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The Healthy Lives Team Families update contains helpful information and activities for your whole school community
This is the FAMILIES newsletter from The Healthy Lives Team. Each Friday we share relevant information, activities and resources to support your ongoing health and wellbeing.
The HEALTHY LIVES TEAM supports schools, pupils and families with everything to do with health and wellbeing. We want to help you to live fitter, healthier and happier lives.
We now have a Healthy Lives Team webpage where you can find out more about the team and access Healthy Schools resources and all our archived newsletters.
18 or over? Get your Covid-19 vaccine now
Everyone aged 18 and over is now eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine and should book an appointment to get their jab.
Locally there are a number of clinics that offer vaccination including the Arts Pavilion, Cable Street Surgery and Lincoln and Lansbury pharmacies. Appointments are also available at mass vaccination sites such as Westfield.
Anyone aged 40 and under will be offered the Pfizer vaccine and two doses, eight-weeks apart, are needed. Vaccines are highly effective against the Delta Covid variant, which is now making up the vast majority of cases in the UK. Those who are vaccinated are unlikely to get serious Covid-19, to be admitted to hospital, or to die from it.
More information on the vaccine and how to book, including walk-in options, is available on the council website. Protect yourself, your loved ones and our community and take up the offer of free Covdi-19 vaccination.
Find out more here >
Raising Happy Babies: Free 6 week psychology course
Raising Happy Babies group is still running with the next one due to start Wednesday the 14th July at 10am.
This course will help you to:
- Learn about your baby's emotional development/bonding
- Look after yourself as a new mother
- Adjust to the transition to life with your baby
To register for this group you must be a resident or have a GP in Tower Hamlets, be a first time mother and have a baby under 6 months.
Self refer here >
Supporting children's transitions to secondary school
The Anna Freud Centre have launched their Moving up! transition animation and toolkit which is accompanied by the Supporting children's transitions to secondary school booklet for parents and carers.
The animation aims to support pupils to:
- Identify potential worries associated with starting secondary school
- Know they're not alone if they are feeling worried
- Talk to a trusted adult or friend if they have any concerns
- Identify solutions and strategies for looking after their mental health, including self-care
The booklet provides tips about how children preparing for, or going through, the transition to secondary school can best be supported by their parents and carers. It includes guidance which explains why the transition can be difficult for some children, and practical advice such as talking and connecting with the new school, as well as suggested resources that children and parents and carers may find useful.
Moving up! animation >
Transitions booklet >
Keeping your children safe: online & beyond
It's never easy to know how to keep our children safe when they aren't with us, and sometimes even when are, if we don't know what's happening on their devices. Who are they talking to, what are they doing, are they okay? If you need help to find some answers, Parents Safe have top tips and advice for parents on how to keep their child safe online.
Parent Safe >
And remember...
“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
Maya Angelou
The Healthy Lives TeamThe Healthy Lives Team want to support you with all aspects of health and wellbeing. We will be sending you regular newsletters that will be relevant whether you are at school, work, or at home. Please feel free to share this email. |
We are incredibly proud in Tower Hamlets to have supported schools to gain more Healthy Schools awards than any other borough in London. So please use this newsletter in whatever way suits you best to stay as fit and healthy as possible.
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Take care,
The Healthy Lives team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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News and information to support your work with families Thursday update for professionals – 24th June 2021
Parents and school staff have requested ideas for non- online activities, our Family Fun sheet 17 is attached - please add to your newsletter and website
We welcome feedback on the content of our Family Fun Sheets- please contact parentalengagement@towerhamlets.gov.uk with any comments or ideas
Families Matter Bitesize E-bulletin – June 2021
Please click the image below to view the June 2021 Families Matter bitesize e-bulletin which was sent via the council’s email newsletter system. Please share with colleagues, the families you work with and wider networks. You can also share the link on your school’s/organisation’s website, social media and via other communication channels.
Editions of the Families Matter monthly bitesize e-bulletin and the termly magazine can be found at www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/familiesmatter
Ofsted Inspection of SEND Services: Please promote to families on your website to encourage feedback
- The SEND Local Area Inspection will take place between 28th June – 2nd July.
