We had our meeting with CAMHS and the social worker of the children we were being placed with, our social worker was off sick. Unfortunately they came to tell us about a behaviour one of the children displayed that we had from the beginning said we couldn't accept. This was the end of Sept this placement started in June and they had only just found out about this behaviour so we are back to square one, waiting for a suitable placement (long term). What was really annoying is the lack of communication between ourselves and the LA. I phoned our social workers manager, as she was off sick, to let them know we couldn't continue with the placement. That was a Monday morning, the following Monday afternoon after not hearing any more I phoned our social worker but there was no answer so I contacted the manager again. We wanted to know what was happening and what the process was if a placement broke down so close to being finalised, he told me not to worry as we were back in the system as waiting for a placement. That was two weeks ago & we still haven't had a phone call from anyone, we are appalled by the lack of compassion for the carers we had a date for meeting these children so were only a couple of weeks away from them moving in after four months of meetings. It's as though the general thought is ' they're just the carers they'll be ok'. We have even looked at changing to a private agency but we would have to start the process all over again. Sorry that's my rant over with.