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Hi cupcakekissesThis may be too late for your visit but our second opinion visit was quite short and was mainly based on some questions the sw had after reading our PAR (she had met us before at our prep group so was familiar)... she clarified some points which weren't clear (and if not clear to her then not clear to panel so a good thing to do!) and asked for more details in a couple of areas. She also gave us pointers as to what she thought panel would pick up on and want to know more about and so we ended up with a list of things to think about how we would word stuff in the meeting. She asked about our experience of the process and our feedback on our SW was included in the final report. We also asked her a few timescale / process questions we had been meaning to ask our SW.After the meeting she sent her report to us and to our SW and we were able to make a few changes - for accuracy sake more than anything else.Good luck with it - you will be fine I am sure

Hi annie70 that was really useful, thank you. I'm leaving work in 10 minutes for our meeting - I feel absolutely fine about all these things until about an hour before then nerves get hold of me. At least my idea of what the meeting is for is the same as you have just described so that has put my mind at rest. Is it worrying if I said I have actually enjoyed the process...not sure what that says about me as a person really!? hah! Hey ho, best get my bum into gear!

We have my second visit next week and was wondering what to ask about and what she would ask us so this post was very helpful, thanks annie70 and cupcakekisses for posting it!