The Adoption Process: A Practical & Emotional Guide to Adopting a Child - Softcover

Mills, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1068629142 ISBN 13: 9781068629143

Publisher: Dee Mills, 2024

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Adoption Transitions: A Practical Guide from Matched to Moving In, this is the first book to pick up if you’re considering adoption in the UK. It explains your options and takes you through the different stages from researching agencies, training and assessment, to being matched with a child.

There are chapters on:

• What are adoption agencies looking for?
• Where do I start?
• The different routes to adoption
• Timeframes
• Stage one
• Preparation training
• Learning log ideas
• Stage two
• Thinking about birth families
• Family finding
• Linking and matching

Included are checklists, resources and guidance on how to approach and choose an agency, what information they’ll ask for, preparing for assessment and what’s involved, perspectives on adopting as a single parent or after a birth child, deciding on one child or siblings, early permanence, fostering to adopt, birth family contact, building a support network, adoption leave and pay, approval panel, family finding and matching panel.

It’s also a useful reference for social work students.

Advance readers commented:

This has been extremely useful! It’s really going to help us know what to expect and how to handle the next steps.

The guidance is clear and easy to read as usual.

This helped answer some of my questions on the terminology being used.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dee Mills
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1068629142
• ISBN 13: 9781068629143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205