Child Inclusive Mediation Awareness and Understanding day

The Child Inclusive Mediation Awareness and Understanding Day is for all newly trained family mediators and family mediators considering undertaking the three-day CIM training. The course will be delivered by experienced FMCA mediators with over 30 years’ experience in CIM.

The Family Mediation Council Standards require that all mediators integrate elements of CIM into their regular practice and are able to discuss with parents, in the assessment meeting and throughout mediation the ways in which ‘the voice of the child’ may be heard.

CIM is one of the ways that provides opportunities for children and young people to have their voice heard directly during the process of mediation. Mediators should explain to parents/carers that children and young people aged 10 and above should be offered the opportunity to have a conversation with a professionally qualified mediator or child consultant in which they are invited to give their perspective in order that parents may take account of those perspective in any decisions and arrangements that are being made for the child.

Attending the course will:

Give you experience and understanding of how CIM works in practice

How to approach CIM with parents

The benefits and suitability of CIM

Safeguarding, in person and face to face

Understanding confidentiality in relation to child consultation

Consider Agreements to Mediate, permissions from parents and carers and letters to children

The day will be interactive, include role play and discussion.