Among those to successfully bid for funding through the DWP's £2.2m Reducing Parental Conflict Challenge Fund, is a Relate scheme to support families when prisoners are released.
The charity has been handed just under £200,000 to help integrate ex-offenders across East Sussex and Kent back into their family home. This will involve providing parent counselling and measuring the impact of couple counselling on children's behaviour.
A similar scheme has already been used by the relationships charity with inmates at Ford open prison in West Sussex.
"Good quality relationships are vital for our physical health, wellbeing and children's chances in life whereas frequent and unresolved conflict between parents can have devastating consequences for everyone involved," said Relate chief executive Aidan Jones.
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