Voluntary Action Lewisham

Summary

Event Date: 

Sat, 06/11/2010

Time: 

10am-4.30pm

This one-day course is an initiative linked to the 'Safe Project: Keeping Our Children Safe’ and is intended as a follow-on from Safeguarding Children Awareness training.

The course has been designed to assist in the development of a firm partnership between the setting (or Club’s) Management Committee and Designated Person for Safeguarding. This includes a firm ‘partner relationship’ that includes all elements of the setting (or Club’s) legal safeguarding responsibilities. Within this, differing family, cultural and individual perspectives will be considered.

Course aims:

•   To highlight key elements to the Designated Person and Management Committee Member role and responsibilities, as identified in the legislation, guidance and policy  - Including Lewisham Safeguarding Children Board guidance

•   To assist Designated Persons and Management Committee Members in assessing the knowledge, skills and competence of their setting (or Club’s) staff team in safeguarding children, young people and their families according to their policy, procedure and professional practice-  Including in reference to allegations  made against staff members or volunteers

•    To promote Designated Person and  Management Committee Member’s awareness of high standards of professional behaviour and conduct for staff members and volunteers- Including how these are made known via induction & professional training and regular reference to Organisational procedures

•  To support Designated Person and Management Committee Members in conducting an audit of their setting (or Club’s) compliance with the legislation, guidance and policy- Including production of an action plan as follow-up

 

 

 

 

Our Local Lewisham

Lewisham Children and Young People’s Forum
Wednesday 9th June 2010, 1.30 – 4.30pm – including lunch!
Stephen Lawrence Centre, 38 Brookmill Road, Deptford SE8 4HU

This event will focus on getting the most out of partnerships and networks at a local level.

• Network with other VCS organisations across Lewisham
• Explore locally-based resources, networks and other support
• Updates on Local Assemblies (Lewisham Council), Ward Panels (Lewisham Police), and local youth engagement networks
• Olympics 2012: plans for Lewisham
• Elect your new Steering Group for 2010!
• And much more…

To reserve your place, please email kate@valewisham.org.uk or call 020 8314 7018 with your name, organisation and any special dietary requirements.

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Lewisham Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership

Lewisham Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership Board (CYPSPB) is the Children's Trust for Lewisham. It oversees decision making on policy and services affecting children, young people and families, and reports to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). The Partnership is made up of representatives from all major agencies:

• Lewisham Council
• Lewisham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT)
• Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
• South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM)
• Lewisham Voluntary and Community Sector CYP Forum
• Lewisham Metropolitan Police
• Lewisham College

Fourteen specialist Boards and Working Groups sit under the CYPSPB, including the Joint Commissioning Group (JCG), which oversees funding allocation to children's services, and the Lewisham Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), which oversees child safety and protection.

Each year our VCS CYP Forum elects two representatives to each Board and Working Group within the CYP Strategic Partnership. For details of this year's reps, download the 'VCS Reps 2010' attachment below.

For feedback from your Reps from recent meetings please download the VCS Reps' Feedback documents below. If you wish to contact Reps to respond to and/or request action on any of the points raised in the meeting notes, please contact jennifer@valewisham.org.uk or call me on 020 8314 7679.

If you are interested in becoming a VCS Rep yourself, you might be interested to read the 'Lewisham VCS Reps' Handbook', also attached below. Our next elections will take place in December 2010.

Big thanks to all our VCS Reps for their fantastic work on our behalf!

More information

For more information contact: 

Jennifer Laing

Running Community Activities and Events Safely: What are our Needs?
6 – 8pm, Wednesday 3rd February 2009
Venue: Main Hall, Leemore Resource Centre, Clarendon Rise, London, SE13 5ES

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This meeting is for staff and volunteers from all voluntary and community organisations working in Lewisham.

It will be led by Voluntary Action Lewisham, Lewisham Council and Lewisham Metropolitan Police.

