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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, in England or Wales, who has social workers involved in your child’s life, or if you need extra support from Children’s Services, and would like to speak to an adviser, please 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  or the Your Family, Your Voice Alliance Boards. If you are a domestic violence worker or social worker in London, visit our new research and practice  board.

 

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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.

Go to the relevant films to view fictionalised cases which show what happens when a child protection conference is held and similarly when a family group conference takes place.

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Advice during the Coronavirus Crisis

Top tips guide for kinship carers to help children maintain relationships

This top tips guide is intended to support kinship carers to help children to safely maintain a relationship with those who are important to them, including their parents, brothers, sisters and friends, even if they cannot visit them.

Advice guide for parents and families with a child in the care system

In this guide, we have set out some creative ways in which relationships can be maintained and you can support your child during the Coronavirus crisis, even if you cannot visit them.

The grandparents caring for children during coronavirus outbreak

Please watch this very moving four minute report from Channel 4 News about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on grandparents raising their grandchildren. Also features our Chief Executive, Cathy Ashley. For huge numbers of grandparents, keeping away from their grandchildren is simply not an option. Around a hundred thousand children in the UK are being brought up by grandparents because their parents have died or are unable to care for them. Now those carers, who are often elderly and with underlying conditions, must try to protect themselves from infection.

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