As part of Reducing Parental Conflict programme, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched the £2.7m Challenge Fund that will provide grants to innovative projects to gather learning on what works to reduce parental conflict.
The Reducing Parental Conflict programme was launched in April 2017 in response to a government report and evidence review that showed children who are exposed to frequent and intense parental conflict are at significant risk of poorer long-term outcomes.
In 2015/16, 11 per cent of children whose parents were living together were exposed to potentially damaging levels of parental conflict; with children in workless families three times as likely to experience this. In the same period, around half of children in separated families did not see their non-resident parent frequently, which is indicative of a poor-quality relationship.
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