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Issue 100 – Southern Area FYI – 23 March 2023

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Welcome to the milestone 100th issue of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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So, we’ve made it to 100 ‘FYI’s! A real achievement for our very small team and made possible by all of those who have submitted information on a wealth of relevant issues. Thank you to all and to those who have signed up to receive this every fortnight. And a massive thank you to Joanne, in our team, who is the creative talent behind it!!!

We have included some testimonials from our valued partners over the years which tell you how invaluable they have found ‘FYI’ over the last 4 years – Our very first edition was creatively called ‘What’s On’, released on 21st January 2019 and consisting of just 12 pages…

May we also draw your attention to our new School Uniform Recycling Toolkit on page 3 which we are inviting all schools across the Southern Area to use to help families recycle their children’s school uniforms, and also to our invitation on page 4 to anyone who wishes to come along to one of our Locality Planning Group meetings. The meetings include a lot of information sharing which is always very beneficial to all.

In the meantime, see you in a fortnight for Edition 101!!

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Issue 99 – Southern Area FYI – 9 March 2023

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Welcome to Issue 99 of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).

One more edition until we reach our 100th issue!  Please feel free to give us feedback on how useful this has been for your organisation or service – See page 3 for further details.

In these difficult days, look out for funding opportunities on page 13 and also the usual wide range of courses and sessions which are no/low cost. 

As always, please feel free to share this with all of your colleagues and with those families with whom you work.

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

 

Issue 98 – Southern Area FYI – 23 February 2023

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Welcome to Issue 98 of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).

In another bumper edition we have a number of new sources for funding and would encourage any groups to have a look to see if this is relevant to your work. We have also included further funding sources towards the back, for specific areas in the Southern region, so don’t stop reading!

We are fast approaching our 100th edition, in March, so would invite all of you who receive ‘FYI’ to let us know how relevant it is to your work and families. We will be including a selection of success stories in our 100th edition to show how valuable this resource has been to date – See Page 3 for further details.

Keep connected!

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Issue 97 – Southern Area FYI – 2 February 2023

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Welcome to Issue 96 of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information)

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(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).

This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week runs from 6th-12th February, with the theme being “Let’s Connect”. It made sense, therefore, for us to produce this special edition of ‘FYI’ into one raising awareness of support, services, resources and opportunities around the theme of mental health and emotional wellbeing. This, of course, is not the exhaustive list of support available, but we are very thankful to our colleagues who have submitted a plethora of information to share across our 900 contacts who receive ‘FYI’.

Tuesday 7th February is also Safer Internet Day so we have included a great resource which we produced on Page 35 to signpost to key links to ensure you can keep children safer in a digital world.

We hope you get something from this edition to use or to share with families and colleagues. Your feedback is always welcome!

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area

 

Issue 96 – Southern Area FYI – 19 January 2023

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Welcome to Issue 96 of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information)

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(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).

On Page 6 you will see an invitation to join us for a Zoom chat on recruiting and retaining staff and volunteers. We have had a number of representatives tell us at LPG meetings that they are having difficulties in attracting staff and volunteers to help maintain their great services. Please let us know if you wish to join in the conversation and look at creative ways to overcome this obstacle.

Children’s Mental Health Week will take place from 6 to 12th February 2023,  with this year’s theme being “Let’s Connect”. We therefore invite any service or organisation to promote your work on emotional wellbeing and mental health, by sending information on your service, programme, resources or links that can help connect our readership of practitioners and families. We look forward to hearing from you! 

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area