Parent and Baby Awards 2025 | 17 Parenting Together Ltd (also known as Parenting Cooperatives) is a multi-award-winning charity specialising in legal and remedial services for physically and cognitively impaired families across family court and social care proceedings in the UK. Committed to improving access to justice, protecting children, and improving quality of life, the organisation strives to stabilise and strengthen the family relationships of all children in need of support. To find out more about this noble cause, we caught up with Gerald Hannah, the managing trustee of the charity. Best Disabled Parent Legal Support Organisation 2025 – UK with generous time limits. The purpose here is to provide parents with the skills they need, inspire and enlighten young people, and raise the standards of social care and safeguarding for children. Exploring this element of the charity in more detail, Gerald explained: “Our recovery services for disabled, disadvantaged parents with young children in social care or family court proceedings help them negotiate remedial, practical solutions as an alternative to forced adoption.” He continued: “Our parenting courses and assessments may include six months of continuous virtual and on-call support for family law advice, behaviour, and relationship problems”, making them a lifeline for many families. All of this comprises the Wishingwell project, Parenting Together’s care package for stabilising relationships and enabling children to live at home with their disabled or disadvantaged family. This project has become increasingly important over the past several years, as a legal loophole that both deceived and misinformed the system, judges, and the courts was previously used to unlawfully remove thousands of children from their innocent parents. Revealing it has helped put an end to these scenes. These award-winning services are clearly making a difference then, seen further through the charity taking on an average of two new cases, delivering 12 hours of virtual support/training sessions, and answering 30 enquiries every week. Across these cases, Gerald and the team have helped in numerous ways, be it in providing the legal advice mentioned above or even by arranging for disabled and disadvantaged partners and children to live together in supported housing under some specific circumstances. “Ranked among the top 5% children’s charities at a meeting with the Charity Commission in 2021, we fully support 600+ families, answer more than 1200 enquiries, and improve the outcomes for 1500 young people every year.” Shifting gears slightly to the wider environment Parenting Together operates in, Gerald shared with us his concerns about the disproportionate figures impacting communities across the UK today. For instance, he told us how some areas have child crime rates of just 0.46% whilst others are as high as 25%. Gerald thus believes many of the issues his charity tackles to be regional, and that is why it has rolled out Dutybound, a new community education project designed to educate parents in these regions. From its days starting out preventing interracial assault in Bradford schools, Parenting Together has grown into an organisation that excels when it comes to advocating for child access and guiding families in need through family court and social care proceedings. Its deep expertise and unfaltering commitment to the cause has benefited the lives of young people and their families across the UK no end, making Parenting Together Ltd a fitting recipient of an award in this programme. Contact: Gerald Hannah Company: Parenting Together Ltd Web Address: https://parentingtogether.co.uk/ ased in North Yorkshire, Parenting Together is comprised of volunteers, former service users, and parents united in the tireless aim of campaigning for much-needed improvements to the UK’s child protection system. They advocate for this by researching criminality, radicalisation, and exploitation in children, as well as by delivering street-level projects in areas of the UK where there are high crime rates and unemployment levels or communities disadvantaged by socio-economic circumstances. “Our mission is to improve living standards and enable more positive outcomes for marginalised, disabled, and limited-ability families with young children, especially those living in hostile regions.” Additionally, through services including expert witness reports, professional assessments, and training courses, Parenting Together aims to help clients resolve family disputes as quickly as possible, affording them access to specialist professionals at a low cost. This is achieved through both its low-income concessions and its recently reintroduced monthly subscription options, with the latter ensuring low-income families have the means to access legal support services that would previously have been out of reach. Since the charity is a social enterprise, it is able to use its limited resources to engage with a number of local law firms and see that disadvantaged parents are provided with their knowledge and skills on a pro bono basis, B
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