Tips for matching home visit?

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We have the social worker and family finder of potential LOs coming to do a home visit to see if they would like to link. Apart from scrubbing the house (haha), do you have any top tips for what we should say or do? We were considering putting together a document of how we can meet LOs needs but our sw said not to be too intense and we can sometimes be quite keen.
Trying not to stress because I really want this to work out!

Id have thought keenness was a good thing? When I was in matching for our wee one I wrote a 'week in the life of' (but we already had kids so was very child centric already) and a 'why we are her family' (including how we can meet her needs), but I sent these in before they came to visit.
I think then just be yourself, if the match is right its right? Good luck its an exciting time!

Be yourselves, be interested and remember they are already interested in you as a possible match. Be prepared for lots of questions. We asked about our LO, generally what she is like to hear more about her, anything we wanted to know more about really that'd help our decision but also to show how we'd thought through points about her that came up in reading about her. So we talked it through rather than wrote anything for them. They asked lots of questions too as they obviously want to know its a good match. It was so lovely too as we got to see video of her and find out lots from her social worker.
I remember it fondly, though obviously we were so nervous, it really did secure how much we thought it was a good match. And it was.
So exciting for you. Good luck.

For ours, we just did the classic social worker clean haha and then just chatted in our living room. We didn’t prepare any documents but we had spoken together about answers to the classic questions of why this child/how can we support them/how do we feel about their birth story etc! Then they looked around the house and we were told before they left that they wanted to proceed. Just be yourselves and I would take the advice from your SW as they know you best! If they’re saying you can come across as too keen/intense, then show them you can take that on board!

Absolutely! No offence to your social worker, but I would ignore her advice. For our home visits we prepared a little presentation with photos of us, our house, nearest schools and other key information, and more important how we thought we would be able to meet the needs of our now adopted children. We printed it for the social worker (and e-mailed it to her) so she could share it with her manager during the linking meeting. Showing that you thought in advance about the needs of the child and showing preparedness is a great thing! It’s definitely a key skill for any good parent.

And our social worker told us exactly what your social worker told you, but to be honest she was just incompetent.