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Tag: Children’s Centres

Childcare Providers and Wrap-around Care in Schools

InĀ  Children and Young People Now , 07.12.15 – a new announcements on childcare and schools. ‘Childcare providers could be given the right to apply to deliver wraparound care using school facilities…’, Prime…

Parent Champions’ Training for Family and Childcare Trust

Parent Champions’ is a volunteering project established by the Family and Childcare Trust and has become hugely successful in the last seven years.   As one of their trainers for the project I…

Summer redesign…

As the summer holidays become a memory in 2013 we have brightened our Autumn reading by installing and loading a fresh new design and layout for ChangeThinking, the news and reflection website for…

Volunteering in Children’s Centres

Children’s Centres and Volunteering is just the start… (Image courtesy of Pleasent Valley Children’s Centre) What better way is there for parents to get involved in their local Children’s Centre than through volunteering…

Technological Children’s Centres

We have recently enjoyed being commissioned by Hornsey Road Children’s Centre in Islington to supply and fit their new IT suite and display screens. The Team at Family Action were successful in raising…

Forest Schools at Children’s Centres

We’re going on a dinosaur hunt! We are working with a children’s centre in the London Borough of Wandsworth and developing the Forest school project. To really fire some imaginations and persuade people…

Being brave with the budget! Websites…..

Children’s Centres Budgets are getting close to the end of the financial year. If you want to find a way to spend the last of the budget wisely giving benefit for many years…