London adoption process

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I am probably being very stupid here but...

I don't get how we would register to adopt in London. Our borough says they'll treat applications from people who live in the borogh cautiously because of the proximity to the birth family. Clearly we'd like as much chance as possible so we wouldn't want to regsiter with them if that would mean fewer chances. Do we have to register with a number of other boroughs? That makes no sense surely? We're in SW London if that helps?

Thanks Devora that's really helpful.

Not that I'm aware of, until they find you a child/children suitable I suppose.

www.familyfutures.co.uk/ When we looked into this, these people seemed good.

thanks phineyj - will check them out

I was talking to someone at the weekend who adopted three times through ealing and they were very complimentary.

Someone else here said Ealing too...

I've heard good things about Ealing too

Most London boroughs won't consider you if you live within their boundaries (because of the difficulty placing children who shouldn't have contact with their birth family). Unlike other LA agencies eg Surrey CC, Herts CC, who won't consider you unless you do live within their boundaries! And generally agencies won't want to travel more than an hour to get to you to do home studies etc

I'd say to phone around and see who is actually looking for prospective adopters at the moment and go from there.

We've been told by a few LAs that we would need to give them 3 months after approval, then we can look elsewhere. But as I mentioned on another thread, we're still trying to get that sorted out - assess us, someone, pretty please!! Grr.

I think there's a year time limit on being matched before another assessment (modified?) has to be carried out.