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Breakaway
Summer 2015
Enfield’s Short Breaks Magazine
for disabled children and young people
and their families
Enfield Council
@EnfieldCouncil
www.enfield.gov.uk/SEND
Forty Hall Estate is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion, open for
the public to enjoy, nestled in a Grade II listed Estate. The Hall
and Estate have recently been restored to magnificence with
funding from The Heritage Lottery Fund and Enfield Council.
A trip to the Hall is a memorable day out for the whole family – enjoy
admiring the finely restored rooms, learning about the history of
the Hall through the exhibition and exploring the gardens. Children
will love the wooded play area and meeting the animals at Forty
Hall Farm, which is open to visitors at the weekends. The Farm is also
home to a traditional orchard and London’s only commercial-scale
vineyard, and sells organic home grown veg from the Farm shop.
Forty Hall Estate offers
exciting events and
exhibitions the year round
– this summer enjoy the
’Livestock Music Festival’
(29th August) and a full
scale open-air production
of Shakespeare’s ‘ Twelfth
Night’ – to name but two
of the events on offer.
There is free parking near the main entrance, and then it’s just a short
walk or wheelchair ride to the Hall on accessible paths. Alternatively,
the nearest buses are the 191 and the W8.
There are free mobility scooters and free bike hire too – call at the Hall
for details, or to pre-book call 020 8363 8196.
Make the most of the day, bring a picnic to enjoy in the grounds, relax
in the Nice Green Café for locally sourced food and pick up a gift from
The Cedar Gift Shop.
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Opening Times & Prices
Forty Hall Estate
Free admission (charges apply for special
events)
Open daily except Mondays, 24-25 December
and first full week of January
Summer: (1st April – 31st October)
Tuesday to Friday, 11am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 5pm
Hall opens on Bank Holidays, 12 noon – 5pm
Winter: (1st November – 31st March)
Tuesday to Friday, 11am – 4 pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 4pm
Hall opens on Bank Holidays, 12 noon – 4 pm
Forty Hall Farm
Adults: £2, Children: free admission
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 4pm
Nice Green Café
Open daily from 10am – 4 pm (Winter) and
10am – 6pm (Summer)
For further information visit:
www.fortyhallestate.co.uk / 020 8363 8196
Forty Hall & Estate
@Forty_Hall
Welcome
Contents
04
SEND update
Dear All,
05
Activities in the ECYPS
Consortium
Welcome to our Summer edition of Breakaway. I am delighted to
introduce our magazine which is packed with information about all sorts
of fun activities for children and young people to enjoy in the coming –
hopefully sunny – months!
06-07 Cheviots Short Breaks
07
Scope Befriending
Services
We have updates and articles from Enfield Children and Young Person’s
Service, VIPS, Playtedz, Centre 404, Everybody Active, the Inclusion
Project, Scope and Cheviots. There are also the usual updates on other
services including Home Care and Overnight Short breaks.
08VIPS
Don’t forget to look out for activities on Enfield’s Local Offer – see the link
below – including information on our Family Activity Days which take place
throughout August and offer the whole family the chance to enjoy a day
out together.
09Playtedz
10
Everybody Active this
Summer and Centre
404
www.enfield.gov.uk/SEND or Google Enfield’s Local Offer.
11
Want to try something
new?
As always do please let us have your comments and suggestions. We
really want to ensure that we provide the right range of activities, so all
our children and young people can have fun with friends and parents can
have a well-earned break.
08
Youth & Family Support
Services
05
Have a lovely summer holiday,
Best wishes,
Janet Leach
on the behalf of the Joint Service for Disabled Children
06
09
Message for Service Providers
Dear Service Providers
Thank you for contributing regularly to Breakaway, to help give families
more information about the short breaks on offer to them.
Families do love to see photographs of the children and young people
enjoying their short breaks, so we appreciate your help in ensuring
that we have these for Breakaway. Please do take photographs during
your short break sessions, so that we can include more of these within
the magazine (note that you must ensure that you have parent/
carer permission to do this).
