Category: Kinship Care
Olympic Champion Raised in Kinship Care
Our Kinship Care solicitor, Helen Moody reflects on the importance of kinship care and the positive outcomes that it can […]
Ridley & Hall Celebrates Foster Care Fortnight
At Ridley & Hall, we are celebrating Foster Care Fortnight, an awareness campaign led by The Fostering Network. This campaign […]
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 […]
Kinship Care Celebration Day: Ridley & Hall launches a video celebrating how one young man’s life was changed by Kinship Care
To mark Grandparents Plus Kinship Care Celebration Day, Ridley & Hall have launched a video celebrating how one young man’s […]
Court rules against Local Authority in favour of sister caring for ‘severely neglected’ brother
A sister in the North East was asked to care for her brother Thomas in September 2017 following Social Services […]
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 […]
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 […]