We had a foster girl for a year before she went to live with her Dad,this was a dad that she had never met before. At one point it was looking like adoption,in which case we were going to try and adopt her,but then a DNA test proved who the father was. Anyway dad told us how he would like to keep in touch and social worker proposed contact for us at christmas and birthday. Once she was placed with dad he changed his mind and decided he did not want us to have contact with her. I can understand his views but after being told we would have contact I have found it hard,when she left I didn't expect that to be the last time I saw us. I asked my social worker to see if she could get in touch with the child's social worker to see if we can have a final goodbye contact. She won't help us,says dad has made the decision for her not to see us. It's so tough on foster carers,I know that is what we do,we look after them until a forever home is found,but the support for myself as a foster carer when you have let a child go is very poor in my case,from my worker.
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