Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMS)
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Tips I'm not immune to reading or even providing tips. But, if like me, you listen to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, you'll know that despite the many years their racing correspondent has been providing them, they are rarely winners. Tips are shorthand for "Listen to...

Mediators' excuses I know there are lots of mediators at the moment who are really worried about mediating online over webcams. "It isn't mediation", It's not what I signed up to do", "I'm useless with technology", "I'm worried about what might happen" and "I'm too...

Skype and Teams are not suitable for mediation Picture this. Your clients are due to arrive at for their mediation session with you. Because you haven't got a waiting room, the first to arrive sits with you. To pass the time, you chat amiably about the weather or...

I didn’t give much support to the initiative this October by an independent group of mediators to promote Mediation Awareness Week. I didn't suppotrt November's Good Divorce Week run by Resolution, either. And in January, the Family Mediators Association will be...

Accreditation Is your family mediator accredited status application deadline approaching? Do you know your date for applying? The FMC (Family Mediation Council) Professional Standards and Self-Regulatory Framework is clear. The standards apply to all family mediators....

FMC document standard for an unaccredited mediator The FMC standard at 2.1(c) is clear. An unaccredited mediator - that is those who do not have FMCA status - must have any mediation outcome documentation approved by their PPC before being sent to their clients. This...

It was a consultee of mine who first alerted me to the news in September 2016. The Law Society had started notifying their accredited mediators that the reaccreditation process was up and running. The FMC standards require all accredited mediators  to reaccredit every...

The FMC standards state that (family) mediators must "have at least one mediation session observation by their PPC ... within two years of completing initial training. The same standards require mediators to gain accreditation within three years of completing initial...

The FMC has recently published a revised code of practice. Every family mediator should read it and make any appropriate adjustments to their practice. Changes to code The main changes to the code include those to conflicts of interests (5.1), online mediation (6.1),...

I can confirm that the Family Mediation Council board has approved a raft of updating amendments to its code of practice. These include a clarification that MIAM and mediation meetings may take place via online video. This has long been the subject of uncertainty....