guardianship

[kiranbutt786]

I would like to know whether it is possible for me & my husband to become guardians of a child if his both parents are dead. With the consent of social services we have been looking after this child after his father's death BUT his mom is not alive either. He has a grandma but she feels that she is quite elderly to look after him and hopes that we will take this responsibility.

I want to know the legal procedure how we can become guardains of this child?