Tag: Adoption Week

Helen’s Story, Part 4

As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adopters story through the adoption process. Here it’s time for panel… Part four I almost forgot Panel, that’s because it was great. I was terrified before we went in, shaking, feeling sick, the works. Don’t worry, you are in a room of positive people who really…
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Helen’s Story, Part 3

As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adoptive families journey through the process, today it’s ‘stage two…’ Part three ‘Stage Two’ was a much anticipated part of the adoption process and although we had some reservations we were open minded and ready for the probing and interrogation we had been warned about. One…
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Helen’s story, Part 2

As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adoptive families journey through the adoption process. Here Helen talks about the first home visit. Part two Bonzo likes to bark. Bonzo likes to bark loudly. He particular likes to bark when people come to the door. Today was not a day for Bonzo to display…
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Adoption Week 2015

Next week is National Adoption week, so over the coming days we’ll be serialising one adoptive families journey through the process. Additionally we’ll be having a Q&A session on Twitter on 20 and 22 October using #adopt4leeds from @child_leeds and we have an event you can attend to find out more at Trinity Centre in…
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