Venue details
Address (not for correspondence):
9 Museum Street,
Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 1JA
Opening hours
Days & Times: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm every week Saturdays 9am-4pm on a fortnightly basis
Centre charges
Services available here
Supported family time
Supervised family time
Handover
Indirect
Accepts self referrals
Enhanced Accredited
Not For Profit
To make a referral,
contact:
Address: 9 Museum Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 1JA
Telephone: 01925 635448
Email: contact@sjfc.org.uk
Contact
Website: www.saintjosephsfamilycentre.co.uk
Telephone: 01925 635448
Email: contact@sjfc.org.uk
Notes from this centre
The Centre does not accept referrals where there are convictions for sexual offences involving children by either party or other offences which have posed a significant risk of harm towards others. Other offences will be risk assessed on a case-by-case basis (updated 7.3.22)
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: 30/09/2024
Summary:
St Joseph’s Family Centre, Warrington is a well-established voluntary sector organisation offering children’s and adult’s counselling services on behalf of the NHS, an emergency fund including food bank for families in need, and an accredited child contact service. The centre is based in Museum Street, a short walk from the town centre, with car parking, bus routes and train stations all within the vicinity.
The building is a four storey Victorian house which boasts a variety of rooms to meet service user needs. The building is going through a period of repairs to the outside and some internal decoration but offers children and adults a welcome and homely space. The building itself is bright and welcoming and the contact rooms have a range of activities and toys to meet a range of ages.
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.
Overall my assessment is that the centre is well run, has a good, dedicated staff team, and families benefit from their services. Any recommended actions following the visit are now complete meaning the service meets the standards for enhanced (supervised) contact accreditation.
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