Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the funding arrangements for this year's grants for child contact centres.

The Government values the work of child contact centres and acknowledges the important role they play in providing neutral places for contact between children and their family members.

The arrangements for this small value grant funding are changing this year. The Ministry of Justice is appointing the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) as the administrators of the grant for this financial year. We are working with NACCC to formalise this arrangement and information will be communicated to contact centres soon.