West Lancs Child Contact Centre is a Company Limited by Guarantee which operated as a non- profit making social enterprise in Birch Green, Skelmersdale we have been established since December 2005. We are autonomous organisations with governance and ownership structure which is based on participation by stakeholder groups (service users). Profits are used for the benefit of the service users. Our aim is to enable children to maintain safe and beneficial contact with family members with whom they no longer reside. We want the children to interact positively with other family members. We want to support, guide and where necessary intervene in their family interactions to promote and protect the welfare of the child. We aim to protect vulnerable children and young adults from conflict and harm and wherever possible to foster positive, long-term contact. We also seek to provide for each child and young adults perspective on contact and meet each child’s individual needs. WLCCC will support the emotional and psychological development of children and young people, by providing them with safe and beneficial contact to parents and other family members from whom they are separated due to care proceedings or serious breakdown in parent’s relationships, or by identifying and restricting harmful contact. We also provide additional family orientated support services to further our aims. Other services include: Mediation/Conciliation Parenting Programmes Lifestory work

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