A co-parenting app for parents in Glasgow

Handovers in Glasgow

Glasgow households are often close together, so midweek overnights are realistic — the thing to pin down is who does the morning after.

Our handover checklist covers the detail worth agreeing once: where, what time, who waits, and what happens when a train or the ring road makes someone late.

School terms and holidays

Scottish school holidays are set by each council and differ from England: the summer break starts earlier and the October week is fixed locally.

Put both schools’ dates in one calendar, then split the holidays with the holiday split planner so each break is settled weeks ahead rather than the night before.

Where a child arrangement order fits in

Scotland has its own family law. What parents elsewhere call a child arrangements order is, in Scotland, an order under section 11 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. The everyday planning is the same; the court route is not.

Our guide to child arrangement orders in the UK walks through mediation and the MIAM, applying on form C100, what the court weighs up, and how to run the schedule once one exists. If you already have an order, the calendar is simply where you keep it working week to week. None of this is legal advice — for that, speak to a solicitor or a mediator.

Choosing a pattern that survives a real week

Most families in Glasgow start from one of a handful of patterns and adjust it around work and school: week-on/week-off, 2-2-3 or one of the 50/50 options. If shifts are part of your week, the shift-worker page is the better starting point.

Ask other parents in Glasgow and across the UK

A quiet forum where parents ask questions and share what worked across their two households — schedules, handovers, school and shared costs. Anyone can read it. To post, start your free trial; you can do so anonymously, and nothing from your family calendar is ever shared. It is not legal advice.