Parenting plan

Parental separation affects all children – no matter if they are young or old, or from rich or poor backgrounds. But parents can minimise the harmful effects of parental separation on children if they successfully manage their separation.

Questions around parenting arrangements and parents’ responsibilities often need to be considered. Over the months and years to come it is highly likely that each parent will still see the other because children are contact points – dropping-off and collecting, family birthdays, weddings.

We help parents develop their own tailored parenting plans, proving practical guidance, tips and support so that they can spend more time parenting constructively. Parenting plans allow parents to plan ahead and they provide children with the structure which will help them thrive.

Parenting plans provide parents with the certainty which allow them to get on with their new lives, so reducing the flashpoints which might otherwise see them forever arguing.

Parents cannot realistically say that they hope never to see their partner again. Parenting mediation offers the chance for former partners to learn how to become co-parents and reduce the effects of divorce on their children.

It gives them a real chance to retain a civil, or perhaps even friendly, relationship with each other.