Parents wellbeing sessions – LPCF members only
Please encourage parents to join our membership and make the most of these free sessions.
Parental Information
Learning to see the light after lockdown
Parents can join us for a free 90-minute Zoom session to help improve their mental health & wellbeing.
Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy will be giving us proven techniques to help us make positive changes to our lives.
Relax with like-minded people in a positive atmosphere.
Dates: Thursday 30th July at 7pm – Managing the ease of lockdown
Thursday 13th August 2pm – Stress management and responses
Thursday 20th August 7pm – TBA
Thursday 3rd September 1pm – TBA
Free sessions for LPCF members only (if you are a parent of a child with SEND you can join our membership via our website).
Please email admin@lincspcf.org.uk for an invitation.
LPCF Virtual Signposting & Information Event – 22nd September 2020
If you are interested in taking part in our next event in September on Zoom – please reply to this email.
You will be given 10 – 15 minutes to showcase your offer of support to parents and then answer any questions they may have.
If you would like to be part of our event please let me know whether you would be available:-
From 10.30 – 11.30
From 1pm – 2pm
From 4pm – 5pm
From 7pm -8pm
Hope to hear from you soon
Other Organisations information for professionals
· Sleep foundation course FREE to Professionals/Practitioners working with families within Lincolnshire – contact Claire Earley for more details: – claire@thesleepcharity.org.uk
· LCC -Following a review of commissioning arrangements of LCC’s SEND services for making necessary arrangements, Children’s Strategic Commissioning have identified that there is an opportunity for OSL commissioning arrangement to be put in place for three areas .The 3 areas are: Domiciliary Care, Short Breaks, Alternative Provision (to support Interim Home Tuition). Please click on the following link to find out more and to undertake a commissioning based survey.https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/directory-record/65018/procurement-activities-for-special-educational-needs-and-disability-send-services
Here you will find links & documents offering advice for parents and carers during the school closure.
Dear parent/carer. Please find below a link to the latest update (May 11th) for parents and carers from the Department for Education regarding the closure of schools. Many thanks UAH. Click Here
We just wanted to make you aware that we have added a new element to our Stay Safe Directory called Advice for Parents and Carers: Click Here
- LCC Advice for parents and carers working from home
- NSPCC Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice and support for parents and carers
- Supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing
- Tips to cope for children from child line.
- How to support home routines
- Government guidance on support with domestic abuse during COVID-19
- Microsoft Teams Guidance
- Parents Protect
New website for parents to help their children catch-up
The department has launched an information site for parents, to support children of all age ranges and abilities catch up on lost learning from the pandemic. The site features advice and support for parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), as well as programmes, resources and activities for children and young people this summer.
Please do share this with your parent networks.
Further information can be found on the education catch-up for your child homepage.
If you are struggling to feed your family over the summer, or indeed at any time, please don’t be afraid to ask for help.
We will not judge you and are here to help you. We know that times are tough for everybody and that jobs are under threat.
We will simply ask you your name, address and the number of adults and children (and their ages) in your household and any special needs or allergies.
You can get a food parcel in one of 3 ways:
- Ring or text the number below and we will deliver your parcel on a Wednesday between 12.00-1.00
- Ring or text the number below and arrange to pick up your parcel from the Reading Rooms at 12.00
- Come in person to the Reading Rooms between 10.00-12.00, follow our Covid 19 guidelines, and we will pack a parcel for you there and then.
We are open Every Wednesday from 10.00-12.00
Holbeach Reading Rooms Next door to the Old Library on Church Street
Ring or text 07511 091637
HCL – registered charity 1176177, HCC – Community Interest Company 10683575 Holbeach Community Holbeach Community Community Larder& Cafe Food Bank and Cafe
Please see information about Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
How we use young people’s participant data
An overview for parents/carers and young people.
Participants in the LiNCHigher programme are Lincolnshire based young people in Year 9 to 13 at school, Level 2 & 3 students in College and selected groups of young people in the community. This information sheet explains more about the LiNCHigher programme of activities, events and initiatives which young people will participate in, what information and data we collect, when and how we use this information.
LiNCHigher is part of a national programme called the UniConnect project, and is funded by the Office for Students which aims to increase the number of young people going into Higher Education. Higher Education is defined as University, Higher Degree qualifications at College or Degree Apprenticeships. The programme is run across most schools and colleges in Lincolnshire.
