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Family Fund Information & Support Day in Belfast

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The Family Fund will host an Information and Support Day for families who have a child with an additional need to meet the staff team and to learn about the support services, grants and information/advice that is available to support families in Northern Ireland.

 

 The Information and Support Day will take place on:

Date: 25 October 2017

Time: 10.00am-2.30pm

Venue: St Mary’s University College, 191 Falls Rd, Belfast BT12 6FE

 

Click here to download a copy of the event’s flyer

 

For more information please go to: www.familyfund.org.uk 

Belfast Come and Play Sessions

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Belfast City Council are providing outdoor play sessions over the months of May and June 2017 in Belfast for parents and their children who are under the age of four years. It’s a chance to have fun, make friends and enjoy    playing outdoors with your child.

Activities include physical play, art, dressing up, messy play and much more…

Click here for further details

 

For further information or to book a place contact Jenny at Belfast City Council:

Telephone: 028 9075 3897

Mobile: 079 2081 7120

Email: play@belfastcity.gov.uk

 

Belfast Autism Awareness Training

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Over 100 Belfast locality planning group’s members and family support hub staff recently participated in Autism Awareness training hosted by Autism NI and NIACRO.

In recent years high levels of referrals have been reported through the hubs for families affected by autism requiring family support. Frontline staff attended the training including health visitors. social workers and other practitioners.

Development of the next Children and Young People’s Strategy

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Our online survey seeking the views of children and young people closed on 17 June 2016 with over 300 responses received. Analysis of the responses has now begun and will inform the direction of travel as we continue to work on the development of the next Strategy. Thank you to all those who took part and to those who encouraged others to do the same, your input will be very useful.

We have continued to meet and consult with a wide range of stakeholders and are now in the process of analysing all the information we have received to date. The various issues raised in these meetings are being used to develop potential outcomes for the strategy and also the indicators which will allow us to measure how we are delivering on these outcomes and addressing these issues…Read more