Children, Young People and Families
Better outcomes for children and young people
We have the highest expectations for children in Barnet and we are determined to play our part in helping them to have a happy childhood and to aquire the knowledge and skills to lead a successful adult life.
Areas of interest
- Health - information on subjects such as healthy school meals, health education, sports and leisure activities and access to universal health services.
- Staying safe - links in this section lead to pages with useful advice about how children can stay safe. This includes information about how to use the internet safely, how to deal with bullying and how to deal with drug and alcohol abuse.
- Learning and achieving - links to information about the opportunities for learning and achieving in Barnet. You can find out what's available whatever stage you are at.
- Support for families - links to pages of information about the range of services we offer to families as well as information links about childcare and details about special educational grants and benefits.
- Looking ahead - links to information to provide support and encouragement to help our children grow up to be responsible individuals including informaton on schools, links to colleges and universities and grants.
- Adoption and fostering - this section contains information links about fostering and adoption and how you can help with these services. There is also information about how to register a privately fostered child and kinship care.
- Practitioners guidance - this section is intended to support frontline practitioners and managers delivering services directly to children and young people. You will find important information and documentation for key integrated processes such as information sharing, CAF, MAGs and Lead Professionals.
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Barnet services directory for young people, children and their families.
Email this pageLast modified by: Lauren Burbidge on 22/10/2010