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How do children have a voice in mediation
Children like to be informed and they appreciate having their views and opinions heard but not to be responsible for the overall decisions. Many children have practical suggestions to make.
This is often called Child inclusive mediation
We offer to see children of parents who are using the mediation service with parents’ permission. We see children for one or possibly two sessions, on the following basis.
We assure them that their views will be taken into account as far as possible.
We offer confidentiality to the child unless there is a safeguarding issue where thewy are at risk(but we find that most children wish some of their views to be fed back into the decision-making process);
We feed back to parents in a mediation session any issues that children wish to raise. This information can then form part of the picture when parents are deciding how best to make plans for everyone in the future. Children and young people value the opportunity to have a voice in the decision-making process.
For more information
- see this article
- watch this video to hear of Tom’s experience of being part of the mediation process
