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Our advice service

Are you a parent, kinship carer relative or friend of a child who is involved with, or who needs the help of, children’s services in England? 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 has template letters, advice sheets and resources about legal and social care processes. On Monday and Wednesday afternoons, you can use our webchat service to chat online to an adviser.

 

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Reforming Law and Practice

Family Rights Group was founded by social workers, lawyers and families in 1974 in response to the injustices experienced by many families involved with social services and the unnecessary separation of children from their families.

We have had some significant successes over the last 40 years:

  • Then local authorities could take away parental rights without going to court. Now they can’t.
  • Then parents were not included in their children’s case conferences nor in reviews if their children were in care. Now partnership working is enshrined in legislation.
  • Then grandparents had no legal means to seek contact with their grandchildren if they were in care. Now they do.

We have had a significant impact on the development of services to children and families. We were instrumental in influencing the preparation of the 1989 Children Act and associated guidance, which introduced the key principle of working in partnership with parents to secure the best interests of children.

These achievements are in large part due to us consistently bringing evidence of injustices to the attention of politicians, practitioners and the media, and putting forward workable solutions in the interest of the child.

As ever, Family Rights Group is continuing to campaign for further reforms to improve the lives of children and families.

The Care Crisis Review reports can be found here.  You can also find campaigns and policy briefings written by Family Rights Group on behalf of the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care, the Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care or the Kinship Care Alliance.

If you are looking for information on a campaign or a briefing being led by Family Rights Group that you cannot find on the site, please contact office@frg.org.

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