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Our data and methodology

This page explains the figures we use across this site, where they come from, the sample sizes behind them, and what each one counts. Our own figures are drawn from the case management records of Mediate UK, our sister mediation service. National figures are taken from published sources and linked below.

Last reviewed · 15 June 2026 · Jess Knauf, Director of Client Strategy

Our own figures (Mediate UK)

MIAM UK and Mediate UK are both brands of Family Legal Ltd. The client-outcome figures shown on this site come from Mediate UK’s mediation practice, recorded in its case management system (CRM) over the 2025 calendar year, 1 January to 31 December 2025.

Figure	Basis	How it is calculated
90% reached agreement	1,314 of 1,460 cases	Of 1,460 mediation cases in 2025, 1,314 reached full or partial agreement on the issues raised. 1,314 ÷ 1,460 = 90.0%.
84% went on to joint mediation	1,748 of 2,088 MIAMs	Of 2,088 MIAMs in 2025 where both participants attended their own MIAM, 1,748 went on to joint mediation sessions. 1,748 ÷ 2,088 = 83.7%.

Definitions

A “case”	A mediation matter opened in the CRM where joint mediation took place.
“Full or partial agreement”	The mediator recorded that the participants reached agreement on all, or some, of the issues they raised.
“Both participants attended”	Both people attended their own, separate MIAM. MIAMs where only one person attended are excluded from the 2,088.
“Went on to joint mediation”	The case proceeded to at least one joint mediation session after the MIAM stage.

Source: Mediate UK CRM figures, 2025. These are Mediate UK’s own private-client outcomes and are not a national average. Last updated 15 June 2026.

National figures

Where we quote national figures, they come from published, independent sources:

Figure	Source
69% of family mediations reach agreement and divert from court	Family Mediation Council, The State of Family Mediation 2025, which adopts the figure from the Ministry of Justice Family Mediation Voucher Scheme Analysis, 2023. Defined as families who reached agreement on some or all issues and did not go to court, or went only for a consent order.
37% rise in legally aided family mediation starts in a year	Family Mediation Council, The State of Family Mediation 2025 (2024/25 against the previous year, drawing on the Legal Aid Statistics Quarterly).

A note on legal aid grant rates: the official Legal Aid Statistics Quarterly do not publish a figure for the proportion of family mediation legal aid applications granted, so we do not quote one. The bulletin reports £5.4m of payments for mediation across April to December 2025, up from £4.8m the year before, which we take as an indication of the scale of publicly funded mediation rather than an outcome rate.

Sources

Reviewed by Jess Knauf, Director of Client Strategy, Mediate UK. MIAM UK is a trading name of Family Legal Ltd. Last reviewed 15 June 2026.