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Thank you for making the time. All helps us showoff all the brilliant work you'redoing.
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Keep up to date with Hampshire's Children's services
Common Assessment Framework - you can get bite size information from this link:
Common Assessment + Info-sharing
So, why do we need the Children's Fund?
Although there are services to meet the needs of young people, those with complex needs oftenslip . This can lead to through the net which can cause difficulties for some young people in making the transition toadulthood.
This is particularly true for young adults with problems s/a mental health, homelessness, substance misuse and disability, which might lead to anti-social behaviour, offending, or social &/or economic disadvantage.
207,200children in the South East live in 'workless' households (2001 Census)
52,800children under 16 live in housing with no central heating (2001 Census)
711,000children live in overcrowded accommodation (2001 Census)
1,300 births to teenage mothersaged under 18 in the South East in 2003
4,900conceptions to mothers aged 15-17 in the region in 2003
Click here for more informationfrom the Government Office for the South East /GOSE
checkthis linkfor the ‘GOSE’ statistics from our 2005 planning day at Marwell
And click here for the Government’s siteSocial Exclusion - Children & Families
So how are we making a difference?
Feedback from our Children's Fundplanning day at Marwell helped us to review the work we've been doing over the last 2 years andto considerour priorities in line with Hampshire. the emerging 'Change for Children' agendain
The Local Area Agreement will helpmake the most ofscarce funding by working together to to become more dynamic in delivering quality services.Working hand in hand with the new Children's Services Department we plan to make a big difference in the way preventative services are designed and delivered Hampshire. We areworking towards mainstreaming projects wherever we can, and using evidence of their success toassist with that process.
We send you all thanks for the excellent work you’re doing with Hampshire Children!
What's happening with the Yisp?
The Youth inclusion & support panel/Yisp has worked withmany children's agencies over the year tohelp youngsters at risk of exclusion and anti social behaviour.The Yispteam welcome your help in identifying support agencies to back them up in offeringworthwhile activities if youknow a child who needs extrahelp if your project can offer support to children aged 5-13
Contact Lizat YispCallthe team Yisp on 01730 235235 And click here to find out more about Yisp
Young at Heart- Children's Fund are listening to children...
Childrenyoung people are at the heart of theChildren's Fund. When decisionsaremade about commissioning and allocating resources as well ashow children feel about being involved in decision making and sharing we ask thethem! Launch-pad productions is a company attached to Children's Fund who helpyoung people get their voices heardviadrama, film and creative games.
This helps them to get their voices heard. After this we record a reply video from the Board to let Once they have told us, we record our own video letter from the Board back to the children know how much we valued their input and how we will make use of their views.
At a project level too, listening to children is recognised as a fundamental right, which not only us to helps us to improve services, but it helps children and their families to see how having yourviews taken seriously canimprove self esteem, confidence and build not only personalconfidence but the strength of the community too.For more help on getting young people involved
Getting it together with the Voluntary Sector:
Click here for more info on regional action & involvement Support for the Voluntary Sector
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION UNIT: POLICY ACTION TEAM REPORTS
The policy action team reports on topics including housing,management, young people and closing the digital divideclick here to find out more
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Lets get together
There are around 5,500 partnerships existed in the UK, accounting for £4 billionof public expenditure.If you’d like to see how they’ve spent it, then read this:
'Bridging the accountability gap' read this report by the Audit Commission
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