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Tots and Tea

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Tots & Tea meet the last three Wednesday’s of each month at the Meadow & Armagh Road Community Centre, 10am – 12 noon.

Tots & Tea is a welcoming community of parents, carers and children taking their first steps on their disability journey. We also have parents only evening’s (first Tuesday of each month, 7pm – 9pm) at Bolster Community Whitegates.

Colorful flyer for Bolster Community's 'Tots & Tea' event featuring a rainbow, smiling sun, and cartoon children. It promotes meet-ups with fun activities, a safe space, peer support, and refreshments. Sessions are held on the last three Wednesdays of each month (10AM–12 NOON) at The Meadow & Armagh Road Community Centre, and evening sessions on the first Tuesday monthly (7PM–9PM) at Bolster Community Whitegates. Contact Julie-Anne at 028 3083 5764 to register

Colorful flyer for Bolster Community’s ‘Tots & Tea’ event featuring a rainbow, smiling sun, and cartoon children. It promotes meet-ups with fun activities, a safe space, peer support, and refreshments. Sessions are held on the last three Wednesdays of each month (10AM–12 NOON) at The Meadow & Armagh Road Community Centre, and evening sessions on the first Tuesday monthly (7PM–9PM) at Bolster Community Whitegates. Contact Julie-Anne at 028 3083 5764 to register

Belfast Locality Planning Newsletter – 16th October 2025

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Two community event posters side by side. The left poster promotes the 'North Belfast Lantern Festival' at Alexandra Park on 30th October 2023, with a circus-themed design featuring a ringmaster and performer, and the Ashton Community Trust logo. The right poster advertises 'Parenting Puzzle,' a series of 10 weekly sessions starting Thursday, 16th October at Mornington Community Project, covering topics like praise, discipline, and communication. Contact details for Anne McKay are included

Two community event posters side by side. The left poster promotes the ‘North Belfast Lantern Festival’ at Alexandra Park on 30th October 2023, with a circus-themed design featuring a ringmaster and performer, and the Ashton Community Trust logo. The right poster advertises ‘Parenting Puzzle,’ a series of 10 weekly sessions starting Thursday, 16th October at Mornington Community Project, covering topics like praise, discipline, and communication. Contact details for Anne McKay are included

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If you have any information you would like to share across our Locality Planning Group members in Belfast, please email: LocalityPlanning@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Issue 156 – Southern Area FYI – 16 October 2025

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Welcome to Issue 156 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Promotional graphic for the Southern Area Locality Planning Groups, of the Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP). The design features a blue banner with the group name, the CYPSP logo, and an illustration of hands holding a tablet displaying the ‘FYI – For Your Information’ logo. The issue number and date (Issue 156, 16th October 2025) appear in the bottom left corner. A set of icons on the right side represents communication tools, including email, phone, web, and verified contact

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With the half-term breaking coming up, the next edition of ‘FYI’ will be circulated in three weeks’ time, on Thursday 6th November. (We’ll send out a reminder closer to the time!).

In the meantime, Monday 20th October sees the start of Parenting Week and so, in this edition, we have included a wide range of support and opportunities for parents & carers, and encourage as many people to avail of these resources as possible.

As always, keep sharing ‘FYI’ with your families and colleagues and feel free to send us any flyers or information to share with close to 600 contacts who regularly receive this newsletter.

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Nutrition Matters survey

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Complete the Nutrition Matters survey to enter a free prize draw to win a £100 voucher to support healthy habits in your child care setting!

Flyer promoting the 'Nutrition Matters' survey for early years childcare providers. It invites participants to complete a short survey for a chance to win a £100 voucher to support healthy habits in childcare settings. Includes a QR code labeled 'Scan me' and notes that the survey is open to anyone providing childcare or preparing meals in a childcare setting. The closing date is 7th November 2025.

Flyer promoting the ‘Nutrition Matters’ survey for early years childcare providers. It invites participants to complete a short survey for a chance to win a £100 voucher to support healthy habits in childcare settings. Includes a QR code labeled ‘Scan me’ and notes that the survey is open to anyone providing childcare or preparing meals in a childcare setting. The closing date is 7th November 2025.

Nutrition Matters Flyer 

Nutrition Matters aims to equip early years (0-5) childcare providers with information on how to provide healthy and nutritious foods in their setting.

It is commissioned by the Public Health Agency and training delivered by the Public Health Dietitians Group.

Nutrition Matters training and supporting resources are currently being reviewed and updated.  

We would be grateful for 5 minutes of your time to complete this survey to help guide this process and make sure the new training and resources are right to support you! 

click here to enter!

Once completed, you can enter a prize draw to win a £100 voucher to support healthy habits in your childcare setting.

Closing date: 7th November 2025

Open to anyone providing childcare or preparing meals in a childcare setting (ie not by parents/guardians) – you do not need to have attended Nutrition Matters training to enter.

SBNI Trauma Informed Practice Online Training Brochure

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Training brochure cover from SBNI showing a group walking a winding path through a bright, scenic landscape, representing recovery and resilience

This brochure outlines training modules on understanding the impact of adversity and trauma informed practice currently available to support practitioners across Northern Ireland. All courses contained in this brochure are free for practitioners, funded by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland.

The SBNI acknowledges that recognising and responding to the imprints of childhood adversity and trauma, will remain an integral part of achieving better outcomes through the implementation of trauma informed practice in organisations across NI. Trauma informed practice can only happen in the context of trauma informed and trauma responsive environments, policies, systems and organisations.

When we consider adversity and trauma in the workplace and in our organisations, this can help in understanding our own responses and needs and also in our thinking about the responses and needs of the people we work with.

The SBNI continues to work to help its member agencies and other related bodies to:

► have an awareness of adverse childhood experiences;

► be aware of the impact of adversity and trauma on development across the lifespan;

► be able to identify what supports resilience to cope with adversity; and

► embed a trauma informed approach in their work.

The SBNI is committed to providing support to enable member agencies & partners to develop trauma informed practice to improve the health, wellbeing and safety of the children in Northern Ireland and the adults they develop into.

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