H& F Law Centre are holding their 35th Annual General Meeting
14th December 2015 @ 6:30pm Dawes Road Hub 20 Dawes Road Fulham SW6 7EN
Date: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Venue: Friends House, Kings Cross, (Directions)
Domestic abuse interventions have been evolving to address the increasingly complex and challenging needs of families.
Our Network’s 13th conference will showcase some of the exciting and innovative work going on around the country to respond to the themes that are emerging.
We will explore both assistance and accountability across three important strands: child to parent violence and abuse; proactive engagement with perpetrators; and, integrating specialist domestic abuse support into ‘Troubled Families’ work.
Join us to listen, challenge, critique, network and be inspired!
To guarantee your place now, complete the online booking form. If you have any questions please email: enquiries@dvcn.org.uk
• Hear about the work CCG and H&F Council have done over the past year
• Present the priority work areas for 2016/17 for both the CCG and H&F Council
• Have the opportunity to hear about how we are working closely together to deliver better care and outcomes for people in Hammersmith and Fulham
• Tell us how we can engage with you or your service users to ensure that residents of Hammersmith and Fulham can have their say about local health and care services.
It is really important for community and voluntary sector (CVS) groups to represent the views of their service users. Additionally, CVS groups will find out how they can ensure that services meet the needs of their clients.
Both Councillors and CCG Governing Body members will be attending the afternoon to get involved with attendees in discussions about the future of health and care services in Hammersmith and Fulham.
A free lunch will be provided from 12:30pm with an opportunity for you to meet staff and representatives from the CCG and H&F Council.
Please find attached the flyer for the event. To book your free place please register at http://workingtogetherforhandf.eventbrite.co.uk. Once you have registered, you will receive an agenda closer date.
If you would like to find out more information please email; hf.ccg@nw.london.nhs.uk
Sobus is organising this consultation and evaluation event to decide the future of the forums.
The forums are currently organised on a town centred basis including Fulham, Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush. These have tended to focus on issues concerning those areas.
This review will help decide whether the forums should continue as they are, or have a different approach to reflect the current needs of the sector. One option being considered is themed based forums on issues such as health, housing, employment or young people ?
Please come along and have your say and help shape the future of these forums.
Open to all community and voluntary sector organisations who work with or are supported by Sobus’s services in Hammersmith & Fulham.
The event will be held on Thursday 3rd December at 10am to 12:30pm at Dawes Road Hub, 20 Dawes Road, SW6 7EN.
This autumn WLZ ‘goes live’ in White City, the neighbourhood where we’re piloting our model in 2015-16. Our first delivery partnership is in place, we have appointed our first three Link Workers, and we have almost identified the full cohort of children and young people we’ll be supporting. It’s a deliberately slow and gradual start but we’re delighted to be in ‘delivery’ mode at last. This Update will fill you in on our progress.
WLZ works through our ‘anchor’ organisations – children’s centres, schools and youth settings. At the start of the summer we signed up our first four anchors in White City: Randolph Beresford Years Centre, Ark Swift Primary School, Phoenix High School and OC West Youth Club.
Since the start of the school term we’ve been working with staff at each anchor to identify the cohort of children and young people with the mix of strengths and needs which means they’re most likely to benefit from the support of WLZ.
Alongside this identification work, we have been in detailed discussions with 10 or so delivery organisations about possible support during this pilot year, depending on the final assessment of the cohort. We hope to conclude agreements with some of them in the coming weeks. We have already started work with one of these organisations, Music House for Children, which supports children in Randolph Beresford with music classes for communication development. We are working together on an evaluation of the outcomes for individual children as a result of these classes.
As the diagram shows, central to the WLZ model is the role of the Link Worker – the key professional who liaises on behalf of a child or young person between the anchor organisations, support provided by our Delivery Partners and the WLZ backbone, and maintains contact with their parents and the trusted adults in their lives.
Over the summer WLZ recruited two more Link Workers to join our Head Link Worker Rahel Goenner. This blog from our Chief Operations Officer Louisa Mitchell introduces the three Link Workers and explains how they will work.
The WLZ pilot year – academic year 2015-16 – is funded through philanthropy. Over the summer we were pleased to receive support from a trust funder and a major corporate supporter, who join John Lyon’s Charity and our private donors as the people making WLZ possible.
There will always be a significant philanthropic element to our finance model. However, our long-term vision is that WLZ becomes sustainable through an innovative model of social finance, blending public spending with private capital. We aim to bring together multiple commissioners and investors to support the delivery of a range of improved outcomes for individual children in the areas of well being, learning and character. These cut across multiple public policy areas from education to health to welfare and criminal justice.
We call this model a Collective Impact Bond because of the diversity of investors, commissioners and delivery organisations required to come together with WLZ to make it happen.
A Steering Group comprising local organisations and commissioners has been meeting throughout the spring and summer to design the CIB, with support from BWB Advisory and the Big Lottery Commissioning Better Outcomes Fund. We are in the final stages of design for this new model and look forward to putting it in front of commissioners in local and national government over the winter, and reaching out to investors in the new year.
This blog from our Chief Development Officer Nigel Ball explains the outcomes we intend to pursue with the CIB. We were also part of a submission to the Government led by Big Society Capital, which you can read about here.
As WLZ moves into the Delivery phase we’ve restructured the roles of senior staff and the line management of the team. You can read about the new structure in a blog from our Chief Executive Danny Kruger. At the same time we’re actively building our board of trustees, with some exciting candidates agreeing to join and a range of conversations going on to recruit more. We look forward to unveiling our new board shortly.
WLZ is planning a semi-regular series of evening events for parents and young people participating in the project, the professionals who work with them as well as other local residents. Intended as storytelling sessions for people living and working in White City, these will take place around a campfire in the White City Adventure Playground, and we’ll have food and music. We want to start small (and certainly not swamp it with professionals, which is why we’re not inviting you all to come!) and see how it grows with the project.
Over the summer, new national datasets on deprivation and poverty were released and we have analysed the information to show what has changed in the Zone since 2010. What the new information tells us is that levels of deprivation are improving; that inequality remains severe; and that the area experiences significant population movement in and out each year. You can see the full analysis including heat maps of the area here.
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Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.