Lichfield Family Hub

While the school holidays are a lovely time to spend with your children, sometimes the extra pressure of juggling work, childcare and home life, along with the added financial pressures of activities, day trips, childcare and meals can all have a negative impact on your relationship and your children’s wellbeing.

If you feel that you are experiencing frequent conflict in your relationship which you are struggling to resolve, we can help. Using the One plus One digital support package you can work through your troubles and learn to communicate better. You can access them here Parent resource sign up - https://www.oneplusone.org.uk/.

After using the package, other parents shared their thoughts “We now know how to manage “our” stress and how to argue helpfully”

OnePlusOne – homepage Equipping people to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Do you feel unsafe, uncomfortable or just a bit weird? This venue operates Ask for Angela - ask a member of staff for Angela and they will know you need help getting out of your situation and will call you a taxi or help you leave discreetly - without fuss.

Feeling unsafe? On a date that isn’t working out? Something not feeling right? Need a way out? Go to the bar and for discreet help.

Discover Separating Better, your expert guide to co-parenting and separation. It offers emotional and practical support to parents all in the best interests of their children.

For more support and to download our online app, see our local self-help page.

www.staffordshireconnects.info

Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation that isn’t safe or that makes you feel uncomfortable.

In premises that operate Ask for Angela, you can discreetly ask for help from a member of staff if this happens.

The best gifts aren’t always flashy or extravagant; they’re the ones that make daily life easier and increase independence 🏡

➡️ Explore our low-cost, helpful gift ideas for Father’s Day: https://bit.ly/3WZfecF

Tomorrow - 20th March, our Staffordshire Community Learning
and Skills festival will be in TAMWORTH at the Football Club from 9am-12pm, and then at the beautiful LICHFIELD Cathedral from 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Find out about all of the local adult community leaning opportunities taking place on your doorstep, take some taster sessions, meet our learning providers in your area, and find out how to gain new skills for work, home,, for personal wellbeing or just for fun.

All attendees get a FREE learning pack to take away, and you can also be in with a chance to win a £50 shopping voucher by taking part in some of the activities.

TOITALLY FREE for Staffordshire residents. All welcome. Just turn up.

More info https://staffordshirecommunitylearning.org.uk/festival/

You may be aware that Staffordshire County Council are developing an important Communities Strategy, to set out the long-term ambitions and actions for empowering our communities. It is essential that this reflects the community’s views, so we been engaging with residents and partners since November.

We have extended the deadline for this engagement work, meaning that the resident and partner surveys remain open until the end of February.

Residents survey: https://buff.ly/49PHiCx

Partner survey: https://buff.ly/3SSCup1

Our Staffordshire Communities – tell us about your community and how we can all do our bit! Tell us what makes your community great, and be entered into a prize draw. Staffordshire people can help shape a long-term plan in partnership with the county council to take action and improve their communities. Staffordshire’s communities are a huge part of what makes

Do you provide activities for young people or run a ?

👀 We’re looking for schools, private, community and voluntary sector organisations across to provide holiday activities for young people aged 11-16.

Grants are available for our Holiday Activities and Food programme funded by the Department of Education.

🥗 The offer should include a healthy meal, but we can help with ideas for this.

Full details are available here ➡️ https://orlo.uk/6vqFj

So nice to meet some of our new families all ready for this terms Simply Play 4 Babies and Simply Play.
This week we got to know all about each other and are looking forward to our physical theme next Friday.
There are still a couple of places left on this free 10 week course where parents/ carers explore different areas of our children’s development- how these areas help our children grow and develop and how we can support them!!!

Any questions or to book your place contact
[email protected]

Spark - Burntwood
Lichfield District Children's Centres
Lichfield Families Health and Wellbeing Service 0-19

We have been busy meeting some new families at this weeks Simply Play sessions in different children’s centres in Staffordshire and we’re excited to be bringing the simply play fun to Spark - Burntwood tomorrow and Lichfield District Children's Centres on Friday.

We still have a couple of places left in each group so email to get booked on!!!!
[email protected]

Simply Play is a free course for parents/ carers.
The courses runs fur 10 weeks with a different theme each week (physical, creative, emotional etc)
You will get ideas on how to support your child and why these areas of development of important.
It’s as simple as that- plus you and your little one get to try out some new activities with new friends!!!!

Lichfield Families Health and Wellbeing Service 0-19
Staffordshire Libraries
Staffordshire County Council
Fun Club Hub CIO Charity

These sessions are delivered for 10 weeks (term time).
Each week we will look at a different area of your child’s development such as physical skills, creative and healthy eating/ weaning.
The sessions provide the opportunity to chat and that weeks theme and play with some activities to help you support your child within this area. Why not give it a go….
Places are filling up so email [email protected]


Spark - Burntwood

FREE family sessions at Lichfield and Burntwood.

simply play are welcoming sessions which offers parents! carers with ideas how to support their child’s learning avc development.
Sessions run for 10 weeks with a different theme each week.
To book your January slot email your name, contact number, child’s name and DOB to [email protected]

We are hosting some engagement work for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent on the future of maternity services and want to get in touch with women who had used the services in the last three years.

