Our digital tools to support local authorities help parents in conflict

Published in Blog by Honor Rhodes, OBE on April 25th 2022

Honor Rhodes OBE, Director of Strategy and Development at Tavistock Relationships, explains how our digital interventions can help local authorities working with parents in conflict.

Digital online platforms have become an integral part of our lives and are an excellent way for local authorities to engage parents experiencing conflict. In the last two years we have developed two innovative digital platforms to reach a wider audiences - an app called ‘Between Us’ and an online tool called ‘Better Conversations’.

We know that it can be difficult to understand what’s going wrong in a relationship, so the app offers tools to understand why but also suggests helpful tips for what can be done.

Between Us

Between Us is designed to help parents have a better relationship with their partner or ex‑partner, and provide information and advice to reduce conflict. We know that it can be difficult to understand what’s going wrong in a relationship, so the app offers tools to understand why but also suggests helpful tips for what can be done.

How can Between Us work for your local authority

We can brand content using your chosen logo and tailor the app to suit your local needs. For example, by adapting the content for the specific needs of the families you’re working alongside.

Better Conversations ... provides parents with a real time experience of a difficult conversation and is designed to encourage less conflicted conversations.

Better Conversations

Better Conversations is an online, role-play tool that can be used on a PC or smart phone. It provides parents with a real time experience of a difficult conversation and is designed to encourage less conflicted conversations with their partner or ex-partner. The tool offers explanations and advice as to how the responses parents choose can increase or decrease tension, to enable better conversations.

Upcoming Webinar

As the DWP deadline for Reducing Parental Conflict grants approaches, please join us on Friday April 29 at 10.30 for a demonstration of the digital tools we have developed to support local authorities working with parents in conflict.

Event Timings

10.30 Introduction to the Tavistock Relationships Reducing Parental Conflict team
10.40 – 11.15 Demonstration of Between Us App and Better Conversations Platform
11.15-11.30 Q&A with Tavistock Relationships Deputy Director, Strategy and Development, Sarah Ingram

Contact us to register
If you would like to attend, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You will then be sent a Teams Link before the event on Friday April 29.

For more information, visit our Reducing Parent Conflict webpage or download the full Reducing Parental Conflict brochure. Alternatively, reach out to any of the team directly.

About Tavistock Relationships

Tavistock Relationships is an internationally-renowned charity for advanced practice, training and research to support couples, individuals and families.

We offer training and consultancy for local authority and other staff who work with families to help them deliver specialist, evidence-based interventions to reduce parental conflict.

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Honor Rhodes

by Honor Rhodes, OBE

Director of Strategic Development

Honor trained as a social worker and has worked in both statutory and voluntary sectors. At Tavistock Relationships she is responsible for co-parenting groupwork programmes, partnership developments and policy development. Honor sits on a number of Boards including her local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group Board and the Early Intervention Foundation. She was awarded an OBE in July 2010.

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