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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.
Helping Families Helping Children
Family Rights Group’s vision: Every child should be able to be raised safely and thrive within their family. Children in the care system should have loving relationships they can turn to throughout life.
We are the leading specialist child welfare charity working to make that a reality. Unique in bringing together legal and social work expertise, advice giving, policy and campaigning, and direct work with young people and families.
Get help and advice
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.
Building Lifelong Links
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.
Exploring family networks
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.
Championing kinship care
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.
Support our campaigns
Our campaigns and policy work is improving the system for children and families. We work with families, practitioners, politicians and others to influence policy change across England, Scotland and Wales.
Get involved
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.
Latest
New film for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities working with child and family social workers
This much needed resource, created with and for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities, aims to help families understand what to expect when social workers become involved in their child’s life.
Family Rights Group 50th Anniversary Legal Lecture
'Looking back in order to look forward' - A lecture delivered by Baroness Hale of Richmond at The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn on Thursday 27th March 2025, in celebration of Family Rights Group’s 50th anniversary.
New research launched to build national picture of family group conferences
Family Rights Group has collaborated with Foundations, Coram, Daybreak and Data to Insight on new research exploring how family group conferences are used across England.
Popular Advice Questions
- Can social workers remove a child from home?
- Why are social workers making child protection enquiries?
- I don’t see what happened between me and my partner as a ’domestic abuse’ situation, it was a one off. Why are children’s services concerned?
- What happens in care proceedings?
- Social workers say my grandchildren are going into care, what can I do?
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