AQW 34024/22-27

Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 21/10/2025
Answered On Date: 02/12/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of whether the capacity of contact centres is meeting demand, in each Health and Social Care Trust.

Answer:

Each Health and Social Care Trust holds the contract responsibility for child contact centres within their locality.

These contact centres are utilised to enable children and young people to share safe quality time with parents or significant people in their lives.

Each HSCT has advised that their current contractual arrangements are meeting the demand, exemplified by minimal waiting lists across the region.

On this basis it is considered that the contact centres currently available, do meet the demand within each Health and Social Care Trust.