<t>Been a while since I have been on, but just thought I would update you. we got SGO for Grandchild just over a year ago. And so far things have gone from better to better. Unlike when it first kicked off. The relatioship with the mother is really good, something I thought I would never see happen ...

That brough a tear to my eye, Im so pleased for you, enjoy every moment. Well done XX

I have SGO for granddaughternearly a year now and back last year was told to apply for Child benefit, even though getting an allowance,it has been with chikd benefit office since october, is there anyone out there who is gettin CB as well as an allowance????

<t>Hi flossymac,<br/>
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I got involved with ss about 2 years ago, never had any invlovement with ss until then. I think because of your nieces age they wont be pushing for adoption. I have Special Guardianship of grand-daughter whi is 2 nearly, has been with us since 9 months old. I have 2 old ...

<t>Hi we have had SGO for 7 months now, our concern was over contact, and ss are still involved with that mam is supervised and there is an order out should either parent turns up at the house we call the police, we have had to call polic once, and we said if it happend again we would stop contact ...

Thank you for your comments and advise. I think we are along way off unsupervised contact.

<t>Support package was over contact as we have had a few problems, mother turning up at house and sometimes not tunring up for contact, so we have something for the next few months but need to start sorting it ourselves. I gave SS some questions I want to know; like where is mother living, has she ...

<t>I have SGO of gd, mother has monthly contact for 4 hours which is supervised. SS are now looking at how we move forward, ideally unsupervised at some point. Have stressed no contact will happen at our house, as it's needs to be a place of saftey. Can anyone give me some advice on how we can ...

<t>This time last year little did we know that we would have to start playing the santa roll again. But just to see the joy on gd face when she woke up, makes me think we did the right thing. I would just like to say thank you to all of you out there for your support & advice. It's so nice to know I ...

<t>We had the financial assessment by means test before it went to court so we knew how much we would be getting if we got the SGO which we did. They just took our word for it did not have to provide any evidence!!! I must admit our dealing with SS have been good so far. I know none of us are in for ...