Housing support after separation

Separation often raises difficult questions about where you, and your children, will live. If you are worried about losing your home, or need to leave for your safety, help is available and it is worth acting early.

Shelter

Freephone: 0808 800 4444

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm

Advice and support on homelessness, emergency accommodation, and the risk of losing your home, including housing risks connected to domestic abuse.

shelter.org.uk

Help from your council if you are homeless or at risk of homelessness — GOV.UK guidance and a postcode tool to find your local council's homelessness support. Councils have a duty to help people who are homeless or about to lose their home, and some groups, including domestic abuse survivors, are exempt from local connection requirements.

Find your council's support on GOV.UK

If domestic abuse is a factor

If you need to leave home because of domestic abuse, our Domestic abuse and safety page has confidential national helplines, and Shelter and your local council both have specific routes to support you.

If you'd like to talk any of this through, contact us on 01603 620588, or ask your mediator.