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does anyone know the maximum time a childrens court can order supervised contact in a contact centre.
Do you mean the maximum duration (months and number of visits) for which the court can specific order that the visits should occur in a contact centre?
Or do you mean the maximum number of separate contact orders (in a contact centre) can be imposed by the court?
The answer to the former is it is at the courts description.
The answer to the later is don't know, but I would guess that there must be a maximum after which they would decide that this is not working.
The NACCC childrens centres only do a maximum of 6 months 12 contact sessions every 2 weeks so the courts have to stick to that but they usually only order 3 months 6 visits.
The contact centre I used for my ex to see my daughter suggested that 6 months was the maximum, but they continued supported contact for over 2 years in my case (it would have been longer but my ex stopped coming) - after the initial 6 months, they basically just acted as a supervised handover point and passed messages when necessary.
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