We seek to ensure that:

• Families involved with the child welfare and family justice system are treated fairly, have their rights respected and are able to make informed decisions;
• Children and families get the help they need, so wherever possible children can live safely and flourish within their family network;
• All children, including those in care, have lasting and supportive relationships to sustain them throughout their lives;
• Our child welfare and family justice system – and wider society – promotes social justice and create conditions that enable children to achieve their potential;
• Children and families’ voices and experiences drive decision making at an individual and strategic level within the child welfare and family justice system.

We do this through:

1. A free specialist legal and child welfare practice advice service for parents and kinship carers;
2. By supporting local authorities through the provision of resources, training and consultancy;
3. By finding innovative family-led ways to improve child welfare;
4. Promoting families’ voices so children and families with experience of the child welfare and family justice system help shape it, at local and national level; and
5. Research and lobbying for legislative and policy changes.