Venue details
Address (not for correspondence):
Boulton Lane Park Community Centre, Boulton Lane,
Derby, Derby, DE24 0BD
Opening hours
Days & Times: Saturdays 10.30am - 4pm
Centre charges
https://www.childrenslinks.org.uk/child-contact-centres
Services available here
Supported family time
Supervised family time
Handover
Indirect
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Virtual family time (Supported)
Virtual family time (Supervised)
Not For Profit
To make a referral,
contact:
Telephone: 07554 450476
Alternative: 07301 270167
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: 28/08/2025
Summary:
This was an ‘Outreach’ service assessment which is linked to the accreditation of another service, and is therefore linked in terms of policy, procedure, forms, and templates. The purpose of this assessment was to ensure that the venue was appropriate for its purpose.
Children’s Links is a well-known provider with a number of accredited services in the East Midlands region of England. Children’s Links is a UK-based charity that provides a wide range of services to support children, young people, and families. The service has opened at Boulton Lane Community Centre, Derby following a need in the area. The centre has onsite parking and is close to public transport links.
The service will be using rooms for family time which will be appropriately adapted with child-friendly furniture, toys and decoration. The building has ample outdoor space which would be shared with the local community, but families can use when this has been risk assessed as safe.
Operationally, many of the referral and human resources processes are managed centrally by Children’s Links. This centralised approach provides consistency and efficiency, and the organisation has confirmed that these systems will remain in place for the new service. The centre meets the requirements for the Outreach assessment.
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