Family Mediation Council publishes standards, guidance and assurance processes for MIAMs

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The Family Mediation Council has published standards, guidance and assurance processes governing mediators’ conduct of mediation information and assessment meetings (MIAMs), which have been developed on behalf of the mediation profession by the Family Mediation Standards Board (FMSB) through its MIAMs working group. The documents codify core principles and best practice that are generally agreed throughout the profession into a rigorous and consistent format that is a model for the FMSB’s continuing development of professional standards. FMC recognises that mediators will need time to absorb the contents of the documents and consider any implications there may be for their own practice and has set a transitional period of two months before the Standards become formally effective on 1 October 2022. During this period the FMSB will put on webinars, which will be arranged to follow the summer holidays, with members of the working group for mediators to seek clarification, raise questions and make comments.