Angela Frazer-Wicks is a birth mother, her eldest two children were adopted in 2004 after a very long and fraught battle with her local authority due to domestic violence and mental health issues. She is now married with a young daughter who has had no local authority involvement. In 2020 she was reunited with her eldest son.
Angela is Chair of Trustees of Family Rights Group and founding member of their parents’ panel, one of their expert panels of family members with direct lived experience of the Child Welfare and Family Justice System. She has campaigned for many years for the voices of families to not only be heard but to feed directly into system design and implementation.
Angela works across family justice from the Family Justice Council to Regional Adoption Agencies. She sits on many boards and panels including Cafcass Learning and Improvement Board, BASW 80/20 Steering Group and was a member of the Experts by Experience Board that advised the care review. She regularly speaks about her experiences in an attempt to highlight issues facing families in the hope of facilitating positive change.