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Free Cerebral Palsy Sleep Resource

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The Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register and Queen’s University Belfast are delighted to share with you our free resources on sleep and CP. These resources are the results of Dr Mary-Elaine McCavert’s PhD on sleep disturbances in children with CP and were created alongside children with CP and their parents thanks to the support of the John Glover Memorial Award. 

All three resources (including one for families and one for the GP core team) can be found and downloaded from here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/NorthernIrelandCerebralPalsyRegister/Sleep-disturbances-Cerebral-palsy/ . For your convenience, we have attached the resource for educational staff. We hope this supports you and your pupils with CP, who may also have difficulties with sleep.  

Front cover of teacher resource about sleep and Cerebral Palsy - picture of yellow moon wearing a sleep hat with z z z sitting on purple clouds includes QUB logo and text "dear teacher please don't forget"

Complete A-Z for Carers 2024

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Who is this A–Z Guide for?
This guide is for informal/unpaid carers living in Northern Ireland. You are a carer if you provide help and support, without payment, to a family member or a friend who may not be able to manage without this help because of frailty, illness, or disability.

What is in this Guide?
This guide tells you where you can access information, support, and services relevant to carers. It directs you to the organisations best placed to meet your needs, and gives you contact details for these organisations. The guide is mainly regional in context – for more local information, you are advised to contact your HSC Trust for details.

View Guide Here

CiNI – Parent Participation Service

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Are you a passionate parent?    Calling all parents and carers in Northern Ireland! Join our Passionate Parents Network.

Download Easy Read version of Passionate Parent flyer with voice over

 

The Parent Champion Network.   Would you like to team up with like-minded groups to build a strong network where we can support each other? 

Download Easy Read version of The Parent Champion Network

How are Children & Young People doing in NI?

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We have just published our NI outcome monitoring report 2022/23 full of multi-agency population/census data. Download your copy now at  https://tinyurl.com/5djb4n73   

This is a great resource for assessing need, planning & evidence for funding opportunities.

This 12th Outcome Monitoring Report shows how children and young people in Northern Ireland are doing in relation to the Government’s eight outcomes and covers the period 2016 up to 2023 (where available) The report presents the information collected against agreed indicators for each outcome, providing trend analysis over time and comparison across geographical sectors.

This report will be kept as a live report under the publications page on the CYPSP website with information being updated as it becomes available we have highlighted in the index  where we are still awaiting data.

Changing Energy Related Behaviour Course

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Training for frontline Staff – Thursday 7th March, 9:30am – 12:00pm

Habits and behaviours can be hard to change, but they can have a huge impact on how much a household spends on energy. The course will look at of some of the theories and findings in the field of decision making, focusing specifically on simple practical things they can do to encourage people to act on the energy-related advice they receive.

This course is designed for frontline staff working in a range of organisations who are in a position to provide energy-related advice directly to householders either face-to-face or via the telephone.

Download Flyer Here

All webinars are 2.5 hours and CPD accredited Webinars will be delivered live via Zoom (video conferencing facility) by our expert tutors to small groups to ensure a good level of interaction and support for learners. Participants will require a device with a camera and sound.