Family Relationship Mediation
Family Relationship Mediation (FRM) is a specialist type of mediation to support the re-building of relationships between family members, in particular between children, young people and their parents or other primary care givers. It is sometimes referred to as Parent Child Mediation.
FRM is for those families who are looking to rebuild relationships together. Family members may be having some difficulties, misunderstandings, or conflict that they are struggling to resolve, and they may be looking for some support to have the difficult discussions that really need to take place.
Mediation helps people in families to have a better conversation with your family members, to fix relationships, to open up new dialogue, and to find a way for everyone to get on better, whatever that means for them.
The mediator will open up dialogue between family members and will aim to repair their relationships so that the family can stay together: avoiding family breakdown and ultimately preventing homelessness.
Family Relationships Mediation Can Address Many Issues
A lot of the time, people can sort out family arguments just by talking things through, although when things become more serious, they might benefit from additional help to get their relationships back on track. This is when they would call in a family relationships mediator.
We have extensive experience in training and delivering Family Relationship Mediation to prevent relationship breakdown, prevent the risk of children/young people needing to move out of the family home prematurely, reconnect family members who have been operated by conflict, and may at times to support the transition for young people into independence with the support of the family.
- Clashes of lifestyle between parents and young people
- Differing values
- When parents are separated, and a child or young person’s relationships has become fractured with one or both parents.
- Access to the home, timekeeping
- Issues arising from re-structured families and incoming stepchildren
- Tidiness and personal conduct
How much does Mediation cost?
Before the MIAM the admin team will speak to you to find out if you may be eligible for Legal Aid, if you or your ex-partner is eligible then this meeting will be FREE for you, otherwise the MIAM will be £120 inc vat.
We offer the £500 Voucher scheme, which is shared between you towards the cost of your mediation fees.
Depending on the experience of the Mediator the fees range from;
| Per person per 1.5hr mediation | ||||
| Consultant Mediator | £234 | |||
| Practice Director | £255 |
All fees are per person and inclusive of VAT.
If you require the mediator to provide you with a written summary of proposals or an open financial statement these will be charged in addition to the fees above. The mediator can explain these fees to you at the MIAM or in the mediation.
If you are a mediating about child arrangements a one off voucher can be applied for which will pay up to £500 towards the time in joint mediation meetings. Click here for more details.
What we need from families
- For everyone with parental responsibility to be on board with the young person taking part in the process, and to support them to attend all appointments.
- To keep within the momentum of the process. We ask both parents to commit to ensuring the child or young person is able to be available to attend appointments within a few weeks
- The young person to be able to be free to make his or her own decisions, and for their views to be respected.
- It is very important that everyone chooses to attend mediation, and whilst it isn’t necessary to have consent from both parents for a young person to attend if they are Fraser competent we do prefer that both parents give their full support to them participating.
- Where a young person is Gillick or Fraser component they are able to choose to volunteer to attend without the consent of their parents
Why Choose Children 1st Mediation?
Our team of Professionally qualified Family Mediators have over 80 years collective experience in Mediation, so you can be sure you’re getting the best service. We believe in you retaining the decision making between you.
All of our Family Mediators are qualified and registered which means they are required to work within the parameters of family law and will consider with you both how the family court may deal with things. The mediator will help you navigate your way through the process towards finding workable solution for you both that can then be made legally binding as part of your divorce or legal separation.
Over 90% of our mediation’s lead to an outcome that both people are positive about, which makes us one of the most successful mediation services in England. This means that both of you have found a settlement that you can both live with, which avoids the need for court intervention, which no one wants. All of our mediators are accredited with the Ministry of Justice to undertake Family Mediation in both financial and Children’s issues so you can be confident your in safe hands.
Family Relationship Mediation Oxfordshire
Our head office is located in Plymouth, but we have trained and qualified mediators working remotely across the country. Most of our mediation is done online now, usually on Zoom. However, we do occasionally do face-to-face mediation when the need arises. We are regularly dealing with clients from Oxfordshire and surrounding areas including Oxford, Banbury, Abingdon, Bicester, Didcot and Witney.
Over 90% of our mediation’s lead to an outcome that both people are positive about, which makes us one of the most successful mediation services in England. This means that both of you have found a settlement that you can both live with, which avoids the need for court intervention, which no one wants. All of our mediators are accredited with the Ministry of Justice to undertake Family Mediation in both financial and Children’s issues so you can be confident your in safe hands.
