Step Parent adoption- quick question please!

[topbannana]

I posted on here a while ago about our first visit from the SW about DH adopting my DS. Advice given was great and we have just go to the end of our 13 weeks so ready to submit the forms to the court.
HOWEVER (and apologies if this is really daft) I cannot for the life of me work out whether just DH applies or whether we both have to (we are using a standard A58 form so there is space for two applicants) I have heard conflicting info about this and want to make sure it is right.
I have read the guidance notes to no avail. I tried the lovely lady at the court who has been really helpful (despite being a slightly Lord Lucan type character) but surprise, surprise, she is nowhere to be found (again!) SW is off until Tuesday (coincidentally the day we go on holiday) and TBH was pretty vague when we met her- she even gave us the name of the wrong court and believed we needed to be married to proceed

So can anyone help me so that we can get these wretched forms done and dusted and at the court before we go away?
TIA

Sorry, not sure. I imagine it is just DH, though, as you don't need to adopt your son? It's the same form for all adopters - eg both DH and I needed to apply to adopt our DD, so needed two spaces for everything.

Hopefully someone who knows for sure will come along

I believe it's just dh

You both have too. My step dad adopted me and my mum had too as well as weird as it sounds. I don't know why she had to but she did.

Perhaps you can speak to a duty SW?

Thanks for the advice, I am about to have another go at Lady Lucan at the courts as she was extremely helpful. TBH while our SW was perfectly pleasant she did seem to have gaping gaps in her knowledge which makes it slightly alarming that she has power over vulnerable childrens lives

We realised that SW are a bit vague on the details of the precise process for adoption because they do so few of them, often years apart. But yes, they should be an authoritative source of information.

I didn't realise that families I assumed they dealt with adoptions on a regular basis. What made me a bit was the fact they took six weeks to acknowledge our letter, later on sent a date to visit which they then cancelled, then rearranged for 3 weeks later. In all that time nobody had even had 5 minutes to look up the basics such as what court we would need to attend.
I guess our process is incredibly important to us but in the big scheme of what they deal with is a drop in their ocean.

That is crap admin, topbanana. We notice SW were really bad at that, too...

Hope you get a definitive answer soon.

I think the rules have changed and your DH can apply alone.

Thanks all, SW phoned me this morning and we have our next meeting planned- this pleases me greatly but also makes me a little nervous again
And for future reference, it is only DH who needs to apply (or so SW informs me, we shall see :o)