Child Contact Services

that work better for children

Providing safe spaces where children can meet the parents they don’t live with.

Child Contact Services

that work better for children

Providing safe spaces where children can meet
the parents they don’t live with.

St. John & St. Stephen’s, Reading

Child Contact Centre

St. John & St. Steven’s, Reading
Child Contact Centre

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Parenting shouldn’t end
when relationships do.

More than a million children have no contact whatsoever with one of their parents after separation. Unfortunately, some children experience behavioural issues including antisocial behaviour, distress, unhappiness, and both physical and emotional problems.

NACCC is the only charity in the UK dedicated to solving this problem by providing safe spaces where children can meet the parents they don’t live with. We oversee around 350 contact centres across the UK, run by a network of nearly 4,000 volunteers.

St John & St Stephen’s Contact Centre, in East Reading, provides the facility for a Contact Centre, serving the local and wider community.  The Centre is a safe, friendly and impartial place where children can meet with their parent (or other family members) with whom they no longer live with following their parents’ relationship breakdown.
We are open on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. This Centre offers supported contact and provides toys and games that help children affected by family breakdown to enjoy and benefit from the contact time.

Feedback from some of our families

“I am now having visitation outside of the contact centre, so very pleased. Many thanks for everything.”

D.

Visiting Parent

“Good evening, Ian

We would like to thank you for the great help in facilitating the contact and for the support rendered when it was needed the most. Please pass our gratitude to the rest of the team that work so hard to help in time of need. Thank you kindly for everything.”

C.

Visiting Parent

“Hi, Ian and everyone,

Thank you for allowing us to use the centre over the past few months. I really appreciate your help and all you have done for us ,when we needed someone most, you were all there.”

Best Wishes

J & S

Visiting Parent

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What is the self
referral process?

Find out how to set up contact for
your child >

 

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Testimonials

Find out about the support
from our centre >

 

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Interested in
volunteering?

Find out how you can help
run the centre >

 

Latest News from St. John and St. Stephen’s Child Contact Centre

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Accepting Referrals

Accepting Referrals

​We can currently offer new places with a lead time of just a few weeks. Before you begin using our Child Contact Centre we ask that you come for a short visit, so that you and your child(ren) are familiar with our surroundings and the way we operate. Meeting and...

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Fully open again! – twice per month

Fully open again! – twice per month

​During the Covid-19 pandemic we had to restrict opening times and family numbers, but now that schools are fully open again, so are we. Hooray! It’s great to welcome families as we did before and to see them enjoying the space – both in the School Hall and outdoors...

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