Relationship Training For Professionals Working With Families
We Are Amity
Where family relationships are valued, protected and strengthened
Amity Training and Resources: Factsheets - click on each one to find out more. Each resource has it's own factsheet.
We have carefully created a comprehensive suite of resources and associated training to suit everyone working with families, adults and children. For a more detailed explanation of our offer download our digital factsheets below:
Strengthening Family Relationships Through Evidence and Experience
Relationships between children, parents, co-parents and extended family members will never be perfect. However, the ability to repair when things go wrong is essential to improving outcomes for children and fostering lasting, healthy connections. Everyone deserves strong and supportive relationships, and that begins with understanding and taking responsibility for our part within them.
At Amity, we combine evidence-based knowledge with decades of frontline experience to strengthen relationships within families and professional practice. We understand the nuances of why relationships break down or struggle, and our expertise enables us to identify practical ways to make them work better.
Through our training, resources, and digital learning programmes, we support practitioners and organisations in developing the confidence and skills needed to address family relationship difficulties.
Our work focuses on creating positive change across a wide range of areas, including:
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Parental conflict and co-parenting
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Domestic abuse and recognising the difference between abuse and conflict
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Child-to-parent abuse
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Everyday parenting challenges
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Supporting healthy relationships
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Hearing and amplifying the child’s voice
Amity also supports organisations to invest in their workforce. Relationship distress can impact productivity, well-being and retention; our training and resources help build a supportive and reflective culture where staff feel equipped to respond to family and relationship issues confidently and compassionately.
By embedding relational approaches into everyday practice, organisations can create environments where strong relationships, both personal and professional, are valued, protected and strengthened.
What We Create
At Amity, we believe that with the right information, skills, and a foundation of kindness, it is possible to navigate even the most complex relationships and help families thrive.
Family life can be challenging. We design structured, research-informed resources that draw on evidence from a range of disciplines, including:
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Child development and attachment theory
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Trauma-informed practice
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Behaviour change and motivational interviewing
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Systemic family work
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Safeguarding and social care best practice
Our resources are designed to complement and enhance professional practice, supporting skilled practitioners rather than replacing their expertise or prescribing rigid approaches. We recognise that:
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Families are diverse, which requires a diverse skillset in practice.
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Practitioners bring valuable experience and insight, and require tools that can be adapted to different contexts, cultures, and complexities
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Local areas are best placed to assess and understand what works within their own systems and communities
Our approach is grounded in evidence and shaped by practice wisdom. We prioritise flexibility, responsiveness, and the empowerment of practitioners to apply professional judgement in ways that achieve the best outcomes for children and families.
meet circulus
We know Local Authorities need to hear the views of families about their experience. This vital information helps you invest in the services that are showing impact, save costs and takes a continuous learning approach to service improvement. However, we know that capturing meaningful family voice at scale is challenging. Traditional feedback methods in Children’s Services such as phone calls, interviews and paper surveys are slow, outdated, expensive and ineffective. We also recognise from our research and experience with almost 70 local authorities, that gaining feedback from families is just one part of a complex jigsaw. It’s also about transforming feedback into insights, cost saving and service improvement.
Circulus is the solution.
It provides a wrap-around supported framework that includes real time SMS/WhatsApp communications, training, consultancy, and effortless integration that places the ‘family voice’ at the heart of your work. Most of the parents and carers you support have a mobile phone so why not use it to build an ongoing dialogue?
Understand and evaluate the needs of your service users
Meet the founders
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Emily
With 25 years experience under her belt, Emily's certainly earned her stripes as a 'relationship expert'. During her 19 years within Local Authority Children's Services departments, she grew expertise in family dynamics and parenting, child exploitation, youth justice, domestic abuse and parental conflict. Emily understands the challenges, needs and hopes of people working with families in public services - she's been there herself. She's super passionate about making sure professionals have the chance to learn the skills to support people the best they can.
Kate
Kate's made it her business (literally!) to understand how and why we struggle with the way we relate to one another, and how to change that. Trained by the Institute of Family Therapy and Relate, Kate specialises in couple relationships, be that together or apart. Kate's worked with families for 30 years and is passionate about learning what parents really need to gain confidence and knowledge (and then helping them with this). Not a big fan of theory or advice, Kate loves to share compassionate, useful and practical ideas that help people change.
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