Hi all I’m new to all this so bare with me. We have been looking after our nephew officially for 2 years now he just turned 3 in feb, however before this we had him a lot too.
We are in Scotland so we get a residency order or permancy order which our social worker doesn’t believe would be best for our little one therefore we are going for permanency with authority to adopt. I know this is rare for a family member to be able to adopt but the family is very complicated and is too long a story to get into, I would need to write a book.
Once the little one is adopted he will
Still have contact with birth father my partners brother, currently he sees little one once per week for 2 hours but I’m wondering if when he is adopted this will change.
Our social worker came for a catch up on Monday as we had a few little issues, we organise contact with bf ourselves and wanted to speak to social worker about things he had been saying to lo, at this time she mentioned that in July we will have a matching panel, I’ve read about this in adoption ect but not sure what it will include for us considering the child has been with us for 2 years now and we are relatatives.
After this panel in July how long will it take for the adoption to be finalised.
Also she mentioned about what little one calls us, at the moment it’s by our first names (used to be mummy) but bm kicked up about it and sw made it stop which is silly now because it’s going to make lo even more confused as after adoption we will officially be his mummy’s even though we are that now. Both myself and my partner arnt married either so when little one is adopted and given new birth certificate what happens to his second name can we choose it?