PORTSMOUTH COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
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Your Alliance Co-ordinator is Jo Eamey and her contact details are as follows:

 Jo Eamey, Alliance Co-ordinator, Community First for Portsmouth, 338 Commercial Rd, Portsmouth, PO1 4BT

 Direct Dial: 023 9288 2424, Main Switchboard:  023 9282 7110, Fax:  023 9287 3785

 

Email: Jo.Eamey@community1st.org.uk

 

History of the Alliance

 

The Children & Young People’s Alliance was launched in February 2007, and is a sub group of Portsmouth Community Network (PCN).  The aim of the Alliance is to provide clear and effective representation for the voluntary and community sector in Portsmouth by influencing, informing and sharing information about issues affecting children and young people and their families.  The Alliance has a steering group made up of representatives from the sector, and in September 2009 an Alliance Co-ordinator was appointed to further develop our work.

 

What We Do

 

Membership of the Alliance is open to anyone in the voluntary & community sector in Portsmouth who works with children, young people and their families.  

 

We run briefing events and taster workshops on issues that affect us all, and are always open to suggestions and requests.  These events are always free to attend, offer an opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss the pressing issues.  

 

We send a monthly email to all members updating them on training opportunities, funding available, opportunities for their clients, national, regional and local policy updates and much more.  We also publicise job vacancies in the area and service developments, so get in touch if there’s something you want to share.

 

You can download Alliance newsletters from the box on the left.

 

Steering Group as at 1st February 2010

Portsmouth Children and Young People’s Alliance

 

Hot Topics

 

The Alliance’s Annual Report for October 2008-September 2009 is now available to download from here.

 

Download The Annual Report

Louise Boyle                     

Richard Soutar                  

Charlie Adie                      

Emma Corina                     

Jacqui Dixon 

Karen Drayton

Carole Gould                     

Emma Wright                    

                

Home-Start  Chair

Enable Ability – Vice Chair     Motiv8     

YMCA

HCYVS

Connors Toy Library

Portsmouth Foyer

Learning Links

Vacancies:     Early Years, Children, Youth

Honorary Member: Ken Dobson

 

Members of the Alliance represent the sector at important local meetings, feeding back key points at steering group meetings – please see the minutes of the meetings for the latest updates.  We are always looking for people who can act as representatives, whether on a regular basis, as a deputy or for one-off meetings.

 

We want as many groups to be involved as possible so if you want to know more, please get in touch!  Jo.Eamey@community1st.org.uk 

 

Useful Links

 

For guidelines, information, and dates of training on Safeguarding Children visit the Children’s Trust web page

Ask Sherlock is an online directory of services for children & young people in Portsmouth, and organisations can add and update their own information http://www.asksherlock.info/kbroker/portsmouth/asksherlock/start.jsp

 

You can download Alliance Meeting Minutes from here:

 

November 2009

October 2009

September 2009

July 2009

June 2009

April 2009

March 2009

February 2009

December 2008

November 2008

October 2008