We're Refreshing Our Brand
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- Published: Thursday, 26 August 2021 20:36
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"Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss The Signs?" - a Book on How to Deal with Hostile Aggressive Parenting During and After a Divorce
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- Published: Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:00
"Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss The Signs?" is a prevention and intervention resource tool for parents, courts, attorney's, counselors, agencies and anyone else who needs help with high conflict divorce and relationships.
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DWP Consultation on "Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service" - Deadline: Friday 6th August
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- Published: Tuesday, 03 August 2021 16:24
DWP are consulting on ‘Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service’. The deadline for this is this Friday 6th August 2021.
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- Published: Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:30
FNF is the leading UK charity supporting dads, mums and grandparents since 1974 to have personal contact and meaningful relationships with their children following parental separation.
We offer information, advice and support services helping parents to achieve a positive outcome for their children.
Our online Forum and our network of Branches also offer pro-bono guidance of solicitors and others familiar with the operation of the family courts.
Join FNF or register for free to receive our newsletters, surveys, research and more. As a member, you can also access our Forum in which experienced volunteers, including solicitors and McKenzie Friends can answer your questions.
Visit your nearest FNF Branch where meetings are run by experienced and knowledgeable Volunteers who want to help you. Some of the more established branches run solicitors' clinics for the benefit of our members. You are welcome to visit our meetings for free, but we expect that returning visitors will become members fairly soon. Your support is essential so that we can support you!
We have a telephone Helpline (0300 0300 363) which provides first-line support.
FNF membership costs less than a few minutes of a typical solicitor's time - and could save you a fortune by being better prepared for the choices ahead! Find out more about free registration and joining or simply donate. Your support is crucial in enabling us to sustain our mission working for parents and children who are being denied a loving relationship.
This is a testimonial email we received recently from a service user:
“I have a solicitor who charges ￡285 + VAT per hour. She's good but she is very expensive. FNF with its ￡39 membership fee has given me more practical advice and provided me with company of fellow fathers who are striving to achieve contact with their children against all odds. Something my solicitor can never offer. I have had 3-4 sittings and have had more practical advice than I have had from my solicitor (who is process driven and has no emotional connect) for last 6-8 months and I don't even want to mention how much I have paid her in this time. FNF has been amazing for me. I would recommend it to all fathers going through a divorce and wanting contact with their child/children. We are all in this together.”
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Channel 4 Dispatches - Torn Apart: Family Courts Uncovered 10pm today
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- Published: Tuesday, 06 July 2021 13:33
Channel 4 Dispatches - Torn Apart: Family Courts Uncovered 10pm tonight (20th July 2021)
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Nominate FNF for the Movement for Good Awards and Help us Receive £1000!
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- Published: Friday, 11 June 2021 14:54
Ecclesiastical are launching their Movement for Good awards for the third successive year offering fundings for charities. DO THIS THIS EVENING OR BY 9AM TOMORROW!
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- Published: Friday, 14 May 2021 14:43
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Families Need Fathers Charter 2021
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- Published: Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:18
“We work for the well-being of children in separated families to ensure they have meaningful relationships with both parents, wider family and friends.”
We do this by:
- providing and encouraging the provision of guidance, support, education and assistance;
- campaigning to raise awareness and address the issues and challenges facing separated families;
- promoting and undertaking research into the issues and challenges facing separated families;
- emphasising that children need love and care from both parents and their wider families.
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We are Hiring a Director of Operations!
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- Published: Thursday, 18 March 2021 14:05
Six-month fixed-term contract with potential to extend
£35,000 per year (pro-rata if not full-time)
Closing date: 19 April 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are planning to expand our National Office team by recruiting a Director of Operations!
The charity currently relies on a small staff and many volunteers. There is a need for the Charity to become ‘match fit’ to grow again with better governance, updates to internal policies and to relaunch of our website - to be in a position to both secure and make good use of new funding sources by 2022.
