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Contact details for each Agency listed is shown at the bottom of this
page.
Barnardos - (Home from Home Project)
This is a family link scheme that offers a range of alternative family
based short-breaks to disabled children and young people. The service
is intended to meet the individual needs of each child and young person
in a way that supports both them and their family, provides for their
independence, encourages inclusion by and participation in their local
community.
Contact Details
Causeway Health and Social Services Trust
Children's Services
The Trust provides a range of services to families and children. A trust
representative is a member of the Childcare Partnership; concentrating
on Early Years issues and development of services. The Trust has statutory
responsibility for the registration, monitoring, development and inspection
of all Day Care Services for children from birth to 12 years under the
Children (N.I) Order 1995.
Contact Details
The Childhood Fund
The Childhood Fund's Office is based at NIPPA Headquarters in Belfast.
The regional office for the Northern Board is in Cullybackey.
All of the Childhood Fund’s Peace II funding is now fully committed and the support worker is now monitoring the performance of remaining projects to ensure that projects satisfy all legal and financial requirements pertaining to the Fund.
Contact Details
Department of Employment and Learning (DEL)
DEL provides an employment service through a network of Jobs and Benefits
Offices and Job Centres based in towns throughout Northern Ireland. They
offer an all age guidance and placement service to all jobseekers.
Contact Details
Gingerbread
Supporting
lone parents and their children in Northern Ireland since 1978. As the
lead agency working with and for lone parents and their children, they
work with lone parents and other organisations to promote the integrity
and life choices of one-parent families, challenge injustices, advocate
for rights and positively respond to social change. They offer a wide
variety of services to lone parents including: Advice, Childcare, Membership
and Training.
Contact Details
Homefirst Community Trust
Child Health Nursing
There are various Children’s Nursing Services across Homefirst Trust,
these include Health Visiting, Health Protection, Childhood Injury Prevention,
School Nursing, Paediatric Nursing, Family Planning, Child Protection
and Specialist Paediatric Nursing Services such as Palliative Care and
Diabetes.
Contact Details
Early Years Teams - Children's Services
The Trust provides a range of services to families and children. A trust
representative is a member of the Childcare Partnership; concentrating
on Early Years issues and development of services. The Trust has statutory
responsibility for the registration and inspection of all Day Care Services
for children from birth to 12 years under the Children (N.I) Order 1995.
Contact Details
Home-Start - (Family Support Services)
Home-Start
offers friendship and informal support to parents with young children,
in local communities, so that every child can have a good start in life.
Home-Start offers a unique service. They recruit and train volunteers who are usually parents themselves to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.
To help give children the best possible start in life, Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links with the local community.
To Home-Start every child is special and they respond to each family’s needs through a combination of Home-Visiting support, group work and social events.
Home-Start schemes are rooted in the communities they serve and managed locally. They are supported by the national organisation. This offers direction, training, information and guidance to schemes and ensures consistent quality support for parents and children wherever they are.
Contact Details
NIPPA - The Early Years Organisation
Provides support, training and information services to play groups throughout
the province, and aims to improve the quality of early years provision.
Contact Details
North
Eastern Education and Library Board
PEAG and Early Years
The Pre-school Education Programme is part of the Government's wider strategy to provide an integrated and coherent range of care and education services to meet the needs of young children and their parents. The PEAG membership overlaps with the Northern Childcare Partnership ensuring greater co-ordination in the delivery of effective services for children and young people "in need." Information can be found at www.neelb.org.uk/schools/schoolsbranch/peag.
The NEELB representative on the Partnership, Lorna Gardiner, is responsible for:
- Curriculum development in Early Years Education (3-8 years);
- Provision of training for the Nursery Sector and foundation stage in the Primary Sector.
Lorna is also a representative of the NEELB for the promotion of integration of services and the enhancement of a multi-discipline approach to quality provision of childcare to young children and families.
For copies of application forms and information leaflets as to how a Playgroup or Day Nursery can become part of the scheme, contact Schools Branch at 028 2566 2391 or email frances.mckinney@neelb.org.uk.
Contact Details
Youth Service
Responsible for provision of adequate Youth Services for young people
within the North Eastern Education and Library Board Area. They oversee
training, development and operation of youth services for young people
aged 4 - 25 years old.
Contact Details
NHSSB
Children's Services
Responsible
for the commissioning of a range of family and childcare services and
has lead responsibility in the Board as a whole for Early Years Services.
Contact Details
Community Nursing
Represents all branches of Community Nursing and the commissioning of
Nursing Services in general.
Contact Details
Social Services Training and Staff Development
Responsible for providing services to Causeway Health & Social Services
Trust, Homefirst Community Trust and the Northern Health and Social Services
Board (NHSSB) for Social Work and Social Care staff. This includes working
with managers and staff in Early Years teams and Foster Care workers to
provide training support. Mrs Sheila Dwyer chairs the Training Sub Group.
Contact Details
Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education
The Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) is a charitable
body which acts as a central forum and umbrella organisation for integrated
schools and groups that are interested in the development of Integrated
Education."
Contact Details
Northern Ireland Child Minding Association
Northern Ireland Childminding Association is a charity and membership
organisation which works to support childminders, parents and children.
Founded in 1984, NICMA's main purpose is:
"To promote the development of children by providing quality day
care and education within registered home based settings."
Contact Details
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Main
responsibilities are to regularly examine housing conditions and housing
requirements and to draw up wide ranging programmes to meet these needs.
They also provide housing information and advisory services and play a
role in community development initiatives.
Contact Details
Play Board
Play Board is the lead agency for the development and promotion of children
and young peoples play. Play Board works to improve the quality of children
and young peoples lives by increasing their opportunities to play through
quality school age childcare provision.
