Health and Safety Bulletin Sports Equipment
Haringey’s Corporate Health and Safety team have produced this special bulletin on the importance of maintaining sports equipment.
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Introducing Head Held High
Head Held High is an organisation that targets young people who are struggling in school, lacking motivation, displaying negative behaviour or affiliated with criminal activity. They work alongside the Wellbeing departments of secondary schools, PRUs and YOT teams. They offer unique, interactive and highly motivational workshops using a tried and tested approach.
Read more about their activities here.
For more information:
Call: 020 7183 0073
Email: contact@headheldhigh.org.uk
AAI letter to schools March 2021
We are in the Spring term and soon will be in the Summer term, a time where allergy triggers like pollen, trees, grasses, and weeds are high. With this in mind, it is important that we ensure that all the remaining schools pick up their allocation of Adrenaline auto injector pens. Many schools have not yet collected their pens.
The free “Spare pens” are only for Haringey council maintained primary and secondary schools. Unfortunately we are unable to provide free “Spare pens” to Haringey independent and private schools or children centres and nurseries.
We have received the new batch of Adrenaline auto injector (AAI) pens for Haringey primary and secondary schools. The brand we will supply will be the Jext® brand of Adrenaline Auto Injector (AAI) pens.
The “spare” AAI(s) pens can be used if the pupil’s own prescribed AAI(s) are not immediately available (for example, because they are broken, out-of-date, have misfired or been wrongly administered). They do not replace the pupil’s own supply of AAI pens.
Please contact Firoz Mazumder the named person at St Ann’s pharmacy department on 020 8702 5421 or email firoz.mazumder@nhs.net to arrange a time to pick up your allocation of pens.
These pens are replacing the expired Dec 2020 AAI pens and will expire in March 2022. It is important that schools ensure they have AAI pens that are in date and not expired.
Please complete the AAI supply form before collection and follow instructions in this letter: Adrenaline auto injection pens – letter to schools
If you have any queries, please email harccg.medicines@nhs.net”
Many thanks and kind regards
Margaret Powell
Prescribing Advisor (Haringey Medicines Management Team)
North Central London CCG
Email: margaretpowell@nhs.net
Tel: 020 3688 2707
Join our Healthy Streets Officer for a TfL STARS champion online forum
Georgia, our Healthy Streets Officer and her colleagues across London are hosting an online forum for STARS champions next week: 12pm Tuesday 16 March.
The free event is open to all schools in Haringey. You will have a chance to share ideas and learn about activities, with other schools across London.
This first session will cover:
- Helping Champions get comfortable with STARS
- Role of a School Travel Champion
- How to write up a STARS story
- What is a Hands Up survey and why it is used?
- Completing a Hands Up survey
- Information on the Big Pedal campaign
- Q & A session
The Big Pedal
Registration is now open for this year’s Big Pedal! This is the UK’s biggest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting competition. Join in for one, five or ten days between 19 and 30 April 2021 to be in with a chance of winning fabulous prizes every day.
Find out more of sign up here.
Please remember to book your school’s free cycle training now, not just primary schools, secondary schools can book sessions too – www.cycleconfident.com
School Travel Planning
As your parents are bringing their children back to school, please remind them that we need our young people to increase their activity, so the Daily Mile can be achieved by their walk to and from school every day. This will contribute to reduced pollution, increased road safety awareness and fitter healthier families.
We are aiming for all schools to complete their Hands up survey before the end of this half term.
If you need help please take time to look at the TfL Stars Site and sign up for the following:
Any questions please contact us at Smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk
The Smarter Travel Team
There is a range of services available to children and young people
in Haringey to support them with their mental, social and emotional
health and wellbeing:
Resources for Haringey Parents Carers Children
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Women’s History Month March 2021 events
Please see attached and below amazing activities taking place in Haringey during Women’s History Month.
