Barnardo's Blackpool Project
The work of Barnardo’s focuses on the vital components that make-up a happy, healthy childhood. We think of these as ‘building blocks’. Lots of children in the UK are without one or more of these blocks and making sure that their needs are met is why Barnardo’s exists.
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The Blackpool Project is made up from five service areas:
- Personal Support
- Family Support (Parents Aged 19 and under)
- Outreach & Leisure
- VETS (Volunteering Education Training and Support)
- Volunteering
Personal support team
The Personal Support Team offers services to parents/carers who are experiencing difficulties in managing their children’s behaviour. This may be manifested in terms of offending, behaviour at home, in the local community or in relation to school attendance. Referrals through the Youth Offending Team for parents of children aged 8 – 17 years or through self referral or other agencies for parents of children aged 5 – 13 years.
Family support (parents aged 19 and under)
Family Support team aims to work with teenage mothers (aged 19 and under) and their children who, although living independently, may need support. Workers help young parents develop into mutually supportive networks between themselves, offering advice, one-to-one support, providing assistance with accessing other services and training and facilitating groups for the young parents to provide a support network for each other.
Outreach and leisure
Barnardo’s Outreach & Leisure Team runs play and craft activities for children aged 5 – 17 years. The team also provides support, advice and training to enable people from local neighbourhoods to organise and run play activities with children and young people in their neighbourhood.
Volunteering
Volunteers play an integral role in supporting the work done with parents, young people and children at the project.
VETS (Volunteering Education Training and Support)
Support is offered to individuals aged 16 and over to access volunteering, education and training opportunities with local providers.
Opportunities for family learning to families resident in the Blackpool Children’s Centres’ South Locality, with a particular focus on male parents/carers and their children, and provide support to those families to access such opportunities.
