Hi
my husband and I have been longer term foster carers for the last 7 years for the same child.
whilst this child was on respite, following an incident with his Girlfriend who is much younger then him - we had unknown males come to our front door shouting that he was a “peado” and that he needed to get outside, despite the fact we told them that he wasn’t here this aggressive shouting behaviour continued in the street for several minutes - there was people walking passed the house and the only time they left was when we stated that we would call the police if they didn’t leave - during the encounter they told us in graphic details what our foster child had apparently been doing (sexually) -
we contacted the fostering agency and stated that we didn’t feel that he would be safe to return due to the above.
without notice, or without consideration to our welfare they moved him to another carer who is in a different town and stopped our payments.
my question is - if I wanted to end a placement I would have to give 28 days notice. As the agency ended placement should we of been given notice.
we have had very little communication from the agency and we both feel upset and disappointed that after 7 years of caring for a child that the placement has ended and we have been through such a difficult situation and he have been left to cope on our own, there people could of come back - and still could.
Also we still have most of the child’s belongings - which is adding to the upset we are feeling and stopping us from being able to move forward - we don’t have a definite date for when the belongings are being collected.