Support for Separated Families
The Family Solutions Group – a multi-disciplinary group with broad and deep expertise in working with separated families in and out of court – have released a report entitled, ‘What about me?: Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation’. This report aims to review and improve the experiences of separating families away from the Family Court. 280,000 children see their parents separate each year in the UK. The report details how too many parents who separate on difficult termsfight over their competing ‘rights’, rather than cooperate over their shared ‘responsibilities’. The reports main recommendations were: · Fill the policy vacuum. · Change the cultural response to separation. · Put the rights and needs of children at the centre of any parental separation · Steer some parents to the ‘safety pathway’ · Steer others to the ‘cooperative parenting pathway’ The President of the Family Division , Si