Adoption stories: Our foster-to-adopt journey
Introduce yourself and your family Me – mummy, daddy, and our daughter who is now two. My husband has two grown-up sons who live in their own houses. Both our fathers are around plus lots of extended family and complicated family trees! Was your agency a local authority or a voluntary agency? Local authority called […]
Adoption stories: Adopting through early permanence
Adopting through early permanence is where a child is placed with adopters who are also approved as foster carers. That may mean a child is placed straight from hospital and in the early days, the adopters act as foster carers unless and until a plan for permanence is approved by the court. The outcome for […]
Adoption stories: Fostering to adopt
Fostering to adopt usually means a child is placed with adopters straight from hospital. The adopters are also approved foster carers, and that’s the role they take on, until court proceedings conclude. This type of placement puts the uncertainty and risk of disruption on adopters, rather than the child. If the plan for adoption is […]
Interview with Aimee: Fostering to adopt
Once you’re approved to adopt, matching with a child can take place in one of two ways. The “traditional” way happens once care and placement orders have been granted. This means the court has decided adoption is the only option and has made an order to that effect. By that point, the child will have […]
Adoption stories: Interview with Aimee
This week’s interview is with Aimee. You can follow her on Instagram @aimeevlog and she has a brilliant YouTube Vlog covering all aspects of the adoption process Aimee Vlog Introduce yourself and your family My name is Aimee, I’m currently 27 years old. After achieving an early childhood degree and deciding that primary teaching wasn’tt for […]