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This last year has been tough. For some more than others. Fears and worries have crept into our daily routines. But there are some things you shouldn’t have to worry about. Like feeding your child. That is why Harrow are running the Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) over the Easter holidays. Local organisations across Harrow are putting on free catered holiday activities for your kids to get involved with.

Harrow partnership have a questionnaire that is designed to help us identify if any of the roles in your organisation should be prioritised for a Covid-19 vaccination.

With funding from the Department for Education we will be able to offer funding to organisations wishing to deliver vital programmes for school age children aged 5-16 years old, during the Easter, Summer and Christmas holidays in 2021.

Listen to the latest opportunities from Children in Need and John Lyon's Charity to apply for 3 year funding if you are delivering activities for Children or Young People in Harrow as a non for profit organisation.

We are asking all schools and colleges across Harrow to run this during a tutor time during April and May 2021. So far around half of all schools and colleges have signed up.

The national ‘Wellbeing for Education’ initiative (published as Wellbeing for Education Return) aims to build on and strengthen educational settings’ ability to support children’s wellbeing, and the wellbeing of adults in the school community, in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Our Social Media Webinar on 4 November 2020 was designed to share the expertise of our members who are doing exceptionally well in specific areas of social media and online fundraising

A commissioned services offering early intervention mental health support will provide a brief summary of their current support offer.

Kooth commissioned services offering online and text mental health support will provide insights from their work with children and families during recent weeks, and what this might mean for some children and young people returning to schools.

HARROW - UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL PICTURE HARROW SCHOOLS' JOURNEY TOWARDS 'A NEW NORMAL' A FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING HELPING US TO UNDERSTAND THE LOCAL PICTURE, PLANS AND PRIORITIES FROM NHS, LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

STREET SAFETY AND DETACHED WORK. KEEPING YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH WORKERS SAFE AND ENGAGED Focus on street crime and gang related activity and looking at Police intelligence locally, experience and oversight since the start of Covid 19. This webinar focused on what has been happening over the Covid 19 lockdown period around young people being out and about including gang and youth violence incidents. With everything indicating a spike in the coming weeks we need to consider ways of engaging with young people, ensuing detached work can take place safely and effectively and how funders can support new ideas and changes to provision.

As part of Mental Health Week we will be looking at trends in what we are seeing around the mental health needs of young people during the Covid 19 lockdown. Professionals will share examples of what’s working well, how they are engaging with young people in need of support and sharing practical ideas and coping mechanisms which can be used by anyone working with young people.

WEBINAR 2 - SAFEGUARDING AND CYBER WORKING

WEBINAR 1 - CYBER SERVICE OFFER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE