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Reducing Parental Conflict Resources

Resources and training to support families to reduce harmful inter-parental conflict.

Supporting Family Relationships Project Update

Supporting Family Relationships is a school-based toolkit and intervention developed to assist primary school staff in supporting KS2 pupils experiencing the effects of parental conflict and separation. This resource has been co-produced with six pathfinder primary schools.

Joanna Mallinson from the BE project has co-produced:

  • ‘When Your Grown-ups don’t get along’ A Year 5/6 PSHE lesson
  • ‘Work it out’ An intervention workbook for children affected by harmful family conflict (can be delivered as a group or one- to- one)

You can view and download materials to use with children in your school and watch a short training video here: https://www.beproject.co.uk/supporting-family-relationships

Emily Ingle from Bristol City Council has co-produced and sourced a range of materials to help schools in their contact with parents, including:

  • Conversation starters for teachers to use with parents.
  • Helpful guides for separating parents, couple parents, and co-parents parenting from separate households.
  • Model Separated Families Policy for schools sourced from The Parents Promise. 
  • Content for newsletters and websites to share with your school community.
  • Train-the-trainer resources for staff development. 

 

What school DSLs are saying:

“I left feeling confident and equipped to support children and families.”
“The resources are ready to use and will make a real difference.”
“This training gave me practical tools I can share with my whole school team.”

Download the Resources

Access all materials in editable formats (Word, PowerPoint) and print-ready PDFs. 

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Why use these resources?

  • Promote a whole-school approach to reducing parental conflict and supporting children and families impacted.
  • Provide targeted support for KS2 children impacted by family stress.
  • Equip staff with practical tools for conversations with parents.
  • Share consistent messaging across newsletters, websites, and social media.

 

What’s Next?

We’ve applied for funding to develop additional resources, including:

  • KS1 and Lower KS2 lessons
  • KS1 and Lower KS2 intervention packs

Reducing Parental Conflict – Why It Matters


All parents and carers argue sometimes, but when conflict escalates, it can harm children. Stress from money, trust, parenting, trauma, or separation often causes tension, making it harder to stay calm. Research shows one in ten children experience harmful parental conflict, with even higher rates in households without work. Healthy relationships are key to strong families and communities. Parents can visit the ‘Relationships’ tab on the Bristol Family Hubs website to help co-parent and manage conflict in a positive way (non-abusive conflict).

 

Useful Resources and Tools

For updates to support positive co-parenting and stronger family relationships, please check on below websites.

Relationship support for parents and co-parents

Support for separating or separating parents

 

Parent and teacher resources

Dealing with separation is a real safeguarding issue for children and with this information, Parents Promise have created resources to better support teachers, parents and children through their journey. The resources are all available here:

https://theparentspromise.org.uk/education-initiative

 

Opportunities for Training 

Please use search term 'reducing parental conflict' on the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership events page here Events List.