Foster to adopt questions

[Flower20166]

Hi, I have a few questions for the people who've done foster to adopt.
Did you get approved specifically for foster to adopt, or we're you already approved a a foster carer?
I'm currently a foster carer and my social worker has mentioned fta and asked if I would ever consider it... We didn't talk about it a great deal but it got me wondering, would I get placed with a fta placement or would I have to be assessed before?
Also, is it only newborns they place as fta or older children too?
Thankyou

Hi, we was approved adopting sibling groups. This was based on the fact that SS told us from day one that adopting a newborn baby was very limited unless it was a FTA situation to which again would come with great risks we didn't want to go with.....

However.... we was approved and then had at least 3 lots of sibling groups interested and we saw some profiles which we where intending to take further when we got a phone call.....

That phone call was our baby girl....it was worth everything.

The thing with FTA is the risk they could go back to there families, as a foster carer already i would tread carefully, they may feel with you being a foster carer already that they can afford to take that risk with you. (i hope that makes sense)

From my experience FTA tend to be very young babies, however i maybe wrong.

Im happy to answer anymore questions you have if i can help :)

Thanks for your reply.
Aw I'm glad you got your baby girl!
Yes I was wondering if they may think that due to me being a foster carer already. My LA are really really good though and I don't think they would, but fta is a risk anyway I guess.x