Mediation

We are a fully inclusive mediation service offering support and guidance in all aspects of child arrangements (including contact arrangements), financial and property disputes for married and unmarried couples. Our primary aim is to support all parents/ carers to re-establish safe and consistent contact with their children in order for the child(ren) to regain and build on the important relationship required in order them to thrive. (Child arrangements can include separated parents, stepparents, grandparents, kinship care (siblings). )

We have been operating for over 12 years with individual experience in excess of 20 years; and have assisted thousands of parents to reach agreement during this time- let us help you to reach yours.

Our Mediators are all experienced in all aspects of family mediation including child arrangements and property and finance mediation and are affiliated with The College of Mediators (COM), Family Mediators Association (FMA) and National Family Mediation (NFM).

We can offer advice and guidance on paternity testing (DNA) and substance use. DNA testing may be free if you are entitled to Legal Aid.

Who can have contact with children?

When couples separate, divorce or dissolve a civil partnership, child arrangements for contact will need to be made

Contact is the right of the child, not of the parent or any other person.

When a child is born the mother and the father (if married or named on the birth certificate registered after 1 December 2003) automatically have Parental Responsibility. (Our mediators can provide you with information on parental responsibility.) However, Parental Responsibility does not give an automatic right to contact!

There is an expectation that where parents have separated, the parent the child lives with allows a reasonable amount of contact with the other parent. Contact does not depend upon whether or not the child’s parents were married. 

Contact should only be restricted where this is necessary to protect the interests of the child. In fact, unless proven otherwise, the presumption is that involvement of both parents in the life of the child will be in the child’s best interests.

It is also expected that the child should be allowed contact with members of their extended family in order to maintain consistency and to allow them to experience both sides of their parentage and heritage ( a child’s identity).

( LAW Advice .Org)

We offer services covered by Legal Aid (Free mediation), and our mediators will assess all clients at the beginning of their journey for eligibility. If one client is eligible for Legal aid, then the second client is entitled to their initial individual appointment free of charge and the first joint mediation session for free.

Child inclusive Mediation

Our Young Voices service provides the opportunity for children and young people (usually from the age of 7 upwards) to bring their own views, thoughts and feelings into the process. These sessions are carried out with the child’s permission and only what has been agreed with the child will be fed back to the parents. Our mediators who work with your children have extensive experience ad training in child focussed mediation and come from backgrounds such as child counselling, children’s social work and education. All of our staff are enhanced DBS checked and safeguarding is our paramount concern.

Contact us without delay today wither via email, telephone or via our contact form.

We have offices in Milton Keynes, Northampton, Oxfordshire however; we can carry out mediation services nationwide either face to face or via zoom platform with oversees mediation conducted via zoom platform only.

Mediation for Families Referral Form

Please complete as much of the detail as possible; however, the client’s contact details will suffice if unable to collect all of the information