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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
What can we help you find?
Family Rights Group’s vision: A society in which children can thrive in their families, and have loving relationships to turn to throughout life.
We are the leading specialist child welfare charity working to make that a reality. We are unique in bringing together legal and social work expertise, advice giving, and policy and campaigning, with the direct voice and insights of 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
A Call Out for Birth Family Support Services
We have launched a call out for new and existing services to be listed on our interactive Birth Families Map, to helps birth families affected by adoption to find support in England. Complete our short online survey by Friday 19 September 2025.
New shocking figures about women who died within a year of pregnancy
Family Rights Group responds to first of a kind study into the situation of women who died within a year of pregnancy. It exposes significant failures in how services and agencies which should be prioritising care, too often compound the pressures that expectant and new mothers are facing.
Family Rights Group welcomes cross party committee’s call to improve support for children and families
We welcome the Education Select Committee’s new inquiry report on children’s social care. It highlights urgent challenges in the child welfare system, which we have long worked to see addressed.
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?
Our funding means we can currently only help 4 in 10 people
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