supervised child contact services

About Helen Evans

Helen Evans is a Supervised Child Contact Specialist with over 15 years’ experience supporting separated families to create safer, calmer, and more positive arrangements for their children.  Her work focuses on parental conflict, alienation, supervised contact, and safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Helen is a certified adult learning provider and delivered the Separated Parents Information Programme (SPIP)—a court-ordered contact activity—for five years.  Connect (North Yorkshire) Ltd holds enhanced accreditation with the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) and works closely with Cafcass and Local Authorities to support safe and sustainable child contact arrangements.

Professional Background

Helen began her career in the charity sector managing volunteer teams for national charities before moving into specialist family support work in 2010. She went on to manage The Meeting Place, Scarborough’s Child Contact Centre, for eight years, delivering supported and supervised contact, life story work, SPIP, and guidance services for separating parents.  In 2018, following the closure of the local contact centre, Helen founded Connect (North Yorkshire) Ltd to meet the continued need for high-quality, court-approved child contact services across the region.

A Flexible, Child-Centred Approach

Connect delivers supervised child contact in familiar, child-friendly community settings rather than a centre. This flexible model supports children to feel safe and at ease while maintaining robust safeguarding, risk assessment, and professional oversight.