Further Reading and Organisations
Further reading and organisations
A collection of further resources for particular circumstances that come up during separation and mediation.
Organisations
- Relate: relationship counselling, and a self-help shop with books on coping with divorce, including titles by Paula Hall
- Hope 4 Hurting Kids: support for children and young people affected by family breakdown and other difficult experiences
- Kent Family Mediation Service: resources including A Child's Voice in Mediation
- LGBT Foundation: general LGBT+ wellbeing and advice line. Not specific to separation, but a good starting point for wider support
For grandparents and kinship carers
Kinship
Freephone: 0300 123 7015
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 1pm
Advice and peer support for grandparents and other family members raising children after family breakdown, including on benefits, legal matters and parental responsibility.
Understanding your child's perspective
- Supporting Children Through Divorce and Separation, a Cafcass resource hub for parents
- What Most Children Say books
If you'd like to talk any of this through, contact us on 01603 620588, or ask your mediator.