Many thanks
Contact us
We hope that you find this issue of
Breakaway helpful. Please let us
know if there is anything regarding
Enfield’s short breaks that you
would like to see in future editions,
as we would like the magazine to be
as useful as possible to families.
Email your suggestions to
[email protected]
Summer 2015 03
Special Educational Needs and Disability
SEND update
Sarah McLean, SEND Project Manager, updates families on the SEND reforms – read
on if you want to hear more about what Enfield is doing to support the changes.
We are starting to look at how we can improve
things based on what you have told us.
The Local Offer
You told us:
• it was too wordy
• there were not enough pictures, video clips,
etc.
• it was easy to find using the Google search
engine
• it was easy to navigate, but too many
mouse clicks were required
• it was not easy to find information about
leisure activities
• you were unable to find information about
public changing rooms with hoists in Enfield
Enfield’s Local Offer
We will address these areas, as we improve
our Local Offer web pages. The pages will be
re-launched in September 2015.
The current Local Offer has some very useful
information and links and can be found at
www.enfield.gov.uk/SEND
Young Person-Friendly Local Offer
and DVD
We are also developing a young person
version of our Local Offer. We are working
with a group of young people to produce a
DVD in which young people will be speaking
about their experience of the reforms and
what they think of our Local Offer. The most
exciting part of this work is that the young
people will receive a Duke of Edinburgh
Bronze Award.
A comprehensive guide to services for families
with children and young people aged 0 – 25 years
with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
For more information visit
www.enfield.gov.uk/SEND
Young people told us:
• Instead of saying ‘Short Breaks and Leisure Activities’,
we should say ‘Holiday and Free Time Activities’.
• Instead of saying ‘Consultation’ and ‘Publications’,
we should say ‘Finding out what people think’ and
‘information booklets’.
04 Summer 2015
Following on from their work on the Local Offer, we are
hoping that this group of young people will become our
‘SEND Champions’ who will work with us and help other
young people in Enfield to understand the reforms.
Activities in the
ECYPS Consortium
ECYPS, Dazu, Samafal,
Central African Youth in
Enfield (CAYE), West Lea
School, Tottenham Hotspur
Foundation and Niburu run
their activities on a consortium
basis, so we hope that at any
given time – between us – we
will be able to offer something
to meet the needs of a family.
However, we also want to try to offer
activities that are a little more unusual
and stretch many of our young people,
so during the autumn term of 2014, we
decided it would be a good idea to offer
both disabled young people and sibling
carers the opportunity to learn to drive.
ECYPS and Dazu organised two
trips to Brands Hatch, for young
people to take part in the Young Drive
programme. This is a safe way to
develop driving skills, as the tuition
takes place on the racing track, with
no traffic to contend with. The age
group of our young drivers was 11
to 17. All of our young drivers had a
fantastic time and were very keen to
take part in the second stage tuition.
The session consisted of tuition
followed by a practical session and an
assessment of skills. All of our young
drivers were excellent and received
very positive assessments.
In addition to our holiday programmes,
we have tried to arrange trips and
outings to meet all needs, tastes and
ages. This has included theatre trips to
see Matilda, The Lighthouse Keeper’s
Cat, West Side Story and Edward
Scissorhands, as well as trips out to the
Houses of Parliament, the London Eye,
Epping Forest and a residential in Surrey
– so it has been a very busy six months.
‘I Feel Good’ sessions
In addition to the above, we have also
run our regular ‘I Feel Good’ sessions
– designed to lift the spirits and build
self-esteem. These are particularly
beneficial for sibling carers. The
sessions offer the opportunity to take
part in boxercise or stretch classes,
have a make-over, a relaxing hand
massage or a facial, make a healthy
smoothie or get a henna design on
your arm. Our professional hairdresser
is also available for a free styling
session.
