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Nigel Priestley MBE and the SFAC team attend Brazil’s First National Colloquium on Kinship Care
Nigel Priestley MBE, Senior Partner at Ridley & Hall, was recently part of a team from SFAC (Strengthening Families and […]
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 […]
Kinship Carers Week: free online legal advice session from 8am – 4pm on Thursday 11th October
Kinship Carers week 7th – 12th October 2018 To celebrate Grandparents Day on 7th October, Ridley & Hall’s specialist Kinship […]
Financial Support for Kinship Carers
Kinship carers often don’t know that they are entitled to financial support when caring for their relatives. Unfortunately, this is […]
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 […]
Ridley & Hall hits Cornwall for kinship carers masterclass
Our Kinship Care specialist Helen Moody was invited to attend an event in Cornwall last week organised and run by […]
Negative Viability Assessments – can they be challenged?
A recent good practice publication by the Family Rights Group has sparked discussion around Local Authority Viability Assessments and how […]
Brilliant result for kinship carers as High Court rule 2 child benefit limit unlawful
In April 2017, a new 2 child limit on child benefits came in which saw parents claiming child benefit and […]
Beast from the East did not stop us: Kinship Care Specialist Team take time out of the office to train Newcastle carers
After the success of our kinship carers training event at Ridley & Hall offices in Huddersfield, our specialist kinship carer […]
