Venue details
Address (not for correspondence):
Heath Farm Family Centre, 41 Stone Street,
Faversham, Kent, ME13 8PH
Opening hours
Days & Times: Monday to Saturday 9am to 4pm Sunday 9am to 4pm
Centre charges
Services available here
Supported family time
Supervised family time
Escorted family time
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Virtual family time (Supported)
Virtual family time (Supervised)
Contact
Website: www.heathfarmfostering.com
Telephone: 07901 248376
Email: contactroom@heathfarm.org
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: 20/01/2025
Summary:
Heath Farm Fostering is a fostering agency which runs an established contact service based in Faversham. The centre has onsite carparking with good links with public transport.
The premises are well maintained, clean and child friendly with a good mixture of toys without being cluttered or overwhelming. The rooms are on the ground floor with access to a private garden.
The centre has a website and literature with a range of information included 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 Manager is passionate about the work they do and is open to ideas and change to support families as best they can. The staff team are experienced in contact, social work and therapy. The centre meets the standards for enhanced (supervised) contact accreditation.
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