Review at Panel

[Melody01]

We are having a truly terrible time in the adoption process. We have been involved for a few years and in that time have had 4 SWs, one intro breakdown which panel decided was due to the child not being ready or prepared for adoption and now we recently went to panel and the panel chair pointed out missing information and reports that were not up to standard. Our SW have not written a report to take us to panel to have us deregistered.

Sorry they have now written a report to take to panel to have us deregistered. We have in return written an 8 page comments report stating why we shouldn't be.

Do panel really review the whole thing objectively?

Yes panel are independent of the SW so won't back them on the basis of being colleagues etc.
Why do they want you deregistered?

I say deregistered as I don't really know the recognised term for it but basically I know once you are approved you stay approved but our SW says they will not continue to family find for us after having two negative experiences. However, we have written a long report back in our defence to the panel of what happened with our two experiences.

I got very upset after panel and phoned our SW saying I didn't think siblings were a good idea for us anymore and one child would be more suitable. She thought I was talking about coping with two but I was trying to explain to her that I did not think we could take the risk of two children after not being given all the info as highlighted at panel. She will not hear that this was the reason hence we are off to panel.

We are older adopters and feel we could cope with a school aged child but not siblings anymore

We known that all of the children we could be matched with have the potential to have complex needs and we were willing to accept this but after panel we do not feel we could take the risk of having two anymore.