info on ifa's please

[fostermumtomany]

following on from my last post could you all please provide some names of ifa's for me. i cannot foster for my la anymore, im sat here in tears at how badly these children are being treated by them, to the point i want to ring them now and tell them to stick their petty rules and penny pinching up their arseholes.
so i only want to foster babies and pre-school children, i dont have a spare room, i dont intend on moving (unable to due to housing market) so would need one where i can have babies in my room, even different la's would be ok.
any thoughts?

I'd have thought NOT very many IFA's get babies & pre-schoolers to place... these tend to be the easiest to place inhouse for the LA... but I'm sure someone will come along and say otherwise - Our LA has stopped recruiting people who will only do that age range due to surplus

Also, with the huge recruitment drive for LA's foster carers, I'd personally worry about the likelihood of placements that actually reach IFA's.

Can you not just consider moving to another LA?

can we do that? i dont even know where to start, i contacted the fostering network who told me to contact a fostering advice line, trouble with that is, they pass on the details of your chat with them to your social worker!
oh i dont know what to do :(

FMTM- have pm'd you x

I know about NFA they are good so far ( 1 year with them).
I have had one 18 month but as part of a sibling group.. so yes it could happen but more likely to be a long wait.

You can change to another LA Fmtmany, but they will of course want chapter and verse on the difficulties you had with the other LA, and will of course contact them to hear their side of the story. As others have said, the fact that you can only take babies is not going to help as there are usually many foster carers who want babies only.

Agree with BtheD about IFAs too.

Is there any way you can come to some sort of compromise with the LA about the things that have gone wrong from your perspective.

I think you've posted before and I think I suggested childminding, which again is something to consider.

Hi FMTM.

I have been fostering with "Supported Fostering Services" for 14 months. I was with local LA for 6 years before. I changed to IFA because of the shabby way we were treated by LA - and also their unfair rules regarding the children we fostered.

Before we applied to IFA we were warned that IFA's only have hard to place teens.

We were approved with SFS in Sept 2010. We had a gorgeous three year old little girl placed in Oct 2010. She returned to her grandparents care last week. We were contacted yesterday re a month old baby girl, who is currently in hospital as a result of physical abuse by her birth parents.

I have to say the support we have received from IFA is fantastic - as compared to the idiotic ramblings we were consistently subjected to by LA Social Workers. I wish I had changed to IFA years ago.