The Credit
Crunch!
I think that we all agree that parents
shouldn't have to endure sleepless nights worrying about how
they will meet the costs of kitting out their children for
school. Children shouldn't have to face bullying or
exclusion because their parents can't afford the right
uniform or pay for expensive residential trips. Adding Up is the Citizens Advice Campaign on educational
costs and this is a real chance for schools to make a real
difference to the lives of those families facing social and
financial exclusion in the community.
They have
produced a useful list of resources, including a
top ten tips sheet
that schools can adopt to help parents. For
instance, some of these are very simple measures
schools can implement: such as offering sew or iron
on badges that can be applied to plain clothing.
Please pay a visit to the
Adding Up Campaign Website
for more information and let's try and make a real
difference to our local families facing the credit
crunch.
Relate - Our Local Counselling
Service
I am delighted to announce that from November 2009
until July 2011
your Parent Support Advisor will be able to refer families to family counselling from
Portsmouth Relate in the familiar surroundings of the school.
If you have a family who may benefit from the early intervention of whole Family Support
then please feel free to speak to your cluster Parent Support Adviser
for more details. For a poster advertising this fantastic service
in our Fareham Schools please click below:
* New*
Relate
Family Support Poster
*New*
Relate are delighted to announce the
continuing relationship counselling service for Fareham residents at
Neville Lovett School. The service is offered to clients for
evening appointments in the Neville Lovett School, St Anne's Grove,
Fareham for three hours a week. This exciting initiative has the
support of Fareham Borough Council and enables local residents to access
this important service without travelling too far.
 Relate firmly believes that relationship counselling
should be a right, not a privilege and that to bring the service nearer
communities is the best way to serve its local clients. People can
attend as a couple, or as individuals to talk through any issues.
The service is completely confidential and clients may make appointments
or get more information by phone or text on 023 9282 7026 or by
e-mail:
relate@relateportsmouth.org.uk. More
news about relate:
Relate for Parents
Support can be accessed instantly and free from the
Live Talk and
SMS icons on the Relate for Parents
Home Page ands this useful site also offers information sheets and
support from a wide range of pages on the
Parenting Support and Parenting Extras
icon. Please signpost this valuable new services to families.
Also check out the following site for parents who need to work out
relationship issue...from in-laws to washing up, lack of sleep to
teenage tantrums. The Couple Connection has the answer
The Couple Connection
Domestic Abuse Support
Group - Don't feel alone!
Oak Meadow Children's Centre hold a
group for women who are currently experiencing domestic abuse/violence
Contact 01329 285375 for confidential
support and more details of this group (crèche available)
New* Coming soon -
Support for Teenagers affected by Domestic Abuse
*New
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Local
Information
The Portchester People community web site is now online!
Please click the picture above to go straight to: www.portchesterpeople.org.uk
This is your community web site, so please give us feedback.
As many of you
who have been working alongside us are aware, Karen and Susie were
busy collecting lots of information about extended service
activities that are happening across our area (and beyond) for
children, young people and their families last year.
Although we
have yet to go to print with the Family
Directory (pending for Summer 2009) and it is still in a very rough draft (i.e. an
Excel Spreadsheet), Susie felt that it would be very useful for
schools to have online access to the information we have collected
to date, however please note the disclaimer by Fareham East
Extended Services at the bottom of this page.
Family Directory for Portchester and East
Fareham
For even more information of what is available
for families in Fareham and Gosport please take a browse through The
Family Grapevine (available to download below)
For the latest community
information see Fareham Borough Council's
Fareham Today magazine - view the
spring 2009 edition below with information about extended services and
children's centres in Fareham!
Fareham
Today
Community
Action
Fareham
163 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EF
Telephone Susie on: (01329) 223155 or Mobile: 07814
307012
email
shiggs@farehamaction.org.uk
Fareham East Extended
Services operates this website to allow
information supplied from a range of
organisations to be freely available.
However, you should note that
information included in this website,
including Directory entries and any
linked or associated sites is of a
general nature only and information may
change at any given time. Whilst Fareham
East Extended Services aims to and uses
reasonable effort to ensure that it
includes accurate and up-to-date
information is presented on its web
pages, information and organisers of
local societies do change frequently.
Therefore Fareham East Extended Services
cannot guarantee the accuracy of the
information provided nor does it assume
any liability or give any warranty of
any kind for the information and data
contained or omitted from this site or
for any action or inaction made in
reliance thereon. Fareham East Extended
Services takes every reasonable step to
ensure the validity of groups on the
database but cannot guarantee the
quality of services or activities
offered.
The inclusion of an organisation does
not imply a recommendation or
endorsement by Fareham East Extended
Services.
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