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.
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.
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.
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.