Raising my grandson

Thank you Tanith!
MissAdventure - no, we do not get, nor have we ever had any support whatsoever. My husband has a good job so we are not entitled to any financial help at all even though we were planning for our future and now have to pay for Scout camps and music lessons etc! The saddest thing is that our family doesn’t help or support or even understand what we are going through. I had to give up my full time job so I could take and collect him from school even though he was at the same school as my sisters kids! We took him to my dad’s recently and I felt like my dad was watching him the whole time and picking him up on the slightest things he did wrong while he normally ignores my sisters kids who can be very naughty and show off. My nephew who is the same age and at the same school constantly teases and torments him when you’d think they’d be great friends. My mum won’t hear a word against my nephew (her gs). My gs is a great kid but he tends to get bullied at school and he has trouble making friends. I am very protective and luckily hubby, gs and I get along brilliantly most of the time.
Jenna’s his mum left him when he was a baby and his dad married a ‘wicked stepmother’ so he’s had a pretty rough time of it up until age 9 through no fault of his own. I’m just really struggling at the moment - mainly through my own family issues if I’m honest ?

I was co parenting with DD3 eldest DGS until he was 7 he is 8 now and loved doing it. I really enjoyed the bond. It wasn’t a SS situation but DD3 has health problems and was struggling to manage in her own place so we agreed they would move in with me they moved out last year when she bought a place with her new partner. I still miss DGS very much.

I'm raising my ten year old grandson, Moira.
Do you get any help from social services?
They are obliged to help out when a child would be in their care if it someone hadn't taken the responsibility.

No experience but can I just say we’ll done for stepping up and raising your Grandson.