New courses and support

We are pleased to be supporting a number of new courses and initiatives to guide and equip parents through separation and its aftermath.

Our colleagues at Shared Parenting Scotland are offering two UK-wide support courses. Thanks to recent funding, there are currently offered free for veterans of all the British armed forces and for parents currently serving in the British Army.

Love, Loss and Living is an interactive, six-week online course, supplemented by in-person training sessions. This course is designed to help parents understand and manage the grief associated with being separated from their children. It provides practical strategies and emotional support to cope with this difficult transition. Cost £50.

New Ways For Families™ is a comprehensive ten-module online course, accompanied by three one-on-one coaching sessions. This course equips separated parents with key behavioural skills to support themselves and their children through the separation process. It also aims to help parents avoid costly legal fees by fostering better communication and problem-solving skills. Cost £270.

Sign up directly with SPS and please mention that you heard about them through Families Need Fathers, Both Parents Matter.

The Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities programme is offering free and inclusive online Stronger Relationship courses , designed to help you develop better family relationships and reduce parental conflict, whether with your ex or current partner or with others involved in raising your children. This course (normally priced at £175) is designed for all parents and main carers wanting to improve their communication and focus on the needs of their children. Suitable for all co-parents, wherever they are on their parenting journey, and free to UK residents until the end of the year. Certificate on completion.

As part of its Reducing Parental Conflict programme, the DWP has worked with the relationship experts Relate to develop:

a Relationship Advice AI Bot
a Voice of the Child AI bot, telling parents what children are likely to be thinking and feeling during periods of conflict. This is useful as the children may not be able to articulate what they are thinking/feeling. It can help draw parents out of ‘battle mentality’, to consider others.
a Message-writing AI Bot called ‘Sounding Board bot’ – helps with those tricky What’s App messages and emails to the mother/father.
signpost to free local relationship support via their Postcode Finder

and which can all be found at We can Relate to parental conflict | Relate.

Please also try the new Separating-Better app for parents that are separating or have separated (Download the app for IOS devices, Download the app for Android devices). The App is in fact in testing until November so interaction now will help improve learning for future development.

And last and definitely not least, our Central London branch continue to provide the following services exclusively to Both Parents Matter members:

free legal advice clinics with Anthony Gold solicitors
discounts for supervised contact in the London area
online advice on financial remedies and CMS

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