The money was given through the Parenting Fund, which is distributed by the Family & Parenting Institute, on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. It has been spent on a range of activities from employing extra outreach staff to help families in rural areas to creating family groups for teenage mums and parents of disabled children. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said: "The Parenting Fund has helped many organisations provide support for those families who have needed help." "It has played...