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Christmas comes early for Yorkshire Grandmother who successfully challenges Bradford Council’s potentially illegal policy
A grandmother caring for two grandchildren as a kinship foster carer has successfully challenged a decision made by Bradford to […]
Kinship care works – both in the UK and in Uganda! (Photos)
Kinship Care Week celebrates the willingness of family and friends to step in when the parents can’t care for their […]
Children in care face postcode lottery over family placements
Children in care face postcode lottery over family placements North East leads on promoting child placements within the family Children […]
Remember Maureen Barrett – a battling grandmother who fought for underpaid kinship carers
Maureen Barrett has died. There were no obituaries for her in the local paper – but Maureen was a special […]
Bradford has questions to answer to Foster and Kinship carers!
Following the story published in the Bradford paper, Telegraph & Argus in January, Nigel Priestley shows the effect this is […]
Northamptonshire Grandmother Wins Fight for Proper Support
A 62-year old Northamptonshire grandmother is celebrating a victory after a hard fought fight with Northamptonshire County Council. The grandmother […]
New Kinship Care Research Shows Potentially Disastrous Effects of Tax Credit and Welfare Reform
Nigel Priestley, Senior Partner at Ridley & Hall and trustee of the Family Rights Group, has welcomed the call to […]
Lancashire Foster Carer Wins Bitter Adoption Battle
A Heysham foster carer is celebrating her adoption of a foster child after a long battle with Lancashire County Council. […]
Adoption Activity Days – a Solution for an Adoption Crisis?
Following a recent Channel 4 documentary about adoption and in particular ‘Adoption Activity Days’, there has been a lot of […]
Damning Report on Family and Friends Care from Local Government Ombudsman welcomed
The Local Government Ombudsman has launched a damning report on local authorities failure to support family and friends Carers. A […]
