Our Child Contact Centre is based at Birmingham Salvation Army Church on alternate Saturdays from 10am to 12 noon.
Please note that our Child Contact Centre offers supported contact only. Supported contact takes place in a variety of neutral community venues where there are facilities to enable children to develop and maintain positive relationships with non-resident parents and other family members. Supported Child Contact Centres are suitable for families when no significant risk to the child or those around the child has been identified.
The basic elements of supported contact are:
• Impartiality
• Volunteers are available for assistance, but there is no close observation, monitoring or evaluation of individual contacts or conversations
• Several families are usually together in one room
• Encouragement for families to develop mutual trust and consider more satisfactory family venues
• Apart from attendance dates and times, no detailed report will be made to a referrer, CAFCASS, a party’s solicitor or Court, unless there is a risk of harm to the child, parent or Centre worker
• An acknowledgement that it is to be viewed as a temporary arrangement which will be reviewed after an agreed period of time
Birmingham Salvation Army Child Contact Centre is an accredited Member of the National Association of Child Contact Centres (member number 345-2) and operates in accordance with its National Standards for Child Contact Centres. We have working policies on the following:
All these policies are available to view at the Centre or by clicking the links above .
Anyone wishing to contact the Coordinator may do so on 07717335699 or by email Graham.Andrews@salvationarmy.org.uk
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