Ministers given professional family mediator views: FMC response to ‘mandatory mediation’ consultation The professionals have spoken … now it’s over to Ministers to take the right steps to boost family mediation numbers The home of regulated family mediation in England and Wales, The Family Mediation Council, (“the FMC”) has published its response to government proposals […]
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News: Executive Summary of FMC response to Ministry of Justice consultation
During April and May 2023, the FMC organised a series of online meetings, giving opportunities for Mediators to help shape the FMC response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation, ‘Early resolution of private family law arrangements.’ In May, a joint meeting of the FMC and the Family Mediation Standards Board drew together the views that […]
News: FMC response to Family Procedure Rule Committee consultation
The Family Mediation Council response to the Family Procedure Rule Committee consultation, Early resolution of private family law arrangements, is now available. This was a consultation on strengthening existing rules and practice directions to encourage earlier resolution and on private family law children and financial remedy arrangements, which closed on 25 May 2023. You can read […]
Press Release: Family Mediators give views on plans to make mediation mandatory in low-level family dispute cases
Family Mediators from across England and Wales have been giving their views on government proposals which could make mediation mandatory in all suitable low-level family court cases. The Family Mediation Council (“FMC”) has run six online meetings, giving opportunities for Accredited Mediators to help shape the FMC response to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) proposals. “Ministers […]
Press Release: Meeting series helps professionals shape future landscape for family mediation
Family mediators were able to give their views about government plans to boost numbers of separating families using mediation to make settlements, when The Family Mediation Council (“the FMC”) staged a special series of online meetings for them. The Ministry of Justice has set out a number of proposals aimed at helping separating families in […]
Press Release: A cultural shift away from family court … to family mediation
Government proposals set to steer families away from stress, costs and delays New government family law proposals could accelerate a cultural shift for separating couples away from family courts, says The Family Mediation Council (“the FMC”). A series of new measures proposed in a consultation this week by the Ministry of Justice aim to help […]
Press Release: Raising the profile of family mediation: over 1,600 people spell event success
Raising the profile of family mediation: over 1,600 people spell event success With a collective attendance of over 1,600 people, a series of webinars forming part of Family Mediation Week 2023 has been declared a success… with plans for 2024’s corresponding event already under way. Family Mediation Week, which has become a much-welcomed annual family […]
Standards, Guidance and Assurance for MIAMs
The FMC has now endorsed the suite of documents governing mediators’ conduct of Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) and we are today publishing them to all family mediators. They have been developed on behalf of the mediation profession by the FMSB through its MIAMs Working Group. The process of drafting and refinement has been […]
FMC Newsletter May 2022
May’s edition of the FMC Newsletter is now available here.
Family Mediation Week – Friday’s focus: conversations about financial matters
As part of Family Mediation Week we will be sharing a blog on each of our daily topics. These blogs are written by Louisa Whitney from LKW Family Mediation, an FMC Accredited and Child Inclusive Mediator and Professional Practice Consultant. We will also be busting a myth in each blog as there are many misconceptions around the […]
