I am 25,want to adopt, but single,renting and can hardly pay a 1room appartment. Is there any help?
i thought i might be caught in the same catch 22, but my housing association were very supportive and once they spoke to the adoption agency agreed that i would be placed on the exchange list once approved. the adoption agency were also very flexible in there approach and agreed to go ahead with the assessment. my whole problem with the LA's response to people who are willing to adopt but are unable to be assessed until they have larger accommodation is that the same LA's have no problem having families living in there accommodation in seriously over crowded conditions, it really does seem to be quite hypocritical of them.”
If you can hardly pay for your own appartment yhow are you going to pay the cost of being a parent?
I think giving it a bit of time woulid be a good plan before you stress too much about adopting.
Remember that adoption is there to meet the needs of the child, not the would-be parent.
Look for other ways to get the rewards of giving children a good service and see what life brings you over the next few years. Maybe you'll decide to be a foster carer, they are paid allowances rouitintely, whereas adopters are normally only paid allowances (other than state chlid benefit etc) if they take on an unusually 'hard to place' child or children.
A couple in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire recently got past the 'catch-22' which Marney described after having their story featured on local radio and hey presto somebody found a way around the 'rules' - I'm not sure now though.........”
I also want to adopt, one of the 'harder to place' children. I am stuck in a catch-22 situation where the adoption agency can not begin their assessment until I have larger accomodation and my housing association will not rehome me until I have a child living with me. Has anyone else faced this problem and/or found a way around it? I feel stuck (and extremely frustrated!).”
i thought i might be caught in the same catch 22, but my housing association were very supportive and once they spoke to the adoption agency agreed that i would be placed on the exchange list once approved. the adoption agency were also very flexible in there approach and agreed to go ahead with the assessment. my whole problem with the LA's response to people who are willing to adopt but are unable to be assessed until they have larger accommodation is that the same LA's have no problem having families living in there accommodation in seriously over crowded conditions, it really does seem to be quite hypocritical of them.”
Posted by sally on 30th Sep at 4:35PM (flag as inappropriate)
If you can hardly pay for your own appartment yhow are you going to pay the cost of being a parent?
I think giving it a bit of time woulid be a good plan before you stress too much about adopting.
Remember that adoption is there to meet the needs of the child, not the would-be parent.
Look for other ways to get the rewards of giving children a good service and see what life brings you over the next few years. Maybe you'll decide to be a foster carer, they are paid allowances rouitintely, whereas adopters are normally only paid allowances (other than state chlid benefit etc) if they take on an unusually 'hard to place' child or children.
A couple in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire recently got past the 'catch-22' which Marney described after having their story featured on local radio and hey presto somebody found a way around the 'rules' - I'm not sure now though.........”
Posted by Stuart on 14th Jun at 10:22AM (flag as inappropriate)
I also want to adopt, one of the 'harder to place' children. I am stuck in a catch-22 situation where the adoption agency can not begin their assessment until I have larger accomodation and my housing association will not rehome me until I have a child living with me. Has anyone else faced this problem and/or found a way around it? I feel stuck (and extremely frustrated!).”
Posted by Marney on 24th May at 11:08AM (flag as inappropriate)