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So the other day I posted about my sister's adoption proceedings, and the slight spanner in the works thrown by the children's foster carer, who had a family crisis and couldn't keep them any longer.
The latest update is that a respite carer, who had been having the children every other weekend, has agreed to keep them with her for the last few weeks before the adoption goes through - not an entirely ideal arrangement, but far less disruptive for them than being abruptly transferred to complete strangers mere weeks before being moved again to their forever home!
This means that normal adoptive proceedings can continue through the summer. D&R will be attending a 'life appreciation day', where they get feedback from everyone involved in the children's care up till now - GP, nursery, foster carers, etc. Then a couple of 'bump into' meetings. The adoption panel meets on 12th August, the earliest date available, for the match to be formally approved, and then they have to wait up to ten days for the agency decision maker to ratify the decision. The day after the adm says yes, they start a two week introduction period. If all goes well the children will move in at the end of these two weeks - so, end of August or early September, with any luck!
The little girl E was two in January and the little boy G was one in April (so, 16 months younger than Layla-May, and then 15 months younger again) - can't say their names publicly, or put any pictures of them online, as the birth family they were removed from only live seven miles from D&R and the children have a pretty identifiable name combination, so they need to not be traceable. But it is all getting very real now.
In Other News, this is what days out with my existing niece look like:
The latest update is that a respite carer, who had been having the children every other weekend, has agreed to keep them with her for the last few weeks before the adoption goes through - not an entirely ideal arrangement, but far less disruptive for them than being abruptly transferred to complete strangers mere weeks before being moved again to their forever home!
This means that normal adoptive proceedings can continue through the summer. D&R will be attending a 'life appreciation day', where they get feedback from everyone involved in the children's care up till now - GP, nursery, foster carers, etc. Then a couple of 'bump into' meetings. The adoption panel meets on 12th August, the earliest date available, for the match to be formally approved, and then they have to wait up to ten days for the agency decision maker to ratify the decision. The day after the adm says yes, they start a two week introduction period. If all goes well the children will move in at the end of these two weeks - so, end of August or early September, with any luck!
The little girl E was two in January and the little boy G was one in April (so, 16 months younger than Layla-May, and then 15 months younger again) - can't say their names publicly, or put any pictures of them online, as the birth family they were removed from only live seven miles from D&R and the children have a pretty identifiable name combination, so they need to not be traceable. But it is all getting very real now.
In Other News, this is what days out with my existing niece look like:
