Having a really difficult time at the moment and morale is really low. Just need to get this off my chest.
No problems with the child I have in placement at the moment, but I am so sick of contact. It seems to be the main source of problems with every placement I've had so far.
I'm so sick of birth parents not turning up, or being persistently late and children's social workers not doing anything about it. Can't do anything in the mornings on the days I have contact as no time, so just spend all morning waiting to go to contact. All the getting the child ready, packing the bag, getting there, and having to sit and wait in a corridor for them to either not turn up or come bursting through the door at the last second.
A working agreement is in place but yet their are no consequences for breech of it. So no motivation for birth parents to adhere to it. I have my own child off school and contact is dominating our summer and I am getting very little quality time with her. I have to bring her with me to contact over the summer which is not ideal, and I am so fed up of us being kept waiting every time. No one cares about me or the affect this is having on my daughter. Duty worker today actually refused to deal with it as child's social worker is on leave and she can deal with it when she's back.
I am so fed up. Sorry for the rant.
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Candycoco · 29/07/2015 18:31
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