Clare Bowen is the Head of HR Services at JCP Solicitors and provides HR support to many of the firm’s clients. In this series of articles, Clare breaks down standard HR procedures into small and manageable bite sized pieces of information.

 When a couple separate and there are children involved, I am often contacted by the grandparents who have concerns over maintaining a relationship with their grandchildren. Their concerns often go unnoticed whilst the main focus is on the parents themselves and the time that the children will spend with each of them.

 The last couple of weeks have seen me in North Pembs getting round to meet as many clients as I can, especially following our link up with VJG Johns. The weather certainly helped and most of the farms were very busy as they look forward to another farming year with all the challenges that brings.

So today is apparently ‘Blue Monday’, labelled as the most depressing day of the year as a result of another equation created by some mad boffin combining different factors such as weather, debt and motivation.