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Families Need Fathers is extremely pleased to be working with our partners Fatherhood Institute, Relate and One Parent Families to launch Kids In The Middle – the national debate on the services provided for separating families and their children.

 

We all recognise the issues facing separated families, and their children in particular, and the pressing need to support them better.

 

We are also especially privileged to have Britain’s premiere agony aunt Deidre Sanders as the spokesperson for the debate, and are sure that her many years of helping families through tricky times will prove invaluable.

 

 

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Kids In The Middle survey.You can now view the report of the survey online. 

You can also see the article and guide for separating families published by Deidre Sanders in The Sun.  The next steps are to arrange a national summit to bring together expertise and look at solutions to the issues we have raised. We will also be asking for significant resources to be put into establishing pilot centres, perhaps on the Australian model or based in Sure Start Children's Centres to support families during separation.

 

Ed Balls meets the Agony Aunts (and Uncle!) at the Kids In The Middle launch at the Department for Children, Schools and Families.