News - Working With Children

Young Carers Assessment Awareness Workforce Development Sessions

25 June 2018

Liverpool City Council and Barnardo’s, as part of the city’s Early Help Workforce Developments, are delivering half day multi-agency sessions to ensure young carers and their families are provided with an effective response from both adult and children’s services, and practitioners understand their roles and responsibilities.

YPAS – North West in Bloom

25 June 2018

Working with the support of Nick Small and Catherine Morton from the local council, Steve Parry from ION Developments and Shaun Boylan; Senior Project Manager | Northern | Construction | ISG, the young people attached to SKY Central have been working hard doing woodwork sessions, painting sessions and planning sessions to pull together the YPAS entry […]

Carers Action Plan 2018-2020 – supporting carers today

22 June 2018

The ‘Carers Action Plan 2018-2020 – supporting carers today’ document sets out a two-year programme of cross-government work which will seek to build carer friendly communities and support carers to provide care in a way that protects their own health and wellbeing, employment and life chances.

YPAS Art Activist Awards Success

22 May 2018

On Saturday 12th May, Tuesday GYRO (12-16-year-olds) LGBTQ+ Youth and allies travelled to Manchester to attend the Art Activist competition hosted by The Proud Trust. This was a regional LGBTQ+ youth activist project that had young people from all over the North West descent upon Manchester to perform, display, act out their entries.

FRESH CAMHS invite you to their second Generation FRESH Conference ‘FRESH HOPE’.

22 May 2018

Set to be a day of inspiration and a call to action to think differently about how we can keep schools inclusive and avoid exclusions, this conference is a collaboration between FRESH CAMHS at Alder Hey & Hope School. During the day you’ll kickstart a narrative of fresh hope for the generation of young people […]

Young people’s mental health creative arts project at Tate Liverpool.

22 May 2018

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has unveiled a new creative arts project at Tate Liverpool, that explores young people’s thoughts and feelings in relation to mental health in education.

Young adult carer speaks to a Parliamentary Committee

30 April 2018

A young adult carer, Katie O’Shaughnessy, from the Barnardo’s Liverpool Young Adult Carers service has spoken to a Parliamentary Committee about her experiences of balancing caring responsibilities with work and university.

YPAS Plus South Hub secure funding for Thrive group

30 April 2018

YPAS Youth Workers Hannah & Claire were successful in gaining £250 funding from Childwall Valley Estate Management Board (EMB)