Welcome to the Northumberland Families and Children's Trust web page.
Better outcomes for ALL children and young people.

INDEX
Recent Documents
Important sources of information
Training open to people of any organisation
Participation toolkit
Tools for Practitioners
Integrated working - how it all fits together
Aiming High for Disabled Children
FACTSHEET archive

RECENT DOCUMENTS

Important sources of information:

Northumberland Safe Parenting Handbook - advice for parents of babies, children and young people from Northumberland Children's Fund, Sure Start Programmes and Child Protection Committee. Parentline Plus is a UK national charity, their website has a comprehensive A-Z guide to parenting topics. The National Family and Parenting Institute website has a section for parents with advice, factsheets and useful links to many other websites for parents. If you are looking after your grandchildren the Family Rights Group has information for grandparents.

TheSite.org is an online 'information toolkit' for young people. Whatevr* is the website for young people in Northumberland. The Community Legal Service is for all legal enquiries. Contact a Family is the national website for families with disabled children. IN-PACT is the Northumberland information service for parents of a disabled child. Northumberland Parent Partnership publishes a directory of services for parents of a disabled child. Young carers.net is for young carers.

    Training open to workers from any organisation:

    Participation Toolkit

    Tools for Practitioners

    A range of resources suggested by professionals in Northumberland to support and enhance their work with children, young people and parents.

    Follow this link to the Northumberland Common Assessment Framework website.

    All organisations that provide services for children, young people or parents are being asked to adopt the Northumberland Information Sharing Protocol that sets out our agreed, common understanding of the law on information sharing.

    Integrated Working - How it all fits together

    Aiming High for Disabled Children

    New money from Government to increase short breaks for parents of disabled children.

    FACTSHEET archive:

    No. 125 - 9th February 2009 Review of FACT Integrated Teams, Place2Be, Museums Outreach Service
    No. 124 - 26th January 2009 FACT Conference invitation, Shine, Carers Forum, 'And Finally...' book
    No. 123 - 12th January 2009 FACT Board and Leadership Team, Families Work in Wansbeck
    No. 122 - 15th December 2008 Albemarle Barracks, Dad's Matter, Hawthorn First School
    No. 121 - 1st December 2008 Children's Fund commissioning, Celebrating Achievement, financial exclusion
    No. 120 - 17th November 2008 Additional Needs project update, Artstone, Disabled Children Access to Childcare, Sports for Looked After Children and Young People
    No. 119 - 3rd November 2008 Children & Young People plan, Common Assessment Framework, Childhood Obesity, Playbuilder
    No. 118 - 20th October 2008 Turn Up the Volume, Participation Toolkit and Strategy
    No. 117 - 6th October 2008 NEET, Child Weight Management, Safe and Sound, Play Areas
    No. 116 - 22nd September 2008 Play POD, 2-Local Grants, Wansbeck Out With It!
    No. 115 - 8th September 2008 Wansbeck Play Rangers, NE Design Challenge winners, Singing Circle, Safeguarding training and lots more
    No. 114 - 28th July 2008 West Northumberland Story Sacks, Inclusion 'Better Together' conference, DFCS Children's Trust visit
    No. 113 - 14th July 2008 Developing services for children with additional needs, Skilled for Health, Pareting books in Alnwick library
    No. 112 - 30th June 2008 Summer reading scheme, Gypsy and Traveller Strategy, Cultural Diversity, lots of grants
    No. 111 - 16th June 2008 VoiCeS, New Children's Centres, Youth Link,
    No. 110 - 2nd June 2008 FACT Discount Card, Domestic Violence newsletter
    No. 109 - 19th May 2008 Young people's harm reduction service, Migrant workers, Shine
    No. 108 - 5th May 2008 COOSTY Kids, Safer Care training, grants
    No. 107 - 21st April 2008 'Learning for Life' and 'Wahtever it Takes - EET and Learning Strategies, Conduct Disorder e-learning
    No. 106 - 31st March 2008 Family Information Service Directory, County Council best practice awards, Early Years singing
    No. 105 - 17th March 2008 Mellow Dads parenting training, child protection e-learning
    No. 104 - 3rd March 2008 A young person's view of CAF, CABs, The new LINk
    No. 103 - 18th February 2008 New Northumberland Council consultation, Edzone, links with schools in India, grants
    No. 102 - 4th February 2008 Children's Services 'Celebrating Achievement' award ceremony, Participation Strategy, Integrated Youth Service, grants
    No. 101 - 21st January 2008 Integrated working survey results, Research in Practice, UK Youth Parliament Manifesto
    No. 100 - 7th January 2008 Narrowing the Gap, Ofsted outstanding providers, Northumberland Play, Teenage Health Demonstration Site Annual Report

    For further infomation about FACT please contact Jeremy Cripps, FACT Partnership Planning and Participation
    email: jcripps@northumberland.gov.uk phone: 01670 533878

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              • Booklets
              • Plans
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              • Miscellaneous Information
              • Consultation Documents
              • Policy Documents
              • Public Notices
              • Leaflets
              • Annual reports
              • Agendas and Minutes
              • Forms
              • Inspection Reports
              • Staff guidance
              • Committee Papers
              • Statistical Reports
              • Newsletters
              • Consumer surveys
              • Procedure Documents