Empower Teachers

The Newham Volunteer Scheme

The Newham Volunteers Scheme is designed to provide residents with support in training, learning new skills learning, combating unemployment and isolation, and helping them to get involved in the local community. Coordinated by the Newham Council, this programme provides a responsive and reliable volunteering service for a wide range of events from local activities at the heart of the community such as the Mayor's Town Show, the London Triathlon and the O2's culturally inspired Pyramid Project event.  These events provide invaluable experience for volunteers in the run up to the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games that will require 70,000 volunteer participants. 

Telephone: 020 8430 3598

Email: volunteers@newham.gov.uk

Newham's Children & Young People Plan

The Newham Children & Young People Plan (CYPP) is a single, strategic, overarching plan for all local services for children and young people up to age 19, young people aged 20 having left care, and young people up to age 25 with learning difficulties.  It provides an overview of how local services are delivered to Newham's Children and Young People to achieve the five national Every Child Matters programme’s aims: Being Healthy, Staying Safe, Enjoying and Achieving, Making a Positive Contribution, and Economic Well Being. Such a government initiative involves the Newham Council to work in partnership with agencies in the public, voluntary and community sectors, nurseries, schools and colleges, employers and above all, families and children and young people themselves.

The Language, Communication and Interaction Team

The Language, Communication and Interaction Team is the Newham Council  service that helps primary and secondary school age children overcome speech, language and communication difficulties.  The service works in partnership with parents and carers as well as schools and early years providers to:

• Support parents or carers of children aged four or under who have severe communication difficulties, helping them develop their skills to communicate confidently with their children
• Liaise with schools to ensure that young children with severe communication difficulties make a successful transfer into school or nursery
• Support children aged 5-16 who have severe and specific speech, language and communication difficulties so that they have positive experiences in school
• Liaise with schools to ensure that children and young people aged 5-16 on the autistic continuum have positive experiences in schools

Telephone:     020 8430 4801

Partnership with East London Connexions Partnership

East London Connexions Partnership is the antenna of Connexions in East London. The organisation provides advice to young people aged between 14 and 19 on issues related to education, employment, and social issues affecting young people’s lives.  They partner with LEAs, employers, schools and higher education institutions, job brokerages to provide support to young children.

Contact:

ELCP

4th Floor, Solar House

1-9 Romford Road

Stratford

London E15 4LJ

Tel:     020 8536 3630

Fax:    020 8534 2830

Email: info@londoneastconnexions.co.uk

Partnership building with the Association of Colleges London Region

AoC LR is part of the national body, the Association of Colleges.  It is a professional membership organisation representing 54 post-16 learning and training institutions and their principals across the London area. These include 36 Further Education Colleges, 12 Sixth-Form Colleges and 5 Specialist Centres offering learning and training opportunities ranging from accredited courses in Plumbing and Catering to A Level Economics and French, to HNDs in computer systems engineering.  They run networking events and have set up a website to advertise London colleges. 

Contact:

Association of Colleges London Region

Rooms 309 and 311 North Block

Senate House

Mallet Street

London WC1E 7HU

Telephone:020 7664 4846

Email: mail@aoclr.ac.uk