Not sure if anyone has an answer to this. We have been abroad for a while but with the intention of returning to the UK. We have had massive issues since day one and a few years ago asked for help from SS, which was not forthcoming in the way we had hoped.
Having been abroad we have finally managed to receive the support we so badly needed, in-depth psychiatric assessments, learning disabilities, autism, mri scans to determine the level of organic brain damage from neglect and in utero substance abuse. Etc,etc.
The psychiatric assessments were done using the same forms and protocols that CAMHS use, so would be valid in the UK too. Authorities where we currently are, are willing to pay for residential as long as we stay here. But - home is the UK and I cannot stomach having to permanently emigrate just to get the right support, it feels so wrong.
So here is my question: It has been muted that placement for our child could be in the UK as well, but they would only pay for this up until we return to the UK. I know which school I would want my child to go to, but what happens when we go back? If our child is already enrolled there, would our LA in the UK have a duty to continue with the placement and pay? We would be moving back to where we came from originally and it was a local placement too.
I suppose this might apply to any adopters who have had funding through one LA and then end up moving somewhere else within the country. Simply put, it boils down to who is responsible for a child with additional needs placed in residential (38 weeks, to hopefully avoid having to make this a 52 week placement) whose parents move.