We will:

• Discuss issues around safety for the young people, adults and communities we work with
• Share experiences and ideas
• Identify the support needed to help organisations plan safe events and activities
• Agree a way forward

 

Kate English
Development Officer for Children and Young People

We’re pleased to invite you to our next CYP Forum meeting

Support from the Start

6 – 9pm, Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Leemore Centre Community Hub, Clarendon Rise, London, SE13 5ES

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As ever, the meeting will be packed with updates on key developments in Lewisham, and offers excellent networking opportunities with both VCS and statutory colleagues.

• Focus on early intervention and preventative work supporting children, young people and families
• Updates and discussion with colleagues from Lewisham’s Integrated Youth Support Service (IYSS), Children’s Centres, Extended Services, Play and Recreation, and Youth Offending Service
• Meet your new VCS Reps on Lewisham’s CYP Strategic Partnership – get feedback and feed in to local decision making
• Share opportunities, information and ideas in the Open Mic session

Hope to see you there! Best wishes,
Kate

To register

To register, please:

• email Kate;
• phone 020 8314 7018; or
• register online

We will need your name, organisation and contact details.

 

To book a place on the Support from the Start CYP Forum, please complete the following booking form. Alternatively you can also book a place by either:

• emailing Kate with the following details; or
• phoning 020 8314 7018.

Please consider nominating yourself as a Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Rep on Lewisham’s Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership for 2010!

This is an exciting opportunity to engage in strategic decision making in Lewisham on behalf of our sector.

For detailed information about the Partnership, the Rep’s role and the time commitment you would need to make, please see the attached Guide.

Nominations are open to all individuals who work or volunteer in a VCS organisation in Lewisham. Your organisation MUST be a full or associate member of VAL (for more information on this please see www.valewisham.org.uk).

Partnership Boards

There are fifteen Boards and Panels for which you could stand:

• Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership Board
• CYP Joint Commissioning Group
• Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)
• 14-19 Strategy Forum
• Children’s Centres and Extended Services Board
• Integrated Youth Support Services Board
• Child Poverty Working Group
• Disability Multi-Agency Group
• Emotional and Mental Health Working Group
• Healthy Eating/Healthy Lifestyles Working Group
• Family Support and Parenting Board
• Play Partnership Board
• Teenage Pregnancy, Parenthood and Sexual Health Programme Strategic Board
• Youth Crime Management Board
• Children’s Workforce Development Working Group

Each Board/Group has spaces for two VCS Reps, except the LSCB, which only has one.

You may nominate yourself as a Rep on more than one Board. Please complete a separate nomination form for each.

Nomination Procedure

To nominate yourself, please return completed Nomination Forms to Kate English by 23rd November 2009. Reps will be elected by secret ballot at our next CYP Forum meeting on 9th December at the Albany, Deptford.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Kate by phone to discuss this opportunity further, if you wish. Tel: 020 8314 7018.

I’m pleased to invite you to our next Children and Young People’s Forum Meeting:

Safe in our Society
9.30am – 12.30pm, 9^th December 2009
The Albany Theatre, Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8

As ever, our meeting will be packed with essential local updates, useful discussions and excellent networking opportunities. It will be followed by a sandwich lunch at 12.30pm.

Agenda:

• Focus: Children and Young People’s Community Safety – presentations and discussion with LBL’s Community Safety Team, Lewisham Police and a range of voluntary-led projects
• Update: Lewisham’s NEW Integrated Youth Support Service
• Ballot: Election of VCS Reps to the CYP Strategic Partnership (see separate webpage – deadline for nominations is 23^rd November)
• Networking:: with voluntary sector colleagues and statutory sector guests from Lewisham Council and the Metropolitan Police
• Open Mic: Your chance to share news and opportunities

We hope to see you there! Please register in advance by sending your name, organisation and contact details to kate@valewisham.org.uk or calling 020 8314 7018.

