Relationships Foundation in Hong Kong

20-Mar-2013

RF Chair, Peter Lacey, is attending the International Council of Relationships Global in Hong Kong, together with representatives from other relational organisations from around the world.

Counting the Cost of Family Failure: £46bn and still rising

18-Mar-2013

The latest update to the Relationships Foundation's annual Cost of Family Failure Index shows that the breakdown of relationships continues to be a huge charge on the public purse and has risen to £46bn a year.

First national conference a great success: papers now available

01-Mar-2013

The sold-out conference, on February 15, explored the myths and realities surrounding marriage, as well as the choices of people as they form and dissolve relationships. The speakers included Sir Paul Coleridge and Baroness Deech.

Publications

Counting the Cost of Family Failure: £42bn

The cost of family failure continues to be a huge charge on the public purse. The Relationships Foundation’s annual index of the cost of family failure shows that the overall cost remains very high – at £41.74 billion. This means failed relationships cost each current UK taxpayer £1,364 a year.

Click here to read the full press release on the launch of the report and here for The Telegraph article that covered it. Sam Barker was interviewed on Sky News Radio and BBC Three Counties while John Ashcroft took part in a discussion on BBC Five Live. There was also a debate in the House of Lords on Marriage on the 10th of February during which the Bishop of Chester referred to our Family Failure Index in particular saying that he was “grateful to the Cambridge-based Relationships Foundation for collating the results of a wide range of research projects”. The report was also mentioned in the May 4 Family Policy debate at the House of Commons.

Click here for the report from our Wellbeing Series, When Relationships Go Right/When Relationships Go Wrong, for 2009 figures and here for 2010 figures.

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