Bristol (Children and Young People)
Bristol Children & Young People Partnership Prevention and Early Intervention Strategy 2009-14
Consultation runs until 5 September. The draft strategy for consultation by all stakeholders can be found at www.bristolpartnership.org/vision/strategy/community_strategy/learning/prevention
For copies of the strategy or to email comments, jcu@bristol.gov.uk, ( 0117 903 7077).
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.
Elections underway for reps in Bristol
Elections are underway for reps for the Parent Services Advisory Board. The Care Forum, Voscur and BDA have been asked to hold a joint election for two reps on to the Parent Services Advisory Board. This group meets 4 times a year and is chaired by Jane Taylor. The reps will be managing parenting support services in Bristol. They will attend the advisory board meetings and relevant network meetings to feed back to the sector. We have received three nominations and are proceeding to ballot. You will need to be a member of one of the above named organisations to vote in the election. If you are a member of one of the above organisations and would like to vote please download the three documents attached, the terms of reference for the group, covering letter and ballot paper.
The closing date for elections is September 5. If you have any questions please get in touch with Kate Oliver, kateoliver@thecareforum.org.uk, 0117 958 9336 or Louise Hudson, louisehudson@thecareforum.org.uk, 0117 958 9337.
Parenting Support Project
Bristol's Children's Trust is seeking expressions of interest from organisations to deliver and help embed some parenting support services for parents and carers of children aged 8-19 in partnership with local schools and other parent support providers.
The deadline for returning of a proposal for the above tender is 5pm Friday 22nd August 2008. For further information or to submit a proposal, please visit the Bristol e-Procurement System's (BEPS) web site at: https://procurement.bristol.gov.uk/supplierselfservice/
Guide for Suppliers to register on BePS
E-Consultation for the Voluntary Sector
The presentation and the notes of the joint BDA, Voscur and The Care Forum Children & Young People Networks meeting in October are available at http://www.thecareforum.org/publications/publications_download.php?id=28 Following from the meeting, the City Council's Corporate Consultation Manager, the Children & Young People Communications Consultant and the Performance Strategy Lead Officer agreed to meet with voluntary sector representatives to discuss how a future Children & Young People's communications strategy can work best for the third sector.
Click here to read a summary of discussions held at the Children and Young People's Partnership Conference on 19 March 2007 and a summary of priorities for action which will inform the current review and refresh of the Children & Young People's Plan.
Bristol Extended Schools Personnel June 2007
Please click on the link to access your own copy of the June 2007 chart of pos ts and personnel running the Extended Schools initiative in Bristol
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 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.
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.