Building Stronger Families
The Building Stronger Families Service offer co-ordinates help for children and families with a range of needs through an early help assessment or targeted programs, including help with challenging behaviour, health needs, child or adult mental health difficulties, substance and alcohol support, domestic abuse and reducing parental conflict support advice and guidance and programs, help for families of children with ASD and additional needs, unemployment, housing issues, anti-social behaviour and school attendance issues. We also have a universal offer within the children’s centres for children aged 0-5 years and their parents/carers with a range of weekly activities that help to promote children’s development, play and learning.
Directory - Darlington Family Help Directory [pdf]
Darlington Family Hub - Facebook Page [external link]
For further information contact familysupport@darlington.gov.uk
Reducing Parental Conflict
What is Parental Conflict?
This space is for both parents and professionals and will provide you with more information around what parental conflict looks like, how it affects children and young people and some helpful resources to help parents find ways to get on better, resolve conflict and improve their relationships, whether together or separated.
“Some level of arguing and conflict between parents or carers is often a normal part of everyday life. However, there is strong evidence that frequent, intense and poorly resolved parental conflict can have a negative impact on children’s mental health and long term life-chances.
The parental conflict indicator shows 12% of children were living with at least one parent reporting relationship distress. Parental conflict is twice as likely in workless couple-parent families compared to where both parents are working.” (gov.uk)
Parental Conflict Indicator [external link]
Darlington's Reducing Parental Conflict Programme
As part of Darlington's Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, we have created a series of six short videos to help parents and carers navigate conflict in a positive way. The videos provide practical tips and guidance to support stronger family relationships and help children thrive in a safe, nurturing environment.
Information for Parents
Between us app [external link]
Action for children [external link]
See it differently [external link]
Family lives [external link]
Citzens advice [external link]
Online relationship support for parents [external link]
Parental Conflict and Missing People [pdf document]
Darlington Offer [pdf document]
Darlington Reducing Parental Conflict Spectrum [pdf document]
We work with One Plus One [external link]
One Plus One - Digital resources [pdf document]
Parenting When Separated - Darlington Group [png file]
Information for Practitioners
If Reducing Parental Conflict Pathway training sessions are available they can be found via Workforce Development training directory [external link]
E-Learning - Register for One Plus One training [external link]
One Plus One - The Practitioner Guides [external link]