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DWP discontinues its Sorting Out Separation website
Via Resolution:
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that the Help and Support for Separated Families (HSSF) mark scheme and the Sorting Out Separation (SOS) website have been discontinued.
Resolution will no longer award the HSSF mark and will be removing all references to it. The DWP has requested that mark holders remove any reference to the mark from all communications, online profiles and websites by 31 March 2020.
More: https://resolution.org.uk/news/closure-of-hssf-scheme
Useful blog post too from Roger Smith on the background and lessons that might be learnt:
The SOS website has raised issues for some time. It was promoted by an English and Welsh government that cut legal aid for family lawyers as a means by which separating couples might still be encouraged to minimise their conflict. The problem was that, frankly, it was all too naff ... It contained a number of expensively made videos with the message that mediation was good: conflict bad. All your problems would go away if you could get to a mediator.