Blogs

Blogs from mothers, fathers, kinship carers and young people with whom we work, staff members, academics, practitioners and policy makers.

It’s almost been a year – Lockdown as a kinship carer

Katie and her partner are kinship carers to three children. They hold a special guardianship order for one child and are foster carers for the other two children. Katie is also a member of our kinship carers' panel.

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Advising during the Pandemic

Advisers at Family Rights Group continue to offer a consistent, responsive, specialist advice and information service to parents, family, friends and professionals throughout England and Wales, amidst the stresses, disruptions and restrictions we face during the current Covid 19 crisis.

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Back to school or not?

Marilyn, who raises her granddaughter, describes why she has decided to send her granddaughter back to school, and why every parent and carer must be allowed to make the right decision for their child.

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Everyone needs a Hero

Catherine is a partner, mother, nurse and special guardian to five year old "E". She is also a member of FRG's kinship carers' panel and lives in Leicestershire. Her blog describes how the crisis has been tough and the special guardianship support worker who became her hero.

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View from A Window – Diary of a Kinship Carer, during the coronavirus crisis – Part 1

Fifty-something Jac Moody and her housing officer husband Big D, are Special Guardians to Littl'un, aged 7, who has been with them for almost five years and has complex additional needs. They live in Northumberland.

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I never know what to expect when the phone rings

One of Family Rights Group's advisers describes answering calls to the charity's advice services. She is sometimes deeply affected by the stories she hears. But while she is on that call, it is the caller's feelings that are the priority.

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It was not them, it was me

Have you ever read an article by a parent accusing social workers of removing their children for no good reason? I have. But this is not one of them.

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Last Christmas

The festive season is often one of celebration and time with friends and family. But, it can also remind us of who is missing. Angela is a trustee of Family Rights Group and a member of our parents' panel. Her two eldest children were adopted 15 years ago. Angela shares her story of that Christmas 15 years ago, which she knew would be their last together.

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All I had for Christmas

Spending your first Christmas in your first flat should be special. For Lisa-Marie, it was different. She was 17, had left care and was completely on her own, to paraphrase the poet Lemn Sissay 'Lisa Marie didn't leave care, care had left her'…

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An empty Christmas

Two Christmases, just one year apart, but very different experiences. Marilyn is a kinship carer – raising her granddaughter, and is a member of our kinship care panel. Marilyn writes here, about the pain when her granddaughter spent her first Christmas in foster care, leaving Marilyn on the outside looking in…

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Knowledge can make such a difference

Julie is a grandmother who originally found FRG when her son needed advice and support when children's services became involved with his child. Although she found the advice line helpful it was the contents of FRG's website that were invaluable to her as she could access it night or day and find advice about her rights.

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Raising a grandchild under a Special Guardianship Order

Shining a light on the challenges kinship carers face is an important part of Kinship Care Week. Marilyn is one of our kinship carers' panel members and she's written a blog about raising her granddaughter under a Special Guardianship Order.

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