Online help available for single parents and family support workers

A new online triage system for single parents experiencing difficulties has been launched on the One Space website.

Family Health Check has been funded by the Department for Education as part of the Early Years Intervention programme which will support parents through a range of internet and telephone services.

Development director at Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), Simon Bates says: “The Health Check is not a simple search engine, it priorities issues and treats the user in an holistic way, looking at answers given from various parts of their lie.

“Although the Family Health Check is available for use by individuals, it is also designed to be incorporated into the practice of workers who support families as an assessment tool or as a way of exploring issues and to help prioritise and take steps to solve the problems identified.”

“From our experience of working with single parents, we know that there are several main areas to address when confronted with relationship breakdown: children and parenting being one of the most important, while training and work, income, divorce and separation, health and well-being, and community and social support are also key, due to the consequential effect on the family.”

For more information, visit: www.onespace.org.uk