# Inverclyde Family Contact Centre SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC052391
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** March 9, 2023
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC052391


## Contact

- **Address:** 6 Jamaica Street, Greenock, Renfrewshire
- **Postcode:** PA15 1XU
- **Website:** inverclydefamilycontact.com



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We are there for the children of estranged parents to encourage contact between the child and both parents. We achieve this by providing a safe environment for the child to be dropped off to meet one or other parent. They can interact through play, reading and discussion and we have staff and volunteers to encourage these things and to be on hand if there are any difficulties. We also provide a hand over service where the child is handed to one or other parent and can then be taken out of the centre but to return within a specific time frame.

**Objectives:** The relief of distress among children who do not live with both their birth father and birth mother where the families are affected by difficulties and/or disputes over child contact and in furtherance thereof. (a) To facilitate where possible the building and maintenance of healthy relationships between the children and their parents, grandparents or significant others (b) To maintain one or more supervised venues for children to have contact with their separated parents, grandparents or significant others in a safe, neutral and child-centred environment (Family Contact Centre/s) (c) Recognising that the children&#x27;s contact period is a stressful time for the adults involved, to give emotional support both to those having contact with the children and to those with whom the children reside (d) To encourage the provision and use of family mediation, and discourage by better education, the use of child contact as a bargaining counter in family disputes





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Inverclyde
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






