OK, so I though I'd blog what's happening as opposed to just going on about it.
I get a lot of mails, messages and texts asking what's happening. So, here's what's going on.....
We are now going through Aberdeen City Council as opposed to Aberdeenshire. The problem with Aberdeenshire is that they have too many applicants and not enough children. Aberdeen City have the opposite problem. After a bit of discussion it was decided and suggested that the City route is the one Steph and I should go down. If we were looking to adopt a sibling group then Aberdeenshire may have been OK, but we're not. For a single child we may have to wait years, with City it's more the expected process.
Right now we are waiting on a call from out assigned worker. After that we will have out first home visit/chat. Here we can ask the questions that we have and for the council to go over in more detail what to expect.
Then comes the start of the real process. Steph and I will be required to go on a course, probably in May. This course will go over what to expect from the process and what will be expected of us. Assuming full attendance by us we then go in to the "check" phase.
If I was being flippant, I would call this the "Who if your daddy and what does he do?" phase. This is where all the background checks are done, and I mean everything. Our upbringing, relationship with parents and siblings, previous relationships, police checks, council checks, health checks ..... and so on.
I'll leave it at that for now.
This blog will go on as long as I think (or others advise) is appropriate and will contain detail to the same level. There will obviously be omissions, but I want to keep you up to date.
This is my equivalent of a jubilant expectant father, so indulge me my output.
I'm off to make my music passion (or "obsession"(!)) seem less obsessive! :0)
Ross
