Home-Start, the leading family support charity, needs people with parenting experience to visit local families with young children, who are struggling to cope. Families may need your support for a number of reasons including post-natal depression, multiple births, disability, isolation, family breakdown or because they’ve become parents at a very young age
Racking your brains for something to do with the children to stop their cry of 'I'm bored!' - Then look no further - Delamont Country Park is the ideal venue to exhaust even the liveliest of children and at only £4.00 per car or £25.00 per season ticket its great value.
As well as the fantastic roadshows detailed opposite
Rangers has two fantastic residential camps where
budding young footballers can meet a first team player!
Spellathon is a sponsored spelling challenge drawn up by Mencap and Oxford University Press; designed to be fun for pupils, simple for teachers to organise and ties in naturally with the curriculum including literacy and citizenship modules
Frankie & Benny’s recently launched their new children’s menus, which offer great value and great choice - the kid’s menu costs just £3.95 and the junior’s menu, for younger diners with a larger appetite, costs £6.45.
All school buses in Northern Ireland are to be fitted with seatbelts to make travel for pupils safer. Over the next two years, 110 new buses will be introduced and the system of seating three children in two seats will be phased out.
The fact that crime in Northern Ireland is falling and that it has always been a relatively low crime area is good news – but little consolation to anyone affected by crime such as burglary. According to Inspector David Connery, Senior Crime Prevention Officer with the PSNI, there are a lot of simple - but effective – actions members of the public can take to greatly reduce the threat of becoming a burglary statistic.
A new report has revealed that up to 100,000 children in Northern Ireland
are living in poverty.
According to the charity, Barnardo's, nearly 50% of them are trapped in
conditions so dire that they are missing out on the basic essentials.
Northern Ireland has a new local adviser for the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations (NCPTA) – Jayne Thompson, from Co Fermanagh.Established in 1955, the NCPTA is a national charity currently representing just over 13000 PTAs throughout Northern Ireland, England and Wales – visit www.ncpta.org.uk for more information about the NCPTA and the full breadth of our support service.
A new central service providing vital interpreting and translation services to schools with migrant children has been set up by the Province’s five education and library boards
