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General
https://www.judiciary.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/going-to-court/family-law-courts/
Overview of the new family court structure
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/family-procedure-rule-committee
Site of the Committee making procedural rules relating to family matters. It also gives links to the detailed rules themselves.
Website about the work of the innovative family and drug abuse court
Site of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, the agency set up to represent the interests of children in family law cases.
https://www.gov.uk/topic/schools-colleges-childrens-services/support-for-children-young-people
Department of Education website on family policy and law.
https://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/
Site of the Family and Child Care Trust, which brings together the National Family and Parenting Institute set up under the Supporting Families initiative and the Daycare Trust.
Domestic violence and abuse
https://www.gov.uk/report-domestic-abuse
Government website with information about domestic violence and abuse.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/domestic-abuse-bill
Valuable site giving a great deal of information relating to the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020
https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/
Site offering advice about dealing with domestic violence abuse
https://www.domesticviolence.co.uk/
Privately run information site with links to organisations assisting victims of domestic violence and abuse.
Refuge’s specialist services include refuges, independent advocacy, community outreach projects, culturally specific services and the 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline.
Children
https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention
Text of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and more generally the work of UNICEF
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIndex.aspx
UN Human Rights Committee’s Committee on the Rights of the Child
https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/
Site of the Children’s Commissioner for England.
https://www.childcomwales.org.uk/
Site of the Children's Commissioner for Wales.
http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/
Site of the Coram Childrens' Legal Centre, a unique, independent national charity concerned with law and policy affecting children and young people. It opened in 1981, as the major UK project for the International Year of the Child, and is staffed by lawyers and professionals with experience in child law.
Child support
https://www.gov.uk/manage-child-maintenance-case
Site giving information about how child maintenance is dealt with.
Advisory and professional groups
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/advisory-bodies/fjc/
Site of the Family Justice Council. The Council's primary role is to promote an inter-disciplinary approach to the needs of family justice, and through consultation and research, to monitor the effectiveness of the system and advise on reforms necessary for continuous improvement.
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/family-justice-board
The body created to steer through the reforms to the family justice system proposed by David Norgrove’s Review of the Family Justice system.
https://resolution.org.uk/
Home page for Resolution, the name for the Solicitors Family Law Association, giving details of the approach SFLA members take to family dispute-resolution.
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/career-advice/individual-accreditations/family-law-accreditation/
Home page of the Law Society family law accreditation scheme.
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/career-advice/individual-accreditations/children-law-accreditation/
http://flba.co.uk/
Home page of the Family Law Bar Association.
Family mediation
https://www.collegeofmediators.co.uk/
UK College of Mediators. Formerly the College of Family Mediators.
https://www.relate.org.uk/
Home page for Relate, providing a range of relationship counselling services in locations throughout England and Wales.