OK How long after being matched with a child do they actually come to live with them.

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Someone i work with is adopting and just been matched with a boy last week, she seemed very over whelmed and I didn't want to ask her too many questions as she has been approved waiting for 3 years and still convinced something is going to go wrong.

So all going well, now she matched what is the appox time the boy could be with her, I dont know if its likely to be weeks or months.

Depends on boys age etc from meeting him I think they hope for several weeks rather than longer.

hi

Thanks for fast response, the boy is 14 months if that helps.

Usually I believe it starts with visits, then whole days, then overnights. I assume it will depend on how the little boy reacts. They will put his emotional welfare first. They have to transfer main carer from existing foster parents to mum & dad IYSWIM

should be weeks

there will be a planning meeting first with all the parties. they will plan the introductions, which will be as cargirl says. once they start it will be 2 weeks maximum, from first meeting til he moves in full time

so she will be going off on adoption leave soon . are you going to have a leaving do and gift for her & her son??

I'm new here, but my colleague was matched with a 2 year old boy in mid January and he was living with them 10 days later - I don't think its typical but the placing authority moved very quickly - they had visited him twice for about 2 hrs and he had visited them once in their home for 2 hours.
Congratulations to your colleague!

Different authorities do different things. There will be meetings to attend with foster mum and social workers on each side. For me once approved and we had the information on our son it took a few weeks of meetings then on the final meeting we were taken to meet him.

Once we met him it was a slow introduction, hour first day, then an afternoon, then his morning routine etc, we brought him home 10 days after initially meeting him.

When we were matched with ds there were a few meetings to set up timetables etc, and then we had a week's handover. I think I had left work within a week or 10 days of the matching panel. He was just over 10 months old then.

I hope it goes well for her, the handover stage is exhausting and the first few weeks with a new child are terrifying, but it gets easier after that.

Hi, we are foster carers for little ones who, as a rule, are placed for adoption.

Once the child is matched by panel things tend to move pretty quickly. Usually a series of introductions is scheduled, this usually starts with the adopters meeting the foster carers first then the child.

For a young baby, ie under 12-18 months, intro's are usually completed within the first week. I have moved babies on within 5 days of the first meeting.

Once matching is done the adopters are usually given a "breathing space" to let the news sink in if you like and also to do practical things like giving notice at work, buying equipment etc, but once the actual meetings begin its all systems go.

An adoption worker is visiting families soon for a one-year-old we are caring for. She will match him to one family and then this will go to panel to be agreed.

This time is "our special time" when we come to terms with losing our little one.

Best of luck to your friend.

We had out (approval and) matching panel at theend of Jan and the kids wil be with us permanently from March 8th. Apparently that was the quickest it could be?

We are in Scotland and adopting children who are already in foster care, so perhaps tat makes a difference?

mBop

congratlations!mummybop

i suspect the speed is because you were approved only for these particular children ( i assume) and because you already know them well

and they probably live near you and their existing foster carers

and you know their worker, their Fcs and the Fc's worker

and of course there is a shortage of families able to adopt a sibling group of three