Together for Children

Outreach work with traveller families to encourage use of early years provision

Working with Citizens Advice Bureaux to provide a holistic advice service

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: A universal volunteers process was developed and implemented recognising the importance of volunteers in service provision

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition:Children’s centres have commissioned local voluntary sector and local credit union to support families with benefit advice, banking, saving and debt counselling.

Children’s centres' staff work alongside Jobcentre Plus staff to ensure enhanced links with adult learning services, CAB, Halton People into Jobs and increasing awareness of children centres services supporting the whole family.

The Halton Children’s Centre Fishing Club was formed with the aim to enable parents and children to use angling as an activity which engages those from disadvantaged backgrounds in combating social exclusion.

A targeted service to reduce the number of children living in workless households.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: Project to provide information on which children’s centre services are most effective in retaining parents’ interest/involvement and whether length of courses or activities affects this.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: a jointly funded venture between Tyne Metropolitan College and North
Tyneside Council saw the introduction of two Training and Support Co-ordinator posts to
work in the children’s centres.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: A partnership between Action for Children and Newcastle City Council’s Families Information Service where Information and Resource Worker role developed into a one stop shop for information in relation to a variety of employment / financial benefits advice.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: Northumberland is one of the pilot Local Authorities working with the DCSF to develop the DCATCH project.

Working with children’s centres to support the needs of children with a parent in prison

Event for lone parents set up by Jobcentre Plus

Encouraging parents to take up learning/training opportunities.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: Work Focussed Services in children’s centres pilot aims to test how children’s centres can offer a more effective vehicle to engage parents to move them closer to employment.

Integrating disabled children within early years provision

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: Two Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) staff work across the whole of the LA providing individual guidance sessions in relation to training and employment

Outreach Jobcentre Plus advice at Centre Place Family Centre, Southend on Sea. The customer and partner had made claims for Tax Credits which had not been processed and this was causing
hardship, difficulty in paying rent and obtaining childcare.

Case study from the NE Child Poverty Coalition: Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington children’s centre staff worked with staff from Jobcentre Plus to set up a shadowing project gain a better understanding of the work undertaken by JCP staff