Can we still foster?

[Carrie264]

Myself and partner are going through assessment for kinship care right now and have an issue!

The child we are being assessed to care for is my partner's biological half brother, only 5 months old right now.

My partner previously had involvement with social services when her son was 18 months old (now almost 15). Basically her dad was looking after her son while she and her partner at the time were working and they found out from a neighbour that her dad had friends at the house while they were at work. He and the friends were using drugs and social services were informed. Social services rang my partner, she immediately went home, collected her son and left to go to a friend's house, as instructed by SS while her partner stayed behind a few nights to pack up their stuff and they never returned.

My question is, how likely is this to stop us being approved as foster carers?

I don't see why it would.
She did everything needed to do promptly to safeguard her child.

I highly doubt it would.

Once she knew, she safeguarded. She did the right thing. I think just be upfront about it.

Absolutely should not be a barrier
if anything it is a positive

I work in fostering. This is evidence for the assessment that your partner is able to appropriately safeguard children. It won’t prevent you becoming foster carers.

You’ll be fine