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forgot to say we are Christians.thanks

You need to be very careful what you write. An awful lot depends on your Social Worker and what her view if of faith. I have a friend who applied to foster for my LA. She was told that it would be difficult and if she wanted to pray before meals the foster children would have to leave the room! Not all social workers are like that but some are.We are very involved in our local church and our Social Worker knows that. It has never caused a problem, the children we foster have always gone with us.They will be looking out for you being homophobic or unaccepting of those of different or no belief.You need to talk about your involvement in the church community and how this is an important support to you. You need to stress that you will still love and support your future children even if they choose not to follow your faith. I know that it sounds stupid having to say that but I do think that is the kind of thing they are worried about. Talk about how your faith means that you love people no matter what. Your faith makes you more accepting of people not less.

HiIt may be worth you looking on your church or church organisations statement of faith for a structure - I would keep it as simple as possible and not use too much jargon. Perhaps get some of your non-christian family/friends to read it for their opinion. My biggest anxiety going through the adopton process was whether the s/w would be concerned around our chrstian faith especially as my husband's employed by the church, once she was assured that our beliefs were mainstream christan beliefs and we did not belong to a strange cult things were fine. it helped that our life is not dominated by 'church' and the s/w saw the benefits of being a part of a church community with all the support it can offer and contact with other young families. Now we're approved and waiting for a LO and I wonder why I got myself in such a state.Best wishesAnushka

i was asked to do this several years ago, as I am non chritian, my husband who was non religious wasn't. we felt it was very discrimanatory, we are inrural england, My dh wrote whatit ment to be scottish as this was his strong identity. Some faith as helped with questions the children have asked, and I have furfiled my promise in giving them and supporting themin hteir faith if any

Hi Not to sure, but me and my husband are a practising couple and this was looked at during our assessment, we spoke about this in detail and relayed by the social worker in our par. We have a brilliant social worker and put across our religion in a very positive way. Depends sometimes on the social workers view on the subject, how it is conveyed. just be totally honest, how it will effect you and the children.