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I'm the adult birth child of the adopters, who are older and not great with technology so I'm doing this on their behalf! AD is 14, has been with adopted family since the age of 6. Family at home is mum, dad, older birth son (19yrs) and AD. Relationship has been under strain for the last few years and seems to be deteriorating every week, especially between AD & mum. AD has always been verbally vile & aggressive but Last year AD became physically violent and destructive at school which escalated & escalated until eventually she assaulted mum at home causing severe brushing, bite marks and she had attempted to throw her down the stairs. SS reluctantly put her into emergency foster care following calls from home and police but 2 days later were adamant AD must return home. Mum stood her ground and refused until AD was given support/therapy/mental health assessments etc, believing this was the only way to get SS to listen. AD stayed in foster care for 4 months and after constant bullying tactics and pressuring family, AD returned home with very little extra support in place. This situation has now reoccurred with AD now going missing, threats to kill if she has to stay, asking to leave, saying she'll continue to assault, smash up house, go missing until police take her away and she's stayed true to her word! Except police wouldn't take her away and nor would SS.....so she went missing while SS were visiting the house and when found 9 hours later (safe) she refused to go home and would only get in the adult birth sons car. He drove her to the police station on their request as they needed to check she was ok. Lots of phone calls to SS with the response always being she's your responsibility you need to find somewhere for her to stay, accept there is nobody who will have her. This ended in me telling other adult birth son to leave her at police station as she's not his responsibility and from there she was put on a police protection order (up to 72 hrs). She then got moved to emergency foster carer that night then onto another foster carer the next day who has agreed to house her for the rest of the school holidays. But then what?????? They don't want her to go back into the care system but equally they cannot continue as they are. AD attends a day school for emotional/social probs, there's a promise of life story work, she's had play therapy, she has resilience coaching, she was discharged from camhs. Has attachment disorder but no other diagnosis. Family do not feel safe and feel they can't keep AD safe either so what to do??????!!!!! Thanks, sorry it's a long one