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Vaping?!

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Malzzy · 20/11/2020 11:10

We've just had a phonecall with the adoption agency, everything was going really well, even got through how we'd work it around my husband working abroad sometimes (I've previously posted about that), all sounded really positive, then they asked if we smoked. No, we don't. Do you vape? Yes, my husband vapes. We hadn't even thought it'd be an issue, but apparently since April it's been a rule that they want anyone who vapes to have quit for 12 months before being accepted for training! he doesn't vape nicotine or anything, so quitting isn't an issue, but it's set us back a whole year all the same. Their information pack said nothing about vaping, only that they like you to have stopped smoking for a year before applying so we thought nothing of admitting that he vaped. So frustrating. She said it was because they don't know the long term effects of vaping yet, which is fair enough. Not much point to my post I'm afraid, just venting.

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Hotwaterbottlelove · 20/11/2020 17:28

In my experience, everywhere (not just adoption, I mean work places, public places etc) treats vaping and smoking they same so we have assumed that any requirements apply to both. I'm fairly sure it's 3 months for everywhere we have spoken to though.

Hotwaterbottlelove · 20/11/2020 17:50

Your post panicked me so I'm done more digging and it seems places that state a year do so with regards to 'a year pre-matching'. Does that help at all? Can you go back to them and see their thoughts on that?

Malzzy · 20/11/2020 18:31

oh right! I will ask her about that. We're getting sent the homework pack etc and things like a house risk assessment to start filling out, they were looking to get us on a training course in January but with my husband's work it was probably going to be March anyway before we did that, but then when the vaping thing came up she said 'well we ask for you to have stopped vaping for 12 months before we can put you on any training courses' :/ a year does seem quite extreme, I was expecting a long journey, but this has added a lot on to it!

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Lauraleigh85 · 30/11/2020 20:25

Hi, we recently adopted siblings, 4 weeks home with us now. My husband vapes, something which we disclosed from day 1 - we had a chat with our social worker and they asked what we would do moving forwards, my hubbie now only vapes outside and not around the kids. This was not an issue for our placement , in our area our local authority seem to take each circumstance on individual terms. I would say be open and honest about it and fingers crossed it doesn't cause a set back x

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