Our aim is to secure changes in the legislation, operation of courts and associated family support services as following:

1.  Ensure that full involvement of both parents both before and after separation is considered as an essential factor when considering the best interests of children.
2. Equal care after separation should be the default position if a case comes to court, rebuttable if necessary after consideration of evidence.
3. Courts should make interim contact orders as quickly as possible if contact has been stopped by either parent.  If necessary this contact can be in a supervised contact centre, but a scheme for progression to unsupervised contact should always be prepared at the outset.
4. All fathers should have parental rights and responsibilities and this change should be retrospective, unless due cause is shown.
5. Family court processes should all be conducted on an inquisitorial basis, with the same judge or sheriff handling the case wherever possible and with case management to ensure that cases make progress.  Online processes should be made available to raise contact cases in court and also for registration of parenting agreements.
6. Court orders for contact should be enforced quickly and firmly.
7. Parents wishing to move with children after separation further than 25 miles from the residence of the other parent should obtain agreement from the other parent or from the court
8. Mediation services should be funded through legal aid to ensure that they are available quickly and easily.  Participation in some aspect of mediation should be compulsory, with shuttle mediation available for parents who do not wish to be in the same place.
9. Procedures for determining jurisdiction in child contact cases between UK courts and for enforcement of court contact orders between UK countries should be made clearer and simpler to avoid excessive cost and delay.