oh by the way I am posh now as I found out today that dd goes to private school!!

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oh I hate the bloody social worker, she is a bloody double agent. seems she won't be supporting us when we try to get dd into the 16 plus at her school as according to her it is a private school!!
I pretty much told her if it was where I want dd to go, she will go there,
they want me to look at this local college and to move her from the place she has been at for years!!!
ds goes to college next door to this place and has said no way is dd going there
I am lucky as I can get help else where, but I wonder how many people on here were aware that....
social workers do not have the child best interest at heart, onlt the budget!!

Well I sometimes wonder too!! Sometimes it seems the powers that be are so busy looking at the bottom line they can't see the obvious ie what is in everyones best interest.
The RNIB did a good job recently when Lucentis (the moderatly expensive drug that stops people going blind from maculopathy) was refused for most people. By pointing out the costs involved in supporting people with resulting sight impairment (far more than the drug) so the decision was reversed.

Some of them are not too bad though. One of my clients SW is brilliant and will do anything for him, where as another is always moaning that I am doing too many miles with another of my clients.

I loved my old sw he was an assistant one, and I Knew him before iynwim, so he was really easy to talk to, and BRILLIANT with the dc's at dd's respite place.

I suppose its just like anything, there are some that are in it for the money and there are those that are passionate about their jobs and doing it right. Although you have also got to think that some might be under more pressure than others and have a tighter budget. TBH I don't have much to do with SWs personally, just what I hear from the families I work with and when they complain, via my agency, that I am doing to many miles!

well. I have decided to leave her out in the cold, there is a local parents led organisation that will be able to help me, plus I am sure the school will, so I will not be matey with her lol.
can I just say .....dd's passport cam etoday, so she can go to lourdes

Well you know the experience we had with SS 2shoes, nada help at all. bar the suggestion that if ds1 really gets more aggressive we should report him to child and family for abusing ds2 (like fuck, basically).

Ah well if she's off to Lourdes then she'll be walking to college anyway