Dear SW1666

Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for posting.

My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group and will respond to your post today.

From you post, I see the very difficult situation in which you find yourself with children’s services regarding your 2-year-old ...

Dear Hornbeam

Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for posting.

My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group and will respond to your post.

I am sorry that you have experienced so many difficulties caring for your granddaughter under a special guardianship order. Due to ...

Dear Saze,

Thankyou for clarifying that a placement order was made in December 2024. Unfortunately now that court proceedings have finished this does limit your options. This is because although the court has agreed that the youngest child should be placed with an adoptive family it is now up to ...

We adopted siblings earlier this year.

When we found out about them we knew there was a 3rd sibling going through court proceedings and at the time social services pretty much guaranteed us that the 3rd sibling would come to us at a later date.

After placement of the initial 2 social services ...

I’m f52 and a grandmother to f3 granddaughter via my son and soon to be ex daughter in law. They both have a myriad of issues such as autism, adhd and possible bipolar disorder between them. We have helped financially, emotionally, physically in every way possible as they both need support and ...

Hi can anyone tell me if kinship allowance is backdated as we have 2 grandchildren who are classed as looked after children
We are starting to get the allowance on the 12th of October but the LA are only backdating the payments from the 12th of Sept which is when my daughter had signed the section ...

I am a pensioner and my only income is my state pension. I fostered my grandson from the age of 3months until he was 8yo, then I was granted an S.G.O, he turned 18 in June so my s.g.o. stopped even though he stayed in education until his A level results, he is now living in at university but ...

Dear Loobyloo

Welcome to the parents’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser.

I am sorry to hear about the difficult situation your family is going through. I can understand how distressing this is for you. You describe your close ...

Dear CY23

Thank you for your further posts. I am sorry that you are still in a difficult situation trying to pursue your complaints. I can see that you raise very reasonable arguments and have highlighted many inconsistencies.

Unfortunately, there is very little that I can add to my previous ...

Dear TYFD2,

Welcome to the kinship carers’ forum and thank you for your post. I am Suzie, an online adviser for Family Rights Group and I will be responding to your post today. I hope that the following advice and information is helpful to you. You can click on the hyperlinks in my response to take ...