Hi,

Hope this is not out of place here but I thought it might be of interest to some people who are currently looking for donors and might consider parenting a child who is not their biological child.

Good news for those in WA interested in local adoption.

If you check the DCP website under "Adoptions" there is a link to information on providing permanent families for children in foster care. Those in WA already currently approved to adopt and either waiting to adopt locally or waiting for an intercountry placement can undergo and expedited application and assessment process to apply to have a child placed through the new permanent care program. You can remain in the local adoption pool and/or the intercountry program while you are waiting for a possible permanent care placement (but of course need to withdraw from the other pool/program should you decide to accept a permanent care placement.

I have had expierience in this area in UK, it is a very good thing for these children as it provides them with a permenant home.
W e have thought about this but, it isnt the way we want to go at this stage.
sorry cant spell.

Thanks for posting this info. The adoption process is so daunting
Many people are scared off by it and good people who could
Give a child in need a good home.

I think with the adoption process the best way to do it is give it a go one step at a time, just focus on the medical or the police clearance or the education sessions or assessor visits or whatever it is you need to do next instead of being put off by the whole process.

The problem isnt so much going through all the paper work and assessments it is, you pay out a lot of money and they you sit and wait for years, we dont have years we want a family now, for most of us, we have already gone through years of waiting and trying to have a family. before we atempt to adopt.

I think the permanent care program is going to be likely to have much shorter average wait times than the local or intercountry adoption programs and even with local adoption, while some people are still waiting after 5 or 10 years, others have been selected by birth parents and had children placed within a few months of being approved.

Much like IVF where you can have a pregnancy after the first transfer or the 10th transfer or never - there are never any guarantees.

just bumping this one up

HI Mel,
A couple of years ago I remember talking with some people from WA and they selected not to do foster care as the they where told that this was not a permanent care situation within WA.


I've had a look on the Department for Child Protection website and the ARCS website and can't find anything that mentions PC. All I can see is local adoption and foster care - do you have a link you can share with everyone?

The Permanent Care program is very new and just starting up in WA this year following on from some of the other states that have had PC in place for quite a number of years now

here are the links

http://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/FosteringandAdopt...omeForLife.aspx

and

http://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/FosteringandAdopt...omeForLife.aspx