Launch of PB Tak£500+ 2025

Do you have an idea that you feel would have a positive impact on your Community?

Communities can apply for up to £1000 for a project they think will benefit their area and best of all, local residents will decide which projects should get the money!

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TAKE500 Application form 

TAKE500 Guidance notes 

TAKE500 FAQ’s

Issue 147 – Southern Area FYI – 1st May 2025

Welcome to Issue 147 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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We hope that everyone is back & feeling refreshed after the recent Easter break. It seems that local services & organisations have hit the ground running, as we have a wide range of training opportunities, workshops, events, parenting programmes & activities for families included in what is another jam-packed edition of our newsletter!

Be sure to take a look on Page 3, which includes a link to download the NI Outcome Monitoring Report 2023/24, recently published by CYPSP, full of multi-agency population indicators. This is a great resource for assessing need and planning services and can also be used as evidence for funding opportunities.

Stay connected!

Locality Development Team, Southern Area

How are Children & Young People doing in NI

We have just published our NI outcome monitoring report 2023/24 full of multi-agency population Indicators. Download your copy now at https://tinyurl.com/bdzc52cw

This is a great resource for assessing need, planning services & can be used as evidence for funding opportunities.

This 13th Outcome Monitoring Report shows how children and young people in Northern Ireland are doing in relation to the Government’s eight outcomes and covers the period 2016 up to 2024 (where available) The report presents the information collected against agreed indicators for each outcome, providing trend analysis over time and comparison across geographical sectors.  It also identifies Rights Based UNCRC Articles related to the indicators.

This report will be kept as a live report under the publications page on the CYPSP website with information being updated as it becomes available.

 

 

 

 

Issue 146 – Southern Area FYI – 17th April 2025

Welcome to Issue 146 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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As Easter is just around the corner, you will see our CYPSP Children & Young People’s Resource Pack on page 3, providing a wide range of activities to do during the school break.

On the subject of school, page 25 has got links to download the great new resource produced by CiNI to support schools on the prevalent issue of anxiety-based school avoidance. Both of these resources are FREE.

This edition of ‘FYI’ also contains information on upcoming training opportunities, events, resources and links for you, colleagues and families to avail of.

We hope you have a lovely Easter and catch up in two weeks time!

Southern HSC Trust Carers Action Plan 2025-2027 Focus Groups

The Southern Health and Social Care Trust Carers Reference Group are beginning to develop a new Carers Action Plan for 2025 –2027 and want to hear the views of unpaid carers.

A number of Focus Groups will take place in May 2025, at which you will have the opportunity to have your say and identify what is important to you. Your feedback will help inform the Action Plan and future planning of services for Carers.

Focus Group dates:

  • Thursday 1st May 2025 at 11 am, St Luke’s Hospital site, Armagh, The Vaccination Room

 

  • Tuesday 6th May 2025 at 11 am, PIPS Hope and Support Office, Newry, The Wellbeing Cafe

 

  • Thursday 15th May 2025 at 11 am, The Boulavard Retail Park, Banbridge, The Board Room

 

To book a place at any of the Focus Groups, contact the Carers Coordintors Office – 028 3756 6284 / email: carers.coordinators@southerntrust.hscni.net 

 

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Image with text inviting unpaid carers to attend upcoming Southern Health and Social Care Trust Focus Groups on 2025-2027 Carers Action Plan. Focus Groups are taking place in May. Picture shows younger set of hands holding an older set of hands