This course has been designed to highlight individual Worker and collective team responsibilities to dealing with issues associated with gang culture. It aims to raise participants’ awareness of the background to gang culture by looking at reasons why young people end up in gangs .

Key Focus
• This training provides basic information necessary to understand London’s street gang’s culture. It aims to discuss gang history, gang structures, and national gang trends.
• Addresses law around guns and knives.
• Strategies for dealing effectively with challenging behavior associated with gang culture.

Target group:
Anyone working within the field of children and young people and feel the need to look at issues associated with gang culture. Especially of interest to people who are new to the children and young people workforce, or people wanting to refresh skills and gain new insights into the realms of gang culture. .
                   

 There are limited places for the course.  So people will be selected on a first come first served basis

 

 

We’re delighted to invite you to this FREE event (including lunch!), open to anyone working with children and young people in Lewisham on a not-for-profit basis.

Please register in advance by emailing kate@valewisham.org.uk or calling 020 8314 7018 with your name, organisation and contact details.

An event for all voluntary and community organisations working for children and young people in Lewisham:

• Network with colleagues from local VCS organisations and statutory sector guests
• Discuss and influence local children and young people’s policy
• Learn of new opportunities for support, including training, events and fundraising

 

Agenda

1.30	Registration and sandwich lunch
2.00	Introductions and fun networking activities
2.40	Introducing Lewisham’s New Children and Young People’s Plan 2009-12: Frankie Sulke, Executive Director, Children and Young People’s Directorate, LB Lewisham
3.00	Q&A and further discussion
3.20	Break, networking and refreshments
3.35	Meet your Reps – discuss key issues affecting you with your Reps on the Lewisham Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership
4.05	Opportunities and Events ‘Open Mic’ – hear from a range of guests and get up and speak yourself, if there’s time!
4.30	Close

How to find us…

Alternative map of the area (Streetmap):

Buses: 181, 208, 136, 54 Bus map:     
Rail: 5 minute walk from Beckenham Hill Station
Cars: Limited on-street parking is available nearby, but we strongly encourage you to use public transport!

Access…

The venue is wheelchair accessible via a ramp. If you have particular access needs, please notify us when registering so we can support you.

The meeting will focus on child and youth engagement in Lewisham — adults, children and young people are invited!
The event will also be attended by guests from the Council, other partners and local funders.

Please contact me as soon as possible to reserve your place!

Agenda

6.15	Registration and refreshments
6.30	Mini-workshops: fun networking activities run by local groups including:
	- Artefacts Edutainment
	- Parent Support Group
	- Voluntary Action Lewisham
	- Lewisham’s Young Advisors
	And more! (please contact me if you are interested in running a workshop!)
7.00	Panel discussion: Youth Participation in Lewisham
	Sian Williams, Behaviour Inclusion Coordinator
	Lewisham’s Young Mayor and Advisors
	Children and young people from VCS groups
7.45	Break, refreshments and election of new Steering Group
8.00	Meet your VCS Reps (for Staff and Volunteers) – a chance to discuss key issues with your elected representatives
	Creative networking workshop (for young people)
8.30	Open Mic: your chance to share information on funding, opportunities and events
8.45	Close

Hope to see you there!
Kate

 

 

We hope this selection of recent and relevant policy documents is useful. Please contact us to suggest additions!

Policy in Lewisham

• Lewisham Children and Young People's Plan 2009-12 
• Lewisham Sustainable Community Strategy (Summary)
• Lewisham's Local Area Agreement: targets and current performance
• Lewisham Compact

Children and Young People: General

• Every Child Matters Outcomes Poster 2008
• Children's Plan 2007: Useful factsheets
•  The Children's Plan One Year On 2009
• United we Stand: A Voluntary and Community Sector Manifesto for London's Children and Young People, 2010
• Department for Children, Families and Schools website

Children's Trusts

• 'What is a Children's Trust?' leaflet and guidance on the 'Duty to Involve' the Third Sector

Safeguarding Children and Young People

• Lord Laming Review 2009 (ordered in response to Baby P tragedy)
• Government Action Plan in Response to Laming Review
• The Safe Network
• Lewisham Safeguarding Children
• London Safeguarding Children Board
• Pan London Common Assessment Framework Protocol
• ContactPoint  
• For practical advice see our page Support with Safeguarding. 

