Following the publication of the Final Evaluation Report on the Information Meetings and Associated Provisions Within the family Law Act 1996 in January 2001, this report contains the findings of further research into the experiences of people who took part in the original pilots. The study was conducted under the directorship of Professor Janet Walker of the Centre for Family Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Researchers at the Newcastle Centre for Family Studies followed up volunteers who had participated in pilot information meetings relating to marriage and divorce over a 30-month period. The study assesses the longer term outcomes in the volunteers' cases and, in particular, what use they made of the information provided to them.
The research deals with a number of key themes that bear on the initiatives currently being taken forward in support of the principles underlying the Family Law Act 1996: saving marriages; promoting conciliatory divorce; and encouraging positive relationships between children and parents who separate.
The findings in the report, entitled Picking Up The Pieces: Marriage and Divorce Two Years After Information Provision, will inform the development of policy on providing information to divorcing couples, and to the development of the Family Advice and Information Networks.
Report - Picking up the Pieces: Marriage and Divorce Two Years After Information Provision
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