I'm not sure how familiar you are with the complaints proceedures, but you may find it useful to refer to our advice sheet 25 as you go through the process.

Good luck!

Family Rights Group will be holdign its next Fun Day for family and friends carers, and the children they are raising, on Saturday 13th December. The Fun Day will be held in Brockwell Park, which is located in the London Borough of Lambeth, and it will be from 12-4pm. The British Rail stop at Herne ...

Family Rights Group has now placecd on its website a section specifically for providing information about education matter for family and friends carers. If you go to the section of the website, you will find there are links to information about: Key information about the education system; Early yea...

There are a lot of hurdles to a parent wanting to overturn a SGO. Firstly, they cannot just take the case back to court. They have to get the leave of the court first. They have to demonstrate that there has been a significant change in circumstances since the order was made. The word 'significant' ...

Congratulations on your eight years of posting here, Robin. I'm a mere 8-yearling, having started working for FRG in 2006, and registered to post here not long afterwards. Thank you also for your input during this time, and for so often being available to advise others who are posting here. Using yo...

I would suggest that you phone the clerk of the court where the proceedings are taking place, and they are usually happy to take you through the process of applying to be joined as parties to the proceedings.

Hi Chippy, and welcome to the Family Rights Group discussion forum for family and friends carers. With regard to your first query, I would suggest that you could make a case using the Ombudsman's IS ruling, based on the similarities of circumstances between ESA and IS claims. However, I can't say th...

It's good to hear that the local authority are holding the school to account for the way the Pupil Premium is spent. It should be spent to meet the identified needs of the pupils whose presence at the school has entitled them to receive the Pupil Premium. Providing extra tuition to help your grandso...

As a family and friends carer, you might have to find a school place for the child who has come to live with you - they might be due to start school, or move up to secondary, or you might think they need to move to a new school. We can advise you on how to pick a school for the child and make the ap...

No need to apologise for having a 'rant', as you put it. People use this forum in all sorts of ways, and letting off steam is one of them. However, we do also hope that the advisers and the other carers who post here will be able to help to resolve some of these difficult situations. And the situati...