Contact Activity Provisions
Parenting Information
Programme to Tender
The final provisions of the Children and Adoption Act
2006 came into force on 8 December 2008.
This provided courts with new powers to promote and monitor
contact, and enforce contact orders made under section 8 of the
Children Act 1989.
Contact Activities (section 11 Children Act
1989).
External providers commissioned by the LSC (in
the cases of mediation information) or the DCSF (in the case of
parenting information and domestic violence programmes) deliver
all Contact Activity services. The process of
making contact activity directions or conditions ordering
participation in these activities needs to follow the processes
established by the legislation and rules of court, including court
consideration of the availability of the activity and the
suitability of the prospective participants.
The programmes available for court
directed/ordered contact activities are below:
- Mediation Information / Assessment
Meeting
- Parenting Information Programmes
- Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes
You can find out more about the above programmes by reading our
leaflet, 'Staying
in Contact.' Click on the image to download.
Individuals who are publicly funded will not have to pay and
will be fully subsidised by the DCSF. Those individuals who
are not publicly funded will have to pay unless they can claim
financial hardship.
Click here for the DCSF Contact Activity
Briefing.
Click here for a list of Frequently Asked Questions for Contact
Providers.
Click here for
Parenting Programme Claim Form
Click
here for Hardship Application Form for Financial
Support
Click here for the Parenting
Programme Referral Process Flow Chart
Click here for the Respect Guidance on the use of DV Risk
Assessments and the use of (Contact Activity) DV Perpetrator
Programmes
Contact Activity Providers
Click here to view our
interactive map showing Contact Activity Providers across the
country.
Click
here to view the list of DCSF approved Contact
Activity Providers.