Commissioning

• Commissioning Guidelines - A Lewisham Compact Code of Practice
• National Audit Office Successful Commissioning Guidance

Children's Centres, Childcare and Extended Services

• How Well are they Doing? OFSTED's 2008 report on national impact of Children's Centres and Extended Services
• Together for Children: Children's Centres
• Extended Services: the Government Prospectus

Youth Support Services

• Youth Matters summary
• Youth Matters: Next Steps

Children with Disabilities

• Aiming High for Disabled Children
• Every Disabled Child Matters
• Aiming High in Lewisham
• Aiming High Pilot Services in Lewisham, 2010

Anti-Bullying

• Lewisham Council Anti-Bullying Policy

Children and Young People's Participation

• Participation Works
• Lewisham Young Mayor's Project 

Children's Rights 

• UN Convention on Children's Rights (UN CRC) - useful summary
• UN CRC, Every Child Matters and children's rights policy developments in the UK
• Children's Rights Alliance for England
• Children's Rights Bill
• Rights and Responsibilities Green Paper

Child Poverty

• Campaign to End Child Poverty
• Child Poverty in Lewisham - data
• Lewisham's Child Poverty Pledge
• National developments on the Child Poverty Bill, 2009

Children's Health

• Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures - National Child Health Strategy 2009
• 'Health, Wellbeing and Care': Lewisham's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2009
• NHS Lewisham Children's Health Profile

Children's Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing

• DCSF guidance on mental and emotional health support
• Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
• Kaleidoscope: Lewisham Centre for Children and Young People

Teenage Pregnancy, Parenthood and Sexual Health

• Sex and Relationships Education Guidance - national consultation
• Teenage Pregnancy Project in Lewisham
• The Young Foundation's 2009 Research on Teenage Pregnancy in Lewisham
• Lewisham Teenage Pregnancy, Parenthood and Sexual Health Action Plan 2008-10

14 - 19 Strategy

• DCSF 14 - 19 Reform
• New funding arrangements for 16-19 provision - implications for Lewisham 
• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

Children's Workforce Development

• Children's Workforce Development Council
• NCVYS Introduction to Workforce Development
• 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy

Play

• National Play Strategy 2008
• London Play website
• Briefing papers on Play policy
• Lewisham Open Space policy
• Report to Mayor on Play Builder Progress and Plans 2009

 Youth Offending and Justice

• London Criminal Justice Partnership - includes updates on Lewisham projects including Triage and the MARAC
• Lewisham Youth Offending Service
• Restorative Justice in Lewisham
• Youth Justice Board

 

From October 2009 organisations working with children and young people will need to ensure that staff and volunteers are registered with the ISA.

The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) is holding a Vetting & Barring Scheme Information Roadshow in London on Friday 26th June from 1pm – 4pm.

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Schools can offer us great partnership opportunities, and are increasingly aware of the huge added value that we offer their students. In Lewisham, the Extended Services team works to support and develop joint working between education and the voluntary and community sector.

The downloadable resources below were developed by VAL and Lewisham Extended Services to help you forge closer partnerships with local schools:

 

These links take you straight to some major funders of CYP work in London:

• Big Lottery Fund
• BBC Children in Need
• Capital Community Foundation
• Capital Radio Help A London Child

For a comprehensive guide to current funding opportunities, download the Lewisham Funding Guide '08 by clicking on the attachment below.

You are also welcome to visit the VAL Offices to use FunderFinder, a powerful, searchable computer database of up-to-date funding opportunities. Please contact sheila@valewisham.org.uk to book your appointment.