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To speak to an adviser, please call our free and confidential advice line 0808 801 0366 (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm, excluding Bank Holidays). Or you can ask us a question via email using our advice enquiry form.
We provide advice to parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and kinship carers who are involved with children’s services in England or need their help. We can help you understand processes and options when social workers or courts are making decisions about your child’s welfare.
Our advice service is free, independent and confidential.
To speak to an adviser, please call our free and confidential advice line 0808 801 0366 (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm, excluding Bank Holidays). Or you can ask us a question via email using our advice enquiry form.
Our online advice forums are an anonymous space where parents and kinship carers (also known as family and friends carers) can get legal and practical advice, build a support network and learn from other people’s experiences.
Our get help and advice section describes the processes that you and your family are likely to go through, so that you know what to expect. Our webchat service can help you find the information and advice on our website which will help you understand the law and your rights.
We are a charity that advises parents, grandparents, relatives and friends about their rights and options when social workers or courts make decisions about their children’s welfare. We work with parents whose children are in need, at risk or are in the care system and with wider family members and friends who are raising children (known as kinship carers).
Are you a parent, relative, friend, or kinship carer to a child involved with children’s services in England? We can advise you on your rights and options when social workers or courts make decisions about their welfare.
Our innovative Lifelong Links approach supports children and young people in care to build loving relationships they can turn to throughout life. Learn more about our work to ensure the care system builds rather than breaks relationships.
We promote an approach called family group conferences which bring together a child’s family and friends to make a safe plan for their welfare. Learn about our family group conference coordinator training & support for local authorities.
We champion kinship care as the next best option for children who cannot remain at home. Our legal, policy and campaigning work is securing recognition and support for children in kinship care and their carers.
This General Election, let’s put child welfare in the rooms where it matters. Parents, kinship carers and young people must be heard. Join our campaign by lobbying your local parliamentary candidates and getting the message out on social media.
Help us to help more families in need and grow our impact. You can join our supporters’ network by making a one-off or regular donation, take on a fundraising challenge or help spread the word with your networks.
The Kinship Care Alliance has published its manifesto for the 2024 General Election. It outlines seven priorities for the next Government to recognise the value of kinship care and the unique challenges which kinship families face, and to deliver the radical reform kinship families need.
Children raised by kinship carers feel loved and secure. But many kinship families live in difficult financial circumstances. Take our kinship care survey to inform our policy and campaigning activities with and on behalf of families. It will help us to hit the ground running after the election.
Do you work with families who are involved with children’s services in England? Maybe you are a social worker, independent reviewing officer or work in the advice or legal sectors? Come along to find out more about the advice service and how to signpost families to us.
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