Legal Aid for Social Services Involvement
Dealing with social services can be frightening. Dealing with social services can create a difficult and stressful situation for your family. You should contact a children law solicitor as soon as social services become involved with your family.
We can help parents, family members, children, and guardians with all parts of care proceedings, including:
- Offering advice at the first instance social services contact you.
- Explaining the contents of any letters or communication from social services to you.
- Explaining your rights as a parent or guardian during any stage of the care proceeding process.
- Contact social services on your behalf.
- Review a ‘letter before proceedings’ with you and offer advice.
- Give advice before a ‘pre proceedings’ meeting.
- Represent you during a ‘pre proceedings’ meeting.
- Give advice and explain your rights following a ‘pre proceedings’ meeting.
- Give you advice and represent you at court.
Learn more on Social Services Involvement.
Contact us or call us on 0114 2496693 to discuss your situation today.
Legal Aid for Care Proceedings
Care proceedings can have a significant impact on your family’s future. With our legal aid team, you can feel secure. Your rights and the safety of your loved ones are our main concerns.
Facing care proceedings is a challenging and emotional journey that requires strong legal representation. Our dedicated children law solicitors focuses on giving complete legal help for care proceedings. We ensure that we protect your family’s best interests during the process. We understand the complexities involved and are here to guide you every step of the way.
Every family is different. We understand that there is no single way to handle care proceedings. We design our legal aid for your specific situation. This helps us create personalised plans that focus on your needs and priorities.
Parents and carers with parental responsibility automatically have the benefit of legal aid for care proceedings, whatever their financial circumstances.
Learn more on Care Proceedings Solicitors.
Legal Aid for Domestic Abuse
If you are facing domestic abuse, threats, or physical or sexual harm, our family law solicitors can help. They can take quick action to protect you and your children.
Learn more on Domestic Abuse.
Do I Qualify for Legal Aid Family Law
Don’t worry about working this out yourself. At your first appointment with us, we will carry out an assessment to see if you qualify and explain what happens next.
Various factors which will be considered including:
- Your financial circumstances, such as your household income.
- Your financial means, such as any savings you have.
- If you receive certain benefits, such as income support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, guaranteed state pension credit etc.
After our first assessment, we can tell you about your entitlements. We will also give you free legal advice on what to do next.
Legal aid can help meet the costs of legal advice, family mediation and representation in a court or tribunal.
You’ll usually need to show that:
- Your case is eligible for legal aid.
- The problem is serious.
- You cannot afford to pay for legal costs.
However, our legal team can help you with this and offer free advice on your options.
Contact us or call us on 0114 2496693 to discuss your situation today.
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