Children's Voices, Family Disputes and Child-Inclusive Mediation

The Right to Be Heard
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2891-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

ePDF and ePUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Recent legislative changes in England and Wales have eroded children’s ability to exercise their article 12 UNCRC rights to information, consultation and representation when parents separate. However, children’s voices may be heard through child-inclusive mediation (CIM).
Considered from a children’s rights perspective, this book provides a critical socio-legal account of CIM practice. It draws on in-depth interviews with relationship professionals, mediators, parents and children, to consider the experiences, risks and benefits of CIM. It investigates obstacles to greater uptake of CIM and its role in improving children’s wellbeing and agency.
Exploring the culture and practice changes necessary for a more routine application of CIM, the book demonstrates how reconceptualising CIM through a children’s rights framework could help to address barriers and improve outcomes for children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barlow, Anne

Ewing, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht Sorgerecht, fam. Namensrecht, Abstammung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Children’s Right to be Heard? Points of View from Relationship Professionals and Children
3. Entering Child- Inclusive Mediation: Barriers to Uptake
4. Experiences of Child- Inclusive Mediation
5. Outcomes of Child- Inclusive Mediation
6. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Ewing, Jan
Jan Ewing is a Research Follow at the University of Exeter. Jan's research has focused on children’s rights, particularly in the exercise of those rights when parents settle out of court following separation. She a member of the Family Solutions Group which works to promote a holistic, supportive and humane response to parental separation with safety and children's voices at the centre of decision-making. She was a Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded Mapping Path to Family Justice’ project and the Wellcome Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health-funded ‘HeaRT’ project.

Barlow, Anne
Anne Barlow is Professor of Family Law and Policy at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has published widely in the field of family law and has a particular research interest in the regulation of adult relationships and in the family justice system. She has directed a number of socio-legal research projects on family and property issues including on cohabitation law reform and pre-nuptial agreements, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. She led the ESRC-funded Mapping Paths to Family Justice project. Most recently, she led the Wellcome Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health-funded ‘HeaRT’ project which explored the risks and benefits of child-inclusive mediation on which this book is based.

Anne Barlow is Professor of Family Law and Policy at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Jan Ewing is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.