Especially because in hindsight her reactions were always vague when we asked her about this particular child. However we can't help but feel that our family finder dropped the ball on this one. She said that up until the expression of interest we sent through LinkMaker she had not heard about us and had no emails or missed call messages from our family finder🤔 Either way the child has already been matched which in the end is a good outcome. She was extremely friendly and clarified things and even called me back in the evening to make sure I was alright. I did call LA myself in the end and was put through to the child's family finder straight away even though our family finder said she was struggling for months to get hold of anyone🤨 Guess we'll have to buckle up and apply our coping strategies a bit more over the coming weeks/months. Even though they prepared us for this, we're struggling because it's out of our hands and no communication or updates. Thanks, thought it might be a combination. My advice would be to follow up your expression of interest with your own social worker or family finder who can help you in the waiting.
Simply put it’s a waiting game, and it’s very hard for the potential adopters because we just want to get on with it. It may also be the case that someone else has expressed interest but the SW thinks it’s not likely to work out, so is holding off on replying to you to see what happens. Your expression of interest may be one of many, the SW needs to look at yours in conjunction with others they might have, they may need to discuss with others (eg team leader, child’s SW or family finder depending on who looks at initial expressions of interest), they’re likely to have a pretty high case load and it’s not at all uncommon for families to be in crisis at this time of year so the days they’re on “duty” covering child protection are likely to be pretty busy.īasically adoption is massively important but it’s the one thing on a social workers case load that isn’t urgent or emergent, and it’s also an area where it’s important to take proper time to look at a match. Workloads are high and social workers are busy but things also just take time. Are we just impatient/naive? Do the social workers/family finders struggle with their workload? Is the process too long winded? Lack of efficiency? Time of the year? All of the above?
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