Children's Services - Children's Guardian

If a decision is made for the local authority to go to court to ask them to make an order to help ensure your welfare then the court will appoint a Children's Guardian on your behalf.

Your Guardian is the person who will write a report to tell the court all about you and your wishes and feelings. So he or she will need to know as much as possible about you and your case. Guardians are used to talking to children and young people and are very understanding. The Guardian will talk to you and all the people who are concerned about you and may even look up people you don't know or see often, like relatives, to find out more about you and your family.

The Guardian will visit you and make sure that you can say what you want. You may already have a Social Worker to talk to, but the Guardian is a special person who is completely independent of the local authority and advises the court on what is best for you and on what you would like to happen. The court will think very carefully about what the Guardian says before it makes a final decision. So it is important that you talk to the Guardian and tell him or her what you want to happen. The Guardian will take your wishes and feelings into account when writing his or her report to the court.

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