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Direct Consultation
May 26th, 2010Tags: Children, children's views, decision maker, decisions, Direct Consultation, future, hopes, issue, Mediation, Mediator, parents, permission, plans
Posted in Parent and Child Services | | No Comments »Sometimes when parents are in mediation and are making decisions about their children, it can be helpful for all concerned (parents, children and the mediator), to understand and take into account the children’s views. Often it may be difficult for the child to express themselves directly to one or both the parents. With both parent’s [...]
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‘Living Solo’ and ‘Parenting Apart’ Courses
May 26th, 2010Tags: after divorce, Children, course, emotional, financial issues, focus, future, legal, Living, parenting apart, parenting relationship, parents, partners, separation, social, solo
Posted in Parent and Child Services | | No Comments »Living Solo helps clients to focus on and to plan for their future after divorce or separation. The course deals with legal and financial issues and includes social and emotional needs. The aim of the course is to help clients to move on. The Parenting Apart course aims to help parents to maintain a cooperative parenting [...]
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What is Family Mediation?
May 26th, 2010Tags: Children, confidential, decisions, fair, family mediation, finances, future, Headway, impartial, issues, Mediation, Mediator, options, property, Relationship breakdown, voluntary
Posted in About Mediation | | No Comments »Mediation is a voluntary and confidential process which helps people who have experienced a relationship breakdown to discuss and reach their own decisions about the future, regarding the issues concerning them, which may be about children, finance or property. An experienced, impartial and understanding mediator at Headway will meet with you both together to help [...]
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What sort of situations can Headway Mediation help with?
May 26th, 2010Tags: All Issues Mediation, child arrangements, child issues, civil partnership, Co-habitees, conflict, couples, Divorce, divorcing, family, finacial matters, financial issues, future, grandparents, Headway, housing, living arrangements, living together, Mediation, not married, Parenting-plan, parents, property, resolve, same-sex couples, separation
Posted in About Mediation | | No Comments »Mediation can be used by people at any stage of divorce or separation, including by those who have recently decided to separate or divorce and those who may have done so some years ago. Mediation can be helpful for parents (before or after separation), divorcing or divorced couples, co-habitees (couples living together but not married), [...]
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What are the benefits of mediation?
May 26th, 2010Tags: benefits, Children, co-operation, communication, conflict, Cost, couples, Court, decisions, family, free, future, issues, legal battle, legal routes, legal-aid, Mediation, outcomes, parenting, resolve, separating, stress, supporting-children
Posted in About Mediation | | No Comments »Research has shown that mediation can lead to better outcomes for separating couples and in particular for their children. Mediation enables parties to remain in control and make sensible decisions about their own family’s future, having explored all issues, rather than have decisions made and imposed by a court. Mediation helps reduce conflict and bitterness [...]
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Who are the mediators and what do they do?
May 26th, 2010Tags: decisions, equal, future, future-focus, Headway, impartial, information, issues, Mediation, mediators
Posted in About Mediation | | No Comments »Our mediators will guide and support you through the step by step process of mediation and help you both to see a pathway through the issues you are currently facing, to a clearer future. Headway’s mediators act as an impartial third party and manage the process, helping you to exchange information and ideas in a [...]
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