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Useful Contacts for Separation

Association for Shared Parenting
Support and advice for parents after separation or divorce.
Tel: 0116 254 8453
Email: via online enquiry form
www.sharedparenting.org.uk

Broken Rainbow
Support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people experiencing domestic abuse
Helpline: 0300 999 5428
Mon and Thurs 2pm-8pm, Wed 10am-1pm
www.broken-rainbow.org.uk

Children & Family Court Advisory Support Service (CAFCASS)
Tel: 0844 353 3350
Email: webenquiries@cafcass.gsi.gov.uk
www.cafcass.gsi.gov.uk

Child Maintenance Options Services
Helpline: 0800 988 0988
Email: via online enquiry form
www.cmoptions.org

Child Support Agency
Tel: 0845 7 133 133
Email: via online enquiry form
www.csa.gov.uk

Citizens Advice Bureau
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Advice Guide: www.adviceguide.org.uk

Community Legal Advice
Tel: 0845 345 4345
www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk

Families Need Fathers
Helpline: 0300 0300 363
(Open Mon-Fri 6pm-10pm)
Email: fnf@fnf.org.uk
www.fnf.org.uk

Family Mediators' Association
Helpline: 0808 200 0033
Email: via online enquiry form or info@thefma.co.uk
www.thefma.co.uk

Gingerbread
Helpline: 0808 802 0925
Email: via online enquiry form
www.gingerbread.org.uk

Grandparents' Association
Helpline: 0845 434 9585
Email: info@grandparents-association.org.uk
www.grandparents-association.org.uk

Jewish Marriage Council
Tel: 020 8203 6311
Email: info@jmc-uk.org or via online enquiry form
www.jmc-uk.org

The Law Society
Online database search to find a solicitor (There is no published phone number for members of the public to contact the Society)
Email: via online enquiry form
www.lawsociety.org.uk

Marriage Care
(Christian charity offering advice/counselling on marriage and on relationship breakdown)
Tel: 020 7371 1341
Email: via online enquiry form
www.marriagecare.org.uk

Men's Advice Line
A helpline for men experiencing domestic violence
Helpline: 0808 801 0327
(Mon-Wed 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm)
Email: info@mensadviceline.org.uk
www.mensadviceline.org.uk

National Association of Child Contact Centres
Provides safe, neutral centres for children of separated families to spend time with one or both parents, or other family members
Tel: 0845 4500 280
Email: contact@naccc.org.uk
www.naccc.org.uk

National Domestic Violence Helpline
0808 2000 247 (24 hours)

National Family Mediation
Network of family mediation services
Tel: 0300 4000 636
www.nfm.org.uk
Email: general@nfm.org.uk

Parentline Plus
Advice and information on parenting issues
Helpline: 0808 800 2222
Email: via online enquiry form
www.parentlineplus.org.uk or http://familylives.org.uk/

Relate counselling service
Tel: 0300 100 1234 (find the nearest Relate and talk through options with a trained consultant)
www.relate.org.uk
You can do a postcode search for a local Relate centre for face to face counselling.

Resolution (Solicitors Family Law Association)
Tel: 01689 820 272
Email: info@resolution.org.uk
www.resolution.org.uk

Reunite International
Advice, information and support about child abduction
Advice line: 01162 556 234
Email: reunite@dircon.co.uk
www.reunite.org

Shelter
Advice and information about housing options and rights after a relationship breakdown
Tel: 0808 800 4444
Email: info@shelter.org.uk
http://england.shelter.org.uk

UK College of Family Mediators
Tel: 0845 65 85 258
Email: admin@collegeofmediators.co.uk
www.collegeofmediators.co.uk

Women's Aid
Tel: 0808 2000 247 - Freephone - 24-hour
National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge)
Email: helpline@womensaide.org.uk
helpline@womensaid.org.uk
www.womensaid.org.uk

The Counselling Directory
www.counselling-directory.org.uk

Useful web addresses
www.actionforchildren.org.uk
www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships
www.direct.gov.uk (for information about benefits and tax credit entitlements)
www.divorceresource.co.uk
www.divorce-online.co.uk
www.familylaw.co.uk
www.justice.gov.uk (Ministry of Justice website)

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