Family Mediation
Children
How Family Mediation
Works for Children
Receiving the right support following separation can make all the difference to how parents and children cope after separation.
Family Mediation can help parents work together to provide their children the support and secure base that they need, thus maintaining stability and routine in their lives. At Talk & Resolve clients are helped to move on from being parents who live together to find a good working relationship as parents who live apart. This is an important transition process and brings benefits to the whole family.
Mediation Voucher Scheme
£500 vouchers are available to eligible mediation clients discussing arrangements for their children. Please ask Manjit Kaur Gill on mgill@talkandresolve.co.uk to see if you might be eligible. Details of the scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/guidance/family-mediation-voucher-scheme
Child-Focused Mediation
To enable the best arrangements to be put in place for children post separation, the Mediator will provide general information to both parents about:
How children cope with parental separation.
What children might need from parents to help them cope.
How parents can protect their children from parental conflict.
How to manage and minimise parental conflict.
Additionally, the Mediator will help both parents to:
- Focus on their children’s needs as well as their own.
- Assist parents to put in place arrangements and parenting plans that can work for all the family in both the short and the long term.
- Consider options from their children’s perspectives as well as their own.
- Make the shift from parenting together to parenting apart and to make that transition as smooth as possible for the benefit of their children.