What Is The HATCAT?
The HATCAT (How Are The Children? Assessment Tool) is an evidence based tool to guide conversations between a parent and a professional in a non-confrontational way. It will help identify how a child is doing and signpost parents for further support through our “7 principles for Happy Children, Happy Families" booklet.
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This new project was soft launched at our recent 'Children, Children, Children' Conference earlier this year. We have been busy developing this new tool over the last few months and will launch in 2026.
The Pilot
The pilot has two parts:
​​1. Reviewing the '7 Principles For Happy Children, Happy Families' resource booklet.
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2. Sharing a simple online questionnaire with half a dozen clients and then having a conversation about how they found doing it and discussing aspects of their child's experience of divorce / separation that might be causing them time to pause and reflect.
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We provide a Guidance Pack for all volunteers. We have made involvement in the pilot as simple as possible so that it takes up very little of your valuable time.
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If you are interested in taking part please email bob@onlydads.org. We would like all feedback submitted by Friday December 19th.
Advisory Group
We are very lucky to have a group of advisors whom brains we can also pick as we develop this project.
Helen Adam
Family Mediator
Carlie Norris
Family Mediator
Adele Ballentyne
Therapist
David Chaplin
Bath Publishing
James Pirrie
FLiP
Rosa Scholfield
International Family Law Group
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