tired_mum

Thank you all for your replies
Due to 1 of the peoples jobs it would look good to the panel as I said before I cant say too much as it would make it very obvious who they were and who I was but the problem with their son would probably not be generally known as it was within a large organisation and would have been dealt with at a local level .Unfortunatly the wife is a bully but only in the verbal sense and not the physical.but i am sure that these people will come unstuck as when there kids have been in trouble i.e taking a car and hitting another one they have bought their way financally out of it never standing on their own 2 feet. Mum is always around the youngest(16) so she can defend him as his behaviour is appalling and he is a physical bully.

nixinix

You urgently need to talk to social services or the agency they are fostering woth. As others have said the panel is the last part of the process so if they have been approved they could start getting placements straight away. It is a shame you were not able to come forward earlier as it would have been easier to stop. You need to find out who they are going to be working for (agnecies tend to pay more the Local Authority so they may have gone that route if they are in it for the money) and talk to them. Good luck.

moneysaver12

i would talk to social services, it would be awful if kids got placed with these people

Errata

If you don't feel comfortable talking to Social Services, you could phone the NSPCC and talk things through with them first.

CB1979_2

ring up social services, however it does sound like you're taking your personal involvement with them to bias your opinion.

what's the problem with saying they don't like a particular kid? obviously you don't want to hear that, however everyone doesn't like everyone, that's life.