Across the UK
Co-parenting where you live
The same shared calendar, written for the place you are actually doing handovers. Each page covers what tends to make two homes work in that city, how school terms are set locally, and where a child arrangement order fits in. Nothing here is legal advice.
Co-parenting in London
Greater London
Two homes in London can be forty minutes apart on paper and an hour and a half in the rain. Handovers tend to be built around a station or the school gate rather than a doorstep, and a fifteen-minute delay is normal rather than a slight.
Co-parenting in Birmingham
West Midlands
Birmingham households are often a short drive apart but on opposite sides of heavy ring-road traffic, so handover times that work at 10am fall apart at 5pm.
Co-parenting in Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester spreads across ten boroughs, so "nearby" can still mean a tram change and a school run in the wrong direction. Most parents settle on a fixed handover place rather than a fixed doorstep.
Co-parenting in Leeds
West Yorkshire
Leeds handovers often work well around the school day, but commuting into the centre and back out again can make weekday evenings tight — worth writing the times down rather than assuming them.
Co-parenting in Liverpool
Merseyside
Many Merseyside families live close enough for midweek nights to work, which makes patterns like 2-2-3 realistic — as long as both homes agree who does the morning drop-off.
Co-parenting in Sheffield
South Yorkshire
Sheffield's hills and bus routes make a ten-minute distance feel longer in winter. Parents here often prefer school-gate handovers to doorstep ones.
Co-parenting in Bristol
South West England
Crossing Bristol at rush hour is the thing that breaks handover times, so a fixed window — say 5.30pm to 6pm — tends to hold better than a fixed minute.
Co-parenting in Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
Metro links make handovers manageable across Tyneside, and many families keep midweek contact rather than a clean week-on/week-off swap.
Co-parenting in Nottingham
East Midlands
Nottingham families are often split between the city and the surrounding county, which makes the drive, not the pattern, the thing to agree on first.
Co-parenting in Cardiff
Wales
Cardiff handovers usually work around the school day and the valleys commute, so parents tend to write down who covers an unexpected late finish.
Co-parenting in Glasgow
Scotland
Glasgow households are often close together, so midweek overnights are realistic — the thing to pin down is who does the morning after.
Co-parenting in Edinburgh
Scotland
Edinburgh handovers are usually short but can be slowed by events and festival traffic in August, which is worth planning around rather than arguing about.
Co-parenting in Belfast
Northern Ireland
Belfast distances are short, so many families keep frequent contact rather than long blocks — which makes a shared calendar more useful, not less.
Try it in a real shared calendar
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