How to contact us for advice
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). For Textphone dial 18001 followed by the advice line number. 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.
Discharge of a court order means the court has decided to end the order.
Parents and family members can sometimes apply to the court for an order to be discharged. The precise circumstances in which they can do so are set out in law and will depend on the type of order. Not all orders can be discharged. An adoption order, for example, is permanent. It cannot be reversed, except for in exceptional circumstances.
Some court orders are discharged automatically if the court makes a different order. For example, a care order will be discharged if the court makes a special guardianship order.
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