Dear Helsbells Thank you for your post and welcome to the discussion board. My name is Suzie, I am an online adviser and will be responding to you today. You are concerned that at your forthcoming Special Guardianship (SGO) Allowance Review you may be deducted payments linked to child tax credit. To...

Dear Childrencomefirst Thank you for your post and welcome to the discussion board. My name is Suzie and I will be replying to you today. I am sorry to hear of your situation, if must be a difficult time for you. You have a Special Guardianship Order for your grandchild. There is also a Contact Agre...

Dear CDF56 Welcome to the kinship discussion form and thank you for posting. My name is Suzie, online adviser at Family Rights Group. I see from your post that you have had a special guardianship order (SGO) since 2021 and have been experiencing difficulties regarding contact with one parent. There ...

Dear Loon Welcome to the kinship carers’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie and I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser. It sounds as if you are being assessed as a potential special guardian for a baby who is related to or connected to you in some way. There are likely to...

Dear Kjwamne Welcome to the kinship discussion forum and thank you for posting. My name is Suzie, Family Rights Group online adviser and I will respond to your post. You are clearly very concerned about the children in the family and want to help to give them the stability they will need once their ...

Dear Shardylan Welcome to the parents’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser. I am sorry to hear about the difficulties you and your family are experiencing at the moment. It sounds as if you are doing a great job caring for your niece...

Dear AnxiousAunt Thanks for your further post. I am sorry that there has been a delay in responding to you. It is very unfortunate that you were not able to challenge the care plan for the children during the proceedings and that you were not made a party to the proceedings or legally represented. I...

Dear oceanpowa Welcome to the kinship carers’ discussion board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser. You are trying to clarify what support you and your partner are entitled to since you have taken on the care of Child X. You are right to seek advice ...

Dear Nana23 Thank you for your further updating post. It is good to hear that some parts of your complaint were upheld but not the main element which I understand is the argument that your granddaughter should have been treated as a looked after child and you as her kinship foster carers. It must be...

My son is estranged from us (his choice) and has cut off contact with our grandaughter (despite a court order) who lives with him and his wife. He does not allow any face to face contact with the child's birth mother despite court orders to do so. Anyway to try and shorten this my grandaughter's bi...