This is what, until the Children Act 1989, used to be called “access” but again the word “contact” is simpler and easier to understand. The word covers all the different arrangements that can be made for you to have some kind of continuing relationship with a child who does not live with you.
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Parents, grandparents, siblings, step parents and occasionally other family members may all be allowed contact with a child. Such contact can take various forms: from as little as a regular letter or telephone call to as much as having the child to live with you for a substantial proportion of every week. Everybody’s circumstances are different and what you, with our help, and the Court will try to do is sort out an arrangement that best suits you and your family.
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