Making sense of your financial assessment

Making sense of your financial assessment

The reality is a financial assessment will be happening as a part of your adoption assessment, it is a part of the process and needs to be assessed along with everything else.  Now this is not to say this is a make or break in terms of adopting but it is...
Creating Your Family Tree

Creating Your Family Tree

Now does thinking about your family tree make you eyes roll, thinking of all the dynamics of your family, I totally get that to, being a child of a separated family with additional marriages in them can create for an interesting family tree. I am going to help you...
Adoption Leave

Adoption Leave

I am sure you will already be aware from the Information Sessions that there is an expectation that you will make yourselves available for the child by being at home for the first 12 months – essentially not working during that time. I appreciate this can seem like a...
Your Story From The Beginning

Your Story From The Beginning

Whilst you are in the thinking stages or the very beginning stages of thinking about adoption, this exercise could really help you as these are things you will be asked to list, note down as a part of your Registration of Interest Form (ROIF) The social workers will...
How to Take the Stress Out of Reading

How to Take the Stress Out of Reading

How to take the stress out of reading/learning Wow, how long is that suggested reading list you received from your social worker/agency? Does this fill you with worry, fear or anxiety? Or does it fill you with joy, excitement and intrigue?  Some of us have not...