Parenting support implementation group election
South Gloucestershire (Children and Young People)
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 
CVS South Gloucestershire and The Care Forum are receiving funding over three years from 2007-10 to strengthen the capacity of the third sector in South Gloucestershire to engage in the national children's workforce development agenda.
Already new VCS local networks are established in the Severnvale and Kingswood Locality and a third network is planned for Yate.
Severnvale Local Network
Julie Snelling
Coordinator, Julie Snelling is Director of Southern Brooks Community Partnership, an organisation that has a staff team of around 70 and runs a variety of projects for children, young people and families. Julie's previous experience was a youth worker for the local authority, and working for a grassroots community development organisation in South Gloucestershire. She has worked for SBCP for the past 10 years. Julie is passionate about working to create a strong and vibrant voluntary sector, across South Gloucestershire and particularly in the areas of Patchway, Filton and the Stokes. In her spare time she has a new hobby learning about growing vegetables on an allotment, and loves travelling and finding new places to explore.
Honora Farley
The networks are administered by Honora Farley, who has recently joined SBCP after a background in administration for corporate business so has brought a range of new skills to our organisation.
For more details on and to join the Severnvale network contact Julie Snelling at Southern Brooks Community Partnership tel. 01454 868570, email juliesnelling@sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk or Honora Farley at Southern Brooks Community Partnership tel. 01454 868570, email honorafarley@sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk
Future meeting dates in Severnvale
Venues to be confirmed:
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Thursday, 21 May 2009
All meetings are held between 12noon and 2pm with lunch provided.
telephone 01454 86 8570/01 or email honorafarley@sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk
Click here to read the minutes for the meeting held on Monday, 29 September 2008.
Kingswood Local Network
Steph Bengry-Howell is coordinating the Kingswood Local Network. She is delighted to be holding her first meeting on Tuesday, 25 November and is hoping that the meeting will give people the opportunity to:
- Meet other groups that are working with children, young people and families in the Kingswood Locality area.
- Update on what is happening locally, re. services for children & young people.
- Share experiences and good practice.
- Access support, training and advice.
- Influence decision making locally.
- Promote the work of their groups.
She says that as this will be the first meeting, she hopes it will provide an opportunity for her to respond to the needs of groups, and steer the future direction of the network. She would like to hear from you about the best ways to communicate with groups, provide support and up-to-date information.
For more details on and to join the Kingswood network contact Steph Bengry-Howell at Chase and Kingsforest Community Partnership tel. 01454 868726, e-mail: steph@chasekingsforestcp.org.uk. Click here to find out about network coordinator Steph Bengry-Howell.
Future meeting dates in Kingswood
Tuesday, 25 November, 2008, 12.30pm-2.00pm (lunch provided) at The Park Centre, High Street, Kingswood, BS15 4AR.
Representatives
Representatives from 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 and CVS South Gloucestershire follow the link.
Training
Surgeries and training in the three targeted localities will be available later in the year. For more information contact CVS South Gloucestershire Jocelyne Tagg tel. 01454 865205 or email youthdevelopment@cvs-sg.org.uk
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 South Gloucestershire 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 South Gloucestershire
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/
Seeking voluntary sector reps in South Gloucestershire
The Care Forum is seeking nominations for representatives to sit on the following two multi-agency groups in South Gloucestershire:
The 0-11 Aged Related Group is seeking two representatives from the voluntary sector.
See terms of reference, reps agreement and nomination form.
Corporate Parenting Steering Group
See terms of reference, reps agreement and nomination form.
This is your chance to represent the voluntary sector in policy development and service planning for a range of initiatives for children and young people in South Gloucestershire.
Nominees should either be a member of The Care Forum or should submit a membership form and payment with their nomination form. Where more than one nomination is received a ballot will be held.
Please return your nomination form to louisehudson@thecareforum.org.uk or by post to The Care Forum. If you would like to discuss becoming a rep please contact Louise Hudson on 0117 958 9337
South Gloucestershire Parenting Support Strategy: Consultation with Parents and Carers
The Care Forum undertook a nine-month consultation exercise on behalf of South Gloucestershire Council Department for Children & Young People and funded by government. The main report, a summary and twelve good practice points arising from the consultation can be downloaded here
A further report on possible opportunities for sustained contact with parents and carers is being considered as part of the involvement strategy for parents and carers by the Parenting Support Strategy Implementation Group which is chaired by Liz Crocker, Assistant Director at South Glos Council Department of Children & Young People. Pending an election, Kate Oliver is the voluntary sector rep on this group and can be contacted on ( 0117 958 9336, http://carbon.focusnewmedia.com/Editor/Edit/kateoliver@thecareforum.org.uk
Your Chance to Comment on ‘Children's Plan: Strengthening Children's Trusts'
Click on the link to see this government document, on which your comments on the proposals for Children and Young People Plans and Trust Boards are invited, to be received by 25 September 2008.
South Glos Children and Young People's Voluntary Sector Network
Is open to all voluntary sector agencies working with children and young people in South Glos and meets quarterly.
Click here for forthcoming meetings
Click here for notes of previous 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 newsletter monthly. We also produce regular ebulletins for people working in South Glos. 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 S Glos we provide representation on a variety of groups working on children's services including:
- Age related partnership group (0 - 11yrs)
- Age related partnership group (11 - 19yrs)
- Better Support for Young Parents
- Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service Partnership
- Children and Young People's Partnership Executive Board
- Children's Centres Stakeholder Group
- Disabled Strategy Group
- Domestic Violence Forum
- Extended Schools Partnership
- Joint Commissioning Group
- LAA Steering Group
- Severnvale Locality Planning Group
- Yate Locality Planning Group
- Play Strategy Group
- Safeguarding Board
- Senior Officer Group
- Teenage Pregnancy Partnership
- Workforce Development Planning Group
- Parenting Support Implementation Group
In the light of current changes in the Children's Department we are looking for new reps to sit on various multi agency groups.
If you would like more information or a full list of current reps or are interested in becoming a rep please complete an enquiry form or for the forms to complete, go to the representation page.
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 South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset. Click here for more information on ChangeUp
Contact Us
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Local Links
Children and Young People Partnership in South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust
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