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Membership Special offer!

Legislation including Every Child Matters, Care Matters and the Children and Adoption Act requires local authorities to provide information and support to family and friends carers and special guardians. Grandparent’ Association offers your organisation this opportunity to become a Social Care member.

• Refer family and friends carers to our unique telephone advice line
• A free copy of all our publications
• Two FREE places at our special annual conference and reduced rate at our conferences principally organised for professionals.
• A means to consult your service users and compare your services as part of Best value and inspections.
• We offer independent advice and support especially where there may be a conflict with family members
• Access to our welfare benefits advice line
• Refer family and friends carers and special guardians to our support groups. (Where available)
• Refer family and friends carers to our independent legal services.
• We can help you in the setting up of support groups including training for staff and carers and support with funding applications.

“ I would of course be happy to endorse the benefits of being members of the Grandparents’ Association. In my view membership is co-terminus with the current drive on the prevention agenda and the support for kinship carers, to be indentified and supported in order to maintain children within their families of origin, as endorsed by the new Public Law Outline in April 2008. The information booklets you produce have proved invaluable to both staff and carers setting out in plain language the nuances of the legal framework. “

This testimonial is from Carol Salmon, Children Services at Flintshire County Council.