Bristol (Children and Young People)
Early Intervention Review
Bristol is undertaking a review of the services, public and voluntary sector, that are funded under the banner of early intervention.
Read full details of the review here.
Bristol and the emerging policy and resources landscape
A paper on the emerging policy and resources landscape and its implications for children and young people's services and organisations was presented to the Children's Trust.
This paper was for the Children's Trust and its partners and is not a public document.
Bristol's budget conversation: Children and Young People's Services
Have your say on future resourcing of services for children and young people.
Click here for more information
Avon Sexual Abuse Service: Summer Holiday Group for Boys
A free short-term therapy group for boys between the ages of 8 years old to 11 years old who have experienced sexual abuse or sexual trauma.
An evaluation of our service
We would like to invite you to take part in an evaluation of our service to Children and Young People's VCS organisations in Bristol and South Glos, operated through our CYP networks. We need your voice to illustrate the impact of our work and how it makes a difference to your delivery.
In these uncertain times it has never been more important for us to speak out for ourselves, our sector and the people we support.
Change is about to happen and the civil society is key to that future change. We want to make sure that the people who make those decisions hear your voice and understand how it feels to deliver services and activities on the ground and what support you need to do that well.
Your responses will contribute to a regional report and we will lobby locally and regionally for the support you say you need.
Please take the time to complete the survey on line at http://www.smart-survey.co.uk/v.asp?i=23523gkmvx
The survey will run for three weeks and upon completion you will be entered into a regional draw and the winner will receive £250.
If you have any queries please contact Louise Hudson, Bristol CYP VCS network co-ordinator, louisehudson@thecareforum.org.uk (0117 958 9337) or Lucy Rowe, South Glos CYP VCS network co-ordinator lucyrowe@thecareforum.or.guk (0117 958 9324).
Integrated Times
Issue 1 of Integrated Times, the newsletter for Bristol's integrated workforce is now available.
The newsletter is aimed at all practitioners and managers working across the children and young people's workforce and is intended to be a source of information, local and national updates and sharing of practice.
Click here to download a copy.
Thanks from Annie Hudson
Many of you have been involved in the recent Ofsted Inspection of Bristol safeguarding and looked-after children services, either indirectly or directly through focus groups or visits to your agencies. Please see attached letter of thanks from Annie Hudson, Director of Children and Young People's Services in Bristol to everyone who contributed to the process. View letter
Bristol Children and Young People's Services: Departmental Structure Chart
New structure chart and contact details for Bristol CYP Services Click here for a link to who's who and what they do in Bristol's Children and Young People's Services
Bristol Children and Young People's Voluntary Sector Network
This is open to all voluntary sector agencies working with children and young people in Bristol and meets quarterly.
Click for forthcoming meetings
If you would like to be added to the mailing list or want any further information please complete the enquiry form
Voluntary Sector Representation
For a full list of current reps please click here
Representatives from both the city-wide and local networks of children and young people voluntary and community organisations are sitting on more and more strategic planning groups in the area including on the workforce development strategy group, the locality governance groups and the Safeguarding Board.
In Bristol we provide representation on a variety of groups, including:
- Raising Attainment Workstream Group
- 14-19 Workstream Group
- Bristol Children's Hospital Disabled Children's Group
- Bristol North Somerset & South Glos Children's Clinical Network Board
- Children's Trust Board
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing Stakeholder Group
- Children Looked After Strategy Group
- Locality Executive Boards
- Prevention and Early Intervention Workstream Group
- Safeguarding Board
- Teenage Pregnancy Strategy Group
If you are interested in becoming a rep please click here and complete an enquiry form.
Joint Reps
Some reps are elected jointly from the Voscur, The Care Forum and the Black Development Agency children and young people networks. Each of these joint reps is supported by one of the infrastructure organisations. The information supplied by the reps is shared amongst the three organisations for the benefit of all three network members. The Joint Reps also meet regularly with the network co-ordinators to discuss issues relevant to the sector. Please use the reps to get your views heard and to find out what is going on.
