Could you provide a home for a young refugee?
Health and Social Care NI Foster Care is seeking foster carers and supported lodgings hosts to provide care and support to young refugees. http://adoptionandfostercare.hscni.net/young-refugees/
Tel: 0800 0720 137
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Survey
Do you work with Children & Young People – Help Children’s Law Centre by facilitating completion of this important Survey.
Children’s Law Centre are in the next phase of the reporting process in which the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examines the UK Government, NI Executive and other devolved administrations on their compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [UNCRC]. We hope that you will work with us to gather information from children and young people across Northern Ireland using an online survey which is available on our website from 14 March until 14 April 2022.
www.childrenslawcentre.org.uk/survey/
To support children and young people in completing the survey, you may wish to download the ‘Guidance’ we have developed to help inform lesson plans or sessions. This includes background information about the reporting process and an overview of the survey. You can also download some ‘Activities‘ and a ‘Template‘ for recording issues raised by children and young people during discussion, should you wish to utilise this.
The survey responses will be analysed and combined with other information to produce a Children and Young People’s Report over the summer. If you would like to receive a copy of the final Report, please email Sinead McSorley [Youth Participation and Advocacy Worker]: sineadmcsorley@childrenslawcentre.org
The Children’s Law Centre has been privileged to work in partnership with many organisations in compiling previous reports to the UN Committee – presenting detailed analysis on implementation of children’s rights here which the Committee has drawn on to develop recommendations used by many of us in our policy, practice and lobbying activities.
We hope that you will encourage the children and young people with whom you work to participate in this process and look forward to receiving survey responses from them
ASD and Supporting your Child with the War in Ukraine
Some children and young people with ASD are struggling to understand the current situation in Ukraine. Talking about war to children can be very difficult.
The Child and Adolescent Autism Service in Belfast Trust has produced this guide to support you in talking to your child… we hope you find it helpful.
Click Here: https://bit.ly/35QVgIS
Welcome to the 78th edition of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).
(Note: FYI will download directly to your device. Look out for the pop up box and click on open file when it appears)
As ‘FYI’ moves towards its 80th issue next month, we would like to get your feedback on our fortnightly newsletter and how it is making an impact on the ground. Please see Page 3 for further details on this short survey and thanks (in advance) for participating. This will help us make any necessary improvements or tell us that what we are doing is along the right lines!
To make it easier for reference, we include the soonest events and activities first in ‘FYI’, so please note the dates on included flyers, as sometimes they are coming up in the very near future.
Keep submitting your information… Spring time is fast approaching!!
Joanne Patterson Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area
Deferral of Pre-School or Primary school places
Parents or guardians of some children can now choose to defer school places by one year. This means that children born between 1st April and 1st July (including both dates), or any premature child who was born before 1st April but was due to be born on or after 1st April, are eligible to defer pre-school or primary school this year if they choose. For further information see: https://nidirect.gov.uk/articles/deferral-pre-school-or-primary-school-places
