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APPG on Kinship Care @appgkinshipcare.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NEW REPORT: Children with special educational needs and disabilities in kinship care are being let down by two complex systems at once. "Fighting Two Battles" — a new report from the APPG on Kinship Care, supported by @familyrightsgp.bsky.social 🧵

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Big news for children in care. The Government has announced £8.4 million to help children in care build lifelong, loving relationships — our Lifelong Links approach is central to that mission.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Big news! After 13 years of campaigning, children and young people in care will finally have a legal right to reasonable contact with their brothers and sisters. Watch our Chief Executive, Cathy Ashley, welcome this new landmark right.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?

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Nathan Yeowell @yeowell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Come join our team at FGF: * Communications Coordinator - who will devise & deliver communication campaigns to raise FGF's profile, reputation and reach * Researcher - who will conduct research & analysis in support of FGF projects and workstreams www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/vacancies/

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Today the Government has announced a new package of support for care leavers, including free prescriptions, dental care and eyecare for care leavers up to age 25. frg.org.uk/news-blogs-and-vlogs/new…

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Am very unimpressed by people who only challenge racism, antisemitism and other vile behaviours when it's committed by a political opponent. . Ps the word weaponisation should be banned

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I remember the times when I've been at the receiving end of antisemitic abuse. Including when it happened in my youth. It stays with you. So rather then deflecting & worse - Farage should either apologise or admit that such anti Jewish racism is what he still thinks.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🔎 Worried about what deprivation of liberty means for children? Family Rights Group has clear advice on DoLs & secure accommodation orders. 👉 Learn about your rights & get support frg.org.uk/get-help-and-advice/what…

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This Sunday 5.45pm #Lab25 conference. Hear from AJ & Salma, care experienced young people how we can transform our care system so no child is left isolated & alone. Speakers also incl Children's Minister @joshmacalistermp.bsky.social & me. I promise you it'll be a fringe meeting like no other.

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A newcNAO report "The cost of supporting looked-after children in residential care almost doubled bet 2019-20 & 2023-24 to £3.1 bn" Grotesque profiteering at the expense of children, families & the public purse. There's a strong case for a windfall tax on profits from private residential providers.

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Thr Government should just do this. A radical, popular step that would transform millions of children & families' lives. No child should be born into & have to live poverty - it blight lives & our society.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 29/08/2025

Polling from @Moreincommon_ on Lucy Connolly More than half think her sentence was too lenient or about right. Only a third that it was too harsh. Only 18% think politicians should associate themselves her, while 51% think they should actively distance themselves from her.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Today, the Education Select Committee released its latest report on children’s social care in England. It shines a spotlight on the struggles many families are facing—and the urgent need for change. See below how our Chief Executive, Cathy Ashley, has responded to the report. ow.ly/7MAy50WnEra

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Come and work with me! @familyrightsgp.bsky.social is recruiting an Executive and Policy Assistant.

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Good news for 100,000s of children, parents & #kinship carers - all children in a household on Universal Credit will now be eligible for free school meals

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

✈️ Lifelong Links goes international! We’re excited to share a glimpse from a recent trip to Oslo, where @cathyashley.bsky.social and @pamledward.bsky.social alongside FGC service manager Nicky Pallis, presented Lifelong Links to Norwegian sector leaders. #LifelongLinks #BuildNotBreak #Norway #Oslo

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

What an ignorant column in today's @theguardian.com Makes the bizarre assumption that children in care don't have any parents (or presumably families) -& answer to all lies in adoption. No exploration of safely averting children entering care, or reunification, kinship or foster care.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In a new blog for Children & Young People Now, FRG Chief Exec @cathyashley.bsky.social and @childrenfirst.bsky.social Chief Exec @margl24.bsky.social tell us to take a step back and reimagine how we support children and families in need. Read the full blog here: www.cypnow.co.uk/content/blog...

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Taking the long view on family-group decision-making - CYP Now

Tackling the serious challenges facing children and young people can feel overwhelming, and conversations about what we can do about it can feel like they go round in circles.

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Ezequiel Heffes @ezequielheffes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"At least 23 children and 9 aid workers reportedly killed in Al Fasher, Abu Shouk and Zamzam camps in North Darfur, Sudan" @unicef.org www.unicef.org/press-releas...

