Resources
Family, Individual, Children, Teenagers and Couple Counselling
Mediation
Using family mediation –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-using-family-mediation-after-break
Living together and breaking up –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-living-together-and-breaking
Divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-divorce-or-dissolution-civil-partnership
Families Change: Telling the Children –
https://on.familieschange.ca/en/parents/telling-children
Resolution: Divorce and Separation –
Finance
Divorce and finances –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-sorting-out-your-finances-when-you-get-divorced
Money Advice Service-
www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk or call 0300 500 5000
Financial Needs: Family Justice Council –
Pensions
Divorce and pensions –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/pensions
Pension Advisory Service –
https://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/about-pensions/when-things-ch…
Resolution: Treatment of pensions on divorce –
Child Maintenance
Child Maintenance –
https://www.sortingoutseparation.org.uk/children-parenting/child-maintenance/
Government website for calculating –
www.gov.uk/calculate-child-maintenance
Child Arrangements
Child arrangements –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-sorting-out-arrangements-your-children
Child Contact Centres and Services –
For Parents
Book: ‘Parenting Apart’ by Christina McGhee, Vermilion London 2011
Book: ‘How to talk so kids will listen & listen so ids will talk’ by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, Piccadilly Press 2013
Getting it right for children –
Resolution: Putting your children first –
Separated Parents Information Programme. CAFCAS link to finding an SPIP in your area –
Resolution: helping parents to help children –
The Centre for Separated Families – https://www.separatedfamilies.info
Kids Come First: Separated Parent Support and Training Workshops – email kidscomefirstuk@mail.com
The Parent Connection – Parenting After Parting –
http://theparentconnection.org.uk/categories/separating/content_types/tips-and-advice
The Parent Connection – Children and Separation: a Guide for Parents
For Dads – www.onlydads.org https://www.thedadsnet.com/
For Mums – www.onlymums.org https://www.mumsnet.com/
Gingerbread: Support for single parent families –
www.gingerbread.org.uk or call 0808 802 0925
For Children
How to manage your parents’ separation –
https://www.sortingoutseparation.org.uk/children-parenting/child-looking-help/
Voices in the Middle; for young people –
http://www.voicesinthemiddle.org.uk
Families Change; for teens –
https://on.familieschange.ca/en/teens
Families Change; for 6 to 12 years –
https://on.familieschange.ca/en/kids
Domestic Abuse Victims – Women
Women’s Aid: female victims –
https://www.womensaid.org.uk or call 0808 2000 24724
Respect – https://www.respect.uk.net/
Domestic Abuse Victims – Men
Mankind Initiative; male victims –
Respect; work with male victims and perpetrators –
https://www.respect.uk.net or call 0203 5596650
Domestic Abuse Perpetrators
Ahimsa[1] –
https://www.ahimsa.org.uk/ or call 01752 213535
Respect: work with male perpetrators and victims to prevent abuse –
https://www.respect.uk.net or https://respectphoneline.org.uk/
[1] According to Google the term Ahimsa is an important spiritual doctrine shared by Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It literally means ‘non-injury’ and ‘non-killing’. It implies the total avoidance of harming of any kind of living creatures not only by deeds, but also by words and in thoughts.
Other Useful Information
Form e: how to fill it out –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/how-fill-your-financial-statement-form-e-film
Divorce without a lawyer –
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/how-get-divorce-or-end-civil-partnership-without-help-lawyer
See it Differently: videos of 4 families learning to see it differently –
http://www.seeitdifferently.org/