Knock Child Contact Centre
In Belfast
c/o Knock Presbyterian Church
53 Kings Road
Belfast BT5 6JH
(click for a map)

In Bangor
c/o 1st Bangor Presbyterian Church
Main Street
Bangor BT20
(click for a map)

Contact details
Muriel Orr (Coordinator)
T: 028 9080 6091
(with Voicemail)
E: morr.kccc@ntlworld.com
Fax: 028 9087 3411

Knock Child Contact Centre
is an accredited member of the
National Association of
Child Contact Centres.

In today’s society, 1 in 3 relationships/marriages in the UK end in separation or divorce. It has been estimated that 100,000 children per year in the UK lose contact with a parent following a family break-up. Child Contact Centres were set up to facilitate contact between a child and those parents, or other family members, with whom they no longer live. Knock Child Contact Centre provides a neutral, safe, welcoming environment for families who are experiencing difficulties with contact following the breakdown of family relationships.

Knock Child Contact Centre welcomes referrals from solicitors, social workers, the courts, other Voluntary Organisations or families themselves.

To discuss use of the Centre, please phone the Coordinator, Muriel Orr, on 028 9080 6091. If no-one is available to take your call, please leave your name and phone number and you will be contacted as soon as possible.

Before a family uses the Centre a referral form must be completed. The Coordinator will speak to the referrer and to the parents and will arrange for the parents (or other family members) to visit the Centre, if possible, to see around and to check the details about the contact arrangements. This also gives the parents a chance to ask questions or raise any concerns they may have. It is particularly helpful if the children can come and see round the building before meeting with their contact parent/adult.

Pre-contact visits can be arranged for Wednesdays between 3.00 and 7.00pm or Saturdays between 10.00 a.m. and 12.00noon, in Belfast or on Thursdays between 4.00 and 6.00pm in Bangor.

Resident and contact adults are required to sign a consent form which sets out the ground rules for use of the Centre. The Resident adult is also asked to sign a form giving consent for their child to receive basic First Aid if necessary or be taken for medical care in an emergency.

Referral Form, Consent Forms , NINCCC Children's leaflet and KCCC leaflet

The Centre can also be used as a handover point where visits take place outside the Centre. This must be agreed between the parents or other relevant adults or be by court order.

Parents do not have to meet if they prefer not to.

Information for referrers