If you want to help make the care system more open and accountable, the first step is letting your local MP know how you feel.

Type your postcode into the envelope below, and you'll be taken to a form where you can write a email which will be sent directly to your MP.

Please only write to your own MP as letters from constituents are taken very seriously.

Individually written letters are more effective than cut-and-pasted campaign letters. Wherever possible, include examples of your own experiences. You might also want to mention that:

1. You're writing to support The Times' campaign to open up the family courts to outside scrutiny.

2. Social workers, expert witnesses and Guardians are insufficiently accountable for the decisions they make to take children into care.

3. It's hard to defend a system from accusations of wrongdoing if it operates behind closed doors.

4.You would like your MP to approach Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, and urge him to reconsider the the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee report into Family Justice from 2005 which argued that the family courts should be opened to the press in all but exceptional circumstances.

Fill in your postcode below to write a letter to your MP. You'll be sent to a new page.

Thank you for your support.

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