The young people attending tell us
that it is a really good way to catch
up with friends, and also to meet new
ones. It is a relaxed session, which
is young person-led in terms of the
activities offered. We always consult
with the users regarding their interests
and the development of the session.
The session is aimed at young
people aged 8-18, who have learning
difficulties, low self-esteem issues or
are young carers.
Dates: Sessions run monthly during
term-time; the last this term
will be Monday 20th July
Time:
5.30pm – 8.00pm
Venue: The Ark, 500 Montagu Road,
Edmonton, N9 0UR
For further information, email Claire
at [email protected] or Kay at
[email protected]
Telephone: 020 8373 2693
Summer 2015 05
Cheviots
short Breaks
Clare Redrupp, Cheviots Centre Worker Manager,
gives Breakaway an update on projects and
activities at Cheviots Disability Service…
It has been business as usual at Cheviots, with after school
groups, weekend groups and holiday play schemes all
welcoming new referrals.
We continue to organise ‘Bike Fundays’ at Waverley School
to give families the opportunity to try out our specialist
bikes. These are lots of fun, and are a fantastic resource
that we want to share with everyone. In the winter months
we replaced these days with the ‘Cheviots Cinema
Experience’, again at Waverley School. These were very
popular and gave families the opportunity to get out of the
house (despite the weather!), and watch a film in a relaxed,
friendly environment with staff to offer support.
In the Winter 2014/15 issue of Breakaway I talked about
an observation style questionnaire that the Centre Worker
team had been using to get meaningful feedback from
young people about their Cheviots’ short breaks. I am
pleased to report that 80 young people were consulted
as part of this project and 86% told us they were enjoying
their short break. We found that soft play and trips out were
the most popular activities, with parks being a favourite
destination for these outings.
06 Summer 2015
Scope
Befriending
Services
Scope
We are pleased to have been in a position to support
an Enfield based family twice a week, with one
session being after school and a further session at the
weekend.
Staff observed that group activities encouraged children
to interact with their peers, and approximately 25% had
specific friends or friendship groups. In response to all
the feedback from young people we are looking at the
structure of our groups, and the needs of the young people
that attend. We have commissioned training in Intensive
Interaction for staff, and will be looking at organising more
swimming, cinema and seaside trips. This project has been
of huge value to us, and we look forward to making the
changes young people want.
Summer 2015
We are busy organising our summer playschemes,
which start on 27th July and run for five weeks. Parents,
please ensure that you choose your dates ASAP to avoid
disappointment! Following on from the success of last
year’s family activity days we will be organising these
again this summer. Activities will include arts and crafts,
bouncy castle, games, and specialist bikes. We hope lots
of you will be able to come and join us; why not bring a
picnic? Please watch out for flyers or contact Cheviots for
further information.
020 8373 4047
[email protected]
The sessions were tailored around activities the child
was interested in taking part in i.e. karate, swimming,
soft-play, adventure play, dance and drama – all of
which we researched in terms of venue, timings and
costing.
We are now in the process of taking on further
referrals from Enfield. At Scope, we respect that
disabled children and young people have interests
they wish to pursue and endeavour to fulfil this
through tailoring the service to fit around their
requirements and not the other way round.
Our one to one befriending service is for young
people aged 0 to 19 who need support in the local
community or at home. This might be to access
activities, to go to the shops, meet friends or simply
talk with someone.
Time:Every day
Cost: £15.09 per hour
Scope is flexible and will develop activities and
programmes to reflect your child’s wishes and
meet their individual needs. If you are interested
in using Scope’s Befriending Services, please
telephone Anjum Ahmed on 020 8558 7888 or
email: [email protected]
Summer 2015 07
Youth & Families
Support Service
VIPS
VIPS (Very Important People
Services) is an organisation
that offers services to children
and young people aged 8 and
over, who have a disability.
We are based in Enfield.
We do offer transport if you wish
to purchase this as part of your
youngster’s package.
