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The Relationships Foundation has been developing the concept of a family welfare association for almost twenty years. This has lead to the idea of Family Associations or FANs as a…
£51 bn – the Cost of Family Failure to the taxpayer is large and growing Relationships Foundation’s ‘Cost of Family Failure Index’ is now estimated to stand at £51 billion,…
Relationships Foundation, The Family and Childcare Trust and Relate have reviewed the implementation of the Family Test. This report seeks to identify how successfully the Family Test has been implemented to…
Cost of family breakdown reaches record high 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 cost of family failure now £47.31 billion – increase of £1.55 billion since last year. The cost of family failure continues to cost the public a huge amount. The…
The total cost of family breakdown to the UK was £46 billion, up from £44 billion last year. The index looks at the cost of family breakdown in five key…
This report, from Relationships Forum Australia sets out to establish whether there is a link between changes in Australian working patterns and aspects of well-being associated with relationships, particularly those…
The total cost of family breakdown to the UK was £46 billion, up from £44 billion last year. The index looks at the cost of family breakdown in five key…
To coincide with the 2012 party conferences we publish the UK version of our Family Pressure Gauge, showing how the pressures on families varies across UK regions. Drawing on data from…
Counting the Cost of Family Failure 2012:£44 bn The total cost of family breakdown to the UK was £44 billion (£43.94 billion), up from £42 bilion last year. The annual…
The Triple Test shows that the social dimension is the elephant in the room when it comes to an integrated approach to public policy. The Relationships Foundation wants to put a ‘Big…
“Transforming Capitalism” is a fresh approach to the purpose, performance and assessment of companies based on the idea that stakeholder relationships lie at the heart of companies. The report is…
The Relationships Foundation’s Family Pressure Gauge has been developed to measure progress towards the goal of making Britain the ‘most family friendly country in Europe’ – the stated intent of…
The Relationships Foundation is concerned that, despite the Government’s stated ambition to make the UK the most family friendly country in Europe, they have as yet failed to bring forward…
The cost of family failure continues to be a huge charge on the public purse. The Relationships Foundation’s annual index of the cost of family failure shows that the overall…
Developed over more than 15 years’ research and practice, the Relational Health Audit is a one-of-its-kind psychometric scorecard that helps clients assess the quality and diagnose the state of relationships…
Progressive Families, Progressive Britain: Why Britain Needs Family Proofing of Policy sets out the case for a multi-layered relationally-literate approach to family proofing policy. Family policy is too often a…
The government is, according to a Guardian report, “poised to start measuring people’s psychological and environmental wellbeing, bidding to be among the first countries to officially monitor happiness”. This follows an…
This joint proposal from Relationships Global and the Relationships Foundation outlines ten commitments that a company could make to increase greatly relational proximity and involvement from shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers and other…
Since the formation of the coalition government the Relationships Foundation has argued that there needs to be cabinet level leadership of family policy that is not solely linked to any…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…