LETTER: Our loving family was turned down

In response to your feature in last week’s paper about Fostering I would like to show how desperate they are not to find suitable Foster Carers in the Horsham area.

I and my family applied to be foster carers, specifically for a 11 plus person, we wanted a slightly more adult person and apparently this is an area where demand is at its highest.

We were interviewed and had the necessary checks done, then the case worker rang me and said could I tell her about our dealings with social workers with one of our daughters. Now I could not remember any dealings that we had with social services with our daughter as just one was named yet we have two. They then asked me again and I asked for some clue, but they would not say anymore and duly we were turned down as not being suitable.