During holiday playscheme we offer
the usual activities like arts and
crafts, sports, cooking, games,
socialising, PlayStation 4, iPads,
Nintendo DSs, amongst others.
We focus a lot on independence
skills, which includes taking our
young people to the local shops
to purchase cooking items they
require for the session. They have
the opportunity to take part in
preparing and cooking their own
lunches; they have to wash up and
sort the recycling too!
Outings are enjoyed as well.
Amongst the favourites are bowling,
cinema, shopping, the park,
London trips and eating out. We
also work with the Enfield youth
centres, introducing our young
people gradually. Here they are
supported by staff known to them.
Our ethos at VIPS is to achieve
positive outcomes for all our
young people in a happy safe
environment, whilst having fun.
We don’t have to say goodbye to
our young people at 18. They can
continue with VIPS into adulthood
or can be supported through
transition onto another service.
08 Summer 2015
The Inclusion Project has just run two successful short breaks
offers to young people aged 13-25 years and who have Learning
Difficulties and Disabilities (LDD). The first offer ran during the
Easter break and the second ran during the May half term.
Both were well attended and received great feedback from the young people
and their families!
Summer Holiday Sessions
During the summer there will be a short breaks offer running during the first three
weeks of the summer holiday.
This offer will run to a planned programme of activities with the aim of developing
the young people’s life, social and independence skills.
Age Group:
Dates/Time:
Cost:
11-25 years and who have minor/moderate LDD
Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm each day
£20.00 per day
Please note that there are only 20 spaces available on each day. To book
your place, please contact Jo Powell on 07947 244307.
Open Access Sessions
The Inclusion Project currently offers an integrated open access session for
young people aged 11-25 years who have minor/moderate LDD.
This session is held on a Thursday evening, from 7pm-9pm.
Developing Life, Independence and Social Skills
The Project also offers young people aged 18-25 years and who have minor/
moderate LDD, a targeted session with the aim of developing their life,
independence and social skills.
This session runs on a Friday evening from 8pm-10pm.
Life Skills Project
From September 2015, the Inclusion Project will be offering a life skills project to
young people who are aged 13-25 years and who have minor/moderate LDD.
This offer will also run to a planned programme of activities with the aim of
developing essential life, independence and social skills through practical
activity-based sessions.
The life skills project will run on a Tuesday and Wednesday from 10am-4pm.
The cost of this offer is £60.00 per day; there are only 10 places available on
each day. To book your places please contact Jo Powell on 07947 244307.
All of the above provision runs from Ponders End Youth Centre, and all
of the young people attending any of the provision will work towards
gaining nationally recognised accreditation awards.
Playtedz
Playtedz is a holiday scheme, Saturday group
and after school club based at Durants school.
Playtedz runs for children with additional needs,
who are aged between eight and school-leaving
age.
Playtedz stands for Play To Encourage Development.
This is something which we manage through life skills
(choosing lunch, shopping, buying, cooking and enjoying!),
art work, drama, trips out to places of interest (including the
zoo, swimming, farms, the cinema and museums).
We appreciate this may be too daunting for some children
so also have in-house fun which includes water play days,
sensory fun and children’s yoga.
Over the summer we will continue to provide the above
plus our summer theme weeks! This includes Sea Life,
Around the World, Disney, Space and Nature themes!
Playschemes
Dates:
Summer, Easter and Christmas school breaks,
and half-term holidays. (Monday – Thursday,
but this will vary during the Christmas break,
depending on bank holidays)
Time:
10am – 3pm
Cost:
£50 per day (£60 per day for 1-to-1 support)
After School Club
Dates:
Term-time, one day a week (this will be Tuesday
from September)
Time:
3pm – 5.45pm
Cost:
£25 per session (£35 per session for 1-to-1 support)
Saturday Group (once a month)
Dates:
One Saturday a month
Time:
10am – 2.30pm
Cost:
£39 per session (£49 per session for 1-to-1 support)
Please contact Tracey for more information:
07903 104714
[email protected]
Summer 2015 09
Everybody
Active This
Summer!
