Accountability
Ask services to explain decisions and answer the point actually being raised.
About In Your Corner
Built because being heard should not depend on knowing the system.
In Your Corner is an independent, volunteer-led parent advocacy project serving Kent & Medway and building towards a more formally governed charitable structure.
Why it exists
Sometimes the process becomes the barrier.
Parents can be handed referral pathways, waiting-list rules, school processes, EHCP paperwork, complaint procedures and professional jargon at the exact point their family is already under pressure.
In Your Corner exists to help make that manageable: understand the decision, organise the evidence, identify the right route and work out the next action.
We don't manufacture arguments. We find the evidence, understand the process and make services answer the actual question.
Founder
William McAllister
In Your Corner was founded by William McAllister after practical family advocacy showed how much difference careful evidence, process knowledge and persistence can make when a child becomes stuck in a system.
William is not a solicitor or clinician. The project is deliberately open about that. Its credibility is intended to come from disciplined evidence, clear boundaries, transparent processes and — as the organisation develops — independent governance rather than inflated titles.
What guides the work
Useful advocacy needs more than good intentions.
Honesty
Say when evidence is weak, when a decision appears reasonable, or when specialist advice is required.
Respect
Challenge a decision without turning every professional relationship into a fight.
Where the organisation is today
Transparent about what exists — and what is still being built.
In place
Service framework
Defined scope, case lifecycle, capacity principles, authority boundaries and evidence standards.
In place
Accountability routes
Complaints, conflicts, service boundaries, privacy controls and public safeguarding boundaries.
Developing
Independent governance
Founding trustees are to be recruited deliberately rather than appointing people simply to obtain a charity number.
Developing
Charitable structure
Formal charity registration is being explored. In Your Corner does not claim to be a registered charity today.
The point
Small does not have to mean vague.
The aim is to build a transparent, governed and useful parent-advocacy service — and to grow only as quickly as the systems behind it can safely support.