- Please see the letter from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to parents and carers, including information on how they can share their views as part of the inspection is attached.
- For more information visit https://www.localoffertowerhamlets.co.uk/blog_articles/3150-newsflash-send-ofsted-area-inspection
Holiday Childcare Scheme Bookings Summer 2021: Information for professionals
- The Tower Hamlets Holiday Childcare Scheme bookings for the summer 2021 Scheme open on 22nd June, 12pm for working parents resident in the borough and vulnerable referrals. We will be following government guidance and will open offering a reduced capacity, for more details please see the government guidance.
- Scheme dates: Monday 26th July – Friday 20th August 2021 (4 weeks)
- Venue: St Mary and St Michael Primary School, Sutton Street, Stepney, E1 0BD
- Please support and share this information with families who may benefit from our scheme. To refer a child please complete our referral form and support the family to book following the steps on our booking system. Referral forms can be sent to holiday.childcare@towerhamlets.gov.uk at any point, bookings are accepted when open (see dates above.)
- More information can be found on our website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/hcs
- From the Holiday Childcare Team, Parent & Family Support Service, Children and Culture Directorate, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) Application Deadline – 30th June Reminder: Please share with families
- Please remind the parents, families, young people you are working with that if they are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizens, they and their family members may be eligible to apply to the Settlement Scheme.
- It is crucial that eligible parents apply to the scheme themselves and check whether they need to do so on behalf of their children. Eligible children are required to have an application in their own right and no child of any age is covered by a parent’s application to the EUSS. More information can be found at www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families/apply-settled-status-for-child
- A EUSS leaflet has been produced by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the Home Office to provide additional guidance for parents and young people. Click here for the leaflet
HMRC Can Help Towards the Cost of Children’s Summer Holiday Activities: Please share with families
- HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding working families in London that they can use Tax-Free Childcare to help pay for their childcare costs over the summer.
- Parents and carers can check their eligibility and register for Tax-Free Childcare via GOV.UK. They can apply for an account at any time and start using it straight away. By depositing money into their accounts, families can benefit from the 20% top-up and use the money to pay for childcare costs when they need to, for example, during the summer holidays.
Praxis and Brighter Futures Volunteer Roles Available: Please share with families and staff
- Please see the volunteer role descriptions and information below:
- Volunteer With Us — Praxis for Migrants and Refugees.
Tower Hamlets Transition Support Services: please promote to families
- Please find attached information about secondary transfer information sessions for year 5 parents/carers.
- The sessions aim to help Year 5 parents/carers know more about the secondary transfer process by providing key information and exploring how to support a child’s secondary transfer.
- Parents/carers can book a place through Eventbrite and browse different session dates/time: Secondary Transfer Session Tickets, Mon 28 Jun 2021 at 13:00 | Eventbrite
- Or call the parents Advice Centre: 020 7364 6489
Parent & Family Support Service ~ 24th June 2021
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‘The Parent and Family Support Service builds resilience, independence and sustainability in local communities to support early help and is highly valued by the parents involved.’ Tower Hamlets Inspection of Children’s Social Care Ofsted Report 2019 |
To find out more about the work of the Parent and Family Support Service visit: www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/parentfamilysupport
Search the Local Offer for information about services available to children, young people and families in Tower Hamlets. www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/localoffer
Frances Cherry
Monitoring and Service Support Officer (Maternity Cover)
Children and Culture Directorate
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough Of Tower Hamlets
Parents Advice Centre
30 Greatorex Street
Whitechapel
London E1 5NP
Tel:
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‘The Parent and Family Support Service builds resilience, independence and sustainability in local communities to support early help and is highly valued by the parents involved.’ Tower Hamlets Inspection of Children’s Social Care Ofsted Report 2019 |
To find out more about the work of the Parent and Family Support Service visit: www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/parentfamilysupport
Search the Local Offer for information about services available to children, young people and families in Tower Hamlets. www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/localoffer