Summer Programme
Following are the Everybody Active Team’s
disability-specific activities taking place
during the school summer break! Places are
limited, so please book as soon as possible.
Swimming
Venue:
Age group:
Arnos Pool, New Southgate
Dates:
Monday 27th – 31st July*
Monday 10th – 14th August*
*1 week’s course
Time:
Cost:
1:30pm-2.30pm each day
6-18yrs (please note if a child cannot
swim a parent/carer must go in the pool
to support them)
£12 per child/young person per week’s
course (1 hour per day)
During the May half term break, Centre 404
ran its first ever playscheme day at Durants
School. The day was well attended, with
the group and staff having a lot of fun and
getting to know each other.
There were some drama games with many silly
faces, some magnificent finger painting, delicious
smoothies and we all took a walk in the woods
within the story of The Gruffalo, bringing it to life with
musical instruments.
We’re looking
forward to being
back again during
the summer!
Throughout the
summer holidays,
Centre 404 will
be providing two
playscheme days each week.
Age group:
Dates:
11-16 year olds
Time:
Venue:
Cost:
10am-3pm each day
July: Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th
August: Monday 3rd, Tuesday 4th,
Monday 10th, Tuesday 11th,
Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th
An Enfield school venue to be confirmed
£59.98 per day
Please note that if 1-to-1 care is required for a
young person, there is an additional cost.
Horse Riding
Venue:
Age group:
Gillian’s Riding School, Clay Hill
Dates &
Times:
Wednesday 29th July, 2pm-3pm
Tuesday 4th August, 10am-11am
Monday 10th August, 2pm-3pm
Tuesday 18th August, 10am-11am
Thursday 27th August, 2pm-3pm
Cost:
6-18yrs (please note height and weight
information is required)
£9 per child/young person per session
Please visit www.enfield.gov.uk/sportsbookings
to book. All applications must be made online.
10 Summer 2015
For more information about our playschemes,
or to request a referral form, please contact Liz
Atkinson on 020 7697 1323 or Ross Robins on
020 7697 1324.
For more information about Centre 404 please see
our website: www.centre404.org.uk
Please note that Centre 404 works with a maximum
of 12 young people each day. Once a playscheme
has been booked, 48 hours’ notice must be given
for any cancellation, so that Centre 404 has the
opportunity to offer the place to another young
person. If less than 48 hours’ notice is given, you will
be charged for the full day.
Want to try something new?
Playschemes, Holiday Activities
and Out of School Clubs
Listed here are many of the organisations used by Enfield Council. Some of
these organisations are not formally commissioned, but are used regularly for
particular need. Please note that once a young person reaches the age of 18, any
further provision will need to be accessed via Adult Services.
If you would like further information on any of these services, please use the
contact details given right.
Age group
Phone number for
more information
13-17 years
020 8379 5800
Bizzibops
5-17 years
07828 578926
Centre 404
8-17 years
020 7697 1324
Cheviots Disability Service
5-17 years
020 8363 4047
Croyland Youth Service (Enfield Youth Service) 13-17 years
020 8379 5800
Dazu
5-17 years
020 8373 2718
Durants After School Club (Cheviots)
8-17 years
020 8363 4047
Enfield Children and Young Persons’ Services
(ECYPS) Consortium
5-17 years
020 8373 2710
Face Front Inclusive Theatre
5-17 years
020 8350 3461
Florence Hayes Adventure Playground
(Enfield Play Development Team)
5-16 years
020 8350 1126
Forest YMCA
5-17 years
020 8509 4600
KIDS
5-17 years
020 7520 0405
Norwood
12-17 years
020 8809 8809
Playtedz
8-17 years
07903 104714
Sticky Fingers
5-11 years
07732 385075
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
5-17 years
020 8373 2710
VIPS (Very Important People Services)
9-17 years
07810 485126
Name of organisation
Alan Pullinger Centre (Enfield Youth Service)
Other and Specialist
Short Breaks
Home Sitting
The Joint Service for Disabled
Children has partnerships with several
providers of home sitting services. If
you are interested in accessing home
sitting as part of a short break, please
contact Cheviots Children’s Centre on
020 8363 4047.
