A Great Day of FNF Workshops - Even includes lunch!  Book Now

Location: Birmingham Voluntary Services Council 138 Digbeth, Birmingham B5 6DR

Date: Sunday 6th March 2016

A number of helpful and thought provoking workshops will make for an interesting and informative day.  There are four workshops in all and two of them will take place in the morning at the same time at 11, whilst the others will take place one after the other throughout the day.  If you purchase a ticket you can go to three workshops, but you'll need to decide which one of the two morning events you wish to go to when you book so we can manage the numbers.  Lunch is included for all those who have purchased tickets.  These will include:

Workshop 1: Karen Woodall: Parental Alienation  11:00 - 12:15
PA is where one of the parents, usually the one with control of the children, causes them to reject their other parent and/or other members of the family. With the increasing emphasis of the Courts and others on the 'wishes and feelings' of the children, it is becoming more important to understand, prevent and remedy this. Karen, from the Family Separation Clinic, is a leading specialist in PA, and (in a personal capacity) a prolific and influential blogger on family matters. Karen’s previous workshops for FNF have always been exceptionally well received.

Workshop 2: Emlyn Jones: Filling in a C100, and emergency applications  11:00 - 12:15
The C100 is the basic key form for making court applications about children. It covers 'Child Arrangement Orders' (where and with whom children should live and whom they should spend their time with), Specific Issues Orders, deciding particular questions in dispute, (for instance what school they should attend) and Prohibited Steps Orders, stating particular things that should not be done, (for instance, taken for a 'holiday' to a country where there are no provisions ensuring their return). Emlyn is founder and director of Family Court Help, a Social Enterprise dedicated to creating stable and functioning families after parental separation. His talk to the 2014 AGM was exceptionally well received. 

Workshop 3: John Baker: Forum on the Future of FNF  12:30 - 13:30
John is an academic and former Chair and Trustee of FNF and has been involved with FNF for many years. John has offered to run a workshop to engage members in further consultation on how we, as an inadequately resourced organisation that is heavily dependent on volunteers might best set priorities and work plans for the future so that we can be sustainable and develop and improve both our services and be a catalyst for change.

Lunch   13:30  (For Workshops ticket-holders only)

Workshop 4: Michael Robinson: Enforcement of Court Orders   15:00 - 16:30
Many court orders on family matters are not complied with. The extent, reasons and remedies are the subject of intense discussions, including meetings between FNF and the President of the Family Division of the High Court (the boss of the family courts). A further meeting between FNF and Sir James Munby (The President) is scheduled before the AGM. That meeting will focus primarily on the paper Michael wrote for FNF. He will look at existing remedies and what needs to be done. His website - the Custody Minefield - in an invaluable source of information, help and ideas for everyone involved in the issue of divided families. Attendees at his workshop at the 2014 AGM found it exceptionally good.

Further information and ticket purchases are available below.
The first 50 Workshops tickets are half price at £18!
Details of this event and tickets for Workshops are open to the public - so book now!

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Please note: Our AGM will also take place on this day at 2pm for members only (log in and see Members' Area if you are already a member) Tickets to the AGM part of the day at 2pm are free to members. However if you are not purchasing tickets for workshops, lunch is not included with the free AGM tickets.  Tickets for attending the workshops do include lunch. The first 50 workshop tickets will be charged at £18 for the whole day and £36 once the first 50 have been sold This will help pay for the venue, lunch and refreshments which will be available throughout the day to workshop ticket-holders. We have to charge these fees as in view of our current much reduced revenues, we can’t be as generous as we’d like.  We apologise for this and look forward to better days – with your help.