 sufficient in the vast majority of cases to enable prospective adopters to resolve, for example, a housing, employment or financial issue, or to recover from an illness or family bereavement. Where this break is longer than six months the prospective adopters will need to restart Stage One. In these circumstances, agencies should respond within five working days of contact from the prospective adopter and offer them a re-entry interview. The Stage One Plan should take into account activities undertaken previously. 3.45. Where an agency considers that a prospective adopter may be suitable to adopt a child, the agency must notify them of its decision and explain that they must notify the agency within six months of the date of the agency’s notification if they wish to proceed to Stage Two. Stage One ends with the agency’s decision about whether the prospective adopter might be suitable to adopt. Stage Two – The Assessment Process 3.46. Prospective adopters are not able to commence Stage Two of the process until they have successfully completed Stage One and have notified their agency that they wish to proceed with the assessment process within six months of the agency decision. 3.47. Stage Two should generally be completed with the same agency as Stage One. There could be occasions where a prospective adopter will need to undertake Stage Two with a different agency, for example if they move area or the agency identifies capacity issues which would delay a move to Stage Two, but this would only be in exceptional circumstances. In such circumstances it would be up to the new agency to decide whether to accept the prospective adopter at Stage Two 70 and, if they did, any case records would have to be transferred to the new agency under AAR 43. 3.48. Stage Two starts when th