Our story

What Best Chance is for

Sorting out support for a child means working out what has been decided, what should have happened by now, and what you can do about it. Usually while doing everything else. Best Chance exists to make that part faster: public processes in plain English, tied to published guidance for England, ending in one thing to do next. It does not give legal advice, and it does not act for you.

What’s built today

Two things work now, and one does not. They’re listed the same way everywhere else on this site, so what’s finished and what’s not can be told apart at a glance.

• The free check

  A short set of questions that ends in a finding, the guidance behind it, and one next step. No account, and no name asked for.

• The guidance pages

  The situations we cover, each written up with the steps that usually follow and the published sources they rest on.

• Keeping a case in one placeComing soon

  Holding a finding, tracking what was promised against what arrived, and preparing letters for you to send. All still to come.

How it works, in full

Whose story this is

Nobody is named on this page, and nothing here describes a person. The account of why Best Chance was started belongs to the person who started it, and it will arrive in their words with their name on it. Until then this page says nothing about anyone, rather than writing something that sounds right.

What’s still missing here

The story is the part of this page that matters most, and it’s the part that’s not here. Nothing on the rest of the site depends on it: the check, the guidance and the sources work the same either way. When it’s written, it goes here, and this paragraph goes.