What happens when you don't get the answer you were praying you would? Inevitable disappointment? Unfortunately that is how I am feeling today. I wrote in my last post of how much I was hoping my niece was going to get funding to go to a specialist unit to get the help she needs. I discovered yesterday that she has not got it.
What is more it sounds as though there is going to be a great rush now to place her in a 'normal' social services children's home to save the NHS the money that is keeping her in a private mental health unit at present. Even though she is back in the high dependency unit.
One of the worst parts of all this, is that I am left standing with the questions - what should I do? and what can I do? We have no parental responsibility for her, that has been handed over to social services by her father.
We will try and arrange a meeting with her social worker next week and would really appreciate prayers as we struggle through these next weeks. I realise the struggle is mostly my internal one, but it is real and I cannot just let go of a child that I have cared for as my own for the last two years.
What is more it sounds as though there is going to be a great rush now to place her in a 'normal' social services children's home to save the NHS the money that is keeping her in a private mental health unit at present. Even though she is back in the high dependency unit.
One of the worst parts of all this, is that I am left standing with the questions - what should I do? and what can I do? We have no parental responsibility for her, that has been handed over to social services by her father.
We will try and arrange a meeting with her social worker next week and would really appreciate prayers as we struggle through these next weeks. I realise the struggle is mostly my internal one, but it is real and I cannot just let go of a child that I have cared for as my own for the last two years.
Oh Jane - what a difficult disappointment! Love and hugs. Xxx
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