Daybreak ( www.daybreak.org.uk ) are looking for a trained Lifelong Links coordinator to join their team in Portsmouth. Due to a high volume of Lifelong Links referrals Daybreak in Portsmouth are urgently looking for a trained Lifelong Links coordinator to join our team. If you are an experienced FG...

Family Rights Group has been at the forefront of the introduction and development of family group conferences in the United Kingdom. We developed and run the national accreditation scheme for family group conference services. We deliver family group conference coordinator training and consultancy to...

Wanted - Family Group Conference & Lifelong Links Coordinators in Hertfordshire Role: Family Group Conference & Lifelong Links Coordinators (Multiple Positions) Salary: £21 per hour + Expenses (Travel) Hours: Flexible Location: Working from home and a willingness to travel. Contract: Indepen...

The Lifelong Links webinar that took place in May is now available to watch on our website: https://frg.org.uk/lifelong-links/lifelong-links-webinar/ At this hour-long seminar Professor Lisa Holmes, who led the three year independent evaluation and the one year evaluation extension, discusses the fi...

Family decision making: If you want to change outcomes, change the way decisions are made about children Date: Tuesday 13th September 2022 Time: 9.15am to 10.30am The independent review of children’s social care in England recommended in their May 2022 report that “a new legal entitlement to family...

There is currently a Service Development Officer vacancy in the Coventry Family Group Conferencing Team. What is the job role? The Service Development Officer's role is to support and coordinate the delivery of Lifelong Links (LL) and Family Group Conference (FGC) Services. Main duty and responsibil...

Episode two of the Community Care podcast takes a look at Lifelong Links with Pam Ledward, principal social work advisor at Family Rights Group; Eathan, a young person who has built relationships with his uncle, cousins, sister and other family members after spending five of his six years in care wi...

Hello all, I hope you are well. You may be interested in the attached flyer, which provides a summary of the support offered by the FRG advice service to families involved with or needing the support of Children’s Services in England. Please feel free to share this with your networks. Thank you, Jor...

Family Conference Facilitator Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you have interest in working with children, young people and their families within Social Care? This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as a Family Group Conference/Lifelong links Facili...

Assistant Family Group Conference Manager -30 hours (pro-rata) Grade 11 £34,728- £37,890 An exciting opportunity has arisen (initially for a year) to join Oxfordshire Family Group Conference Service to support the FGC Manager with expansion and service growth. Our ambition is to focus even more on ...

There are currently two Team Manager vacancies in the Family Group Conferencing Service in Coventry. What is the job role? We are an established, effective, Family Group Conference (FGC) Service in Coventry, accredited by the Family Rights Group for our standards of practice with children and famili...

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care held an inquiry into access to legal aid for kinship carers and potential kinship carers. The inquiry, launched in January 2022, heard from hundreds of kinship carers across England and Wales. It also took evidence from leading legal practitioners an...

University of Salford - External Examiner Required for PG Cert Family Group Conferences The University of Salford in Greater Manchester is looking for an External Examiner to cover the following programmes PG Cert Family Group Conferences (Social Work) A suitable candidate will have experience in t...

From Professor Jonathan Scourfield Cardiff University are inviting you to take part in a study that could help to shape policy and practice about how children’s social care services work with families. The study is about the quality and effectiveness of family group conferences (FGCs). As part of t...

Family Rights Group is hosting a webinar on Monday 23rd May at 1pm. You can hear more about Lifelong Links and its impact on children and young people. Professor Lisa Holmes will discuss the findings of the three-year independent evaluation and a follow up longitudinal evaluation. We will be joined ...

Time To Define Kinship Care Family Rights Group is proposing a universal definition of kinship care be written into primary legislation which would encompass the different types of kinship care arrangement. Meeting the definition would then automatically passport kinship carers and their children t...

Call for proposals, submissions due June 10, 2022 The Kempe Center is excited to host the 2022 International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare from 3-6 October 2022. This event will reconvene and expand the international community of practice with an expected 3000 partici...

A new report published by Family Rights Group shows the approach improves mental health and wellbeing for children in care. Since 2017, over 1700 children in care have benefited from Lifelong Links to build relationships with family, friends and others who love them. The study builds on an earlier e...

There is a short term opportunity to cover the FGC manager post at Hammersmith and Fulham whilst they recruit a full time worker (PO8 grade). For more information, please contact Filomena.brockwell@lbhf.gov.uk.

Jordene
Family Rights Group

Hi all,

Please see attached for the Spring 2022 edition of the FGC and Lifelong Links newsletter. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for the next newsletter, please contact me at jsewell@frg.org.uk


Jordene
Family Rights Group

Family Rights Group will be continuing to offer our four-day virtual family group conference training throughout 2022. Places are now available on the following dates: 20-21 and 27-28 April 2022 22-23 and 29-30 June 2022 21-22 and 28-29 September 2022 23,24,30 November and 1 December 2022 To book, p...

Please see below for a message from Professor Jonathan Scourfield, Cardiff University: Families' Research Advisory Group (Family VOICE).pdf Dear FGC service colleagues We're running a major new four-year evaluation of family group conferences, which we hope FGC services across the UK will get involv...

Good afternoon all, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Camden London Borough Council are currently recruiting a Family Group Conference Team Manager. This is a permanent opportunity to work within the Supporting People directorate reporting directly to the Service Manager for Family Group Con...

We are keen to hear from any FGC service that has any data they are willing to share or any evaluation (independent or internal) on the impact and outcomes of their work (such as child and family satisfaction, safe avoidance of care proceedings, safe avoidance of a child entering unrelated care, cos...