who do i address it to ?

[Boohooyou]

Sorry for vague title.
I am nearly at the end of the assessment to foster and will hopefully be going to panel next month.

I've been asked to write about myself and ds to show to a child who may be coming to stay... but I don't know how to start it.
I can't put 'dear blank'
or 'to whom it may concern' so what should my opening sentence be?
I'll be fine from then on but just need to get this started.
Thanks for your help if you understand what I'm on about !

How about not addressing it to anyone.. maybe just 'welcome' or 'hello' or a 'our home' title...

I suppose it depends on the age range you have specified as to how appropriate the greeting should be...

"Hello.. this is about our home, me and ds who want to welcome you"... or something along those lines..

All the very best of luck at panel - I didn't sleep for days beforehand, terrified all the way through it - a proper bumbling idiot at the meeting - thankfully we were approved!!

Thank you, just couldn't think of how to get it going.

Will start with a
Hello, I would like to tell you about myself and my ds and what we like to do.

I will be looking after boys or girls from 18 months to 8 years !
not nervous yet but sure I will be !

In the l.a. that I worked for in fostering we used to ask prospective foster carers to do a small book with pictures of them and their house and kids, pets etc.....not too much , but pictures usually mean more to a child than words, especially the under 8's. If the SW wants you to write something you could add a few photos as well.

If you do just write, keep it brief and big letters and funny images etc. Can't really understand why your l.a. are asking you to write something for such young children. Even for teenagers, we used to get prospective foster carers to do a book with photos etc.

Sorry I didn't make it clear she asked me to add photos aswell.
She said about 3 pages of A4 including photos.
I will use big writing and alot of photos!
I might make it into a little book though as it will then look less formal.

do the odd little stick man and use the odd bit of bubble writing. make it fun.
i would start it as "hello my name is and this is my ds.....
we would like to tell you a little bit about us. then go on to talk about yourself, your home, if there is a park nearby etc. what you like to do together. make it fun and intersting. you could pop in a photo of where the lo would be sleeping.

i find it very odd they are asking you to do this for children so young!
bizarre!

in our LA we ask carers to write about things like whether they have any pets
if they'll have their own bedroom and what its like
any other children in the family
what the family likes doing - eg cinema, playing on wii etc
where you live - eg theres a park near where you live, shops, lots of transport, no transport etc

usually that also needs to relate to the general age of the kids. So pics really useful.