Supported Contact
Supported Contact provides a safe environment for children to meet their non-resident parent.
Usually ordered by a Family Court Judge, Supported Contact is suitable for families where no significant risk to the child has been identified or a step down from Contact Supervision.
Supported Contact sessions tend to take place in Children’s Contact Centres or in the Community and parents won’t have to meet at all as handovers can be arranged.
We provide a neutral ground for positive contact to exist between children and their non-resident parent.
Supported Contact can help to keep children in touch with parents if communication is sparse or difficult following a divorce, separation or other difficulties. It can also be used if trust has been lost between a child and parent.
During each face-to-face Supported Contact session, our professional Contact Supervisors will provide low level supervision, no report will be provided.
How does Supported Contact work?
Our Team of Contact Supervisors and Independent Social Workers have more than 20 years of experience of working in Children’s Services in London and beyond.
In that time, we have worked alongside various Local Authorities, Private Clients and Public Clients.
All of our children’s services, including our Supported Contact service, are accredited by NACCC. To find out how we can help, get in touch or make a referral here.
FAQs
If agreed that you can Community Contact, this can be in most age – appropriate venue such as cinema, soft play, family home, restaurants.
A report being completed is dependent on your Court Order or what is agreed by both parties.
We can arrange that the supervisor manages handovers to ensure parents don’t have to meet should this be requested.