March 2011 - East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust

SHORT BREAKS AND DCATCH
Short breaks activities update
By Janet Gravel, project and practice
development officer
As we are coming to the end of the
Aiming High funding I would like to remind
you that a number of the Short Break
Activities from the Short Breaks Grant
Scheme have programmes planned until
31 March 2011.
The timescale for these varies from a
couple of hours to a full day.
Please contact the groups direct and ask to
be put on their mailing lists; details are in
the Activities for Children and Young People
with Additional Needs Booklet on the FISH
website.
I would like to thank all of you who
attended the ‘Inclusion not Exclusion’
information and networking event at
the Country Park Inn at Hessle on 18
November 2010.
The support from ERVIP was greatly
appreciated. Presentations and photographs
from the day are available to download
at the ERVAS website - www.ervas.org.
uk. Look under ‘downloads’ then select
‘Inclusion not Exclusion’.
Work is continuing to try and ensure
sustainability for the activities from 1 April
2011; the groups are awaiting the outcome
of funding applications. Thank you for your
comments during the workshops at the
parent carer event on the 12 January.
DCATCH (Disabled Children’s Access
to Childcare)
The Childcare Act 2006 imposes a duty on
local authorities to secure provision of
sufficient childcare to meet the
requirements of all parents in their area
who wish to take up, or remain in work or
to undertake education or training that may
lead to work.
Section six specifically requires local
authorities to secure childcare provision
up to the age of 18. For 2010/11 all local
authorities received a small amount of grant
funding to improve childcare for disabled
children.
The aim in the East Riding is to provide a
full range of childcare options that allow
parent carers in work or training to have
appropriate choices.
In August 2010 a DCATCH working group
was set up in the East Riding which includes
Brenda Cullen from ERVIP. Letters were sent
out to childcare settings inviting them to a
DCATCH information sharing evening on
13 October 2010 at Tickton Grange.
All who attended were asked to complete
a DCATCH checklist with an action plan
which identified the training needs and
equipment required for supporting children
and young people with additional needs/
disabilities.
A number of ERVIP members also attended
the evening giving support and answering
questions when the checklists were being
completed.
18 www.fish.eastriding.gov.uk (01482) 396469