What we do
Barnardo's Neville Street Service was launched on Friday 3rd August 2001 and has since continued to support children and families from Black and Minority Ethnic communities through the provision of a range of services.
The children and families using these services are often experiencing difficulties in parenting and in accessing other services due to cultural issues, language barriers or discrimination. The aim is to build self esteem and confidence in parenting capacity. Language support is provided to help families fully participate in decision making processes. Children are supported through a variety of high quality play and learning opportunities, activities and educational trips, and after school clubs. A multi cultural perspective is incorporated in all activities.
Services we provide
Family support and advocacy service
This service offers support, advice and advocacy to families with young children who are having difficulties with parenting or childcare issues. Often the families referred are also finding it difficult to access mainstream services due to cultural or language barriers or lack of information and resources.
Stay and Play Sessions
These are run three times a week and are funded by sure start. The aim of the sessions is to provide high quality play and learning opportunities for pre school children to assist them in developing social emotional and language skills in preparation for school.
Stay & Play Sessions take place as follows:
- Tuesdays 10 am - 3 pm (Session at Neville Street Service)
- Wednesdays 10 am - 2 pm (Session at Scout Hall near Ikea in Grangetown)
- Thursdays 11 am - 2 pm (Session at Neville Street Service)
- Fridays 10 am - 12 noon & 1 pm - 3 pm (Session at St. Sampsons Church in Grangetown)
Direct work with children and young people
Neville Street staff undertake individual play work with children and young people who are experiencing difficulties such as:
- behavioural problems
- poor social or communication skills
- general lack of confidence and self esteem.
This support is offered in various settings including:
- the home
- leisure facilities
- certain schools.
Toy Library
A toy library for service users is a popular resource and is well used by families.
Interpreter Service
The overarching aim of this service is to enable families from all communities whose first language is not English to access other services via the provision of interpreters. The interpreter service currently employs 32 sessional interpreters covering 25 languages including:
- Arabic
- French
- Bengali (Sylheti)
- Chinese
- Czech
- Farsi
- Gurjerati
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Swahilli
- Somali.
