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Stage 1 Archives - Then We Were Four Skip to content Then We Were Four Building Our Family Through Adoption View ThenWeWereFour’s profile on FacebookView ThenWeWereFour’s profile on TwitterView ThenWeWereFour’s profile on Tumblr Home My Blog Adoption Stage 1 Stage 2 Matching Post Placement Post Adoption Family Life Guest Posts Miscellaneous ReviewsWell-nighUs Contact Us Blogs To Read Category: Stage 1 Support Networks 28th March 2017 Then We Were Four Adoption, Post Adoption, Stage 1 One scuttlebutt During Stage 1 of the adoption process we were asked to create what was tabbed an “Eco-map” to represent the family, friends and co-workers who we thought made up the network of people who would support us during the clearance process and without we unexplored our child/children. When we were thinking well-nigh who to put on the map we didn’t really have to do so too hard. We both have quite close-knit families so brothers, sisters, mums, dad, and grandparents immediately went on to it without a second thought. We then considered extended family and put a few aunts, uncles, Continue reading Schedule Change 5th November 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt We met our Stage 2 social workers yesterday. Our towage is starting next week. The provisional stage for our clearance panel is in February. Well, that was quick. Lots of dates in diaries, a few increasingly training courses booked up, and we’re off. Twoish months superiority of what we had originally scheduled. I think considering our assessing social worker is in training and under the supervision of the senior practitioner prescribed to us she had increasingly dates self-ruling in her diary than if it were the senior practitioner vacated doing our assessment. This meant that she could work virtually our work Continue reading The Preparation Group 30th October 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1, Stage 2 2 comments On Sunday I was unapproachable, irritable, short tempered, and I had a headache. Why? I was yellow-eyed well-nigh the preparation group that we were going to be peekaboo on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. To most people this probably wouldn’t have been a problem, certainly nothing to get yellow-eyed about; it was just a bit of training surpassing we can move on to Stage 2 of the clearance process. But, me stuff me, I’d over inflated the shit which I wasn’t looking forward to and forgotten the shit that I was. So, in my mind, we’d be going to Continue reading No Contact! Contact! 10th October 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, LGBT, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt Since stuff told we had a place on the October Preparation Group it has been total radio silence from the adoption agency. We know the dates that is it happening, but we don’t know where it is, what time it starts, if we need to do anything in preparation or if we need to take anything with us. In other words we finger totally unprepared for the Preparation Group. Then, at the tail end of last week, it changed. I was phoned by the Team Manager of the adoption team at the agency’s local office. I seem this ways she’s the one Continue reading Reality Hitting 21st September 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt On the time scales we have set ourselves, with Stage 2 starting in January (that’s official now I think), and all stuff well, we could be tried to prefer by May 2015. That ways at any point without that we could wilt parents depending on whether there is a child or children that we suit as parents. I put it that way virtually as the adoption process in the UK is now “child focused” which ways that nothing is meant to happen that isn’t in the weightier interests of the child. Of course, the child fitting with what we ‘want’ Continue reading Sabotage! 19th August 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt We now know that we won’t be progressing to Stage 2 of the adoption process on schedule. We towards to have sabotaged our own using by providing references which didn’t fit the criteria they wanted. We had to requite 3 references, only one of which could be a family member. We interpreted family member to be firsthand family, brothers, sisters and parents. We plane asked (apparently the wrong people) if our references would be ok and were told they would be. So we unfurled with my brother, a school friend and my partner’s cousin’s partner. Guess which one is not Continue reading Reading,IncreasinglyReading and Medicals 24th July 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 One scuttlebutt The “resource list” that we have been given for the adoption process is as long as I am tall (which isn’t exactly tall, much to my detriment when gingerly my BMI). Over the last few weeks we’ve both been ploughing through as much as we can surpassing the 29th when we’ve got to hand our Adoption Workbook in with comments well-nigh what we have read. I’ve been reading mostly well-nigh zipper and bonding recently, much of which appears to be worldwide sense, but I have found some of it quite enlightening and it will certainly be helpful in future I’m Continue reading Workshop 11th July 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt Yesterday we went to what was tabbed an “Adoption Workshop”, we were a bit worried as it coincided with strike whoopee from steering workers and it was an 80 mile round trip to get there. Our fears were unfounded though and it all went superiority as expected. What has wilt unveiled recently is that our adoption organ is still finding its feet with the new 2 stage process. This is fairly understandable as it is less than a year old, and they do seem to be very unshut well-nigh the fact they’re still learning and adapting it to modernize it Continue reading References and DBS Checks 9th July 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt This past week we’ve heard from 2 of our references that the questionnaire they need to fill in has arrived and we’ve been to County Hall with our identification documents to initalise the DBS check. Firstly I would like to say how lucky we are to have the support of our friends and family during this process. One of our references in particular, despite both her and her husband having to work full-time in relatively inflexible jobs and stuff parents of a 1 year old little cutie she has found the time to speak to us well-nigh the questions she’s Continue reading Dredging The Past 30th June 2014 Then We Were Four Adoption, Stage 1 Leave a scuttlebutt I’ve been asked by the adoption organ to provide names of people I worked with at two places I left 15 years ago. The reason they’re interested in them is considering both involved working with, or around, children. On the registration of interest form there was a section asking well-nigh jobs we held that involved working with children or vulnerable adults. I had two that I thought might be relevant, one as a swimming pool life baby-sit where I interacted a lot with children, and one as a science technician at my old secondary school. 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