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Welcome to Family Rights Group

We are the charity in England and Wales that advises families whose children are involved with or need children’s services because of welfare needs or concerns.

We promote policies and practices, including family group conferences, that help children to be raised safely and securely within their families, and campaign for effective support to assist family and friends carers, including grandparents who are raising children that cannot live at home.

News and Campaigns

We are launching a competition for children in family & friends care

Send us a drawing of your family. The winning pictures will be published as the front cover of our new written survey for carers & there's also plenty of prizes including £20 vouchers for children in different age categories. Deadline 28 May 2012. 

Further information.

Email scanned drawings to cashley@frg.org.uk or send the original to Family Rights Group, The Print House, 18 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL with details of the child's name, age and contact details. Please spread the word! Thanks Cathy Ashley (CE, Family Rights Group). If you have any queries contact David Roth droth@frg.org.uk or ring 020 7923 2628.

 

 

 

 

Online survey of family and friends carers in London

We are carrying out research into the needs and circumstances of children raised in family and friends care in London, and their carers. We will use the findings in our campaigning to secure a better deal for family and friends carers. If you are a family and friends carer living in London, please complete the short on-line survey.

 

As a thank you, a £20 voucher will be sent out to every twentieth carer living in London who completes the questionnaire. The information you provide to us will be kept confidential and not shared with any third parties.

Local authorities leave family and friends carers to fend for themselves

Major new research studies launched by Family Rights Group finds that family and friends carers, who are raising some of the UK’s most vulnerable children, are being left to fend for themselves and suffer significant levels of hardship as local authorities fail to implement central government policy.

Read the research studies here.

Advice Service

We can advise you if you are a parent, friend or relative and social workers are involved in your child’s life, or you need extra support from Children’s Services. We also have a parental advocacy project.

Contact us:
Call our advice line on: 0808 801 0366
Email us: advice@frg.org.uk.
Visit our: discussion boards.
Visit our: Need help and advice section.