The focus on this role, under this contract, will be:
- to develop and bring up-to-date procedures and policies (using trusted charity status as the ‘gold standard’
- to facilitate branch (local volunteer run meeting) support and online support strategy
- to coordinate the update and launch of a new website
- to co-ordinate any operational elements of ensuring the FNF Brand supports an updated Purpose Statement.
For more detailed information please see the attached role specification.
We have decided to look both internally and externally to fill this role. If you wish to apply for the role, please download the job description and send us your CV and cover letter explaining how you meet the person specification for the role to admin@fnf.org.uk using "FNFDO2021" in the subject heading.
Please click here to read full details of this role online and download the job description here.
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Families Need Fathers – Court of Appeal Holding Statement
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- Published: Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:11
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The co-founder of FNF, Keith Parkin, sadly passed away on 17th January 2021
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- Published: Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:46
Keith Parkin's family got in touch with us to inform us of Keith death at the age of 93.
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Message from the President of the Family Division: The Road Ahead 2021
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- Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:44
On 8th January, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, issued "The Family Court and COVID-19 – the Road Ahead 2021".
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Can children still move between the homes of separated parents under the latest National Lockdown? **5 January Update**
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- Published: Wednesday, 06 January 2021 15:40
On 5 January, The House of Commons updated its briefing paper which provides brief information in response to some key questions regarding the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children.
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New and more credible research now challenges the claims that allegations of Parental Alienation are only a tool used by men to abuse mothers
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- Published: Wednesday, 06 January 2021 10:55
Significant attention was given last year to a US report published in 2019 by Joan Meier et al ‘Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations’. The report, now powerfully challenged, claimed that courts were failing to protect children when mothers claimed domestic abuse because of counter-claims of parental alienation.
Can children still move between the homes of separated parents under Tier system?
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- Published: Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:27
On 21 December, The House of Commons published a briefing paper which provides brief information in response to some key questions regarding the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children.
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The House of Commons' International Men's Day 2020 Briefing
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- Published: Thursday, 17 December 2020 14:39
On 17th November 2020, The House of Commons published The International Men's Day 2020 briefing with several links to FNF.
FNF submission to Justice Committee inquiry into the Future of Legal Aid
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- Published: Thursday, 17 December 2020 14:39
You can now download our submission to Justice Committee inquiry into the Future of Legal Aid which was published on the 19th of November 2020.
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Surviving Christmas for Separated Parents
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- Published: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:14
Christmas can be the loneliest time of the year for separated parents if you are not seeing your children, especially if you are finding it hard to make any arrangements with your ex for parenting time at all.
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We spoke with The Guardian about ONS findings suggesting that sharing of childcare and housework was seemingly temporary during the lockdown
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- Published: Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:36
Yesterday's Guardian reports ONS (Office for National Statistics) survey findings on the changing habits of British households from before, during and after the first lockdown. The data suggests that sharing of childcare and housework was seemingly temporary during the lockdown, and fathers who helped out with childcare during the first lockdown had reverted to past behaviours. The Guardian reports on some of our views on this.
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You can now vote for the FNF Ordinary Resolution
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- Published: Thursday, 03 December 2020 16:31
We have officially started accepting votes for FNF Ordinary Resolution from today. Please make sure you are logged into your FNF account before clicking on the voting link. Any votes received after the votes are counted at the AGM won't be counted.
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More Articles ...
- Today's Times reports FNF proposals for an Early Intervention Pathway
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- Regulation of Non-Statutory Child Advocacy services - Scottish Petition
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- Arizona Research Study suggests that Shared Parenting enhances Children's Wellbeing
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FNF HSSF Kite Mark
Families Need Fathers has been awarded the Help and Support for Separated Families Kite Mark which is a new UK government accreditation scheme for organisations offering help to separated families.
Families Need Fathers work with a range of family law professionals, including Family Law Panel.
FNF are pleased to announce a partnership with MyDaddy who have built this excellent app for the significant proportion of fathers who are now newly sharing parenting after separation.
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