Supporting practitioners to identify relationship problems early and refer families to the right interventions or services is essential in tackling parental conflict. Embedding relationship support in mainstream services, such as children’s centres or health visiting, or targeting transition points for families, such as new parenthood or separation, can also help to identify families before relationship difficulties escalate. Learn more about how you can better prepare and equip your local workforce with the resources available here.
How to evaluate training on reducing parental conflict: A practical guide for local areas
This practical step-by-step guide for local areas is designed to help make the process of conducting an evaluation of reducing parental conflict training more manageable and achievable.
Engaging disadvantaged and vulnerable parents: An evidence review
This report sets out what the literature tells us about how to encourage disadvantaged and vulnerable parents to take up, participate in and complete parenting and parental conflict programmes and services.
Walsall: Mapping the local workforce involved in reducing parental conflict
This is Walsall's story about mapping the local workforce involved in reducing parental conflict to assess workforce skill levels and the impact of the current training offer, as phase one of a four-phase reducing parental conflict evaluation project.
Rochdale: Starting a ‘relationship revolution’ to improve the quality of relationships for everyone
This is Rochdale’s story about developing a whole system approach to talk about parental conflict and address the population’s needs. It is told by Emily Nickson Williams, former strategic lead of early help & relational practice. It is told by Georgina Atkins, Walsall’s parenting lead for early help, and Helen Burridge, research officer at EIF.
Wirral: Making reducing parental conflict part of everyday business in Wirral
This is Wirral’s story about building a multi-agency training programme and improving partnership working to help professionals confidently support parents in distressed relationships. It is told by Jane Egan, early help partnership manager.
Hartlepool: Building practitioner capacity in Hartlepool
Read about Hartlepool's experience in building a local partnership to increase the early help practitioner workforce capacity to attend to the quality of interparental relationships.
Other resources
Examples of workforce training in the UK (EIF)
Councils develop programmes to reduce impact of parent conflict (EIF)
From evidence to practice: why it's time to ask about relationships (EIF)
Creating a Local Family Offer (IU/OPO)
Webinar: Engaging disadvantaged families in parenting and parental conflict programmes (EIF)
Reducing Parental Conflict: a digital discovery (DWP)
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