Children Services SGO Assessment

Johnny-Cage

Children services want to put a section 20 on my 4 Gran Kids and asked me am I willing to take the 2 older kids 7 & 5 with 2 year old twins going in to temporary foster care. The 2 older kids stay with me most weekends and 3-4 days at times during school holidays.

Yesterday I had an SGO assessment for emergency foster care for them but for some reason they said I failed it and put the 2 older kids in to foster care. Currently the twins are with a family member pending foster care.

The normal social worker did say even thou I did fail that assessment ( wouldn’t give me a reason why) All is not lost and I will need to do further assessments.

I am really not clued up on child law etc 

Can this decision be appealed or can I find out the reason why, guess being Friday hasn’t helped.
I did try to ring the worker who did the SGO but her phone was just switched off and it was the normal social worker who ran my son to tell him. Nobody even contacted myself to explain anything

gizmo111

The social worker should have shared the viability assessment with you and explained the reasons why you were not suitable to care for your grandchildren. Did they give you the reasons?

marcia_

 Yes you can challenge this i recommend contacting a solicitor specialising in family Law 

Johnny-Cage

gizmo111 said:

The social worker should have shared the viability assessment with you and explained the reasons why you were not suitable to care for your grandchildren. Did they give you the reasons?

No they haven’t, the normal social worker told my Son who told me, Not one of them had the decency to contact me to explain why. I am literally bewildered why. Both kids stayed at mine most weekends and 3-4 days per week on school holidays which they know

Johnny-Cage

marcia_ said:

 Yes you can challenge this i recommend contacting a solicitor specialising in family Law 

Thank you, it’s good to hear it can be challenged even though they have said currently it’s not a no full stop, just a no for the emergency foster part 

Johnny-Cage

Thanks all for any advice because my side of the family are crushed