The following Advice Sheets are available from Family Rights Group.
Click on them to view online or download as a PDF.
There have been a number of important changes to the law which came into force on 22nd April. We are in the process of updating all the information on our website to include these changes. In the meantime please note that any residence orders have now been replaced by child arrangements orders which have the same effect.
If you need further advice, contact our advice service on 0808 801 0366.
INTRODUCTORY ADVICE SHEETS
1. An introductory guide to Children's Services
2. Parental Responsibility
3. What is a family group conference? (Also known as a family group meeting
SUPPORT SERVICES
4. Family support
8. What happens to your benefits when your child goes into care or lives with someone else?
CHILD PROTECTION
9. Child protection procedures
10. Advocacy for families when social workers make plans for their children
LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
11. Duties on Children’s Services when children are in the care system
12. Relatives and friends taking on the care of a vulnerable child in an emergency
13. Children looked after by children's services under a voluntary arrangement
14. Contact with children in care
15. Care (and related) proceedings
16. Support for young people leaving the care system
17. Reuniting children in the care system with their families
FAMILY AND FRIENDS CARE (ALSO KNOWN AS KINSHIP CARE)
18. DIY Child Arrangements Orders: information for family and friends carers
19. DIY Special Guardianship Orders: information for family and friends carers
20. Special Guardianship: what does it mean for birth parents?
21a.Support for relatives and friends who are looking after someone else’s child
21b.Social security support for relatives and friends looking after someone else’s child
22. Family and friends care: becoming a foster carer
ADOPTION
23. Adoption: what does it mean for birth parents?
24. Open adoption
CHALLENGES
25. Challenging decisions and making complaints
26. Access to records held by Children’s Services