Eve and I are now in our 20's. We met in a Children's Home at the start of year 9 and have remained very close friends ever since. Some time ago we decided to write up our history. Just for fun but people that read it thought that it raised some important issues.
We would be mega grateful if experts here could comment on anything they find strange.
"We had originally been promised two things. We were supposed to move from the Childrens’ Home (CH) to a two bedroom flat and the flat was going to be in a block quite close to the CH and about 20 minutes walk from the school where we had just started year 13. Neither promise was kept. We ended up in separate flats about 100 yards apart and about 40 minutes walk from the school. I cannot remember exactly why this happened but I do remember we were told the decision had been made and that we hadn’t any more say in the matter. I was very upset by all this and I was quite sulky for a few days. Later on we were taken down to our new homes and we quite liked them. I could see Ella’s window from mine and it became a regular game for me to give her three rings on my mobile phone to get her attention and then to wave at her.We almost always used to walk to school rather than taking the bus to save money but usually caught the bus back. We used to take it in turns to cook and after tea we used to do our homework sitting at the table and then watch a bit of TV. Then the “visitor” would go home.It sounds like we were having a good time and I suppose we were but all the time money was a problem. So was our lack of experience in running a home, our loneliness and my uncertainties about what I wanted to do next. I could not have coped even in these early days without Ella and I am convinced that something quite major must have gone wrong with our agreed support packages. My feeling is that it hardly seemed to exist. Visits from SS, if they happened at all, were very short and with a lot of looking at watches as if they always had somewhere more important to be.I don’t understand how any 18 year old could REALLY be expected to run a house, do A2 level course work and have any sort of quality of life with so little support."