Newbie questions

[dwe123]

Hello there, about to go on my Skills2Foster training! DH and I are a same-sex married couple married in December so if theres any other Gay Foster Parents on here i'd love to chat!

We have expressed a desire to foster between the ages of 8-16. I work as a Pastoral assistant in my local secondary school so know quite a lot about teenagers!

I have a couple of questions I randomly thought of earlier today:

1. Do you ever leave the child at home alone? (Of course, if they're old enough - age 14-16 lets say)
2. If not, let's say on the weekend you wanted to go out and see family and they didn't want to come with you, how would you get around this?

We leave ours home alone if they are safe to be left. Each child is different, but certainly some older teenagers who have lived with us have been fine and responsible.

hi, we are a same sex couple fostering. please feel free to contact me - I'm new to this site but I am happy to learn how to be pm'd! Do you know about New Family Social?

we are looking at what will happen in September when our's goes to secondary - does she get a key in case she beats me home - especially as the nights get darker and colder in the winter months. I'm pretty much always ready to challenge the LA on stupid dictator like rules like 'no LACs at home alone' (this when I discover that I foster in the same LA as stressy!)

We have a 'we do things for you, you do things for us: if you don't want to come, perhaps I don't want to take you to the cinema on saturday or to sea cadets' etc. This has particularly worked on the two Sundays in 2 years she has decided she doesn't want to come to church ('you don't have to participate but you do have to come') - one Sunday I went to church with yoghurt all down my front as a result but we still went!