Early Days Magazine and Training & Recruitment Bulletin
Early Days Magazine and Training & Recruitment Bulletin
Early Days Magazine and Training & Recruitment Bulletin
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FLYING START<br />
Luton helping to give children a flying start<br />
The BIG Lottery fund is looking to invest £30-£50 million<br />
in only three to five areas in the country over a period of<br />
eight to ten years, to help improve children’s lives in three<br />
key areas:<br />
• communication <strong>and</strong> language development<br />
• social <strong>and</strong> emotional development <strong>and</strong><br />
• nutrition.<br />
The Pre-school Learning Alliance, the largest early years<br />
educational charity, submitted an application for funding to the<br />
BIG Lottery Fund in partnership with Luton Borough Council <strong>and</strong><br />
its partner organisations <strong>and</strong> has got through to the final stage.<br />
The partnership is now developing its proposal <strong>and</strong> preparing its<br />
final application for funding.<br />
If successful, they propose to develop a number of projects <strong>and</strong><br />
initiatives in five wards of the town: Biscot, Dallow, Farley, South<br />
<strong>and</strong> Northwell, which have higher levels of child poverty, poor<br />
health <strong>and</strong> fewer children who are prepared for starting school,<br />
as the focus for the programme.<br />
Projects will include:<br />
• supporting parents with breastfeeding, weaning <strong>and</strong><br />
healthy eating<br />
• help with developing children’s language skills<br />
• parenting support programmes<br />
• new job <strong>and</strong> volunteering opportunities.<br />
6 Family Information Service: 4 01582 54 88 88 Ñ fis@luton.gov.uk www.luton.gov.uk/fis
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