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Useful Addresses
Contact addresses
Government
Courts
Welfare Service (CAFCASS)
Legal
Mediation
Support
Research
DNA Testing & Embryology
Government
Member of Parliament
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Public Information Office Tel: 020 7219 4272
Member of Scottish Parliament
Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1FP
House of Lords
London SW1A 0PW
Information Office Tel: 020 7219 3107
Department of Constitutional Affairs
Selborne House
54 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QW
United Kingdom
Telephone: 020 7210 8500
Family Policy and Family Support (complaints against social workers)
Social Care Division 3C, Dept of Health, 133-155 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8UG
Tel: 020 7972 4077
Parents Charter Unit (complaints against schools)
Dept for Education and Employment, Sanctuary Building, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT
Tel: 020 7925 5000
Courts
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London WC2A 2LL
Tel: 020 7947 6000
Principal Registry of the Family Division
First Avenue House, 42-49 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NP
Tel: 020 7947 6936
The Court Service
Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT
Tel: 020 7210 1818
Welfare Service
CAFCASS Headquarters
8th Floor
Wyndham House
189 Marsh Wall
London E14 9SH
Telephone: 020 7510 7000
Fax: 020 7510 7001
NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service)
99-105 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 6AD
Tel: 0151 649 8700
HM Inspectorate of Probation
Portcullis House, Seymour Grove, Manchester M16 0PS
Tel: 016 1848 0566
Association of Chief Officers of Probation
212 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BJ
Tel: 020 7377 9141
National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO)
3-4 Chivalry Road, London SW11 1HT
Tel: 020 7223 4887
Association of Family Court Welfare Officers
Court Welfare Office, The Link Centre, Whitehill Way, Westlea, Swindon SN5 7DL
Tel: 017 9387 1333
Legal
Legal Aid Board
85 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8AA
Tel: 020 7813 1000
Association of Lawyers for Children
Jeremy Barley, Ronald Prior and Co,
163-165 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17 3AL
Tel: 020 8520 8632
Resolution (Formally the 'Solicitors Family Law Association')
PO Box 302, Orpington, Kent BR6 8QX
Tel: 01689 820272
Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
4 Paper Buildings, Temple, London EC47 7EX
Tel: 020 7583 0497
The Law Society
50 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1SX
Tel: 020 7320 5814
The Bar Council, Professional Conduct Committee
3 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4DB
Tel: 020 7242 0082
Legal Services Ombudsman
22 Oxford Court, Manchester M2 3WQ
Tel: 0161 236 9532
Children's Legal Centre
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Tel: 01206 872 466 Advice line (2-5pm) 0845 456 6811
IRCHIN (Independent Representation of Children in Need)
Judith Timms, Director, 23a Hawthorne Drive, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside L61 6UP
Tel: 0151 342 7852
Justice (law reform and human rights group)
11/12 Bouverie Street, London EC4Y 8BS
Tel: 020 7353 5055
Article 19 (human rights)
90 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NL
Tel: 020 7403 4822 / 020 7357 6531
Mediation
National Family Mediation
9 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SN
Tel: 020 7383 5993
Family Mediators Association
46 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0EB
Tel: 020 7881 9400
UK College of Family Mediators
24-32 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HX
Tel: 020 7391 9162
Support
National Association of Child Contact Centres
Minerva House, Spaniel Row, Nottingham, NG1 6EP
Tel: 0845 4500 280 / 0115 948 4557
Gingerbread
307 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JH
Tel: 020 7403 9500
Grandparents Federation
Moot House, The Stow, Harlow, Essex CM20 3AG
Tel: 01279 428040, Helpline: 01279 444964
Children Need Grandparents
2 Surrey Way, Laindon West, Basildon, Essex SS15 6PS
Tel: 01268 414 607
National Association for Child Support Action (NACSA)
PO Box 3159, Fishermead, Milton Keynes MK6 2YB
Tel: 01908 665 646
M.A.L.E. (male victims of domestic violence)
P.O. Box 402, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 3TG
Tel: 020 8644 9914
Accuracy About Abuse (denial and over-exaggeration)
PO Box 3125, London NW3 5QB
Tel: 020 7431 5339
Child Rescue (social worker excesses)
89 Upper Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 3FF
Tel: 01273 692 947
NCCASS (social worker excesses)
Tel: 01273 692 947 or 01273 725 144
One Parent Families Scotland
13 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh EH1 3NX
Tel: 0131 556 3899 / 4563
Family Lives
CAN Mezzanine
49-51 East Road
London N1 6AH
Tel: 020 7553 3080
Reunite (International Child Abduction Centre)
PO Box 7124, Leicester LE1 7XX
Tel: 0116 2555 345
Research
Family Policy Studies Centre
9 Tavistock Place WC1H 9SN
Tel: 020 7486 8211
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute
Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Tel: 020 7435 7111
Trust for the Study of Adolescence
23 New Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1WZ
Tel: 01273 693 311
DNA Testing & Embryology
University Diagnostics (DNA testing)
90 London Road, London SE1 6LN
Tel: 020 7401 9898
Cellmark Diagnostics (DNA testing)
Blacklands Way, Abingdon Business Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 1DY
Tel: 01235 528609
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
30 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS
Tel: 020 7377 5077
Human Genetics Advisory Commission
Albany House, 94-98 Petty France, London SW1H 9ST
Fax: 020 7271 2028
Updated 28 August, 2006
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