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February News...
Health Visitors can support our Families too...
Health Visitors are now offering clinics at Park Lane Centre in Woodside, near Madeley.
Health Visitors offer support and advice to families on a variety of topics which include promotion and management of breastfeeding, supporting new mothers with... post-natal depression, parenting programs and putting parents in touch with a variety of specialist services that can support them and their child's healthy development. This service is available to all parents or carers of every child 0-5 years of age. The Health Visiting team are at Park Lane Centre every 3rd Thursday of the month. Pop in or call 01952 580 375 for more information.
Max Cards
The Max Card is available from PODS family groups and events at a cost of £3.00 each. Please come and join us at a family group if you wish to buy one. For more information on the Max Card please click on the following link, https://www.podstelford.org/max-card/
A Sports Club in Shrewsbury that includes Siblings too...
The SEN Multi-Sports Club is run by the Little Rascals Foundation, a local charity which supports children with disabilities and their families. It takes place each Monday evening, between 5.30pm-6.30pm, at the London Road Sports Centre. Just £3 per session. Contact them on 01743 240258 or email: info@littlerascalsfoundation.com for further details. For more information on the club please click on the following link, http://www.loveshrewsbury.com/contrib/multi-sports-club-launched-shrewsbury-children-disabilities
Airea51 SEN Sessions
Airea51 now have 4 SEN sessions a week. They also offer a SEN card once you have watched your first safety briefing, so there’s no need to watch the safety briefing video again. For more information on the SEN sessions, please click on the following link, https://airea51.co.uk/activities-classes/sen-sessions/
Weekly Update from Jayne Stevens (Participation Co-ordinator)...
The week that was last week - and a week of 'Firsts' saw our very first Pirates and Princesses family group that was organised by two of our parent reps - the group ran from 5-7pm and we had 65 people through the door (parent carers and their children) from all ages. The staff at P&P were fantastic. It was great to see lots of new families and some families we hadn't seen for a while - the support and networking between families was great to see too and the sensory room was a big hit! Tuesday saw me attending our First Carers Partnership Board meeting - for carers of all ages and previously not included parent carers - but it does now and alongside the Carers Voices Project parent carers have a defined place that covers information and guidance and also wider Mental Health. We were able to ask about how our cohort of carers had been involved in developing new community catalyst programmes in key areas of Telford and this will be followed up, networking with other groups who we can share our work with and a meeting has been requested with us with by the Assistant Director responsible for Governance, Procurement & Commissioning.
Wednesday we supported a Graduated Response Workshop for families at SEN Support level (prior to EHCP requests). This had been delivered to SENCO's last year and we made suggestion that information needed to be shared with parent carers. There will be a range of information shared from the session via the SEND Local Offer in due course. Feedback from families has been really positive overall with opportunity to ask direct questions and receive help.
The Hub at Stepping Stones has been in operation this week (Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon) with information sharing and resource making for families (more about that on our Face 2 Face page).
End of the week saw me delving into books and paperwork working on my penultimate assignment for my "Award in Education and Training" - an official training qualification which I'm hoping to put to good use as I develop my parent rep training network.
Thank you again to everyone and particularly to my parent reps who continue to support the work of PODS Forum and representing the wider parent carer voices.
Come and join us at our Family Groups...
Thursday 8th February 2018: Your Voice + Family Resources from 7pm-9pm at Elephant and Castle Pub, Dawley, Telford, TF4 2ET.
Wednesday 21st February 2018: Your Voice + Family Resouces from 9.30am–11.30am at Hollinswood Community Centre, 7 Downemead, Telford, TF3 2EW.
Friday 23rd February 2018: Your Voice + Family Resources from 9.30am–11.30am at Dawley Town Hall (opposite Langley School/CAMHS) New Street, Dawley, Telford, TF4 3JR.
Monday 26th February 2018: Your Voice + Family Resources from 5pm-7pm at Pirates & Princesses, Unit 17, Cedar Court, Halesfield 17, Telford, TF7 4PF.
Thank you for reading our latest bulletin.
Kerrie Seagrave
Project Administrator on behalf of PODS Parent Carer Forum.
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