Britain’s biggest relationship counselling charity looks set to be rescued from insolvency under plans for it to be taken over. Last month, Relate was put into administration after a collapse in its funding from NHS, school and local authority contracts. On Friday, the administrators, FRP Advisory, announced that the families charity Family Action has agreed to buy Relate’s counselling and central services. It claims the move will save up to 185 jobs when Family Action takes over on 1 January. A third of Relate’s workforce, representing 80 staff including 40 therapists, were made redundant with immediate effect when it entered