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This is your chance to air your views about adoption, fostering or anything related to these subjects.
To post a letter, email it to us at nyeomans@nep.co.uk and mark the message Letters Page.
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April 20, 2006
I agree that contact between children in foster care and their birth families should be improved.
At the very least the birth parents should be allowed to give their children mobile phones so that when the two families live some distance apart conversations are possible at comparatively low cost.
Unfortunately social workers have a strong tendency to confiscate mobile phones on the grounds that conversations need to be closely monitored and supervised!
Shades of "1984" and the thought police of "big brother"!!
Yours respectfully
January 9, 2006
I’m Rachelle, 21 from Michigan. I’m a huge fan of Cher since age two!! I saw this on a website and had to respond. I think it's a great thing that celebs like Cher want to adopt because there are so many children out in the world that have nothing and/or will never have anything.
I believe that as long as a person wants to do good and adopt then let them do it. Besides, Cher has had her work cut out for her in the past but now that she is retired from on the road tours then she should adopt a child.
Just because certain people become celebs in life, shouldn’t mean they are all that much different. They work like everyone else. Before we are put on this earth, our paths in life have already been created. God puts each of us were he sees fit!! It's a free world people!!
September 22, 2005
So Leicester City Council get a good report for their fostering services!
Leicestershire itself pays much less in fostering allowances and kinship carers get far less than its mainstream carers because various allowances are denied to kinship carers so how did Leicester City Council get a good report for its services to relative carers?
Why don't Leicestershire pay the Fostering Network's Recommended Fostering Allowance to all its carers and allow kinship foster carers access to payment for skills?
Also are these relative carers in the report living in Leicester because those of us kinship carers living outside of Leicestershire do not get the same support as local Leicestershire foster carers and we are isolated.
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