Kinship adoption

[MISSJANEO]

Without going into too much detail I am considering adopting a family member.

Does anyone have any experience of this who can help me understand the process and the positives and negatives of kinship adoption.

Thank you

[Mama1980]

I have/can, if you would like to message me I'm happy to help if I can.

[SuperAunt08]

Me too... I’d rather not go into too much detail here as it’s early days and very outing but happy to private message if you wish

[SuperAunt08]

One thing I can say though is that all the social workers were pushing for special guardianship over adoption so if you have considered both and decided adoption is better for you make sure you have a sound rationale prepared because you will be quizzed on it at every stage

[SimonJT]

I have, I would also echo the above, I refused SGO and was subsequently subjected to rubbish treatment by SS, but it was definitely the right thing to stick with it and go for adoption.

I’ll happily try to answer questions, but things probably vary a bit county to county.