Venue details
Address (not for correspondence):
Brockworth Community Centre, Court Road,
Brockworth, Gloucestershire, GL3 4ET
Services available here
Supported family time
Supervised family time
Handover
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Virtual family time (Supported)
Virtual family time (Supervised)
Not For Profit
This centre is accredited to provide supervised contact
Accreditation is a way of checking that your contact centre is safe and meets our standards.
How is a centre checked?
An assessorSomeone working on our behalf who has experience and an interest in child contact services and must assess if a service meets our standards. looks round the centre’s rooms, toys, equipment, and any outside play areas to make sure that they are safe and good for you to use. They talk with the people at the centre to make sure that they are trained and helped to do their job as well as possible. They then check the informationThe assessor checks through the centre’s accreditation portfolio which includes policies, procedures, risk assessments, reports (if the service offers supervised contact) and information for families. on what happens at the centre and how it keeps you safe. If your family time happens in the community The service might use local community venues to deliver their service or in some cases, residential properties including family members’ homes, where this is safe and appropriate., then the assessor will check that this is going to be safe for you.
When the assessor is happy that a centre meets our standards then they are awarded their accreditation and you can find them on this website. Accreditation happens every three years with extra checks if needed.
Accreditation Summary
Date: 07/10/2024
Summary:
Bubba’s Contact Centre is run by Walk the Walk CIC, which already has a centre in Hertfordshire. Their Gloucester centre is a new site and is based at a lively community centre in Brockworth (a village on the outskirts of Gloucester) with multiple different services using the building at any given time. The organisation is well established with experience of providing contact services and family support. The village has bus links with trains running from Gloucester. Parking is available at the centre.
The buildings and rooms being used for contact were observed to be clean, tidy, and well maintained on the day of the accreditation visit meaning that this is likely to be a comfortable location for people to be spending time together.
The centre has a detailed, bright, and inviting website and leaflets with a range of information included on these for the children and families that may use the centre. This information helps them to anticipate everything from making a referral to the appropriate steps to take if they are unhappy or feel unsafe.
The staff are competent and experienced which should help and ease many of the anxieties that people might have on their first day at the setting.
This has the potential to be a good service that is offered by an organisation with a strong reputation for providing good quality service. Any recommended actions following the visit are now complete meaning the service meets the standards for enhanced (supervised) contact accreditation.
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