Welcome to Issue 159 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

A illustrated cover page for the CYPSP Southern Area Locality Planning Groups’ ‘For Your Information’ Issue 159, dated 18th December 2025. On the left, a pair of hands holds a tablet displaying the FYI circular logo. To the right, the CYPSP logo appears above a grid of colourful squares featuring winter-themed icons including a robin, holly, a Christmas tree, and snowflakes.

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In our last edition of ‘FYI’ for 2025, we would like to wish you greetings for the festive season.

It has been another challenging year for families and supporting services, but we still need to highlight and promote the work carrying on from all sectors in the Southern Area and across Northern Ireland. They continue to be more vital than ever!

Please keep sending us your information and we will do our best to keep spreading the word!!

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Welcome to Issue 158 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Graphic for “Southern Area Locality Planning Groups” newsletter. The top left has a blue banner with white text reading “Southern Area Locality Planning Groups” and two right-pointing arrows. Below, two hands hold a tablet displaying a circular logo with “FYI For Your Information” inside. Bottom left text reads “ISSUE 158, 27th November 2025” in green and purple. The top right shows the CYPSP logo with the tagline “Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership.” Below are purple and green squares featuring icons for email, phone, globe, and person

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In our penultimate ‘FYI’ of 2025 we have pulled together a massive amount of information an opportunities for children, young people, parents and practitioners. Please share with all relevant contacts.

 The next page sees our Annual Survey to agree on the formats of our Locality Planning Group meetings for next year. If you attend, or intend to do so, please take 5 minutes to give us your thoughts on how the meetings should be run – Your feedback is always appreciated. In our next edition, we will have all dates and formats of our 6 LPG meetings for 2026.

Keep sending your information – It’s always important to let us all know what’s happening in the Southern Area.

Welcome to Issue 157 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

A graphic for the “Southern Area Locality Planning Groups” newsletter. At the top left, a blue banner with white text reads “SOUTHERN AREA LOCALITY PLANNING GROUPS” with two blue arrows pointing right. The top right displays the CYPSP logo and tagline “Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership.” On the left side, a hand holds a tablet showing a circular logo with the words “FYI For Your Information” in purple and green. Below the tablet, green text reads “ISSUE 157” and purple text below says “6th November 2025.” The right side features a grid of purple and green squares with icons: an envelope with an @ symbol, a telephone handset, a globe, and a person with a checkmark

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Thanks, as always, for your submissions for this new edition of ‘FYI’: more opportunities, activities, programmes and support for children, young people, parents and families.

Why not come to one of our 6 Locality Planning Groups in the Southern Area to share your information directly with practitioners across the area in Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon, Dungannon, Newry & Mourne and South Armagh?  Drop us a line and we’ll explain how you can do this and the benefits of doing so to you, your organisations and the families with whom you work.

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

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 6^th November. (We’ll send out a reminder closer to the time!).

In the meantime, Monday 20^th 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