Category Archives: News

Complete A-Z for Carers 2024

Posted on by

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

Issue 132 – Southern Area FYI – 5 September 2024

Posted on by

Welcome to Issue 132 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 132

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

So, Summer has come and gone, in the blink of an eye! Back to school and we hope we have been able to reflect just some of the support and opportunities available for children, young people and their parents/carers.

Our Locality Planning Groups have resumed meeting this morning (5th September) in Armagh and will operate at full speed throughout the rest of the year. We welcome anyone working or volunteering to improve outcomes for children & young people and we’ll be delighted to tell you more, if you are interested.  Dates for the next meetings are on the second last page, as always.

 See you later in September!

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

Children & Young People’s Resource Pack- Back to School Edition

Posted on by

The Back to School Edition of the Children & Young People’s Resource Pack is out now, included are resources on education, disability, mental health, activity ideas and more!

Download here

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

Resources and activities are free and in the public domain.

Please share with contacts who you think would find it useful.

Issue 131 – Southern Area FYI – 22 August 2024

Posted on by

Welcome to Issue 131 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 131

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

This is our second largest ever edition of ‘FYI’, so thank you so much for submitting so much great information and keep it coming! We keep submissions in ‘FY’I for one edition, unless requested, so please let us know if you want to avail of this opportunity.

We are delighted to include our Action Plan Report on Page 3 which tells you how productive our Locality Planning Groups and our Team has been over the last 3 years. During this time, we were still experiencing the impact of COVID, so our outcomes have been remarkable in such challenging times.

Plenty of information – Why don’t you come to one of our Locality Planning Groups to see what more there is to offer in the Southern Area?! Contact us at localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk for further information.

 Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

 

Southern Area LPGs 2021-24 Action Plan

Posted on by

 

The Southern Area Locality Planning Team have produced our Final Report from our 2021-24 Action Plan.

This evidences our work with all 6 Locality Planning Groups: Our priorities, actions and outcomes, with links to all of our report scorecards and resources produced.

Another busy and challenging 3 years, but an excellent example of partnership work by all organisations involved!

At the end of the document is a chart of all organisations and services who attended our meetings and worked together to improve outcomes for children and young people.

Download the Southern Area LPGs 2021-2024 Action Plan Final Report HERE

For further information, contact us at localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk