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.
We know that 43% of the British public don’t know anyone who is disabled and that 97% of parents with a disabled child do not believe the public understands the challenges they face every day.
The DCP’s Secret Life Of Us – developed in close partnership with parents – reveals the parts of their lives that most people simply do not see – bringing to life the realities of the challenges disabled children, young people and their families face when living a life many of us take for granted. The Secret Life of Us aims open the eyes of the public to the difficulties faced by families on a day-to-day basis, removing the barriers to people being able to relate to the lives of disabled children.
Of course, we need action as well as awareness raising, and the DCP has set out Three Pillars to deliver better support to disabled children and their families – our call the government to address the crisis in health and social care for disabled children and their families.
In June 2019, the DCP launched ‘Give It Back’ in partnership with The Sun newspaper. Give It Back builds on The Secret Life Of Us; focuses on the negative impacts that lack of services has on children and families; and asks for the government to fill the £434million annual funding gap for services for disabled children.
DCP’s ‘Left In Lockdown’ research during the coronavirus pandemic as highlight its disproportionate impact on disabled children and their families and calling for the government to act.
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