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Post by ladybug on Dec 28, 2019 22:15:29 GMT
We received the letterbox contact agreement for LLB’s contact but is totally blank! I emailed LA to ask if this is correct as we are not happy to sign an agreement when don’t know what we are agreeing to or if they can confirm who it will be with and when it is due. My reply back was we will be advised in due course!! Seriously?? With BB the contact co-ordinator came to us and discussed who it would be with and we decided when the contact would take place, I know it is not the same LA and a meeting may not be possible due to logistics but a phone call to discuss surely. Anyone else been expected to sign a blank contact agreement?
XxxLadybugxxx
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Post by moo on Dec 29, 2019 7:52:35 GMT
OMG ladybug...
You are positively heroic for conacting letterbox co-ordinator already... I would have ignored it....
Follow 'normal' protocol is my view... would you sign a blank authourity for a direct debit or mortgage loan interest coming out of your bank account? I think not ...... WTF......
If it were me that really would be it.... All communication from me would stop.... I would refuse to contribute to any l/b contact at all... how can any trust with l/a be garnered after this?? How can this be in lbb best interested? How have ss even considered her? Nope No Way Never Ever... Sorry Bye Bye.... You Have Blown It SS....
Be Brave Ladybug Stick To Your Guns xxxxxxxx This is totally outrageous....
Xxhugsxx
Xx moo xx
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Post by chotimonkey on Dec 29, 2019 9:17:02 GMT
Omg! No I definitely wouldn’t sign it!!
I always email rather than phone on concerns so I have a record later of what the concern was/ when I raised it and who responded to it... just in case their are any further issues
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Post by ladybug on Dec 29, 2019 10:35:55 GMT
Omg! No I definitely wouldn’t sign it!! I always email rather than phone on concerns so I have a record later of what the concern was/ when I raised it and who responded to it... just in case their are any further issues Oh I did email Choti for that very reason. |
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Post by ladybug on Dec 29, 2019 10:39:15 GMT
OMG ladybug...
You are positively heroic for conacting letterbox co-ordinator already... I would have ignored it....
Follow 'normal' protocol is my view... would you sign a blank authourity for a direct debit or mortgage loan interest coming out of your bank account? I think not ...... WTF......
If it were me that really would be it.... All communication from me would stop.... I would refuse to contribute to any l/b contact at all... how can any trust with l/a be garnered after this?? How can this be in lbb best interested? How have ss even considered her? Nope No Way Never Ever... Sorry Bye Bye.... You Have Blown It SS....
Be Brave Ladybug Stick To Your Guns xxxxxxxx This is totally outrageous....
Xxhugsxx
Xx moo xx Moo I didn’t contact them. LLB’s social worker asked if we had signed the contact agreement yet which we said no and then they sent us the blank agreement! |
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Post by flutterby on Dec 29, 2019 13:49:14 GMT
I would email them back and say I'll sign the document in due course once it has been updated to contain particulars which are acceptable - then leave it at that. Cc your own social worker, maybe IRO if you have their address, and let them sort it between themselves.
Absolutely ridiculous.
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Post by serrakunda on Dec 31, 2019 19:00:36 GMT
 that would be a no
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Post by nzhb on Jan 1, 2020 23:58:18 GMT
I am known as the email queen at our SS. Wonder why I have to write so many emails? They don't seem to understand that if they did their jobs properly and kept us in the loop, I would not have to bother them so much! Never conduct by phone only as no proof re what has been said.
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Post by ladybug on Feb 16, 2020 23:30:23 GMT
So just a little update on letterbox contact....so we still have not signed contact agreement as still have no idea of when it is due and who we are writing to. Last week, 7th Feb, however we receive a letter asking us to contact the contact co-ordinator, by the time got got round to replying it was 4.55 so I emailed them. Monday I received a reply as follows:
Good afternoon
I would like to request a letter.
I was rather shocked how impersonal and curt her reply was. Our SW has tried to call the number on the email several times without any answer so she is now going to email them!
In the APR it states letterbox is to be once a year, LLB has been with us 7 months (not sure where that time has gone) and birth family had a settling in letter in September/October time before we met BF.
x x x Ladybug x x x
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Post by moo on Feb 17, 2020 6:39:05 GMT
Hugs ladybug... sounds the 'usual' SS organisational kerfuffal! 😉
Think I'd sit tight/send a similar reply... when? To whom? Are you sure you know 😳 tbh no reply as it could be years before they work out to whom or when 😵 ...
7 months wow so ffast xxxxx
Xx hugs xx
Xx moo xx
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that would be a no 