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Child Care Partnership: Including Children with Additional Needs event – 30 March 2017

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The Child Care Partnership invite you to a FREE event to explore the support and opportunities for caring for children with additional needs. There will be an opportunity to discuss disability rights and children’s rights, inc. Special Education Needs Policy and Practice in action.

At the event we will look at how we create inclusive play environments for children.  Also as practitioners, it will provide space to review how you look after your own wellbeing, as well as the children you care for.

 

Event details:         

Date: Thursday 30th March 2017

Time:  9.30am – 15.30pm

Venue: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

 

Download the Booking Form

 

We will be running 4 workshops during the event. You will have the opportunity to attend 2 of your preferred choice. Please select your preferred choices on the booking form.

 

How to book a place: 

To book a place at this event please complete the attached form and send it to Clover by 17 March 2017 via email to: clover.gabbidon-lyttle@hscni.net

 

Places are limited; please book early.

 

DCYPPP present young people’s views on Safeguarding Children with Disabilities at QUB event

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DCYPPP present young people’s views on Safeguarding Children with Disabilities at QUB event

November 2013

Staff from Barnardo’s Disabled Children and Young People’s Participation Project took part in a recent seminar at Queens University Belfast.
The “Keeping Disabled Children Safe” seminar focused on a number of issues such as Rights and how Children and young people can be protected from harm.
Staff from DCYPPP gave their presentation after speaking with some young people from 6th Sense.
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Young people at the center of Transition Planning in Northern Ireland

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Young people at the center of Transition Planning in Northern Ireland

 October 2013

“One of the most innovative and exciting things about the engagement   undertaken by the CYPSP Children and Young People with Disabilities and the Transition of Children and Young People with Disabilities in to Adulthood Subgroups is the process of involving young people with disabilities in developing the plan from a blank page” – Iolo Eilian, chair of the CYPSP Children and Young People with Disabilities Subgroup.

Iolo Eilian, chair of the CYPSP Transition of Children and Young People with Disabilities to Adulthood Subgroup and Teresa Stewart from Barnardo’s Disabled Children and Young People’s Participation Project (DCYPPP) presented at the Improving Children’s Lives seminar; Moving On: Young Disabled People and Transitions which was held at Queens University Belfast in September 2013.

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The PATH Journey for CYPSP Children and Young People with Disabilities and Transitions of Children and Young People with Disabilities to Adulthood Sub Groups

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The Path - children and young people with disabilities Regional Sub Group

September 2013

Two of the regional sub groups, Children and Young People with Disabilities and Transitions of Children and Young People with Disabilities to Adulthood, have developed Action Plans 2011 – 2014 which identify 6 high level outcomes to improve the lives of children and young people in Northern Ireland.
Both these sub groups came together in June with the purposes of clarifying their priorities using a Person Centred Approach. As the values of Person Centred Planning are based on the principles of independence, choice, inclusion, equality and empowerment, facilitating a PATH fitted with the ethos of the sub groups.

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Path Process …

Journey Poster…

Children & Young People with a disability Webpage now live on CYPSP Website

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Launch of Disability Page

August 2013

Members of Sixth Sense, children with a disability group worked alongside the CYPSP information team to design the new page for the CYPSP website for children and young people with disabilities in Northern Ireland.
The page holds information on News and Events, links to searchable databases on local support services and signposting in respect of issues affecting children and young people with disabilities
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