OUR Generation Learning Lab: June – August 2025 dates
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Ards & North Down and Down Fortnightly News – Edition 86, June 2025
Welcome to the Summer edition of the Fortnightly News; for Children and Young People’s services and Families across the Down and Ards & North Down Locality Planning Groups. Check out all the new services and free training courses.
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Focusing on Families Survey
The Focusing on Families survey is your chance to share your views on how family support services in Northern Ireland can best meet the needs of children, young people and families.
If you are a child, young person, parent/carer or practitioner who cares about family support services in Northern Ireland, we want to hear your views!
This short survey is being conducted by Stats & Stories for the Children’s Social Care Reform Programme and covers five key themes:
- The purpose of family support services
- The values that should guide them
- The types of support that matter most
- Ideas for a future family support model
- How support services can make a difference to families
The Focusing on Families survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. We encourage you to provide honest feedback. Your feedback will help shape the Family Support Strategy for Northern Ireland, ensuring that services focus on the needs of families.
Please click on the link for the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FocusingonFamilies25
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Dr. Donna Kernaghan at donna@statsandstories.co.uk.
MYBnk FREE Live Webinar Lesson
MyBnk is hosting a FREE live webinar lesson to give teens the tools to stay safe in today’s digital world. Join us for The Big Money Ready Lesson on Thursday 26th June!
This 45-minute interactive session will cover:
Online scams
Phishing
In-game scams
Shopping scams
By the end of the lesson, learners will know some of the different types of online scams, be able to recognise key features of online scams, and know actions that can be taken if they have been scammed or are worried they have been scammed.
Event Details:
What: The Big Money Ready Lesson – Financial Scams & Digital Safety
When: Thursday, 26th June 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Where: Online (Microsoft Teams)
Who it’s for: Secondary schools, youth organisations, and young people aged 11–18
Cost: Completely FREE
Our goal is simple: help the next generation become money smart and scam safe. Whether you’re a teacher, youth worker, parent, or someone who supports young people — this is an opportunity to equip them with knowledge that truly protects.
Signup and more info here: https://www.mybnk.org/big-money-lesson/
Mental Health Data and Outcomes Conference – QUB
Children’s Servi
ces Planning team members Valerie Maxwell, Children Services Planning & Information Manager and Bronwyn Campbell, Lead for the Family Support Hubs Network were delighted to attend and present at Queen’s University Belfast Mental Health Data and Outcomes Conference on Tuesday 20th May 2025 in the Great Hall, along with Strategic Planning and Performance Group colleagues, Gavin Quinn, Head of the Regional Mental Health Service and Martina McCafferty, Mental Health Lead.
Gavin opened the conference and provided context and an overview of the development of the new Regional Mental Health Service and the importance of Data to the Service moving forward. Martina along with colleagues Hannah Brown, BHSCT and Mary Donaghy, Macmillan provided an update on the Journey of Think Family in NI and the benefits of implementing the model across systems. they also shared how they were developing data and outcomes across complex systems.
Valerie and Bronwyn presented on reporting trends and capturing outcomes over time – Valerie shared
information about the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership and how they have implemented an OBA Outcomes planning framework across their infrastructure based on a multi-agency outcomes and indicator framework. She also shared examples from the CYPSP Information systems including their Interactive Map Dashboards and new NI Outcome monitoring report presenting information at different geographical levels from Northern Ireland level, to Local government District, Trust level data and down to Ward level highlight how the data is used to assess need and also measure population outcomes.
Bronwyn then presented how information is used at Family Support Hub level providing an overview of what Family Support Hubs are and their purpose. She focused down to the 8 Hubs in the WHSCT area and provided information on supporting children, parents and families with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. Bronwyn was also able to share how unmet need is identified on the ground and fed back up through locality planning groups and outcomes groups for partners to look at how best as a multi-agency partnership they can fill those gaps and meet the needs. Bronwyn then shared an anonymised case study on one child and mother’s journey and the positive impact and outcomes achieved following support identified by the local hub.
Valerie concluded the presentation by sharing examples of CYPSP Report Cards and Family Support Hub Report Cards.