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At the Relationships Foundation (Registered Charity no. 1106460), we are inspired by the work that staff in AP settings are doing for their students during this difficult time. So we have launched a national survey to better…
Highlights from our Conference on September 13th in Cambridge.
New research identifies the impact of strong social and professional relationships on trainee teachers’ retention and performance, and highlights how training organisations can better support these The Relationships Foundation, in…
The long awaited book ‘The Relational Lens: Understanding, managing and measuring stakeholder relationships’ written by John Ashcroft, Roy Childs, Alison Myers and Michael Schluter and published by Cambridge University Press is finally here!…
During the past year Relationships Foundation has been supporting the development and launch of a new initiative that seeks to change attitudes and behaviour to enable more children to grow…
Relationships Foundation’s updated annual “Cost of Family Failure Index” reveals that the 2016 cost of family breakdown to the taxpayer has increased for the seventh year in a row to…
Relationship Foundation’s Research Director John Ashcroft makes the fiscal case for championing family policy in his recent guest post for Conservative Home, Britain’s leading Conservative blog for news. In his blog…
Relationships Foundation has just updated its annual “Cost of Family Failure Index”, and can reveal the 2015 cost of family breakdown to the taxpayer is £47 billion – costing each…
Relationships Foundation welcomed the publication of The Family Test guidance for government departments from the Department for Work & Pensions1. RF has been making the case for this development for…
We are delighted that today the Prime Minister has announced the implementation of a ‘family test’ to examine all domestic policy for its impact on the family. His speech today is…
Our annual “Cost of Family Failure Index” continues to receive widespread attention. Most notably it was used by the Department for Education in their evaluation of the cost effectiveness of…
Our chair of trustees, Peter Lacey, has begun a blog on the question “Why Relational Health?”. You can see his first blog post, “Compassion &mdash, not just for nurses” here….
There was an interesting reference to our work during yesterday’s debate, ‘Strengthening Couple Relationships’, in the House of Commons (Westminster Hall). Fiona Bruce MP said, “The Relationships Foundation has described…
This year the Social Market Foundation released its ‘M Word’ competition around the party conferences. Asked to tweet what should have been in the manifesto, we (in the winning tweet!)…
Congratulations to Allia, long ago an initiative of the Relationships Foundation, who have just announced that the Scottish Government will invest £10m in one of their charitable bonds! Allia started…
The New Statesman has picked up arguments that we have long been making about the importance of the family in preventing poverty and boosting living standards. “The state and market…
The Relationships Foundation’s Cost of Family Failure Index was (mis!)quoted in the Daily Express on Saturday, in an article about the proposed marriage tax breaks. “When families break up they…
A new report from the Centre for Social Justice shows that aroundd one million children grow up with no contact with their father. The think tanks says that “Many are…
The Relationships Foundation’s Cost of Family Failure Index was quoted in The Telegraph this morning in an article about the proposed marriage taz breaks, “David Cameron believes in marriage –…
In a most welcome development along the lines of our thinking, the new Relationships Alliance has called on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to develop a quality standard on…
Barnados has produced an excellent report on how the new Benefits Up-rating Act may affect families. They highlight concerns that in recent years families have experienced both downward pressures on…
The Telegraph reports today that the average UK family with one worker and two children loses 27. 9 per cent of their wages in tax, compared with 26.2 per cent…
RG International Council RF Chair, Peter Lacey, is attending the International Council of Relationships Global in Hong Kong, together with representatives from other relational organisations from around the world….
UPDATE: See press comment on this press release at the Daily Mail and The Telegraph. The Relationships Foundation’s annual “Cost of Family Failure Index” is now widely quoted both in…
The Marriage Foundation’s first national conference, “Modern Marriage: Myths, Realities and Prospects” was held on February 15 and was sold out two weeks before the event! The conference…
The Relationships Foundation welcomes Relate’s report recognising and discussing why men are less willing to seek help or support for relationship problems. Harry Benson, Director of Communications at…
A new report from the Marriage Foundation think-tank, What is the divorce rate?, has shattered the common assumption that the divorce rate for all couples is higher than it was…
IPPR’s report, The Relational State, is a welcome recognition of the importance of relationships and the need to consider how the state influences them. This is something we have long…
In response to the Prime Minister’s speech today the Relationships Foundation say that the government continues to fail the “Family Test”. David Cameron highlighted the challenge facing our nation:…