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Need help and advice

If your family is involved with children's services, or you need help from these services, our interactive web-pages will give you the information you need.

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Blogs and Vlogs

Families' voices and opinions are at the heart of our media. Our blogs and vlogs page features articles and videos by parents, kinship carers and other professionals on subjects of child welfare and more.

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Policy and Campaigns

Read about the Care Crisis Review, our kinship care campaigns, our policy work and download our press releases.

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Supporters Network

By joining the Family Rights Group Supporters’ Network, you agree to make a donation, no matter how big or small, which will make a crucial contribution to our work.

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Become a volunteer

We offer a variety of volunteering opportunities. These include:

• Being part of service user panels and consultative groups
• Becoming a trustee
• Getting involved in various fundraising activities
• work experience for secondary school pupils (aged 14-16) on work experience placements,
• law and social work graduate placements, and
• young people on gap year placements.

To register your interest and find out more please contact Steve Caldwell our office manager This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Telephone Advice Line

If you are a parent, family member or friend of a child who has social workers involved in your child’s life, or if you need extra support from Children’s Services, call our free and confidential helpline 0808 801 0366 (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm).

 

 

 

 

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Discussion Boards

For advice from our advisers, or to get online support from other people in a similar position to you, visit the parents or family and friends carers forums. To explore new research and to discuss ideas with practitioners and families, visit the FGC Network forum.

 

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FAQs

We have answered the most commonly asked questions put to FRG advisers. Please follow the links to see a list of questions and answers, grouped together by subject.

 

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Advice Sheets

For more detailed information, please see our range of advice sheets on family support, child protection, looked after children, family and friends care, adoption or challenging decisions.

 

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Films

Family Rights Group has produced films for families to help ‘demystify’ the child welfare system. View fictionalised cases which show what happens when a child protection conference is held and similarly when a family group takes place.

Latest

Four day virtual family group conference training for new co-ordinators

A virtual course for those with some knowledge of family group conferencing and child care planning processes who wish to increase their understanding and necessary skills to co-ordinate a family group conference. We have various dates in 2021.

Find out more and book your place here.

Survey of kinship carers during Covid-19

Are you a kinship carer? We are running a survey on behalf of the Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care, to hear how kinship carers are coping during the latest lockdown and what actions would improve the situation for kinship families.

Fill in the survey here

Delivering good practice initial assessments of family and friends carers in the context of Covid-19

A new appendix to the existing good practice guide for practitioners assessing whether a family member or friend might be a potentially realistic option to be a carer for a child who cannot live safely with their parents.

Read the appendix here.

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