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At least 23 children and 9 aid workers reportedly killed in Al Fasher, Abu Shouk and Zamzam camps in North Darfur, Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have killed the entire staff of the beseiged Zamzam camp's last medical clinic & killed at least 100 camp residents. My friend's sisters & little children are in this camp in Western Darfur. #Sudan www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w...

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Sudan Clinic Workers Killed in Zamzam Camp

Relief International said nine employees were killed when gunmen stormed the Zamzam camp in El Fasher, in the western Darfur region.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎬 New Film Alert! Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with @SpeakupSA explains: 🔹 How social workers should communicate 🔹 Key processes & terms 🔹 Support you can seek 📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thanks to MPs & Peers on @appgkinshipcare.bsky.social for raising the challenges some kinship families are facing booking appointments for the children they are raising to receive crucial therapeutic support. Government must confirm funding ASAP. @melanieonnmp.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Last chance to book - don't miss this event celebrating 50 years of @familyrightsgp.bsky.social Baroness Hale reflecting on the past 50 years of child welfare & family justice in England & Wales- & exploring the next 50. Plus reception & dinner with Sir Andrew McFarlane & Rt Hon Alan Johnson

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A big win for @familyrightsgp.bsky.social - the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill requires English local authorities to publish a kinship local offer setting out what support is available for kinship care households. But we need the Government to go further- read how frg.org.uk/news-blogs-a...

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Government's kinship local offer policy

Read our analysis and recommendations on the Government's kinship local offer policy. How can it be strengthened?

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Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

NEW PROJECT 🚀 We're also launching a new project with Coram & @familyrightsgp.bsky.social, to help improve understanding of how families experience #FamilyGroupConferences & develop recommendations on how to achieve more equitable access 🌟 Find out more: foundations.org.uk/our-work/cur...

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Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our evidence has shown that #FamilyGroupConferences can help keep children safely with their families, but access to services can vary widely across the country🫂 Find out more about the work we're doing with Coram & @familyrightsgp.bsky.social to address this: foundations.org.uk/our-work/cur...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There are worms with more backbone than Graham.

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This week, in a first for our panel of parents with lived experience of children's social care, they met with Children's Minister @janetdaby.bsky.social. A "pivotal moment" in @angelafrazerwicks.bsky.social's words - "from being seen as part of the problem to being seen as part of the solution."

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A momentous event for @familyrightsgp.bsky.social - our 50th anniversary lecture reception & dinner 27 March. Baroness Hale will reflect on the past 50 years of child welfare law & policy & the implications for future reforms. Special guest Rt Hon Alan Johnson. Tickets available

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

📢 Need advice about children’s services? We’re here to help! If you’re a parent, kinship carer, relative, or friend of a child involved with children’s services in England, our free advice service can support you. frg.org.uk/get-help-and... #HelplinesAwarenessDay

A mother who called our advice line said: "The lady I spoke with was amazing at explaining why social services had put these things in place. The information she gave me was crucial, to helping me process what had happened and how to make things better." Call us free on 08088010366 Monday to Friday 930am to 3pm, or visit www.frg.org.uk.

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The @theguardian.com editorial: "the importance of sustained relationships... shone through" in evidence to the Commons Select Committee by care experienced young people. Each described painful feelings of disconnection incl separation from sibling. It's why @familyrightsgp developed #LifelongLinks

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Kinship carers on our national panel, and Bradley who was raised by his nan, met with National Kinship Care Ambassador Jahnine Davis today. A great opportunity to share & discuss the experiences of children & young people in kinship care and the challenges faced by families.

A screenshot from a video call with Family Rights Group's kinship carer's panel and National Kinship Care Ambassador, Jahnine Davis.

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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/02/2025

Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics. Putin's best week in years.

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Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Despite NHS England saying this must stop 8 years ago, children are being sent far away from home to get mental health treatment. The impact of being far from parents, family, friends & their community can significantly add to children's distress. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Children still being sent far from home for mental health care in England

Figures show practice continues eight years after pledge to end it, potentially impeding young people’s recovery

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Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our free specialist advice service helps families across England to work with children's services. Families get critical support, children safely avoid the care system and savings are made for the Exchequer. Thanks @chrismcdonaldmp.bsky.social for highlighting our impact in Parliament.

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