Sharing rooms

[CleverQuacks]

So I am currently considering adoption. I have three children already who I love dearly. I can’t have any more children due to health reasons and I feel I would be a good adoptive parent. I work in children’s social care so have a good understanding of the adoption process and the challenges associated with adopting.

My question however is a practical one. I live in a large 4 bed house. Currently my oldest child has her own room and my younger two share. We then have a “spare” room which is generally used as a play room. If I were successful with the adoption this room would become the child’s room.

However I have read that when adopting children need to have their own rooms. Does this apply to my own children? The younger two have shared their whole life so I wouldn’t be moving them to share to make room for the new child. Would this be ok?

I can't imagine that you would be required to change your birth childrens' rooms. You have a room available for another child so shouldn't be an issue

It is just for the adopted one. Same with fostering . My daughters shared at one point and we are foster carers as well as adoptors and it was fine.

Just to say our ADs share a bedroom, this was always the plan from when we were first met by the SW's and wasn't ever brought up as a potential problem. possibly because they were glad to get any match at that point

Adopted siblings can share if they are genetic siblings as it were. But adopted children will not be able to share with your birth children , they must have their own room. Though after the adoption order is granted you can do what you like as you then have full PR.
But in this instance the Op is asking about birth children sharing which is fine .