How clean?

[nervouslurker]

So, home visit this week- I'm right at the start. I've seen people joking on here about biscuits etc. So, a) chocolate hob nobs? Everyone loves those, right? Or should it be home made victoria sponge? And b) how clean does the house need to be? I'm assuming the fact that the homework table will have homework piled on it, etc is okay? Will the SW want a tour of the house at this stage? I use a floordrobe, do I need to madly sort this?

Sorry if this is annoying, and you have hundreds of threads on this- could you point me in their direction? Thanks.

[Kewcumber]

And avoid references to exorcising the demons out of the child and you'll probably be fine...

[nervouslurker]

She sat in the sitting room the whole fecking time. Didn't even see the kitchen!

[FamiliesShareGerms]

Didn't you feel like forcing her to look at the lovely clean kitchen?!

How did it go otherwise? Any biscuits consumed?

[nervouslurker]

Not a biscuit. And the tea was only half drunk... She was very thin, I am not (normal BMI, but not thin). I would eat all the biscuits if I did her job!

But... it has begun!

[64x32x24]

It's like a rite of passage, the cleaning and panicking before that first visit :) Well done for coming through the other end!

[lovehopejoy]

Well done nervous lurker...initial visit done! Apart from the tea and biscuits issue how did it go? We're officially 1 month into the 6 month process as of today! We too are Christians and I don't think we 'hid' anything...there are a few bibles / verses around but nothing 'in your face' so to speak. Hope all goes well. Exciting and scary all once!

[notalurker]

I found this thread in my bookmarks!

So, I passed. Baby arrived. I'm still fighting the 'OMG have you been burgled?!' look, but cleaned up enough for all the stat visits etc. SWs now gone from our lives, leaving a very happy family.

I gained a stone from eating the biscuits myself.

I need to find a cleaner...

[notalurker]

And, obv, I put the weapons and soft porn back out on display. Next to the 'Jesus Loves You' pictures.

[PurpleMac]

Oh what a lovely update!!