The Family Allowances Fund offers a complete package to separated parents which combines:

• financial assistance known as “family support allowance”;
   
• assistance in recovering unpaid maintenance payments through a “guarantee against unpaid maintenance” (Garantie contre les impayés de pension alimentaire (GIPA));
   
• social support: “Separated Parents” group information sessions targeted at both parents, a family mediation service set up in partnership with the Social Affairs and Justice Ministries.

The aim of the “Separated Parents” information sessions is to advise parents on the main impacts of separation.

1. psychosocial;
    
2. legal;
    
3. communication between parents and parents/children;
    
4. local services available to separated parents.

“Separated Parents” sessions are led by a multidisciplinary team of social workers, family mediators, legal experts and lawyers.