Boyes Turner backs national campaign to support children through divorce

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Peter Davison

Thames Valley law firm Boyes Turner has lent its support to a national campaign to help children through divorce and family breakdowns.

A series of free videos entitled 'What about Aruna?' have been created by Only Mums & Dads, a not-for-profit social enterprise that supports families through separation.

Reading-based Boyes Turner, which is also on Only Mums & Dads' panel, is sponsoring the project that aims to help parents support their children through separation and divorce.

The films feature Dr Angharad Rudkin, an experienced clinical psychologist and cover topics including child development, the impact of separation and divorce, communicating with your child and looking after yourself during a separation.

Paul Linsell, partner and head of family at Boyes Turner explains: "Divorce and separation can have a devastating impact on children, but it doesn't have to be that way. With the right advice and support it is possible for a couple to separate in a way that protects the emotional and mental health of children. Information is crucial, and that is why we are delighted to support Only Mums & Dads and it's free resources for parents."

The family team at Boyes Turner is committed to helping separating couples achieve the best possible outcomes for them and their families. It now offers a range of ground-breaking joint services, where a couple will work together with one lawyer to resolve divorce and separation issues. The process becomes faster, less expensive, less adversarial and more positive.

The 'What About Aruna?' films are available for free on Only Mums and Dads website at https://www.onlymums.org/what-about-aruna

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.