Parenting plans

Useful booklets / guides are available from CAFCASS www.cafcass.gov.uk, your mediator, the courts and solicitors.

A parenting plan can help you put together an agreed outline of what you both want for your children.

Areas to consider are:-

• Living arrangements;
• Contact arrangements – and communicating changes in arrangements;
• Contact with siblings, extended family, step-siblings and significant others;
• Health and medical care – immunisations, sex education, intimate relationships and medication;
• Education, discipline and reward;
• Social development – activities, clubs, societies, friendship and kinship networks;
• Cultural considerations – faith, celebrations, traditions and rites of passage;
• The future – new homes, travel arrangements, holidays and name changes;
• Finance – pocket money, mobile phone, investment accounts;
• What is not agreed;
• What can never be acceptable.