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More information about what our member agencies do, especially in safeguarding children & young people and supporting parents & carers. Better Choices (Tameside Connexions)
Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass)
Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Probation
New Charter Housing Association
What we do: Tameside’s largest social housing provider with 14,500 homes. Alongside the usual landlord functions of letting homes, collecting rents and carrying out repairs/improvements, we have a wide range of community support services such as tenancy support, specialist homelessness provision and community regeneration activities. Among services for families we have Cornerstone Family Intervention Service, the Sanctuary Scheme and Independent Domestic Abuse Advisory Service for victims of domestic abuse, ‘floating’ tenancy support and a range of schemes providing activities for children and young people living in our neighbourhoods. Where are services delivered? Locally in our neighbourhood centres or other community facilities, at our main building in Ashton or in people’s own homes. When are services delivered? All families have access to low level support through their local Neighbourhood Officer. More specialist services can be accessed by all New Charter staff as or colleagues form other partner agencies. Families can ask for help themselves or may be are encouraged to take up offers of services when needs are evident to New Charter staff of partner colleagues. Who delivers our services? Services are delivered by New Charter staff , both generic and more specialised, across a range of in-house provision of and also in partnership with other providers such as Action For Children, Groundwork, Children’s Centres etc. Where can you find out more? By visiting New Charter’s website at:
NSPCC
Pennine Care NHS Trust
Tameside Council
What we do: We improve the wellbeing of children and young people in the borough, to aim high and realise their ambitions with the support of their families and communities. We achieve better outcomes for all through the children and young people priorities which include promoting healthy lifestyles, improving health and well-being, promoting safety, increasing take up of education, training and employment, raising learning attainment and reducing teenage pregnancy. Where are services delivered? Services are provided across the 4 geographical areas of the borough in Ashton; Dukinfield, Stalybridge and Mossley; Hyde and Longdendale; and Denton, Audenshaw and Droylsden; and are provided within a variety of different settings including Schools, Childrens Centres, Libraries, extended school services and within private homes. Why is the service delivered? By achieving integrated services arrangements, we attain improved access and earlier intervention support to promote better outcomes for Children and Young People. How are the services delivered? A wide range of services from universal to targeted services are implemented to effectively meet the needs of young people in Tameside Where can you find out more? By visiting Tameside Council website at www.tameside.gov.uk Tameside & Glossop NHS (Primary Care Trust)
What we do Provision of universal and targeted health care services to the population of Tameside and Glossop. We provide Health Visiting, School Nursing and District Nursing services, as well as a full range of therapy and health promotion services. We also commission GP’s, Dentists and Optometry services. Where are services delivered? We deliver services from an array of community bases, ranging from clinic premises, GP practices and the local hospital to individuals homes. Services are delivered whenever possible in the most appropriate place for the individual. Our School Nurses work very closely with schools, to deliver services to children and young people and Health visitors work closely with Children’s Centres to work with children and parents. When are service delivered? The majority of our services to children and young people are delivered 9-5, Monday to Friday, but we do provide evening clinics. District Nursing, Sexual Health and GP services are flexible and provide services into the evening. School Nurses and Health Visitors provide both universal and targeted services and referrals are accepted from Children’s Centre staff, GP’s schools and a wide variety of services that come onto contact with children and their families. Who Delivers our services? Our services are delivered by a range of health professionals and support staff including Nurses, Therapists, Doctors and Optometrists. Within our school Nursing and Health Visiting services we have Nursery Nurses, Generic support workers and School Health assistants who make up The Child Health team. NHS Tameside and Glossop also have a dedicated services for safeguarding children and young people comprising of Doctors and Nursing Staff. Where can you find out more? By visiting NHS Tameside and Glossop website at You will be able to see more services provided by the trust.
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
What we do - Provision of acute healthcare for the population of Tameside and Glossop. The maternity and paediatric services at the hospital provide a round the clock service for women and children locally and support work that overspills from other areas in Greater Manchester when required. Where are services delivered? The services are delivered on the hospital site and both the maternity and paediatric services have community based staff to ensure that users of the service can be provided with care by a core staff group in their own home when appropriate. A community paediatric medical team is based in Hyde and provides a health service for children and families who have ongoing needs, children looked after by the local authority and for adopting families. When are services delivered? The majority of services are delivered following referral from another source. This can be from the school nurse / health visitor / GP or from departments within the hospital such as the antenatal clinic and the Accident & Emergency (A&E) department. Who delivers our services? Women and Children’s services are provided by a range of health staff. These include doctors, nurses, midwifes, support workers, administrative staff, play therapy staff and newborn hearing screeners. In addition to the staff already in post during 2009 there have been some major changes to how safeguarding services are delivered in the hospital. A new safeguarding nurse and a safeguarding midwife are employed with some administrative support to raise the profile of the need for better safeguarding processes and training delivery. There is a new safeguarding office that demonstrates the commitment the organisation has to ensuring safeguarding is encompassed into care delivery for all patients. Where can you find out more? By visiting the Tameside hospital website at http://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/pages/default.asp you will be able to see more details of the services provided by the Trust.
Tameside Third Sector Coalition (T3SC)
Tameside Third Sector Coalition (T3SC) is a registered charity which supports all voluntary, community and faith groups in Tameside. T3SC’s mission is to build and support strong, clear and independent voluntary and community action in Tameside. We do this by developing and sustaining the capacity and accountability of individuals and groups, and of the sector as a whole. T3SC provide information, training and support to help groups and organisations run themselves and provide quality services. An important part of this is to help groups adjust to changing trends and policies (like changes in safeguarding children) We celebrate and promote the massive contribution that the voluntary and community sector make. We publicise and showcase the work of groups in Tameside through articles in our quarterly Newsletter and monthly E-Bulletin. We bring similar groups and people together in networks to influence decisions for the benefit of Tameside communities. Tameside’s Funky Lizard Network There are over 800 voluntary and community groups and organisations in Tameside. Over 200 of these groups work with families, children and young people and they have an opportunity to come together within the Tameside Funky Lizard network, supported by T3SC. Through the network, T3SC supports representation at both Tameside’s Children’s Trust and the Tameside Safeguarding Children Board and ensure that groups/organisations are able to provide safe services and increase their awareness of when people need additional support. Find out all about us here; Families, children and young people network - Funky Lizard Most recently we have been working with the Safe Network to bring groups and organisations an easy checklist that they can follow, with guidance as to where to get support around all safeguarding issues. For more information about the T3SC Safe and Sound checklist go to the Safeguarding Library
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