Delayed panel date

Yesterday was the deadline for Miranda to get our home study report to us and to the other social worker who will be doing the second opinion interview. She rang me at work at lunchtime to tell me that she hadn’t finished it partly because of a problem with her PC and the report template. She’s also been really busy with an assignment for a course she is taking. This means that they won’t be coming on Monday to finalise the home study and we won’t be going to panel in February. She apologised three times and once again offered to go to panel without us in March, but we really think that we should be there, so that means that we’re now looking at April.

In a way it is good that the report won’t be rushed. In fact Miranda said that another reason she thought it best to take time with the report was the fact that she still thinks there is an issue with Glen’s father (again!) and she wants to make sure she is happy with how that is explained in the report.

Glen is not surprised as he never thought that everything would get done on time, but I had actually got my hopes up. It was nice to think that we could get the approval process out of the way and start the family finding, especially knowing that it will take months - if not years – to be matched (if at all). So while we realise that in the big scheme of things in this process this is not a huge setback, we are really disappointed.