Welcome to Kids in the Middle

Kids in the Middle is a unique national campaign, an alliance of 31 family and children’s charities and 33 of the nation’s Agony Aunts and Uncles, campaigning for better support for mothers and fathers to work together to get the best for their children in families where relationships are under pressure.

Kids in the Middle aims:

  • To create more support for children caught up in family conflict
  • To increase public understanding of the importance of family relationships for children and how to tackle the pressures on these relationships

Kids in the Middle calls for:

  • professional counselling to be available to all children through schools
  • more support for information and services that specifically address the challenges of partnership in parenting at key transition moments in families and the importance of family relationships from the perspective of children

CHARITIES INCLUDED IN THE COALITION ARE:

4Children
Action for Children
Best Beginnings
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Care for the Family
Children’s Society
Contact a Family
Families Need Fathers
Family Lives
Fatherhood Institute
Gingerbread
Grandparents Association
Grandparents Plus
Institute for Family Therapy
Marriage Care
National Association of Child Contact Centres
National Family & Parenting Institute
National Family Mediation
One Plus One
Ormiston Children and Families Trust
Relate
Resolution
Respect
STOP
Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships
The Brave Project
The Place2Be
The Who Cares? Trust
Tavistock Centre for Relationships
Women’s Aid
Working Families

ACHIEVMENTS OF THE COALITION TO DATE:

As a coalition KITM has met with two Prime Ministers of the last and current government and has secured funding from previous secretary of state to help families in recession, alongside having Booklets published written by Deidre Sanders.

In addition we have met with the Cabinet Office to discuss the strategy for relationship support (Behavioural insights unit) and inputted into the Family Justice review.

A significant achievement has been to bring such a large number of charities together, with a common interest of improving the outcomes for children, through effective collaboration and sharing of resources; alongside the powerful insight, voice and lobby of the nations leading Agony Aunts.