Me and my parter moved his 16 year old sister in to our when his mum had a schizophrenic episode and was sectioned. We are 23 and 24 years old and bought our first home in june 2017. She moved in to ours in november 2017. Shes always been a problem child due to missing so much school and not having a father or proper mother figure throughout her life. In february 2018 her mum and my partners sadly passed away unexpectedly. We decided to attempt to look after her and support her. We are in debt ourselves and have no help from anybody or support with her. His sister has an undiagnosed mental health issue (potentially schizophrenic as its hereditary). She stays out past when we ask her to. She refuses to go to school. Both of our jobs have been affected as we cant be there for when she gets up for school because we both work early morning. She selfharms, compulsively lied, has a bad teenager attitude. We cant give her financial, emotional or physical support of being around a lot. Shes causing major arguments with me and my partner and are close to splitting because i cant cope with her. What is the process of putting her in care and how does it work?
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Hgrimes94 · 24/04/2018 11:55
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