The UK government has allocated £2.8 million to fund eight new projects across England aimed at reducing parental conflict and supporting families in need. The projects will target families at risk of conflict and provide face-to-face and digital support to promote healthier relationships between parents, helping families lead more fulfilling lives. The projects will also help parents in early stages of conflict to deal with their difficulties, improve their lives and ensure a stable and healthy environment for the children. The projects will support a diverse range of parents across England to manage their relationship difficulties, including those with children who have special educational needs, those in rural areas, young parents, LGBTQ+ parents, black, Asian, minority ethnic families, and parents at risk of unemployment.
Coram was successful in securing funding for their project – using relational therapy solutions with families facing adversity. Coram’s Creative Parenting Services will combine practice to offer couples under 30 at risk of family conflict a new schools programme. Coram’s three tier offer provides Child and Family Interventions, evaluation and analysis with insight into what works with disadvantaged families to pre-empt and reduce conflict, and training and dissemination of materials and tools for use as self-help or facilitated interventions. This initiative will focus on several disadvantaged families with stressors in the Camden and Lambeth area.