What is the Voice of the Child in Supervised Access?

The Voice of the Child means ensuring that a child’s views, feelings, experiences and responses are properly heard and recognised during supervised access. A child may communicate through words, behaviour, body language, play, emotion, silence or changes in presentation. The role of the supervised access worker is to observe carefully, remain neutral, safeguard the child and record relevant observations accurately without leading, coaching or putting words into the child’s mouth.