Womens History Month 2021 flyer
Womens History Month 2021 Brochure
Sunday 21 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Women’s History Month Celebration Day Care to Challenge Book here
Monday 29 March 11.00 am – 3.00 pm Haringey Women’s Leadership Summit Care to Challenge Book here
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Introducing Mockingbird
Haringey’s Fostering team launched the innovative Mockingbird programme in February.
The Fostering Network’s Mockingbird programme is a new method of delivering foster care using an extended family model, which provides sleepovers and short breaks, peer support, regular joint planning and training and social activities.
The programme improves the stability of fostering placements and strengthens the relationships between carers, children and young people, fostering services and birth families.
Mockingbird delivers a family model that centres on a constellation where one foster home acts as a hub, offering planned and emergency sleepovers and short breaks, advice, training and support, to six to ten satellite households.
The Mockingbird model aims to:
- Improve the stability of fostering placements and strengthen relationships between carers, children and young people, fostering services and birth families.
- empower families to support each other and overcome problems before they escalate or lead to placement breakdown.
- increase protective factors around children and young people.
- build links with other families important to the care plans.
Outcomes from the programme that have been experienced so far include: placement stability, placements in residential care have been avoided, costs have been reduced and it has helped to stop carers resigning.
Thanks to the fantastic support of our amazing community here in Haringey, we’ve raised almost £40,000 and received more than 375 donations with our Haringey Digital Divide Appeal in partnership with Haringey Giving.
We’re nearly 80% of the way towards our re-revised target of £50,000 to help support children and young people here who don’t have regular access to laptops, WiFi and other technological support at home.
We don’t want our collective, concerted and community-focused fundraising efforts together to end there though. We want this great and important work to continue, so – if you would like to – please give whatever you can readily afford, no matter how small, to our appeal.
Each and every donation is gratefully received and could make a world of difference to the life of a child or young person here in our borough.
For further information, or to donate, please visit the Haringey Giving website (external link). If you can share our Haringey Digital Divide Appeal Facebook/Twitter content on your school’s social media channels, that would be really helpful.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/haringeycouncil/photos/a.571243579584517/5092599050782258
https://www.facebook.com/haringeycouncil/posts/5087727144602782
https://www.facebook.com/haringeycouncil/posts/5083456955029801
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/haringeycouncil/status/1362680915718254594
https://twitter.com/haringeycouncil/status/1362371648377266176
https://twitter.com/haringeycouncil/status/1362115055052083206
A new helpline has launched for people experiencing a mental health crisis:
0800 151 0023.
You can call this number to get support or advice 24/7.
All young people and their parents should be contacting Haringey CAMHS service from 9-5pm, Monday to Friday on 020 8702 3400/01 and use this new helpline outside of office hours.
Award for Tottenham radio show spotlighting the Windrush community
A Tottenham-based radio project focusing on the descendants of the Windrush generation living in Tottenham has won Best Arts Project in the 2021 Hearts for the Arts Awards.
N17 radio programme was created by Chloe and Kane, two sixth form students at Harris Academy Tottenham, in partnership with Haringey Council, Kick it Out, Threads Radio, RoughHouse Theatre and playwright, Dougie Blaxland.
With the support of the Windrush Day Grant – the partners worked collaboratively to produce and broadcast a radio programme – N17 – to coincide with Black History Month. N17 celebrates the extraordinary contribution made to British society by descendants of the Windrush generation who settled and brought up their families in Tottenham.
Chloe and Kane conducted online interviews with a wide range of members of the Windrush community who were raised in Tottenham. Their stories were then edited together and broadcast via Threads Radio Station and social media to coincide with Black History Month in October 2020. Some of those interviewed included David Lammy MP, BAFTA-winning actress Letitia Wright and former England cricketer Mark Alleyne MBE.
The Hearts for the Arts Awards are an annual initiative by the National Campaign for the Arts, celebrating local authority and cultural trust arts champions and creative community projects. The judging panel included broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, comedian Frances Martinez and Paul Hartnoll of dance music duo Orbital.
