Bristol (Children and Young People)
Questionnaire on interpreting and translation needs amongst groups providing services to children and young people
The Children and Young People's Partnership has decided to undertake an initial needs analysis in relation to service user's interpretation, translation and sign language needs. The responses to this questionnaire will inform their understanding of levels of need, how these needs are currently met and what is required to better meet these needs. They are interested in hearing about how such needs impact on your service. It is important that as many services as possible return the questionnaire to inform the Partnership of needs. This is particularly important because analysis of needs forms an important part of the commissioning process. You can return this questionnaire confidentially but it will assist with their analysis and understanding if you could provide some service information..
However, THE INFORMATION SUBMITTED WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL and only used for these purposes.
Please answer the following questions based upon the past 12 months. The closing date for completion of the questionnaire is 31 December. Download questionnaire Download in word format
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Children and Young People Network Members
Backfill Payments Protocol: CONSULTATION AND PILOT
With funding from the Children's Workforce Development Council, The Care Forum has drafted a protocol for small voluntary sector organisations to claim money for attending meetings. We would appreciate your comments on it. At the same time we want to pilot it to see how well it works.
Please read the two documents for more details.
DRAFT Backfill Payments Protocol: Consultation and pilot covering letter
DRAFT Backfill Payments Protocol: Draft for Consultation
The third and fourth documents are the lists of The Care Forum's reps in Bristol and South Glos for your information.
You can also download these four documents from the News section of our website http://www.thecareforum.org/
Thank you for your help.
Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) Partners Programme 
The Care Forum is receiving funding over three years from 2007-10 to strengthen the capacity of the third sector in Bristol to engage in the national children's workforce development agenda.
Already new VCS local networks are established 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) will be 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. Ash will holding her first local network meeting in November (details to be confirmed).
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
For the past 5 years Maria Damsell has worked for 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'.
She 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.
Another local network is planned for this year in south Bristol.
Representatives
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. For a chart of all the reps supported by The Care Forum, Voscur and the Black Development Agency click on this link.
Training
Training sessions on outcomes-led commissioning have been held across the city. Surgeries and further training in the three targeted localities will be available later in the year. For more information contact Voscur, cheryl@voscur.org
Protocol
A draft protocol is being consulted on which will allow small groups and organisations to claim backfill payments to represent the voluntary sector at multi-agency meetings. To view and comment on the protocol click on Backfill Protocol. A pilot to implement the backfill protocol is being run with voluntary sector organisations in Bristol that support black and minority ethnic children and young people, disabled children and parents and carers. If you are interested in taking part in the pilot contact The Care Forum, kateoliver@thecareforum.org.uk
CWDC Partners Programme in Bristol
To read the three-year plan click on CWDC Partners Programme and for this year's action plan click on CWDC Partners Programme Action Plan 2008/9.
For more details on the work of the CWDC work click on http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/
Bristol Multi-agency Parent Forum all held at The Main Hall, The Park, Daventry Rd, Knowle:
- 14 January 2009 14.00-16.30
- 15 April 2009 14.00-16.30
- 15 July 2009 14.00-16.30
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
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
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
Representation
In Bristol we provide representation on a variety of groups, including:
- 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
- Bristol Young Parents Partnership
- Children and Young People's Partnership
- CYP Executive Board
- Emotional and Wellbeing Stakeholder Group
- Children Looked After Strategy Group
- North 1 Locality Working Group
- North 2 Locality Governance Group
- Maternity Review, Bristol Health Services Plan
- Prevention and Early Intervention Workstream Group
- Safeguarding Board
- Teenage Pregnancy Partnership
- Tyndall’s Park Children’s Centre Child Disability Team Strategy Group
If you would like more information or a current reps list or are interested in becoming a rep please click here and complete an enquiry form. If you would like a full list if reps please click.
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.
3 Workstream Groups - Children & Young People Partnership Three workstream groups have been established for the Children and Young People Partnership. The reps to these workstream groups were appointed following a joint nomination and voting process for Voscur, The Care Forum and BDA members.
The Reps to the three workstream groups are:
Educational Attainment Workstream Group Jendayi Serwah, Shakti Imani/Barnardo's, supported by BDA
email: jendayi.serwah@barnardos.org.uk
14-19 Education and Skills Workstream Group Trevor Jones, Young Bristol, supported by Voscur Tel 0117 953 7921 email tj@youngbristol.com
Early Intervention & Prevention Workstream Group
Ann Tolaini, Right Track/Children's Society, supported by The Care Forum Tel 0117 9351515 email aet@childsoc.org.uk
Another group that has joint representation from Voscur, the Care Forum and BDA is:
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
We want to hear from you. If you have any thoughts about our services, would like to be a rep, have information you would like included in our information service, or would like to meet up to find out more about what we do, contact The Care Forum
Local Links
Bristol City Consultation Finder
Children and Young Peoples Services database
Room 102, The Care Forum's unique online database of local and national services, groups and organisations that relate to health and well-being.