Asking for more info re potential match

[TwinklyNavyMaker]

Hi all, my husband and I have just started Stage 2 and don't have panel until early August. Our Social Worker showed us three profiles on LinkMaker at our meeting this week and we felt we really connected with one of them. Do you think it's too early for us to ask for more information about them?

No it's not too early. She must have shown them to you for a reason.

It’s very early for her to be sharing profiles of children given she’s hardly started your Stage 2 assessment and so doesn’t know if something might come up that needs time to resolve. Did she say why she shared them? Given she has, asking for more information is fine, though you may not get much back at this early stage.

My social worker added me to linkmaker as soon as I was onto stage 2. And they're very keen to get people almost matched before they go to approval panel. I'd always say to show interest when you're interested. Heard lots of people missing out on little ones because they left it too late.

Thank you everyone for your replies, they are super helpful. I think our social worker wanted to see our reactions to the different profiles to help her understand us a little better. She is also a big advocate of early matching and has had many of her couples linked prior to the approval panel. I am wary of coming across as too pushy but I think I'm going to ask for further information at our next meeting.

Linked before approval is fine, by then social workers have a good sense of whether people are likely to be approved and if they are it makes sense to move things on quite quickly. I’m not sure about sharing profiles to understand you better - that’s what the assessment is for and it’s potentially exploitative of kids who are waiting if she’s using their profiles as a kind of litmus test.

Id definitely ask for more information though, just try not to get too invested though because it’s early in your process and there may be others who are further along also interested. Good luck