{"id":46874,"date":"2014-08-28T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e8055873a211c9336b3aa145e9f196bd"},"modified":"2014-08-28T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:49:00","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-laa-publishes-headline-intentions-for-family-mediation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46874","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: headline intentions for family mediation contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We published a headline intentions document on 27 August 2014 which sets out our interim approach for family services. <\/p>\n<p>This follows the recommendations of the Family Mediation Taskforce. As a result we are now considering our long-term approach to tenders for family mediation services.<\/p>\n<p>The headline intentions document includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>extending existing mediation contracts by 12 months to 31 October 2016 <\/li>\n<li>inviting expressions of interest from existing providers for new outreach locations<\/li>\n<li>opening a tender process giving new organisations the chance to provide publicly funded family mediation services while the long-term tender approach is developed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the headline intentions document on the 2015 Mediation Tender page \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on this page for more information on the tender and expressions of interest processes when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/family-mediation-tender-2015\">Family mediation tender 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MoJ press release (summarises task force recommendations):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/more-free-mediation-sessions-for-separating-couples\">More free mediation sessions for separating couples<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim approach for family mediation services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46885,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874\/revisions\/46885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}