Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Adoption is so much better than this. (1)

L-E and H were two years younger than Ella and I. Before the Children's Home both had had a whole series of failed foster placements. If you want or need to label them I suppose you could try “challenging but not nasty”. They quickly fell into debt after leaving the Childrens’ Home and vanished from their shared flat within a few months of moving in. In August of 2009 they were tracked down by a mutual friend via Facebook. They are now living in a commune in deepest Wales and Eve and I hope to visit them this summer. They claim that they they only had two visits from their designated social worker in their last three months in the flat. They tell the same old sad story of being lied to again and again about the support on offer to care leavers.

I am so pleased (so is Eve) they seem to have found the love and security they needed.

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