Children’s Fund Medway
Click on the links below to visit all sorts of useful websites, such as:
Sites which provide information for children and young people
Sports Organisations providing Services for Children and Young People
Dyslexia
Friendly Schools Support (Medway Dyslexia Association)
Excellence Cluster
Counselling Service (Medway Excellence Cluster)
Parentis (Sunlight Development Trust)
The Place to Be
Positive Pastoral Support (Brompton
Westbrook Primary School)
Restorative Justice Conferencing in Schools (Medway Mediation)
Young Carers (Medway
Carers Centre)
a partnership of over 500 organisations offering information and advice for, by and about Medway
part of Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Children’s Charity, which cares for, educates and encourages children in need. The Arethusa Venture Centre specialises in adventurous outdoor learning!
Connexions
Kent and Medway
Connexions provides information, advice, guidance support and personal
development services for all 13 - 19 year olds, and young people up to 25
with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
CVS Medway
enables, supports and builds a thriving voluntary and community sector in
Medway
Kent and Medway NHS
guide to healthcare in Kent and Medway
Medway Council
Medway Information Sharing
Partnership
information about this project and link to online survey for children and
young people's views on sharing
information about them to help solve their problems
Medway Teaching Primary Care Trust
Policing in Kent
Positive Parenting Network (PPN)
serves parents, carers and family support agencies. Find out about local
services and swap parenting information
a community
owned and managed charitable organisation that works with partners across
all sectors. A mix of services aimed at everyone within their community -
nobody is excluded. Their overriding aim is to improve health inequity and
wellbeing by providing an improved range of social, medical and community
activities.
Lord Lieutenant's Focus on Young People
The Lord Lieutenant is the Queen’s representative in the county. Celebrating Youth Achievement is the main initiative for the Kent Lieutenancy for 2007. Throughout the year, the focus will be on the many positive activities and achievements of young people. The initiative has four main aims:
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Highlighting the positive work that is being done by and with young people across Kent & Medway
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Informing young people about the many opportunities that are open to them – and encouraging them to get involved
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Encouraging more adult volunteers to get involved
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Urging business to show support for youth organisations
Kent Community Foundation Local Network
Fund
funds local charities and community groups working with disadvantaged young
people up to the age of 19
Kent Council for Voluntary Youth Services
the only umbrella organisation in the County to which all the countywide voluntary youth organisations belong.
Children Now
magazine for everyone working with children and families
Crime Reduction
Sharing Personal and Sensitive Data in Domestic Violence Contexts - A Tool
for Practitioners
Department for
Children, Schools and Families
Family Welfare Association
provides support to some of the poorest families in the country
National Evaluation of the Children's Fund
evaluating what works in the prevention of social exclusion for children and
young people, and why it works
National Family and
Parenting Institute
National Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
OFSTED
Office for Standards in Education
Social Exclusion Unit
works to ensure effective Government action to promote inclusive and
sustainable communities
SureStart
Government programme delivering the best start in life for every child by
bringing together early education, childcare, health and family support
SITES WHICH PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
National charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building futures for children.
Free helpline for children and young people in the UK to talk about any problem
A wide range of public information and services for young people. Sections dedicated to politics and government, health, crime, leisure time, learning, money, travel, work and careers, and young disabled people, as well as a Youth Funds section, which explains how teenagers can get money from their local authority to create better leisure facilities in their own area.
Drugs information and advice. Access to FRANK telephone and email helplines.
Help and support for children and young people who are living with domestic violence or who want to help a friend. The Hideout uses language, graphics, checklists, quizzes and interactive games to help children and young people to think through the issues that surround domestic violence. The site includes information on safety planning and clearly signposts additional routes to help and further information. Safety functions have been incorporated into The Hideout to ensure that children and young people can access the site without putting themselves at risk.
KCA's aim is to prevent or reduce the harms and costs arising from the use of alcohol, prescribed and non-prescribed drugs
Lord Lieutenant's Focus on Young People
The Lord Lieutenant is the Queen’s representative in the county. Celebrating Youth Achievement is the main initiative for the Kent Lieutenancy for 2007. Throughout the year, the focus will be on the many positive activities and achievements of young people. Two of the main aims are:
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Highlighting the positive work that is being done by and with young people across Kent & Medway
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Informing young people about the many opportunities that are open to them – and encouraging them to get involved
Activities and courses, information, guidance and support for young people from eight to 25 years old in Medway. Helping young people to enjoy life and get ahead, the service offers access to sports, leisure and creative art activities. http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/socialcare/children/yphealth/42215.htm gives links to many other useful websites.
....the best place to find news, events and have your say about the things that affect you in Medway
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
The NSPCC's purpose is to end cruelty to children
NCH helps children achieve their full potential. They support some of the most vulnerable and excluded children in the UK. On their site you'll find policy and social work research, adoption and fostering
Online survey for
children and young people
to give their views on sharing information about them to help solve their
problems
SPORTS ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Medway Council's Sports Development team has produced a Sports Club Directory which lists all the sports organisations in Medway of which they are aware, giving contact details and (where available) websites for further information. The directory can be obtained at www.medway.gov.uk/sports_club_directory_march_07.pdf
All Faiths' Children's Community (no website)
Burnt Oak Primary (no website)
Chatham Grammar School for Boys
Chatham Grammar School for Girls
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary
Hoo St Werburgh Primary School & Marlborough Centre
Napier Community Primary & Nursery
New Road Primary School & Nursery Unit
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary
St Benedict's Catholic Primary
St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive
St Margaret's at Troy Town (CE) Primary
St Mary's Island C of E (Aided) Primary
St Thomas More Catholic Primary
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary
St William of Perth Catholic Primary
The Rochester Grammar School for Girls
Twydall Junior (no website)
Warren Wood Community Primary & Language Unit
Wayfield Community Primary & Nursery Unit
Examples of Health and Safety Policies:
Example 1 (Word doc 84KB)
Example 2 (Word doc 107KB)
Example 3 (Word doc 55KB)
Example 4 (Word doc 221KB)
Examples of Risk Assessments:
Example 1 (Excel spreadsheet 47KB)
Example 2 (Excel spreadsheet 25KB)
Example 3 (Excel spreadsheet 192KB)
Example 4 (Excel spreadsheet 18KB)
Example 5
61KB
Every Child Matters
Government green paper and associated documents
How ICS, CAF and ContactPoint fit together
short briefing on the Integrated Children's System (ICS), the Common
Assessment Framework (CAF) and Contact Point (previously known as the
information sharing index).
Government Research Report "Building a Culture of Participation"
Guidelines for good practice in evaluation (UK Evaluation Society)
OFSTED inspection of the 18 first wave partnerships
DfES Green Paper
Voluntary
and Statutory - Let's Get Together339KB
Official report following March 2006 Every Child Matters Conference for the Voluntary and Community Sector
The Children's Plan: Building Brighter Futures (DCSF)
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