Seeking nominations: VCS Representatives for Bristol's Locality Executives
- We are seeking nominations for a second Children and Young People's Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Joint Representative for the Locality Partnership Executive Boards for North 3, East &Central 1, 2 &3 and South 1,2,3 & 4.
- The Chairs of the Executives have asked for two VCS representatives to sit on each of the 10 Executive Boards. We currently have representatives for the North 1 & 2 Localities but have one vacancy on each of the other Locality Executives with two vacancies currently available in North 3.
- Download a localities map at:http://www.bristol-cyps.org.uk/schools/pdf/ES-locality-map.pdf
- Nominations will only be accepted on the nomination form and you must state on the nomination form which Executive you are nominating a member to sit on.
- These elections are open to members of The Care Forum, Voscur and the Black Development Agency's networks that either work within the localities or provide city-wide services that are relevant.
- The Locality Executives are providing an important function across the city looking at local needs, issues and gaps in service provision; allocating resources and commissioning services alongside the Joint Commissioning Unit and overseeing the development of CAF Panels.
The following documents can be downloaded:
- 1. Covering letter
- 2. Nomination form
- 5. Locality Partnerships Terms of Reference
- 6. Locality Partnerships Meeting Dates
- 7. Locality Partnerships and Priorities
- 8. List of current Locality Partnership Executives VCS representatives
Local VCS Networks
Two VCS local networks have been established with CWDC funding in North 1 (Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Lawrence Weston and Coombe Dingle) and North 2 (Southmead, Upper Horfield, Henbury and Brentry).
North 1
Ash Bearman, Community Development Officer for Shirehampton Community Action Forum (SCAF) is the local network coordinator for North 1. She has worked for SCAF since 2001 and has worked to strengthen the ties and build partnership working between statutory agencies, private enterprise and voluntary and community groups. She has experience of working with agencies who provide services for young people having set up a youth support sub-group within SCAF and she support the work of SCAF action groups on youth and young people and local play areas.
For more details on and to join the North 1 local network contact Ash Bearman, 0117 982 9963, email: ash@shirecaf.org.uk.
North 2
Maria Damsell at Upper Horfield Community Trust co-ordinates the North 2 network. Maria has worked for the past 5 years at the Upper Horfield Community Trust, a charity in Upper Horfield that manages a community centre and offers a range of support and activities to the residents in Upper Horfield. Their services include an Ofsted registered Out of school care for 5 - 14's, youth sessions for 8yrs and above, family trips, fundays, distributing a quarterly community newsletter, adult lifelong learning, social activities for the elderly and the introduction of a new exciting project ‘The Eden Market'. Maria has lived in Upper Horfield for the past 16 years with her family of 3 sons. She spends some of her spare time being the Chair of Governors at Upper Horfield Community School.
For the North 2 network contact Maria Damsell, 0117 969 0011, email:maria@uhct.co.uk.
Joint Commissioning Framework: VCS Event Feedback
Please click on the link to read the feedback produced from the consultation meeting on the 22nd May held for the VCS by the Joint Commissioning Unit of the Children and Young People's Services Directorate at Bristol City Council. If there are any further additions from the meeting that people would like to make, please contact Nicola Waterworth, nicola.waterworth@bristol.gov.uk
This feedback will feed into the review of the Framework and information on what that review process will look like will be available soon. It is also worth noting that headlines from the meeting on the 24th were taken to CYPS Directorate the following day for discussion and they will also receive this paper. The actions listed are being followed up. If there are any further additions from the meeting that people would like to make, please contact Nicola Waterworth, nicola.waterworth@bristol.gov.uk
Information
We produce In Contact our regular monthly newsletter. We also produce regular ebulletins for people working in Bristol. We are always keen to include voluntary sector information in our publications. If you have any news or views to share please put the details on our enquiry form
ChangeUp
ChangeUp is a government initiative to strengthen the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors. The Care Forum is a member of the ChangeUp consortium covering Bristol. Click here for more information on ChangeUp
Contact Us
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