Roi form-help

[Tinypod]

I'm sorry. Its me again. I've had my first telephone appointment and I'm booked in for a visit next week.

Theyve emailed me my roi form and have asked for a photo. Should this be just me (single adopter) or could it include my child? I've also noticed they want my national insurance number. Does anyone know what this could be for?

Thanks all

I would just have you in the photo for now.

I think the national insurance number might help with identity checks and to make sure your history all checks out if they need it.

You will need to essentially be an unpaid foster carer at first, so they need to run the same or similar checks, which I guess may also include financial ones.

Ok thank you. Financial checks as in credit checks or bank statements? Sorry I've tried googling and still confused

If I'm honest, I'm not completely sure! I don't think they ran credit checks like they do for application for credit cards when we applied. However, they definitely wanted to see our bank accounts and credit card statements as part of their own internal financial checks- they wanted to make sure we had the money we said we did and didn't owe more than we said we did. They also double checked our incoming and outgoings were approximately what we said they were.

We just showed a statement of accounts...they wanted to see three months worth of statements, but I said no, they could see from the statement of accounts that we had savings and were ok financially. Wouldn't always recommend saying no to them though - I think I'd just about had enough of the process by that point. No official credit checks.