This book is designed for birth families and family members of a child who is being adopted. It is likely to be useful for counsellors, advisers and agencies as well as birth families.

This book will assist professionals, families and young people most closely affected by professionals actions, to further their knowledge and understanding of the complex challenges that face us. It provides a useful guide to the process and context of the six year search for the right legislative framework and makes suggestions about how the law and practice could be framed for the next century.

Black and Ethnic Minority Advocacy Project: Resource Kit Edited by Tana Thomas. This ring binder resource kit sets out the current legal and practice context and identifies the key steps that need to be considered in setting up advocacy services for families.

The reader, combines a series of essays from policy, research and practice perspectives. The diverse range of contributors means that the book, much like a family group conference, accommodates a wide range of voices. It is hoped the text will provide practitioners, managers and policy makers with some fresh ideas on how best to deliver and develop family group conference practices.

The toolkit, published jointly with the Department for Education and Skills, and the Welsh Assembly Government is a practical guide to assist agencies set up and run an effective family group conference service. It is for policy makers, family members, managers, social workers, co-ordinators, and anyone who may refer a family to, or attend an FGC.

Research findings on fathers and their involvement with social care services. A Family Rights Group publication. Contributions by Cathy Ashley, Brid Featherstone, Clare Roskill, Mary Ryan and Sue White. June 2006.

Further findings on fathers and their involvement with social care services. A Family Rights Group publication. Contributions by Clare Roskill, Brid Featherstone, Cathy Ashley and Sean Haresnape. May 2008.

A Guide To Setting Up And Running A Support Group by Alison Richards. This guide which examines how to set up and run a support group. This guide is based very much on the suggestions of support group leaders, and also includes material contained in Family Rights Groups original guide to setting up a support group called Getting Going, published in 1990.

Growing Up in the Care of Relatives or Friends is a must for practitioners, managers and policy makers who want to improve practice and services for children in family and friends care (also known as kinship care). This book sets out findings from action based research projects in two Local Authorities that consulted extensively with children, caregivers and social workers.

A Support Programme for Grandparent Carers. Here We Go Again is a 8 week support programme designed for grandparent carer support groups, with notes and exercises for facilitators, and handouts for participants.

Family Group Conferences: Messages from UK Practice & Research. This is the first book to explore both UK practice and research on the exciting development of Family Group Conferences as a means of working in real partnership with families to make successful plans for their children.

Looked After Children: Quality Services for Black and Ethnic Minority Children & their Families. This report describes a survey of provision for looked after Black and ethnic minority children and their families. It highlights areas of good and poor practice from the perspectives of service providers and service users.

A Family Rights Group Reader, edited by Leonie Jordan and Bridget Lindley. This book contains an introduction by Lady Justice Hale and contributions from High Court Judge Sir James Munby, Professor June Thoburn, grandparent carer Robin Derriman and other legal and social care practitioners.

A guide for grandparents raising their grandchildren by Alison Richards. This guide will be of great use to grandparent carers, their supporters and advisers, and professionals working with grandparent carers.

A survey of grandparents raising their grandchildren by Alison Richards. This report describes a survey of 180 grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. It describes the circumstances in which they have taken on the caring role, and explores what has and hasnt worked for them as carers.

A survival guide for family and friends carers by Anne Morgan. This publication explores the emotional impact caring has on all family members and offers some ideas for reducing stress and getting support.

A guide for relatives and friends caring for children who cannot live with their parents.