Belper Child Contact Centre

About Us

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The Belper Child Contact Centre is based in the Amber Valley District in Derbyshire. We provide a meeting place for separated parents to meet with their children. We serve both the local and wider community.

The Centre is a safe, friendly and impartial place where children can meet with their parent (or other family members) with whom they no longer live with following their parents’ relationship breakdown.

Although there needs to be at least one parent with your child at all times while at the Contact Centre, volunteers can carry out handovers so you do not have to meet your ex-partner if you do not wish to.

Contact Centres may provide differing levels of support during contact. We offer ‘supported’ contact only, not ‘supervised’. This means that our volunteers are available for assistance but there is no close observation, monitoring or evaluation of individual contacts. Each family is provided with their own individual room with age appropriate toys.

Please note there is a £5 charge per session per family to help cover our running costs. The Centre is staffed entirely by volunteers.

Adult relationships can remain difficult after parents separate. Yet many children want, and need, to maintain a relationship with both parents and other relatives who are important to them.

Not all separated parents find it easy to achieve this. Trust may have broken down. Communications may have become difficult. If so, it may seem almost impossible to make arrangements for a child to spend quality time with the parent or relative they no longer live with.

This is where we can help

We won’t take sides. We simply aim to help you do what is in the best interests of your child.

Opening Times

Our Centre is open on alternate Saturdays throughout the year, from 10am to 12pm (See calendar page).  Times and frequency of your contact will be discussed at the pre-contact visit.  The details will be confirmed by the Contact Centre Coordinator.

We are accredited by the National Association of Contact Centres (NACCC).  There are over 300 centres within the national body in the UK.

Belper Child Contact Centre
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