Bude New Life Centre Family Contact Centre offers a pleasent lounge/play area and kitchen/diner to enable children to develop and maintain positive relationships with non-resident parents and other family members. Our Family Contact Centre is suitable for families when no significant risk to the child or those around the child has been identified.

Please note our family Contact Centre offers supported contact only

The basic elements of supported contact are:

• Impartiality
  
• Staff and voulenteers are avaliable for assistance but there is no close obervation, montoring or evaluation of individual contacts/conversations.
  
• The family have sole use of the Family Contact Centre
  
• Apart from attendance dates and times, no detailed report will be made to a referrer, CAFCASS, a party's soliciter or Court, unless there is a risk of harm to the child, parent or centre volunteer.

Bude New Life Centre holds associate membership with The National

The Family Contact Centre is a unique facility offering a kitchen-diner and lounge in which the parents of estranged families can meet in a supervised or unsupervised contact with their children.

Family break-up is, sadly, a common part of modern society but this facility offers a home from home environment in which family values, contact and relationships can be maintained even in the midst of difficult circumstances.

The Family Contact Centre can be booked by ringing Bude New Life Centre Reception 01288 359714. Supported contact can now be arranged by booking.