Oliver Cyriax, of New Approaches to Contact, said the plans, unveiled last week as part of the Government's response to its green paper on parental separation, failed to address the most important issue in disputes - the amount of contact time each parent gets with their children.
Under the proposals for the UK's Early Interventions project, submitted to the Government in October 2003, parents would have received guidance before a case on how much contact there would be, with the aim that they wouldn't go through a lengthy court battle if they knew the likely result.
Guidance would be based on parenting plans setting out the norms of contact.
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