We are now officially approved to adopt. Finally. For those of you reading this who I don’t know in real life, we were deferred at panel back in February. I can’t go into the exact reasons here, but let’s just say we dared to disagree with our local authority which is a huge no no, and our social worker failed… Read More
Adoption Panel
I can’t believe that tomorrow we go before the Adoption Panel. It’s been a long time coming but at the same time it seems to have come round quickly. Since the beginning of November we have endured (anybody who says it’s not an endurance test is lying!) the gruelling second stage of the adoption process. We have attended the third… Read More
Adoption: Stage Two
Finally, after what has felt like a lifetime waiting for the Adoption Team to collate all our paperwork, checks to come back and for the Adoption Managers to meet, we have been accepted to proceed to stage two. This is where the hard work really begins. We were notified by phone and at the same time offered a choice of… Read More
Stage One: Adoption Training
Wow, what a busy few months we’ve had. Unfortunately going forward I won’t be able to share everything with you, my lovely readers and supporters, but I will be as open as I can. Following on from our medicals and DBS checks being sent off we had the first part of our adoption training or APT as it is known…. Read More
Medical
I had my medical check today as part of Stage One of the adoption process; Mr R had his on Friday. We’d both been sent forms to complete and take along to the medicals for our GP to complete the rest. It was all pretty straight forward stuff, asking about our medical history and whether our immediate families were in… Read More
Adoption: Stage One
We’ve been approved! Approved to start Stage One of the adoption process, yay!! We received the report from Mrs Pink, a few errors in it which need amending but in all a pretty good initial report. We’ve also been booked on to the Stage One training sessions for August. Our criminal record background checks are underway and references will soon… Read More
Adoption: Pre-Stage Initial Home Visit
Today we had our Adoption Pre-Stage home visit, and she was late! She being the Social Worker, who we’ll refer to as Mrs Pink. How dare she be late when we’d worked so hard to be “ready” for our allotted appointment time. In other words we’d spent the days leading up to our appointment spring cleaning the house, nothing was… Read More
First Step to Adoption
Eek, we have our first appointment arranged with a Social Worker! We only submitted our Registration of Interest forms last week, which were acknowledged by letter received by us on Saturday, and today the Social Worker called to arrange an initial home visit! Friday, 23rd May! I know the Government have put new guidelines in place to speed up the… Read More