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Family Support and Child Protection - Children and Young People's Social Care

Help to avoid family breakdown and the need for children to come into care  Help children/young people who have been looked after by the local authority return to their families  Emphasis on helping families to help themselves  Assist with behaviour management of children aged 0 - 17.

Name:
Vulnerable Children
Address:
Ted Webster Family Centre
Borough Of Poole Council
519a Ashley Road
Poole
Dorset
Postcode:
BH14 0BD
Telephone:
01202 261550
E-mail:
children&families@poole.gov.uk
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Focus

Focus is open to any adult carer in the boroughs of Bournemouth or Poole and is free of charge. Focus provides volunteer befrienders who can give carers a 'listening ear', emotional support and companionship through the up's and downs of being a carer. All our befrienders are trained, CRB checked more...…

Name:
Focus
Address:
Church Of The Good Shepherd
35 Stanfield Road
Poole
Dorset
Postcode:
BH12 3HR
Telephone:
01202 745134
E-mail:
focus@faithworkswessex.org.uk
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Fostering and Placement Team - Children and Young People's Social Care

Places children in foster care when/where appropriate Recruits, trains and supports foster carers Holds regular information meetings with regard to recruitment Assess friends and families and Private Fostering placements Holds responsibility for quality assurance of residential and out-of-Borough placements.

Name:
Fostering and Placement Team
Address:
Borough of Poole
14a Commercial Road
Poole
Dorset
Postcode:
BH14 0JW
Telephone:
01202 735046
E-mail:
children&families@poole.gov.uk
Website:
www.boroughofpoole.com/
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Grandparent Association

The Grandparent's Association has been working with and for grandparents to achieve positive outcomes for their grandchildren for decades. We were set up in  1987 by a group of grandparents whose grandchildren had been put into care, adopted from care or were not allowed any contact with them. We have more...…

Name:
Grandparents' Association
Address:
Moot House
The Stow
HARLOW
Essex
Postcode:
CM20 3AG
Telephone:
0845 4349585
Website:
www.grandparents-association.org.uk/
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Grandparents Plus

Grandparents Plus is the national charity (England and Wales) which champions the vital role of grandparents and the wider family in children's lives – especially when they take on the caring role in difficult family circumstances. We work to support grandparents and the wider family by: Campaigning for change so more...…

Telephone:
0300 123 7015
E-mail:
advice@grandparentsplus.org.uk
Website:
www.grandparentsplus.org.uk/
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Hamworthy Safer Neighbourhood Team

Safer Neighbourhoods is a commitment by Dorset Police to improving the quality of life within our communities by working together with partners to target the issues identified by you - local people - as those that matter most.  There are a number of opportunities that the Safer Neighbourhood Team in more...…

Telephone:
Call us at Dorset Police on: 101
Mobile:
Team mobile: 07795 401420
Website:
Hamworthy Safer Neighbourhood Team
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Headway Dorset

Voluntary organisation: day/rehabilitation centre; Psychology; occupational therapy; physiotherapy; alternative therapies; support group & carers group; Information & advice; community support workers; group and individual work. Community befriending scheme; for people with acquired brain injury and their carers.

Name:
Headway Dorset
Address:
Unit 22
Albany Park
Creekmoor
Poole
Dorset
Postcode:
BH17 7BX
Telephone:
01202 606560
Mobile:
07870 490334
E-mail:
office@headwaydorset.org.uk
Website:
www.headwaydorset.org.uk/
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Home-Start South East Dorset

Home-Start South East Dorset helps families in their local community.  Parent volunteers offer support and friendship to other parents through home visiting, via family groups and through social event. Support is offered on a weekly basis in the family’s own home with clear aims and objectives to help provide the more...…

Name:
1462 Wimborne Road
Address:
Kinson
Bournemouth
Dorset
Postcode:
BH10 7AS
Telephone:
01202 574877
E-mail:
office@homestartsoutheastdorset.org.uk
Website:
Home-Start South East Dorset Website
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Hospital Education And Sick Children's Service

In line with Government guidelines, this service provides educational support to school age children in hospital on a short, medium or long-term basis. Offer support across the curriculum, but tend to concentrate on core subjects (Maths, English, Science and ICT - Information, Communication Technology).

Name:
Hospital Education And Sick Children's Service
Address:
Child Health
Poole Hospital NHS Trust
POOLE
Dorset
Postcode:
BH15 2JB
Telephone:
01202 448082
E-mail:
j.atkins@thequayschool.com
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Housing and Community Services - Community Development

Enabling people to take a more active role in their community by: Working on the individual level Supporting individuals and groups to develop their skills to take positive action and get stuff done within their communities. Working on the social level Bringing the right people together to form constructive and practical more...…

Name:
Housing and Community Services - Community Development
Address:
Borough Of Poole
Civic Centre
Poole
Dorset
Postcode:
BH15 2RU
Telephone:
01202 633438
E-mail:
community.development@poole.gov.uk
Website:
www.boroughofpoole.com/
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