The last three years have seen the interventions the Adolescent Service offer and the way we work with people, including children and their families significantly develop and change.  This has been due to an improved awareness and understanding of the contextual risks affecting Hounslow’s children and the need for an enhanced partnership and community approach to tackle these risks.  As well as the challenges and changes to work practices as a result of the pandemic.  Therefore, through the Adolescent Operational Group we have developed an annual survey to support us to hear the views of our stakeholders, and we especially want to hear from our youngest stakeholders.  The survey will support us to better understand, further review and develop an Adolescent offer to children, parents/carers and partners, based on what they would want to see and what they believe works.

The Adolescent Service Annual Survey is now open and available via the link below.

Annual Survey Adolescent Service – London Borough of Hounslow – Citizen Space

The survey is for:

Children and Young People who have or currently receive a service from the Adolescent Service, for example the Youth Offending Service, Adolescent Team, Adolescent Support Team

Parents/Carers who have or currently receive a service from the Adolescent Service, for example the Family Support Team or whose children receive a service (see above)

Professionals and partners who have worked or currently work with the Adolescent Service, including attending meetings chaired by the service.

Media Trust’s Digital Summer School is a three-week online course for charities supporting women and girls. Running from the 4th – 22nd July, charities will learn how to create compelling content that connects with their audience.

Our digital and charity experts will provide specialist training and mentoring – helping participants to take their content and comms to the next level.

And it’s free for micro charities (under £0.5m annual turnover).

You can find more information and book a place here – https://mediatrust.org/events/digital-summer-school-2022/

Experienced and fully qualified Child Counsellor wanted to join MiD Mediation and Counselling in Hampton Hill. We are looking for someone who is able to undertake effective short-term work with children age 4-18 whose parents have separated.  The work involves initial assessments and interim reviews with the children’s parents.

Applicant must be self-motivated, empathetic, resilient and used to working as part of a team.

The Counsellor would be engaged on a sessional basis and would need to be available for at least one day a week from 3.30-6.30pm.

To apply please send CV and covering letter to Alison Morgan at:  director@midmediation.org.uk or call 020 8891 6860 for more information.

www.midmediation.org.uk

London Engagement Collaborative (LEC)

The LEC is a pan-London, cross-sector group looking to involve communities in the work to make London a safer, greener, and more prosperous city for all Londoners. To better embed community voices in decision making, we need to have open and honest conversations about how we engage with communities across the city.? 

We’re inviting local authorities, community and faith groups, funders, academics, and policymakers, to work with us to explore what are the engagement priorities for London, how engagement practice has changed and evolved in response to the pandemic and how it can shape London’s recovery.

If you would like to be involved, please  complete this short form https://forms.gle/ynZJ4bHWJZFx7xYW9  and/or contact Aklima.Begum@London.gov.uk or Deirdre.McGrath@London.gov.uk.? 

Civic Futures

Koreo, Dark Matter Labs, The Young Foundation and the Greater London Authority are excited to open recruitment for the 3rd cohort of Civic Futures.  Civic Futures is  a collective learning and discovery space for people from across London’s civic society to join a structured learning programme to explore alternative futures for communities in London.

Now in its third year, the programme is designed to bring together people who are active across London, to explore the skills, tools, methodologies, and relationships that we need to build emerging futures. From September 2022, we’ll work with up to 30 people from across London’s civil society and local government in a 15 month programme to facilitate collective learning and discovery focused on collaboration, exploration and inquiry.  To learn more about the programme and apply please visit our webpages here.

Applications are open until 1pm on 4^th July 2022, or you can nominate someone you think should be on the programme until the 20^th of June 2022. 

 

The ‘Hounslow Parent/Carer Network’ will launch as from next week. The network will be a group of Parent/Carer Champions who will be able to work together as a collective to support other parents/carers whose children may be at risk of extra familial harm, violence, exploitation, school exclusion and other challenging behaviours. The network will provide a whole community approach to safeguarding children and young people.

We are currently looking for Parents/Carers in Hounslow who are passionate about improving the safety & wellbeing of children/young people in their community and empowering other parents/carers who need support.

The first Parent Carer Network Information Session will be held via Teams on Wednesday 1st June 11am-12.30pm with more to follow.

For more information click here Hounslow PCCN Leaflet (3)