Dh has a godchild (age 6) who is currently temporarily living with her grandparents. however social workers have expressed concern about their age/health and it now appears that what was supposed to be a short term stint with them is going to be considerably longer as the mum is probably going to have the child removed on a more permanent basis.
A social worker is coming round on Wednesday to assess us and our family to see if she could be placed with us.
What questions should we ask him? I know zero about fostering, but I'm happy to welcome this little girl into our family if she needs it. I don't really know her well but Dh has had more contact.
So far my list of questions is
- will they help get her into the local school?
- will we have to drive her to the contact centre near her mum or will her mum have to make the journey to us? It's just over an hour drive.
- will she need her own bedroom or can she share with our dd (age 8). We do have a room that could be turned into a small bedroom (I'd just need to clear out my sewing stuff and buy a bed, decorate, etc - dd has bunkbed already in her room)
- what social worker help/support/training will be available to us in a kinship fostering arrangement? The little girl is lovely but has had quite a traumatic time and Id probably want advice on how to help her cope with everything.
- we are in different counties - so will she be under the care of her current county or would be be assigned a more local social worker?
If anyone can answer my questions, or even think of additional questions I should be asking I'd be really grateful!