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Post by goggly on Jun 1, 2008 19:45:00 GMT 10
I was wondering what everyone's take on "unknown potential" is?
It is a category that is used quite a bit in adoption to classify cases and while our agency put it in the match report, our adoption was still classified as health infant adoption even though there were special circumstances.
I am just wondering if the more conservative agencies categorise "unknown potential" as special needs adoption? We are thinking of going for a second and if this the case, SN would be right up our alley!
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Post by flossyinoz on Jun 2, 2008 10:10:46 GMT 10
We were told that unknown potential in permanent care would be any case and that it equals special needs of some sort. In healthy infant adoption they were not that specific, but I would assume that they classify any child who for whatever reason deviates from the norm as unknown potential, eg premature, problems during birth etc.
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Post by michelle76 on Jun 12, 2008 13:15:06 GMT 10
I asked about this when we put in our first expression of interest. I spoke to social workers in Bendigo and they said it was just that 'unknown' potential. They don't know all the history only what the birth mothers choses to tell, sometimes no history on the father or his family and even though baby is born healthy and checks out ok then some thing may develop down the track. So my opinion is that could be any child on the healthy adoption register, there are nevery any guarantees. Good luck Googly.
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