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Hi Rosey...I be able to tell you tomorrow evening LOL!!!No- I think that SW comes with us to FC for the first visit- says she will be on our intros draft although I don't know how long she'll be staying

Our SW was at the first intro session, but had already gone to meet Satsuma before panel. It is good to have your sw there to support you-provided you have a good relationship, but then intros take over and you need to be full on with the LO. Tangerine

generally the child's SW will be there during first meeting just really to assist with the akward silences and help control the situation in case of dificulty but in all truth often does nothing!Your SW is likley to meet child afterthey move in - that was certainly the case for me and i know others like that to. I dont think they like intorducing another figure to teh child during intros hence only the childs SW being around - thats my understanding anywaygud lukL.x

My fd's sw was there all of 5 minutes on the first intro and on moving day and the adopters sw didn't make an appearance all week!!

Hi there There were no SWers there when we met our son. Our SW had gone to see him and his FC a couple of weeks before panel, but she also met him when he was a new born!

Hi Rosey,The original plan was that our SW would come with us for the first half hour of meeting Twinkle then leave us to it. (Twinkle was from another LA), but our SW was off sick so what actually happened was we had a representative from our LA SW team to attend the planning meeting with us, and after the meeting she left us to go on to FC house on our own and then rang us in the evening to see how it went.Cx

Have done 2 lots of intros and SW was not present until handover day for either, AF and me as Fc just left to get on with it. in fact in the most recent ones don't think SW even called AF although I called the childs SW. This was okay as things were going well but would have been a nightmare if they had been experiencing any concerns

No SW was with us at all during intros, though our SW contacted us by phone to make sure we were OK.Chn's SW was at FCs briefly on placement day to do necessary paperwork. Our SW met them for the first time on her first formal visit, about a week after placement.I wouldn't have wanted SWs there for our first meeting with the children, unless we were anticipating serious problems with the FC, which we weren't.

hi i have dont intros more then once and for us our workers were different.on our first adoption intros our worker came for first visit and came on homecoming day.our second adoption we did without sw meeting little one till half way meet.and our last intros just last year as it was far away and our entire family was going we did it without our worker and she met hobbit once we were home.they do not always stay fr the full time and allow you to settle with little one alone.good luck

sorry should of said our worker was available by phone at all times and would of come if we had needed her.

Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences. It seems like they are all slightly different. I think I would prefer not to have our SW there at the first meeting as I imagine it must be pretty emotional and I wouldn't want to feel I was being observed. Well, we have to find our children first anyway!