Category: Grandparents rights
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 […]
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 […]
Ridley & Hall launches a new website to support Grandparents and to protect their rights
Our Mission Mature clients are at a time in life when they are supporting elderly parents, grown up children and […]
Supporting our senior citizens
I want to talk about something very close to my heart, which I am sure will resonate with you too. […]
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 […]
Grandparents exercising contact
In recent weeks, the calls for the law to be changed to give grandparents greater legal status when applying for […]
Battling grandad makes Kirklees pay
In July 2012, Mr Jones was given an ultimatum by Social Services: “If you can’t care for your grandson, he […]
Lessons from a week of wonderful results
It’s been quite a week in our Family Team. We have received these very kind messages from kinship carers in […]
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 […]
Free Kinship Carers Training Event
Ridley & Hall are pleased to announce that we are offering a completely free training session for kinship carers at […]
