Venue details
Address (not for correspondence):
NUM Buildings (unit 5), Maritime Buildings, Woodland Terrace, Maesycoed,
Pontypridd, South Wales, CF37 1DZ
Opening hours
Days & Times: Monday 9am to 7pm, Friday 9am to 7pm and Saturday 9am to 4pm. Supported contact is offered between 9am-10am or 10am-11am, fortnightly on Saturdays only.
Centre charges
Court ordered supervised contact (with a report after each session) is charged at £40 per hour
Services available here
Supported contact
Supervised contact
Handover
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Virtual Contact (Supported)
Virtual Contact (Supervised)
To make a referral,
contact:
Telephone: 07828 625764
Alternative: 07828 625764
Email: pontypriddcentre@gmail.com
Contact
Website: www.pontypriddchildrenscontactcentre.co.uk
Telephone: 07828 625764
Alternative: 07828 625764
Email: pontypriddcentre@gmail.com
Description
Pontypridd Children's Contact Centre is an enhanced accredited Child Contact Centre with the NACCC, The Centre offers both supervised and supported contact sessions, as well as, handover facilities, in-direct contact and community based sessions.
Notes from this centre
COVID-19 UPDATE: Centre is open for contact (updated 2.3.21) Telephone enquiries can be made throughout the week
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: 10/10/2021
Summary:
Pontypridd Children’s Contact Centre is a registered charity and a company providing supported and supervised contact. It is a ‘not for profit’ business and all money goes back into the charity which supports the local community where there are high levels of unemployment due to the closure of the coal mines. The centre is a 2-minute walk from the local train station where there is a train service to Cardiff, every 20 minutes. The centre is a 7-minute walk to the town centre where there is a good bus route. The centre has access to the building all week and works with families both in the local area and from all over South Wales and across England. Pontypridd Contact Centre does not accept self-referrals for supervised contact, only accepting court ordered or Cafcass and local authority referrals. Supported contact is limited to 12 sessions.
At the time of the report the centre had recently moved into new premises. The building is described as safe, child friendly, meeting regulations and is part of a complex of other buildings. There are five contact rooms, (including a room for older children with a sofa in it to give it a lounge feel) an office and free parking is available. Toilets are well maintained, there are toilets with disabled access as well as baby changing facilities available. There are also two separate entrances, and a big garden outside. The garden area is currently not fenced off so is not used at present, but they plan to make this safe and useable in the near future.
The centre does not transport families to the centre and at the time of the report was not offering escorted contact. This is something they are looking to offer at some point with the relevant policies and procedures in place. The centre will not look to transport children in their own cars at any point and will rely on public transport for any escorted contacts. The centre offers staggered arrivals and departure times for families with separate entrances and exits used if needed. On the day of the contact session the non-resident parent can ring the centre to ensure that the other parent has arrived.
Children are invited for a pre visit to the centre, so they can familiarise themselves with the environment and the place they will be coming. During Covid lockdown, most of the pre visit information gathering was done over the phone. However, children were allowed to attend for a pre visit and look around the centre where Covid guidelines allowed. The centre provides age-appropriate toys and has rooms designed for specific ages of children. Where there are mixed ages of children within a family, toys can be moved from room to room to help children have toys they want to play with. Parents can also bring their own activities to do with their children if they would like to. There is a children’s feedback form in place which helps the centre review their provision and services for children.
The co-ordinator manages the team of contact supervisors and voluntary staff and is extremely committed to making Pontypridd Children’s Contact Centre a professional run service working for the needs for the children and parents that use the service. The team of trustees is extremely committed to helping the centre run effectively and is led well by the chair who seems extremely knowledgeable and supportive of the staff team. The service meets the requirements for enhanced (supervised) accreditation.
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