Visit arranged

I am back in the UK now after a week in Spain. Yesterday I was going to sit down to write a moaning post about the fact that Miranda hadn’t contacted us at all even though she said on the 21st that she’d ring us the following day and how we weren’t expecting to hear from her until the new year, but I never got round to it.

I’s just as well I didn’t as I’d have had to swallow my words. She rang us to say that Boy H’s social worker and family finder are definitely coming to visit us in two weeks’ time. Miranda will come next week to help us prepare for the visit. In the meantime we will re-read his CPR to think of questions we may want to ask the social workers. Apparently they have an updated profile and some information from his school as well, so we will get that when they visit. Miranda has asked us to look into whether the local schools have any places and also what post adoption support services are available in our area.

With this news we spent the morning and afternoon looking up information about local schools online (they are all closed until Monday 4th January, so we can’t get any prospectuses or contact them about places until then), and also about post-adoption support in our local authority. We managed to get the name and contact details of the post-adoption specialist at the local CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) as well.

Miranda said that the social workers sounded positive, and we are very happy with the news, but desperately trying not to get too excited. We know they are visiting another couple, and they may well choose them over us. Still, it’s excellent news and a very positive end to the year. : )