Children and Young People: Information and Useful Links
- Children and Young People with Disabilities
- Information for Play Services
- Information for Youth Services
- Workforce Development
- Healthy Children and Young People – including sports
- Safeguarding and child protection
- Commissioning and Procurement – including individual commissioning and procurement, CAF’s, Lead Professionals
- Parenting and working with the whole family
Children and Young People with Disabilities
Research on poverty and childhood disability
Research suggests that UK disabled children experience higher levels of poverty and personal and social disadvantage than other children.
‘Prevalence of childhood disability and the characteristics and circumstances of disabled children in the UK: secondary analysis of the Family Resources Survey’ by Clare M Blackburn, Nick J Spencer and Janet M Read was published in BMC Pediatrics on 16 April 2010.
Click here for link
The Key - A special information service for any family in Gloucestershire with a disabled child
Members receive information on services and benefits for disabled children and young people, customised to the child or young person's needs.
Enter The Key website.
Keywords for teens
Keywords for Teens is a website for any disabled teenager in Gloucestershire and is aimed at helping you to find information about money, education, leisure and much more. You will also find links to other websites and organisations that may be of interest to you.
www.keywords.org.uk/kids
Information for Play Services
Play Partnerships
Playwork Partnerships South West E-Bulletin.
Information for Youth Services
The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)
Workforce Development Snippets is available to download at from the NCVYS website.
VYON South West
Voluntary Youth organisations South West produces a regular electronic bulletin with information about events, training and news and events from around the region. The network offers support to all voluntary youth sector organisations, workers and Volunteers
If you would like to receive future copies of this e-bulletin, please e-mail:
hayley_lazarus@learning-southwest.org.uk
Youth Access
Youth Access is a training and workforce development bulletin for the youth information, advice, counselling and support sector.
E-bulletin for South West Services to younger people
Subscribe to South West Forum e-bulletin service. You will find the latest information posted on the South West Forum website under the category 'Services for Children and Young People'.
YouthNet
YouthNet is helping young people in the UK make a difference to their own lives and their community.
www.youthnet.org/whatwedo
Everything YouthNet does supports young people. Whether they want information, advice or opportunities to contribute to their community, they can come to us.
For every question each young person asks, we aim to provide an answer.
We have two complementary websites: TheSite.org, which provides support and guidance to young people aged 16-24; and do-it.org.uk, which links users to volunteering opportunities, helping them improve their own lives and those of the people around them.
Participation Works
Please use Participation Works, which has an online information gateway and enquiry line for anything concerning youth participation (NCVYS is a member of the consortium).Web site: www.participationworks.org.uk
Enquiry line: 0845 6036725
UK Youth – The Source
To subscribe to the source click here.
If you would like to feature your club, organisation, project or any work that you do with young people in the Source, then please contact our Editor, Alan Rogers, the Source at alan@alanrogers.org
Workforce Development
Share Street (click on title)
People who work with children and young people need skills and knowledge to work together and do the best job they possibly can. Share Street is an online community of learning designed to help make that happen
Healthy Children and Young People – including sports
Active Gloucestershire Newsletter
The latest Active Gloucestershire Newsletter can be accessed from their website.
Healthy weight for children hub
The Healthy Weight for Children Hub is part of a larger programme of work, 'Targeted Interventions for Child Weight Management', which was set up in response to the increasing numbers of overweight and obese children in the South West region.
Public Health Report highlights health challenges for Gloucestershire
Find out what NHS Glos’ commissioning priorities will be for the coming year for services to children and young people
Invaluable background for anyone working with children, young people and families, and will really help with grant/tender applications.!!
The Director of Public Health Annual Report from NHS Gloucestershire has been published. This year’s report takes the form of individual briefings, some focus on a geographic locality, some on a particular topic or theme, and it will inform service commissioners and providers where, how and what services are provided
The report highlights the key issues for Gloucestershire as being
- its ageing population.
- significant areas of deprivation – with differences in life expectancy of seven years for women and eight years for men between areas of affluence and deprivation.
- increasing immunisation rates
Of particular interest to CYP organisations will be ‘Health Lifestyle Choices for Children and Young people, which gives a brilliant overview of the key health issues affecting Children and Young People, and the likely commissioning priorities for NHS Glos in the coming period.
Click here to access ‘Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Children and Young People’
Active Gloucestershire e-bulletin
Active Gloucestershire is the lead third sector body for sport activity in the county. Download the bulletin here.
Safeguarding and Child Protection
Working Together to Safeguard Children: Updated national guidance
Working Together sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004.To download or order a free copy – go to http://publications.dcsf.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=DCSF-00305-2010&
Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children’s Board is a using this new updated guidance (including statutory guidance) as the ‘bible’ of good practice.
Call for evidence to the Munro review of child protection
Please see details of a call for evidence re new and innovative examples of good practice to inform Professor Eileen Munro's review of children's social work and child protection with full details of how to respond. I know many of you have been involved in the CAF process, FIP programmes and LSCB work and I am sure that there will be many examples of good practice that you would like to share. All the information on the review can be viewed at
http://www.education.gov.uk/munroreview/
Vetting and Barring Scheme
Keep up to date
All customers are advised to check the CRB / AccessNI websites (www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk or www.accessni.gov.uk ) for the latest information on the disclosure process. Alternatively, you can contact the CRB Customer Services team on 0870 90 90 811
The latest guidance about the other aspects of the scheme is available via www.direct.gov.uk or www.nidirect.gov.uk/vetting or www.businesslink.gov.uk . The VBS contact centre can also provide you with guidance if you call them on 0300 123 1111 (this is a lo-call number and will only cost you the same as making a local call).
Over 66,000 employers, charities and voluntary groups have registered an interest in being updated on the Vetting & Barring Scheme, and this newsletter is being circulated as an update to those individuals and organisations. If you know of anyone else who would like to be kept updated, please forward this to them and ask that they complete their details on the ISA website (click here) to receive information directly in the future.
Children and Young people in custody
Children and Young People are suffering from varying standards of support when moving in and out of custody, according to OFSTED. The report provides useful information about best practice to groups working with young offenders.
‘Safenetwork’: National Safeguarding Unit for the Third Sector (VCS) launched
This new resource is packed with information in good practice around safeguarding – it may be of particular interest to smaller organisations. It faces out to both parents and families and the VCS.
The website is located here.
Commissioning and Procurement
Parenting and working with the whole family