Always Mum and Dad
Services for Separated Parents
Separation and divorce often make a difficult and painful time for parents. But it is much more difficult for a child, as they watch the conflict between the two people they love most in the world. With the right support parents can move through this time with greater understanding and calm
We offer the following service to help you to help your child to make good decisions in the most difficult of times.
1. Revisiting Your Child Arrangements Order
Make sense of your existing child arrangements Order/agreement.
We can help you and your co-parent review and clarify existing Child Arrangements Orders where there is confusion, conflict, or change. Our impartial mediation and social work professionals support parents to find practical, child-centred solutions that reduce stress and uncertainty.
We aim to assist parents, carers, and other parties involved in Child Arrangements Orders to:
Clarify the intent and expectations within existing orders.
Identify areas of misunderstanding or dispute.
Explore the reasons why current arrangements may not be working as planned.
Develop practical, child-centred solutions that support stability and cooperation.
Improve communication and reduce conflict between parents or carers.
2. Successful coparenting coaching
We can support you to build a better parenting partnership. By finding the steps necessary to help your child bridge this transitional period in their life, they can maintain a close and loving bond with you.
A successful co-parenting consultation will:
Help you build a stronger parenting partnership. By identifying the steps that will best support your child through this transition, you can help them maintain a close and loving bond with both parents.
Consider the many ways your child may be affected by separation or divorce and explore how you can reduce the emotional impact on them.
Support you in understanding your child’s perspective and what they might need from you right now.
Encourage you to stay focused on your child’s wellbeing and long-term happiness.
Give you the tools to communicate more effectively with your ex-partner.
Guide you towards further help and resources that can support your family and reduce the likelihood of court involvement.
Provide a voluntary, non-judgemental, and supportive space to reflect on common situations and apply practical strategies to your own circumstances.
Offer personalised support to help both you and your child adapt and cope with the changing shape of your family.
Work with you to reduce conflict and misunderstanding — both now and in the future — to help you avoid Family Court and build a foundation for positive, collaborative parenting.
Equip you to create effective parenting plans for your child, often without the need for ongoing professional involvement.
3. Parenting (family) Agreements
We will help you and your co-parent to write an agreed way of co-parenting that will be far more detailed and nuanced that a child arrangement order. An agreement that is practical, workable has planned for the future and most importantly meets the needs of your child.
The main aim of the plan is your child’s well-being and future by helping to develop better communication with your child’s other parent and reduce misunderstanding and conflict.
This plan covers several areas that are often a source of misunderstanding and conflict including:
Spending time
Education
Money
Communication
Boundaries
Health care
New partners
Going abroad
Our mediation consultancy is run by qualified professionals (mediators, social workers and therapists) We will explore what a child needs from their parents, and also some of the conflicts and difficulties which parents feel at this time. helping you manage conflict and find constructive ways forward.
Fees:
session £250 per person per session ( 1.5 hours)