From ConDemned relationship to a civil partnership? The Relationships Foundation, the Cambridge-based think tank specialising in assessing relationships and helping build relational organisations, suggests how the coalition could go…
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National Family Week runs from 31st May to 6th June this year. It is the UK’s biggest annual celebration of family life aiming to highlight the importance of quality time…
This approach was informed by a review of international experience of Family Impact Assessments (FIA). Family Proofing Policy: A Review of International Experience of Family Impact Assessment shows that while there are…
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Family Proofing Policy: Understanding the Key Domains and Critical Levers of Influence, the third and final paper in the Family Proofing series, explores how family…
A Relationships State of the Nation brings together a number of themes from the Relationships Foundation’s work on wellbeing and relationships over the past year. It makes the case that…
Getting relationships right is the key to progress and tackling the fiscal deficit. They cannot simply be bought through increased spending or legislated into existence. The influence of policy on…
The budget made clear there is no new money to buy progress. Alistair Darling set out the economic state of the nation and the government’s financial plans. What was missing…
The research highlights that much of the UK population currently feels distanced from those who live closest to them, particularly in the larger cities. However, it also reveals that the…
Family is set to be a major theme of the election campaign. Despite the continual flow of family policy announcements, the parties’ thinking on the family is too small. Arguments…
Tightening the public purse strings does not have to mean regression in our wellbeing. The key to achieving this is arguably time. Time is the currency of relationships and enabler of…
RF welcomes Conservative draft manifesto commitments on the family The Relationships Foundation welcomes the fact that all parties have recognised the importance of family relationships in their campaigning in…
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In the final of our Marriage Week press releases, the Relationships Foundation, a Cambridge-based think tank, is calling on the parties to recognise the driving role of family relationships in…
In the fourth of our Marriage Week press releases, the Relationships Foundation, a Cambridge-based think tank, is calling on the government to encourage co-location, enabling relatives to live near other…
In the third of our Marriage Week press releases, the Relationships Foundation is calling for government policy to do more to recognise marriage as an institution, not just the expression…
Originally part of a ‘flip-over’ pamphlet, ‘When Relationships Go Right: Enabling thriving lives’ contains the Relationships Foundation’s analysis of ‘motivation, opportunity and support’. Responsibility for wellbeing lies in many areas: individuals,…
In our second Marriage Week press release, the Relationships Foundation reveals that their annual index of the cost of family failure has risen dramatically from £36.7 billion to £41.7 billion….
Our annual index of the cost of family failure has risen dramatically from £36.7 billion to £41.7 billion. This means failed relationships cost each UK taxpayer £1350 a year. Only…
In the first of our Marriage Week press releases, the Relationships Foundation is calling on the government to invest £10 million to support the voluntary sector in providing relationships education…
This report examines what is currently being done in the UK to provide couple relationship education, looks at how that task might be more effectively undertaken and the implications for training…
How relationships form is critical to how they function. Options can be curtailed even before a clear decision is made, because couples slide through, rather than decide upon, relationship transitions (eg, sexual involvement, pregnancy and cohabitation)….
Any relationship is a complex phenomenon influenced by many factors including structure, material resources, the external environment and the relational skills and capacities of the participants. Specific policy responses need…
The first in a series of pre-election Briefing Notes from the Relationships Foundation: “What Replaces ‘Big Government’? Introducing the Penumbra Model”. Click the image to view the PDF in…
The first in a series of pre-election Briefing Notes from the Relationships Foundation: “What Replaces ‘Big Government’? Introducing the Penumbra Model”. The Relationships Foundation is a cross-party think tank…
The Relationships Foundation welcomes the following committment in the Conservative Party’s draft manifesto. We are pleased to see that points made in our earlier report Building Strong Foundations have been…
Lindsay Tanner, the Australian Minister of Finance and Deregulation delivered the John Button Lecture on December 3rd, 2009. In the ocurse of his remarks Lindsay says: ‘Relational thinking pioneered…
The introduction of Self Directed Support brings about significant changes in the relationships between care managers, service providers, the people who start to exercise greater choice and control over their…
We were pleased to see that Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, recognises the work of the Relationships Foundation in his new book, Trust. Dr Seldon writes: ‘The Relationships…
Relationships underpin everything in organizations. And yet most managers still see relationships as a ‘soft issue.’ Relational thinking is a way of understanding organizations that powerfully improves performance – through…