Children’s Voluntary Sector Forum
In recognition of the time & financial pressures voluntary groups and other partners face, the Solihull Children’s Voluntary Sector Forum (CVSF) has joined forces with the Youth Forum – Young Solihull (formerly SCVYS)
However, SUSTAiN can offer specialist support to organisations providing services to children in Solihull.
Support For Your Organisation
Andrea Davis joins SUSTAiN as a Development/Support Officer whose job is to support local independent voluntary organisations (those not affiliated to a national body or organisation) and Faith Groups with Safeguarding & Integrated Working.
Andrea starts in April 2011 and can be contacted at our Central Solihull Office or email andread@solihull-sustain.org.uk
Andrea’s appointment is thanks to funding from the Children’s Workforce Development Council and the Local Children’s Safeguarding Board.
Safe Network
The Safe Network: Safeguarding children and young people
Run as a partnership between NSPCC and Children England, the Safe Network provides a website containing practical safeguarding information and advice for community and voluntary groups, as well as training events, a phone enquiry service, and community-based support through regional development managers and delivery partners.
A New Way of Sharing & Learning
The Chidren’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has just launched Share Street – an online resource for people who work with children & young people plus parents, carers and children & young people themselves.
So, if you work with children or young people and their families, Share Street is for you. It’s a community for sharing resources and discussing best practice in the workplace, for building networks and communicating with colleagues.
Download a short presentation about Share Street or go straight to the street and join in.
Do you recruit into the children and young people’s workforce?
All those organisations and individuals who work with children and young people, or are involved in providing services for them, have a duty to safeguard and promote their welfare.
The Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has developed an e-learning tool and comprehensive safer recruitment guidance for the children and young people’s workforce. Alongside this training they are hosting online training that was developed by the National College (formerly NCSL) for the education sector.
For more information and resources, and to take the safer recruitment training please visit the CWDC Safer Recruitment website.
And we want to provide it but we have only limited resources and capacity. So, we would appreciate your help in gathering some basic information about the number of people providing services to children & young people – staff and volunteers – and how many children and young people use the services you provide. This applies to organisations who specifically provide services to children & young people but also to organisations who provide a more general service that is used by children & young people (e.g. sports and arts clubs, etc.
The information will help to demonstrate the volume of work undertaken by the voluntary sector and argue the case for additional resources to support you – especially given the pressures on you with increased safeguarding requirements, staff & volunteer induction, skills and experience requirements, etc.
It will take only a few minutes to complete a simple online survey.
In the meantime, if we can help, please contact Charles Rapson on 0121 770 8222 or email charlesr@solihull-sustain.org.uk
Thank you for your help
LINCS is the new name for the Solihull Child and Family Support Model. LINCS is a simple, practical framework for multi-agency support of children, young people and families. The LINCS ‘How to’ booklet is a step by step guide on what to do if you have concerns about a child. It provides advice on issues such as when to carry out a Common Assessment Framework (CAF) assessment and how to decide on a Lead Professional or Lead Person (LP).
Download the ‘How to’ booklet here
If you would like to know more or would like free training on LINCS,CAF and LP please contact the LINCS team at Solihull Children and Young People’s Trust on 0121 788 5356 or email lincs@solihull.gov.uk
Useful newsletter detailing some of the excellent projects funded through DCATCH funding across Solihull.