LiNCHigher consists of a consortia of partners. Here in Lincolnshire this includes Bishop Grosseteste University, the University of Lincoln, Boston College, Lincoln College, Bishop Burton College, the Grimsby Institute, Grantham College, New College Stamford and Lincolnshire County Council.
Your school or college want to support you with your future career choices and have decided that the LiNCHigher programme would benefit you and your school. Your school have signed up for us to delivery the programme, working with your teachers and careers lead, to make sure that it is fun, educational and supportive of your needs and future career aspirations.
How will my Personal Information be Used
We will collect the following information from you and/or your school/college: Full Name, Date of Birth, Postcode, Gender, Ethnicity, School/College Name and Email Address, for the purposes of:
- organising events/activities/courses either physically or online specifically for you and your school.
- tracking future outcomes of event participants, including applications to Higher Education Institutions;
- monitoring and research including (but not limited to) evaluation of the impact of events/activities (including events not organised by LiNCHigher);
- producing statistics, including participation numbers and participant outcomes; and
- sending you additional information such as helpful resources relating to applying to Higher Education by email.
We consider the processing of your personal information for the above purposes to be necessary for the performance of tasks we carry out in the public interest (i.e. running events to promote access to Higher Education, informing students of their educational options and carrying out related evaluation, tracking and research).
If you, or your school, are asked to provide any sensitive information about yourself, such as your ethnicity, health/disability status, religion, or sexual orientation, this will be held in identifiable form and is used solely for research purposes, creating better and more focused activities for you and for equalities monitoring. Access to this sensitive data is by LiNCHigher, and as part of wider national research projects with appropriate conditions of access to the data.
Any other uses of this sensitive information requires your consent, which is given by you providing us with the information, having had the opportunity to read and understand this Notice. The supply of such information will always be optional, and you and your parents/carers can always decide not to share this information with us.
Some times we may want to take photos of the activities you are participating in, If we ask for your photograph to be taken at any LiNCHigher event, we will explain what we intend to use it for and seek your consent. If you, your parents or teachers don’t want us to use the photos for the purposes we have outlined, then that’s OK.
We may use carefully selected third party service providers to run the events we organise. These suppliers do not have access to your contact information, and will never be asked to contact you directly about the events. All contact about events will only ever be via your teachers and school.
Unless you have been told otherwise at the point of asking, there is no statutory or contractual requirement to supply us with any of your personal information. If we asked for your consent to use your personal information, you can withdraw this at any time by contacting us as linchigher@bishopg.ac.uk, or having your school or parent/carer do so on your behalf.
Who will my Personal Information be Shared With?
LiNCHigher, and those roles it funds across our consortium partnership, may share data about participants with our partners. Your identifiable data, that data which would identify you is only collected and used by LiNCHigher, roles we fund in our consortium partnerships and with our Research team at the University of Lincoln. All other data we share with partners is anonymised and aggregated, which means they can’t tell who you are.
Your personal, identifiable data is stored in different locations, for back up and security. LiNCHigher store the information we receive from your school on a secure server at Bishop Grosseteste University. The same information, including a record of the activities you participate in is stored on a server at the University of Kent and managed by HEAT (Higher Education Access Tracker). The same data is backed up as a copy on a secure cloud-based server with First Media so LiNCHigher and your school/college can monitor the activities and work you have undertaken, and finally a copy is held with the Research Unit at the University of Lincoln, on a secure server, for the purposes of research and evaluation.
HEAT will share your data with CFE Research, who use the data for educational research purposes only (this includes government departments or agencies such as HESA or non-government organisations such as UCAS).If you want to know more about HEAT, and their own Privacy Policy please visit https://heat.ac.uk/data-protection/
LiNCHigher and HEAT may link your data to records held by the National Pupil Database, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) and the Individualised Learner Record, which collect information about students from schools, colleges and universities. If you want to know more about HESA, and their own Privacy Policy please visit https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/notices
CFE Research would have access to this linked data through HEAT. This is done to better understand how the project is helping you, and other participants in Lincolnshire.
LiNCHigher and our partners may publish aggregated data based on personal information from event participants, including analysis and research utilising these data, but the data will be anonymised and no information which could identify you will be published.
