Dear 12AB!!@ Welcome to the kinship carers’ 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 your family are experiencing. Children’s services are involved with your baby niece. There are care proceedings taking pl...

Dear JCU25 Thank you for your further post. I am sorry that I was not able to reply to you sooner as the service was closed during the holiday period. I understand how committed you are to your nephew and your wish to care for or continue to have a relationship with him. The child’s parent can apply...

Dear JCU25, Thank you for your post and welcome to the kinship carers' forum. You say that 6 months ago, a Judge granted Care and Placement Orders for your nephew. As far as you know, the children have not been placed with prospective adopters. You have since found out that it is possible to revoke ...

Dear Sparky63 Thank you for your post and welcome to the Board. Your main question seems to ask whether you should consider becoming a special guardian for your grandchildren or ask to be a foster (kinship) carer for them. The most helpful advice I am able to give is to suggest that in the first ins...

Good afternoon every one we are trying to get custody of our grandson we have completed an sgo assessment and we still haven't seen the report and court I Monday now la are going to push for him to be put into foster care. He's only 10 months old and we are bonded with him but are not part of the c...

Hello everyone, I’d like to let you know Family Rights Group's availability over the Christmas period. The office, advice line and digital advice services will close at 3pm on Friday, 22 December 2023 and will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday, 2 January 2024. The advice forums will be moderated on Wednes...

Dear lumiru Welcome back to the kinship carers’ discussion board. Thank you for your two posts. You have already had a helpful response from another kinship carer. He has posted a link to a similar query which addresses some of the issues you have raised. He has also explained that as both parents a...

Hi everyone, I looked after my godson under an interim CAO until September 2023 where I became his Special Guardian. Whilst being assessed for a SGO I was financially assessed by the Connected Persons team and a figure of £202.06 was calculated. Unfortunately this was not calculated on the correct ...

I am 1 of 2 on an SGO for our daughter, me and my partner have split and he has cut me off totally. What are my right as part of the sgo and is there anything I can do to get this issue resolved before I involve the courts. Many thanks. Dear It’s a sad day, Thank you for posting again. I am sorry t...

Dear Weeg Welcome to the kinship carers’ board. Thank you for your post. My name is Suzie. I am Family Rights Group’s online adviser. I am sorry to hear about your difficult family situation. I am also very sorry that I was unable to respond to your post sooner. However, you have had some helpful ad...