Tameside Third
Sector Coalition

 

Tameside Safeguarding Children Board’s e-bulletin is full of useful information and is already received by over a hundred contacts four times a year. If you are not receiving this please contact veronica.hyde@t3sc.org to ensure you are on the mailing list.

 

 

Earlyarts have published their National Strategy for effective practice to nurture creativity among the children. This includes ensuring that early years professionals have access to up-to-date research on development and creativity, integrating creative skills and processes into training and creating partnerships across the early years and creative sectors. 

 

New research from the charity 4Children reveals the extent of conflict and violence in Britain’s families. A survey of parents with children under the age of 18 showed that over half of parents with children experience serious or frequent conflict - which equates to about 4 million families with children in this country (where families are defined as parents with children under 18 years of age). Only 7% of parents said there was no conflict in their home.

 

 

 

More than one in four children live in poverty in Tameside and this is becoming more widespread, therefore it is a priority for the Tameside’s Children’s Trust.

 

The strategy for combating poverty is now being refreshed. If you have any ideas as to what should be in this strategy, please contact veronica.hyde@t3sc.org

 

For more information:  Child proverty needs assessment.

 

 

 

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The four UK Children's Commissioners have called for an urgent reassessment of the impact of the Coalition Government's Spending Review on the needs of vulnerable children.

 

In a joint report launched on 21 November (International Day of the Child), the Commissioners outline serious concerns at the high levels of persistent poverty across the UK. They highlight the need for children to be given priority in national and local budgets so that vital children's services are protected.

 

The report also examines progress made in five areas - participation, children with disabilities, child poverty, children seeking asylum and juvenile justice - against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, an internationally binding minimum standard for all children and young people that was ratified by the UK government twenty years ago.

 

 

 

 

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The Equality and Diversity Forum's  'How to use the Equality Act 2010: A guide for voluntary and community organisations' looks at how the new equality law can be used in advocacy, service delivery and campaigning work.

 

 

 

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