Venue details not disclosed
Opening hours
Days & Times: Monday to Friday 09.00 - 18.30 Saturday and Sunday 09.00 - 17.00
Centre charges
Services available here
Supported family time
Supervised family time
Handover
Indirect
Escorted family time
Life story identity family time
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Virtual family time (Supported)
Virtual family time (Supervised)
To make a referral,
contact:
Address: 5 Hatch Lane, Chingford, London, E4 6LP
Telephone: 07801 566459
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: 24/07/2025
Summary:
Precious Child Contact Services Ltd is an established service operating in Hornsey with an additional centre in Chingford. Their building in Hornsey is residential flats, with the centre making use of a ground floor flat that has been changed to business use. Hornsey overground train station and Turnpike Lane underground station are both approximately a 10-minutes’ walk away. The nearest bus top (Wightman Road) is two-minutes’ walk away. The centre does not have on-site parking during the week; however, nearby street parking is available.
The centre has a homely feel with lots of natural light, and spacious, child-friendly family time rooms. Toys that were displayed during the visit were appropriate to different age groups of children attending. There is a well-equipped kitchen which parents can use to prepare meals or bake with their children.
The service has a good website with plenty of information about their services and costs associated with contact. The service ensures that parents and children are well prepared to access their services, making use of welcome packs to ensure that all are aware of the processes in place to manage and support families. To begin with pre-meetings will occur virtually, allowing for a quicker turnaround and minimum impact on parents, with mandatory pre-visits for children occurring ahead of sessions taking place.
Staff were observed to be friendly and approachable with the team working well with the assessor during the accreditation. The centre meets the standards for enhanced (supervised) family time accreditation.
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