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Our advice service

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.

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By phone or email

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). Or you can ask us a question via email using our advice enquiry form.

Discuss on our forums

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.

Advice on our website

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.

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APPG’s Elected Officers

The current officers elected to lead the group in 2023/24 are:

Chair: Andrew Gwynne MP

Labour Member of Parliament for Denton and Reddish

Special Guardian to his grandson, Lyle

Members of the APPG also include:

Fleur Anderson, Labour MP for Putney

Caroline Ansell, Conservative MP for Eastbourne

Paul Blomfield, Labour MP for Sheffield Central

Peter Bottomley, Conservative MP for Worthing West

Ian Byrne MP, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby. APPG Vice Chair 2021-2024

Marsha de Cordova MP, Labour MP for Battersea. APPG Vice Chair 2023-2024

Alex Cunningham, Labour MP for Stockton North

Ben Everitt, Conservative MP for Milton Keynes North

Imran Hussain, Labour MP for Bradford East

Kim Johnson, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside

Kevan Jones, Labour MP for North Durham

Sarah Jones, Labour MP for Croydon Central

Emma Lewell-Buck, Labour MP for South Shields

Holly Lynch, Labour MP for Halifax

Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East

Catherine McKinnell, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North. Chair of the Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care 2020/21. APPG Vice Chair 2021-2024

Kate Osborne, Labour MP for Jarrow

Marie Rimmer, Labour MP for St Helens South and Whiston

Andrew Selous MP, Conservative MP for South West Bedfordshire

Alistair Strathern, Labour MP for Mid Bedfordshire

Liz Twist, Labour MP for Blaydon

Baroness Blake of Leeds CBE

Baroness Drake CBE

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Lord Hannay of Chiswick

Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

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