More Help & Information
The following information has been compiled to help you find more help and information when facing issues such as divorce and separation. The page is split up into two sections, Websites, Helplines & Organisations and Useful Books.
Useful Websites & Helplines
- Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Advice on a range of issues including welfare benefits
www.citizensadvice.org.uk- Barnstaple - Phone
01271 388600 - Exeter - Phone 01392 201210
- Newton Abbot - Phone 01626 203141
- Sidmouth - Phone 01395 579769
- Torquay - Phone 01803 297799
- Plymouth - Phone 01752 207088
- Barnstaple - Phone
- Relate
- Counselling for couples.
www.relate.org.uk- Exeter - Phone 01392 275681
- Barnstaple - Phone 01271 345268
- Torquay - Phone 01803 297854
- Plymouth - Phone 01752 213131
- Exeter - Phone
- Parentline Plus
- Support and information for parents.
Phone (free)0808 800 2222
www.parentlineplus.org.uk - Parentalk
- Advice and information for parents.
Phone020 7450 9072/3
www.parentalk.co.uk - Gingerbread Advice Line
- Advice for one parent families.
Phone (free)0800 018 4318
www.gingerbread.org.uk - National Council for One Parent Families
- National campaigning group for one parent families
Phone (free)0800 018 5026
www.oneparentfamilies.org.uk - New Deal for Lone Parents Hotline
- Advice on new government scheme to help single parents back into work.
Phone (free)0800 868 868
- Welfare Benefits Enquiry Line
- Advice and information on benefits.
Phone (free)0800 882 200
- Inland Revenue Tax Credits
- Phone 0845 300 3900
www.taxcredits.inlandrevenue.gov.uk - Day Care Trust
- Help in finding and choosing good quality childcare.
Phone0171 739 2866
www.daycaretrust.org.uk - Devon Information on Services for Children
- Out of school clubs, childminders, playgroups, pre-school, private day nurseries, activities, play, funding and much much more.
Phone (free)0800 056 3666
www.devon.gov.uk/disc - NSPCC Helpline
- Counselling, information and advice for anyone concerned about a child who may be at risk.
Phone (free)0800 800 500
www.nspcc.org.uk - Local Authority Social Services
- Children and Families Teams, Local Offices
- Exeter - Phone 01392 384444
- Barnstaple - Phone 01271 388660
- Torquay - Phone 01803 208500
- Paignton - Phone 01803 20860
- Honiton - Phone 01392 384500
- Plymouth - Phone 01752 307329
- Newton Abbot - Phone 01392 384900
- Exeter - Phone
- Who Cares?
- Advice and support for those who have been or are in care.
Phone0500 564 570
www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk - Samaritans
- Advice and support available
Phone0345 909 090
www.samaritans.org.uk - National Debtline
- Provides a telephone service.
Phone (local call)0845 950 0511
www.nationaldebtline.co.uk - Consumer Credit Counselling Service
- Provides one-to-one advice and help on managing and repaying debt.
Phone (free)0800 138 1111
- Childline
- Help and advice line for children.
Phone (free)0800 1111 (24hrs a day)
www.childline.org.uk - Youth Access
- Help and advice for young people with local branches.
Phone0208 772 9900
- South Devon Womens Aid Outreach Project
- Phone 01364 644088
www.devon.gov.uk/devontalk/violence.html - Women's Refuge
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- South Devon - Phone 01803 315154
- Exeter - Phone 01392 667144
- Plymouth - Phone 01752 562286
- South Devon - Phone
- Rape Crisis Line
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- Exeter - Phone 01392 430871
- Plymouth - Phone 01752 223584
- Exeter - Phone
Useful Books
There are many books available to help you with the issues that arise from divorce and separation. A few examples are below, which may be of interest and can be purchased from High Street stores and Relate.
Books with an 
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- "Surviving the Break Up" - J. Wallerstein & J.B. Kelly (Grant McIntyre)
- "The Relate Guide to Starting Again" - Sarah Litvinoff (Vermillion)
- "The Divorce Handbook" - J. Levin (Allison & Busby)
- "Uncoupling - How & Why Relationships Come Apart" - D. Vaughan (Mandarin)
- "Divorce and Your Children" -A. Hooper (HarperCollins)
- "Caught in the Middle - Helping Children to Cope with Separation and Divorce" Anne Charlish. Consultants: Monica Cockett and Dr John Tripp - (Cassell Illustrated)
- "Mike's Lonely Summer - A Child's Guide Through Divorce" - Carolyn Nystrom (Cook Communications Ministries)
- "Dinosaurs Divorce" (Children's Book) - L Brown & M Brown (Little Brown and Company)
Many more books are available. The following websites provide more resources:
- www.ondivorce.co.uk provide a list of books at www.ondivorce.co.uk/books.htm
- www.relate.org.uk provide a list of books at www.relate.org.uk/RelateBooks.asp