•
•
•
•
•
Abbots Care
De Vere Care
Edenvale Care
Marego
Oasis Care and Training Agency
Overnight Short Breaks
The Joint Service for Disabled
Children has partnerships with several
providers of overnight short breaks.
In order to access this type of short
break, a lot more information will need
to be gathered to assess your family’s
needs. Please contact Cheviots
Children’s Centre on 020 8363 4047
to assess eligibility.
Name of organisation
Age group
Buckets & Spades Lodge 5-17 years
Fair Play Barnet
8-17 years
Peartree Lodge
5-17 years
Radlett Lodge
5-17 years
Sybil Elgar
11-17 years
Summer 2015 11
Informed Families
We are Enfield’s only
Family Information Service
and can help you with
information on free childcare,
finding childcare, holiday
playschemes, family support
services, and Children’s
Centres. This includes
services for disabled children
and children with additional
needs.
When your child turns three or
four, you are definitely eligible for
up to 15 hours a week, which
is up to 570 hours per year of
childcare for free!
If you have a two year old child,
you might be eligible to up to 15
hours per week free childcare at a
local childminders or nursery. You
can apply for this childcare here:
www.enfield.gov.uk/terrifictwos
You can also email us with any
questions at [email protected]
Make sure you know what you’re
entitled to. If you need to know,
you need IF.
You can contact us on 0800
694 1066 or at our website:
www.enfield.gov.uk/if
Find out if you’re eligible and
apply for your free funding
now:
www.enfield.gov.uk/terrifict
wos
0800 694 1066
Do you have a 3 or 4 year old?
Make sure
you’re getting your FREE child
care NOW.
www.enfield.gov.uk/if
KRATOS
the future is in our hands
t h e c h i l d re n i n c a re c o u n c i l
t h e c h i l d re n i n c a re c o u n c i l
Being part of KRATOS
gives children and young
people a voice and influence.
As a member you can:
• Become a young advisor for children and
young people
• Build new friendships
• Take part in fun and positive activities
• Inspect children’s services
• Recruit and train new social workers and
foster carers
To find out more contact Peri Louise Revan:
07506 747 430 or [email protected]
www.enfield.gov.uk/youth
12 Summer 2015
Jenny, a parent from Enfield
said:
‘My daughter started at Oasis
Academy Hadley this September
,
and absolutely LOVES it there
!
She didn’t take much time to
settle and felt at ease right
away – she even runs to
the gate to get into nursery
quicker!
I hope many families will
be able to enjoy this great
funding, as it really makes a
great
difference! After 10 days, my
daughter’s
vocabulary has rocketed, which
I
am
so
happy
with. When I see what a differ
ence it is making to my
daughter, I can’t wait for my
baby boy
to start his funded place.
KRATOS
the future is in our hands
We are children in care and care
leavers who meet regularly to
make changes and improve
services for others in care.
Youth Enfield
wos!
Terrific T
Youth Enfield
Hi everyone, we’re KRATOS.
We’re children and young people in care and care leavers working
with Enfield Council to get the voices of others in care heard.
We’ve already been involved in some really interesting activities such
as films, events and also a trip out!
So come and join us. Become a KRATOS member too and be
part of a journey to build confidence, raise awareness and have fun!
Read on and reply with your contact details if you’re interested.
KRATOS
p.s. don’t forget, the future is in our hands
To find out more contact Peri Louise Revan:
07506 747 430 or [email protected]
www.enfield.gov.uk/youth
Youth Enfield
Youth Enfield