How Long will my Personal Information Be Kept For?
If you attend any particular event/activity, we will only retain certain detailed information that we need for the purposes of event/activity administration for as long as necessary to serve that purpose. In order to conduct long-term evaluation, tracking and research about access to Higher Education, and in relation to certain events/initiatives only, we will retain your personal information as follows:
- until the end of the academic year in which you reach the age of 30 (or, if you are a mature student, for 10 years from the point you provide it);
- if you enter Higher Education within this time, until 15 years after you graduate.
After these periods, any personal information will be removed from our records, but we may continue to retain and process your information in an anonymised form. If you wish to find out more about these uses of your personal data, or at any time wish to object to your data to be held and used, please contact us at: linchigher@bishopg.ac.uk , or you can ask your school or parent/carer to contact us on your behalf.
Who Will Process My Personal Information?
The information published here applies to the use of your personal information by LiNCHigher. The data controller is LiNCHigher at Bishop Grosseteste University.
For the purposes of the data processing explained here, the universities are the data controllers. For the purposes of data linking by HEAT, they are the data controller.
How Can I Access My Personal Information?
You have the right to access the personal information that is held about you by LiNCHigher. Get in contact at linchigher@bishopg.ac.uk if you want to access your data.
You also have the right to ask us to correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you, to delete personal information, or otherwise restrict our processing, or to object to processing or to receive an electronic copy of the personal information you provided to us.
Who Can I Contact?
If you have any questions about how your personal information is used, please contact the LiNCHigher team (linchigher@bishopg.ac.uk).
How Do I Complain?
If you are not happy with the way your information is being handled please let us know. If your are not happy with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF (www.ico.org.uk).
Are Changes Made to This Webpage Information?
This information will be held in the Privacy Notice section of our website https://www.thefuturefocus.co.uk/privacy-policy/ . The website will tell you the latest date an update was made. It is reviewed when necessary and at least annually. Any changes will be published on the website.
Not all children get to live a carefree life with the simple things many other children take for granted, because they are caring for someone in their family who is physically or mentally ill, disabled or struggling with alcohol or substance abuse. Young carers take on a lot of responsibilities, including washing and dressing the person they’re caring for and looking after younger siblings – plus domestic chores such as cooking, cleaning and shopping. That’s a lot to take on for a young person and many don’t realise they are doing anything special. Sometimes their additional responsibilities mean that young carers miss out on opportunities that other children have to play and learn.
What might a Young Carer do?
- Practical tasks, like cooking, housework and shopping.
- Physical care, such as helping someone out of bed.
- Emotional support, including talking to someone who is distressed.
- Personal care, such as helping someone dress.
- Managing the family budget and collecting prescriptions.
- Helping to give medicine.
- Helping someone communicate.
At University Academy Holbeach we know that all families are different and will have a range of needs and requirements. Helping with household chores is a good way to teach our children to be independent and self-sufficient when they grow up. We just want to acknowledge that there are children in the community who are helping their parents, siblings or their extended family and without them, those jobs just wouldn’t get done. If you think your child has or is currently taking on a caring role then please let us know. All we want to do is support children and give them the help they need and deserve. This may simply be greater flexibility around homework or a listening ear but, without being told we may never know that a child needs help.
If you would like to discuss further, please get in touch with our Mental Health Lead Miss Graper Sam.graper@uah.org.uk.
In an attempt to remove all cash and cheques from school we are asking parents and staff to use our e-payment method to pay for their dinner money. This can be done online using a very secure website called ParentPay.
Parents and staff will have a secure online account, activated using a unique activation username and password; you will be prompted to change these and to keep them safe for future logins.
Already have a ParentPay account?
If you already have a ParentPay account, either with our school or another ParentPay school,
you can simply login to that account and add your UAH account via the Add a child tab on your home page. You will need the activation username and password we give you to do this.
New to ParentPay?
Parents should now have a secure online account, activated using a unique activation username and password supplied to you by letter. Any parents that have not received ParentPay information or who lose their details should contact the school.
Please visit www.parentpay.com and activate your account via the Account login area on the home page of the site using the Username and Password supplied.
ParentPay holds an electronic record of your payments to view at a later date. Once you have activated your account you can make online payments straight away.