News & views
Media News re Divorce Aid
Divorce Aid goes from strength to strength and from country to country. We continue to receive frequent national media attention and inclusion in international family law resources.
It is good to reach the younger generation and our children's and teenagers' sections continue to be very popular and are used by teachers and the NHS. This year we helped 'Switch', broadcast on BBC2, Radio 1 and online with their video on parents' divorce. We thank the BBC for their support.
The Singapore Courts have featured Divorce Aid in their website for children and our work is also featured in a wide variety of courses including GCSE, A-level and further education courses. Many public libraries now stock these course books and they are receiving interest from government agencies and lobby groups.
We have also featured in The Guardian, Life & Style,
'10 things you must tell your teenage girl'
Divorce Aid has also been consulted regarding a government project and a new book on international family law. Many publishing houses continue to send us their new publications for review and possible inclusion on the site.
The Divorce Aid Team and leading divorce solicitors assisted the BBC's The Big Questions and a BBC documentary on young women and divorce. As usual, we are assiting several national women's magazines on good content in family law.
Last year, Christina and Jill Curtis were invited by the Director BBC Children Television to a pre screening drinks party re CBBC Newsround and Christina was also invited as a guest of Relate to their second annual lecture by David Cameron.
Our work with Which? Magazine continues and they have published a Divorce Flyer with the help of Divorce Aid's Liz Tait, partner with Irwin Mitchell Solicitors. Their new book on divorce is also doing well and we are signposted.
Dr Bradley has been busy with a new TV programme and Jeremy Ferguson has a new show on Sky Legal TV on mediation in addition to his regular divorce shows and daily advice to Divorce Aid.
David Hodson published his new book A Practical Guide to International
Family Law, Jordan's Family Law,
ISBN 978 1 84661 094 3, and Christina attended the launch with Alexander
Tait in July. Lord Justice Thorpe was the guest of honour. We are grateful
to David for signposting our services. Waterstone’s also signposted
us in their Guide to Kids’ Books.
Liz Tait was interviewed for research into financial inclusion by The Jospeh Rowntree Foundation and the report was published in July 2008. New Philanthropy Capital, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Runnymede Trust, with support from Friends Provident Foundation, invited Divorce Aid to a joint launch event to share the findings from their latest research into financial inclusion.
CAFCASS published new family leaflets and we are delighted to be highlighted as a source of advice and information. These are posted free of charge; please see our parents section for details.
Many of our solicitors around the UK and abroad regularly step in to assist Divorce Aid's enquirers and these solicitors are regualr contributors to the national press and our News and Views section.
We assisted with various television projects and have been interviewed by Orange and the teenage magazine, Sugar and also Bliss. We were also in a feature in the Sunday Express magazine.
And excellent news - we are in the new edition of the
Which? Guide to Divorce.
A web video on helping a friend through divorce is also ready and is raising a smile from lawyers. Watch Divorce Aid's video with Videojug. A very busy time. It has also been pointed out that our link appears below a nude photo of a model on Radio 1's Newsround site! We have assisted various health projects including the Great Ormond Street Hospital and featured on a BBC Wales billboard in Cardiff city centre..
We have been signposted once again from the BBC News website in relation to research into debt and divorce. We have also spoken to BBC Radio 4's PM programme and Law in action, BBC, Woman's Hour and Channel 4/BBC producers.
Channel 4, BBC2 and local radio have been appealing for case studies. For full details, please see our new Media section.
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