Sounds far better to allow the children to stay within the extended family--your home--especially if you are willing to care for them. Sixty-one is the new fifty-one. If you are determined to argue against this, it might be useful to contact / talk with your local MP and any other free ombudsman/human rights type advocacy people. Perhaps the Citizens Advice bureau in your local area could assist. Seeing them three to four times a year needs to be increased in any case. There is an organisation of Grandparents raising grandchildren you may wish to contact for support. Good luck. In any case, make all the efforts you can to be part of their lives - letters, cards, text messages and any other innovative inexpensive ideas you come up. Blessings.
I will be 60 this year and have been unemployed for over 12 months. In that time I have applied for over 200 jobs and probably had 30 - 40 interviews. I have worked for 40 years, am highly qualified and experienced, have great references and am very current in skills. Why can't I get a job? In a number of interviews I have been told that the panel was very impressed, BUT!!! And then the excuses start - over-qualified, might be too expensive, not quite the fit they were looking for, and other even more bizarre explanations. Sometimes I genuinely feel that there wasn't a good job fit, or interview was a bit off, or could guess that job went to an internal candidate,but can think of several where the feebleness of reasons for not being offered position was purely down to age. It is very frustrating. i am hard-working, productive and professional, and not likely to be charging up the next step on the promotion ladder in 12 months time. But being a women of nearly 60 am seeing as being of no real value
My Grandchildren are being put up for long term fostering by CYFS against our wishes. We would only be allowed tosee them 3-4 times a year. I am 61years old and a bus driver and my wife is 41yrs and when we said we would take the children I was told I was too old even though I still have a 14yr old son at home. This also begs the question that if my wife and I had another child would CYFS take that child away on the grounds of my age?
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I will be 60 this year and
My Grandchildren are being
My Grandchildren are being put up for long term fostering by CYFS against our wishes. We would only be allowed tosee them 3-4 times a year. I am 61years old and a bus driver and my wife is 41yrs and when we said we would take the children I was told I was too old even though I still have a 14yr old son at home. This also begs the question that if my wife and I had another child would CYFS take that child away on the grounds of my age?
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