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Children's Information Services
- Children's Information Service - national newsletter
- Childcare Act 2006 - full text
- Opportunity Links - news and information
Conferences, courses and seminars
- Common Assessment Framework - latest courses
- Trust for the Study of Adolescence - courses for practitioners on promoting emotional well-being in young people and supporting parents of teenagers.
Forthcoming education conferences
- Engaging Parents in Education Conference - Wednesday 24th September 2008 - Central London. Further information
Forthcoming social care/health sector conferences
- “Mental Health Care for Children and Young People: Raising Emotional Well-Being and Delivering Specialist Services” hosted by The House Magazine on Tuesday, 9th September 2008 to be held in Westminster. Further details (
Adobe Acrobat Document, size 14Kb - download Acrobat Reader) and booking form (
Microsoft Word, size 41Kb).
Social Care Information
Hampshire Social Care Information and library
offers a comprensive service to practitioners in Hampshire and subscribing authorities.
Participation
Parent support
- Newsletter (Microsoft Word, size 980Kb) from Hampshire Parent Partnership. (Issue 11 due Summer 2008)
Grants
Youth Opportunities Fund 07/08 Funds are available for young people's activities. They need to be between 13 and 19 years and central to the whole process including the planning and bidding. More information about the Youth Opportunity Fund
Useful websites for practitioners
- Children's Information Service - national newsletter
- Community Care news
- DfES News centre - First stop for the latest news stories.
- Hampshire Teaching and Leadership College (HTLC) - to develop and enrich professional learning for all staff in Hampshire schools
- SCIE News - Communication, communication, communication.
- Community Care magazine - The website for everyone in social care.
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK.
- NCH - The children's charity. NCH, one of the UK's leading children's charities, helps children achieve their full potential.
- NCB - National Children's Bureau - NCB undertakes research, evaluation and development projects.
- Opportunity Links - Supporting information delivery to families
- Young people's version of the CYPP (Adobe Acrobat Document, size 971Kb - download Acrobat Reader) - Hampshire's children and young people's plan.
- Hampshire children and young people's plan (CYPP) - (full version, plus March 2007 evaluation).
- Children's Rights in the European Union Next Steps (pdf).
- Trust for the study of adolescents
- The Who Cares? Trust - Who Cares? magazine is the only national magazine for young people in care.