Please click here to download PlayBoard’s E-Play Issue 20.

Please click here to watch a video to find out 4 ways you can use technology to support individuals on the autistic spectrum.

Please click here to download a Health Promotion Dietitians Training & Information Brochure.

Deaf Awareness Week is here (6–12 May), for more information please visit the National Deaf Children’s Society website where you can find out about a range of deaf awareness resources, as well as information about how you can help raise vital funds for deaf children. 

The Western Childcare Partnership Conference was held on 6th March 2019, please click here to view Press Release and photos.

Information & Presentations:

• Information of Presenters

• Getting It Right From the Start for Every Child

• Regional Integrated Support for Education

• Attachment, Bonding & Communication – Parent Infant Partnership

• Brighter Futures Project

• Live Sketching – Beth McComish – Artist

Supporting children with a disability need is one of the key actions of Bright Start – the Executive’s Programme for Affordable an Integrated Childcare.  The purpose of this Holiday Grant Scheme is to offer financial support to childcare providers to provide additional childcare (i.e. an extension to the normal service) to facilitate children with a disability accessing services during holiday periods such as Summer, Halloween, Half-term 2019. This funding is being provided on a non-recurrent basis.

Please click on the link to download:

• Application Guidance Notes

• Application Form

Please watch the Belfast Childcare Partnership’s Short film – Childcare Lasts a Lifetime!

It was developed to celebrate and showcase the benefits of different types of high quality childcare in the Belfast area.

It highlights the key issues for childcare providers – hearing from practitioners, parents and children.

Please share widely as this is a great opportunity to celebrate Childcare

Please click here for information on Interactive Nutrition Training in Toomebridge on 28^th May 2019.

Please click here for information on Parent/Teen Communication Level 2 training being held in Ballymena in May 2019.

Click here to download an application form.

The following EITP Trauma Informed Practice Resources are now available for you to download:

Trauma Informed Practice Evidence Review Reports

The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) commissioned Queens University Belfast to complete an international trauma informed practice evidence review. The reports are now available to download on the SBNI website > under professionals > resources. Click here to download the reports – https://www.safeguardingni.org/resources-professionals

NI ACE Animation

The NI ACE Animation is now available for you to download on vimeo and you tube.

You can watch the NI ACE Animation through the following links:

VIMEO (no subtitles) – https://vimeo.com/327246740

VIMEO – Subtitled – https://vimeo.com/330114583

YOUTUBE – https://youtu.be/I-r3Xi7qByU

YOUTUBE – subtitled – https://youtu.be/LY-8HilOzh0