A co-parenting app for parents in Newcastle upon Tyne

Handovers in Newcastle upon Tyne

Metro links make handovers manageable across Tyneside, and many families keep midweek contact rather than a clean week-on/week-off swap.

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

Newcastle City Council publishes its term dates; academies and schools across Gateshead and North Tyneside set their own.

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

Family law here is the law of England and Wales, so the arrangement most parents end up talking about is a child arrangements order. Most parents never need one — a written plan you both follow does the same job day to day.

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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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.