Caroline Lynch

🗓️Exclusive online briefing for councillors including lead members for children's services in England. Join us next Thursday to explore the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill and how your local authority can deliver the new mandate to offer family group decision making meetings.

Poppy was pregnant with her 12th child, her eldest 11 weren't in her care. Then she was offered a family group conference- it was transformational & she is now safely raising her baby

Solutions for children driven by those who love & care about them - learning from New Zealand New article by @jordanBhall & myself in @progbrit - how the Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill could be a game-changer for children & families if we do this right

Thank you @munirawilson for promoting the case for paid employment leave for kinship carers. And for quoting the results of @FamilyRightsGp's research that 4 on 10 kinship carers have to give up work to take on the care of the children

Congratulations to Family Rights Group, the winner of the Family Law Children's Law Team of the Year award! #FamilyLawAwards #FLA2024

@FamilyRightsGp legal team out & about again! Super @Tweets_ALC conference last week. Now it’s @LexisNexisUK Family Law Awards. Delighted to be finalists for Children’s Law Team of Year. Wishing everyone attending a fab evening! @JessJohnston90 @FrancesEdwards9 @miriam_naoual

Wishing our legal team all the best at tonight’s @LexisNexisUK Family Law Awards 2024, where they are shortlisted for Children’s Legal Team of the Year! Their excellent work contributes to our role as a leading authority on child welfare law, policy & practice. #familylawawards

Tune in to @5_News at 5pm today - we have some exciting new research to share 👀 #ActForKinshipCare #SameLoveSameLeave

🚨 On #UniversalChildrensDay, Garden Court is delighted to be at UCL (@UCLLaws) to host our #ChildrensRights Conference: ‘Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Promoting Universal Children’s Rights’ with @UCLCAJ. #WorldChildrensDay 🌍

On this day in 1998, the Human Rights Act received royal assent, making it part of UK law. Find out about how laws get made: buff.ly/3zQiVIm And read some of the real-life stories of the Human Rights Act in action: buff.ly/3qLiGtZ

Today, @JessJohnston90 and @miriam_naoual from our legal team have been at the @WeAreLAPG #LAPGConf24 conference. An opportunity to meet and collaborate with lawyers and others across the sector on strengthening legal aid.🧵

Those with lived experience of the child welfare system bring important perspective on what needs to change & how Six members of our parents' panel, all with experience of child in need plans for their children, contributed to this important new research from @ChildrensComm

For 50 years we've influenced the child welfare system to support children & families to stay safely together. None of this would be possible without our supporters. We're excited to celebrate with a special film youtu.be/HCAa3Cf2_fQ #FRG50 #ActForKinshipCare #BuildNotBreak

Powerful, moving testimony at tonight’s 50th birthday celebration in Parliament of @FamilyRightsGp. Its vital support for grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings who look after children separated from their birth parents, is truly inspiring.

It's nearly time for the main event! Make sure you time your teabreak so you can join us at 11am to watch our 50th anniversary film. youtu.be/HCAa3Cf2_fQ #FRG50 #ActForKinshipCare #BuildNotBreak

I recently wrote an article for @TheHouseMag about my recent appointment as chair of @APPGKinshipCare and the importance of properly valuing kinship care arrangements. You can read more about it below 👇 buff.ly/3Yua5K1

You can also find out more about the legislative changes we are calling on Government to implement in our #ActForKinshipCare campaign here 👇 frg.org.uk/policy-and-cam…

If you are a relative or friend raising children in kinship care, or if a child in your family is involved with children's services and you want to know your rights and options, our free specialist advice service can help 👇 frg.org.uk/get-help-and-a…

Our Chief Executive Alison Reid has been joining discussions with colleagues across the UK who provide legal representation for children at the Child Law Network conference in Swansea.

Delighted to speak earlier at @CfYoungLives, @FamilyRightsGp & @FoundationsWW event at #Lab24 about the future of children's social care.