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Ards & North Down Family Fun Day, 1 September 2017

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The Ards and North Down Locality Planning Group invite children, young people and their families along come along to the Ards Summer Family Fun Day on 1 September from 1.30pm to 5.30pm. There will be inflatable races and games, music, family walks, local family support services, light refreshments including a BBQ and Ice Cream and much more….

Click here to download the Fun Day flyer

 

Contact Us:

For more information contact Julie Bickerstaff, Barnardo’s by;

Email: julie.bickerstaff@barnardos.org.uk 

Telephone:  07710775641

 

800 Baby Step Challenge for Infant Mental Health Week 2017

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The Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Groups celebrated Infant Mental Health Week on 16 June at Enniskillen Castle with local families.

Families were welcomed into the historic grounds to play and have fun with physical and learning initiatives hosted by locality planning members including Bubble Toddler Yoga, Take Five, storytelling, puppets and arts and crafts.

The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Groups have been supporting the ‘Give Your Child the Best Start in Life’ campaign in the Western Outcomes Area this month through a series of local area initiatives.

This event brought together 58 parents and families with practitioners to celebrate the best start in life that children are provided with and also to demonstrate the value of positive parenting and show support to parents by their peers and local community. Families were welcomed into the historic grounds of Enniskillen Castle by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council to play and have fun with physical and learning initiatives that were hosted by the locality planning group members including Bubble Toddler Yoga, Take Five, storytelling, puppets and arts and crafts to name a few.

 

Click here to download a copy of the 800 Baby Step Walk for Infant Mental Health Week

 

Contact Us:

For further information about locality planning in the Fermanagh and Omagh area contact Priscilla Magee, Locality Planning Officer in the Western Area, Western Health and Social Care Trust on 07880723076 or email Priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net

 

Children and Young People’s Strategy Update

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The Children and Young People’s Strategy Team in the Department of Education is continuing to develop the new Executive’s Northern Ireland Children and Young People’s Strategy for 2017-2027.  In response to the consultation, the Department received 184 written responses, with a further 76 responses received via online questionnaire.

 

The Children and Young People’s Strategy Team, working closely with Departmental statisticians and staff from the Centre for Effective Services, is presently undertaking a thorough analysis of the responses to the public consultation. 

Following the analysis of the consultation responses, a Consultation Response Report will be prepared and published online.

 

Click here to read more about the next steps for the Children and Young People’s Strategy Team

 

Get In Touch

If you would like to find out more about the development of the Executive Strategy for Children and Young People, please contact the Children and Young People’s Strategy Team:

Address:  

Children and Young People’s Strategy Team

Room 6.14

Department of Education

Rathgael House

Bangor

Co. Down

BT19 7PR

 

Telephone:    (028) 9185 8026

Email:             cyps@education-ni.gov.uk

 

 

Ballymoney Locality – Year 8 Healthy Lifestyles Engagement Pilot (June 2017)

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Year 8 pupils in Our Lady of Lourdes School, Ballymoney were involved in a Healthy Lifestyles Engagement Pilot, which was undertaken in partnership with CYPSP, the Northern Obesity Partnership, Public Health Nursing, Northern Trust Dietetics and Causeway Coast and Glens Council.  As part of the pilot, Year 8 pupils had an opportunity to participate in a project with the Traditional Conservation Volunteers, which enabled them to plan and develop their own vegetable beds as well as growing vegetables.  Fourteen Year 8 pupils also had the opportunity to participate in a steering group to ensure user engagement & involvement was central to the project.

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Improving children’s lives together in the South Eastern Area

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The South Eastern Outcomes Group recently hosted an engagement event in Downpatrick to launch their new children and young people’s plan for 2017-2020. The event brought together over 60 representatives from the community, voluntary and statutory sector who are working with children and families across the South Eastern area.

Fionnuala McAndrew, Director for Social Care and Children from the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) welcomed delegates to the event and highlighted that the ‘outcomes groups have been real drivers of our work’. 

Click here to download a copy of the South Eastern Outcomes Area Children and Young People’s Plan for 2017-2020 

 

The presentation from the South Eastern Stakeholder Engagement Event can be accessed by clicking here 

 

Find out more

For further information about the CYPSP South Eastern Outcomes Group click here