Telephone Advice Line
If you are a parent, family member or friend of a child, in England or Wales, who has social workers involved in your child’s life, or if you need extra support from Children’s Services, and would like to speak to an adviser, please call our free and confidential helpline.
0808 801 0366
(Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm)
Discussion Boards
For advice from our advisers, or to get online support from other people in a similar position to you, visit the parents or family and friends carers forums. To explore new research and to discuss ideas with practitioners and families, visit the FGC Network or the Your Family, Your Voice Alliance Boards. If you are a domestic violence worker or social worker in London, visit our new research and practice board.
FAQs
We have answered the most commonly asked questions put to FRG advisers. Please follow the links to see a list of questions and answers, grouped together by subject.
Advice Sheets
For more detailed information, please see our range of advice sheets on family support, child protection, looked after children, family and friends care, adoption or challenging decisions.
Films
Family Rights Group has produced films for families to help ‘demystify’ the child welfare system.
Go to the relevant films to view fictionalised cases which show what happens when a child protection conference is held and similarly when a family group conference takes place.
Latest News
In response to the Ministry of Justice report
Our response to @MoJGovUK legal aid report -Ministers listened & are extending scope of legal aid to: parents in Placement & Adoption Order proceedings; SGOs in private law.
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Kinship Carers Survey
Please complete this survey if you are a kinship carer in the UK. A kinship carer is a family member or friend who is raising a child under the age of 18 because their parents are not able to safely care for them.
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Transforming children’s services inquiry - publications
Our submission, drawing on evidence & findings from the Care Crisis Review, to the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into Transforming Children's Social Care
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