The two freestanding midwifery birthing units (FMBUs) at County Hospital, Stafford, and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, Lichfield are currently temporarily closed, to ensure safe staffing at the consultant-led and midwife-led units at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Queen’s Hospital, Burton.

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB is currently undertaking a service change programme in relation to the two units and would like to invite you to an event to explain the process for change that we are following and the proposals we have considered for the future of the FMBUs.

No decisions have yet been made and we will continue to update stakeholders and patients about the programme.

The event is an online event being held on Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 2pm. To register for the event please use this form:

Snap Surveys

We are encouraging local communities to have their say on our future priorities.

The consultation will help contribute to an extended version of the Service’s Safety Plan, which is a document all fire and rescue services are required to produce.

The plan details the priorities we will adopt and the approach we will take to ensure the protection of local communities, the reduction of risk and the commitment to firefighter safety.

Those who complete this short survey (maximum of 10 minutes) will also be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher: https://orlo.uk/n6w22

With just around the corner, we wanted to remind you of the dangers of playing with fireworks.

Fireworks are dangerous and cause serious injuries and accidents, so it’s important to have conversations with children and young people about the risks they pose.

More information and advice can be found on our website: https://orlo.uk/EhTp9

We are encouraging local communities to have their say on our future priorities.

The consultation will help contribute to an extended version of the Service’s Safety Plan, which is a document all fire and rescue services are required to produce.

The plan details the priorities we will adopt and the approach we will take to ensure the protection of local communities, the reduction of risk and the commitment to firefighter safety.

Those who complete this short survey (maximum of 10 minutes) will also be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher: https://orlo.uk/osY4z

With concerns about the increase in young people va**ng, it is important for pupils to understand the impact va**ng can have on their bodies and wellbeing. Better Health have launched a new resource to help teachers start these discussions. Download for free here: https://buff.ly/3FhmOWb

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With concerns about the increase in young people va**ng, it is important for pupils to understand the impact va**ng can have on their bodies and wellbeing. Better Health have launched a new resource to help teachers start these discussions. Download for free here: https://buff.ly/3FhmOWb

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We are delighted to open booking for our 1 day marketplace place event designed specifically for you.

Come along to our FREE "one-stop shop" event for young people, parents/carers and education providers. Book here now https://forms.office.com/r/WjPdfN48H6.

Find out what SEND services are available in your local area to help young people and families to thrive. Discover a wide range of support & advice from SEND specialists, professionals and organisations on how to navigate the system and get the best outcomes for your families and education settings.

Enjoy an opportunity to chat with other parents and carers facing similar challenges, or hear about the new pathways and Staffordshire’s commitment to the coproduction promise.

Staffordshire County Showground, Ingestre Suite
Tuesday 3rd October 2023
9.30am – 4.30pm
Drop In anytime during the day (Come along after the school run, stay all day or pop in for an hour, we aim to have something for everyone)

Keep checking back here as more details are announced.

We really look forward to seeing you there.

If you have ideas of who you would like to see attend, please let us know and we will do our best to find those services for you to chat too.

Unpaid carers are invited to get involved in work to refresh the all-age carers strategy 2024 - 2029, which Staffordshire County Council and the Integrated Care Board are carrying out.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be engaging with young carers and adult carers about how their caring role affects them and what they think our priorities should be for the next five years. We will use the feedback carers give us to set the priorities and key actions in the new strategy.

Carers can get involved in a number of ways:

• Young carers aged under 18 can get involved though young carer groups run by the Staffordshire Together for Carers Service. If a young carer isn’t already part of a young carers group, they can call 0300 303 0621 or email [email protected].
• Adult carers can complete an online survey: Carers Strategy Survey | Let's Talk Staffordshire.
• We’ll also be talking to adult carers directly in focus groups
• Carers can work with us to produce measurable outcomes for the new priorities (work to take place in autumn.)
To get a paper copy of the adult carers survey, get involved in a focus group for adult carers or help us produce measurable outcomes please email us at [email protected] or call 01785 278 228 or 01785 895 594.

Carers can feedback to us up to 18 September.

Carers Strategy Survey If you are an unpaid adult carer, we'd like you to tell us more about yourself and what support you need to live a happier, healthier and more independent life whilst continuing to care for your loved ones.

Together with children have created an activity pack to support children moving from primary to secondary school. It has questions to help children think about things they might want to find out about their new school, things they like doing and want to continue doing, who they can go to for support and their goals for the future. There is also some top tips from other children who’ve already moved from primary to secondary school.
Click on the link below to get a copy:https://assets.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wpuploads/2023/07/cc-moving-from-primary-to-secondary-school-activity-pack.pdf