Best Practice in Supporting Separated Families Conference
Anthony Douglas CBE, Cafcass Chief Executive, is
speaking today at a conference entitled ‘Best
Practice in Supporting Separated Families’ which is being held in
London with contributions from the new Child Maintenance
Commissioner Stephen Geraghty and the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith
MP.
Anthony Douglas said, “Family life in the UK is in transition:
between relationships, between countries - in fact transition is
the new norm. Services like therapeutic mediation, child
counselling, family group conferencing and parenting information
classes, can help parents and children to move on together - rather
than parents moving on and children being left emotionally
stranded. Contact is not the booby prize to be handed out at the
courtroom door in a War of the Roses battle. Good contact
relationships are as important to children as their residence
relationship.”
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For more information about the conference visit the
Putting Children First
website.