Written Evidence May. 21 2024
Inquiry: Boys’ attainment and engagement in educationFound: Place2Be provides training for school staff and advice for parents to help overcome negative attitudes
Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) I have been calling for counselling to be available in all schools since I first entered the House. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) As 70% of secondary schools and 52% of primary schools in England already offer counselling services, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) It is no surprise that many withdraw so they can access counselling sooner. - Speech Link
2: None I accept that sometimes, when there is marital breakdown, it is sad but inevitable that parents will - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) It is not even a counsel representing one of the parents; it is the estranged partner, who may have a - Speech Link
Take action to support families where a parent is convicted of domestic violence
- 41 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 59 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
We want the Government to require parents convicted of domestic violence to take behavioural courses, offer counselling to their children, and offer support to the other parent on how to co-parent with an abuser.
Found: We want the Government to require parents convicted of domestic violence to take behavioural courses,
Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Wood Green)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2024 to Question 19417 on Mental Health Services: Parents, what steps her Department is taking to provide community mental health services to bereaved (a) fathers and (b) partners following pregnancy or baby loss.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are committed to expanding and transforming mental health services in England so that more people, including bereaved fathers and partners following pregnancy or baby loss, can get the help and support that they need.
As part of this, we are expanding access to psychological and talking therapies within specialist perinatal mental health services. Specialist community perinatal mental health services have now been rolled out in every part of England, and should work closely with maternal mental health services, which are also being rolled out, with 39 maternal mental health services currently available across England. Fathers and other partners of women accessing specialist community care should be able to access an evidence-based assessment for their mental health and signposting to support as required. Individuals can also access psychological support by referring themselves to NHS Talking Therapies. Details of local services are available at the following link:
Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) There are parents who alienate children from the other parent, but it is not a syndrome; it is a fact - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Tragically, they are sometimes victims of abuse at the hands of their own parents. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) In all other situations that we are discussing, you have two parents. - Speech Link
4: None Amendment 92—and the situation where we have both parents still alive—seeks to remove the presumption - Speech Link
5: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) telephone call because of a dispute between the parents? - Speech Link
Feb. 06 2024
Source Page: Egg and sperm donation campaign: FOI releaseFound: All licensed Assisted Conception Units (ACU’s) are required by law to offer gamete donors counselling
Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We also need protections for parents; many others have suggested that parents, in their ordinary discussions - Speech Link
2: Lord Strathcarron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If she or he does report the parents to the police and the police arrest the parents—who now have a criminal - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) bodies involved in medical treatment and counselling. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) As I said, much more support and psychological counselling is needed, not less, and that is the very - Speech Link
Dec. 14 2023
Source Page: Historic forced adoption - scoping study: research findingsFound: whose children have been adopted, and adoptive parents.