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The consultation on Swansea’s Children and Young People’s Rights Scheme is live (links and information below).
Have your say: Consultation on Swansea's draft Children and Young People's Rights Scheme 2021-24.
Children's Rights and how children and young people have their voices heard is very important to Swansea Council. We want to make sure children's rights and voice are at the centre of our work, considering them in everything we do. This is very important to us.
'Doing it the Rights Way' is a document that sets out a plan to help Swansea Council to do this.
It says that we can make sure children can access their rights by:
· Encouraging adults to listen to your ideas when decisions are being made that affect children.
· Making sure adults and children know about rights and how to make sure children can enjoy their rights.
· Making sure people can let us know what we are doing well, and where we can improve our services.
· Clearly showing people how putting children's rights at the centre of our work, improves things for children.
This survey tells you how we plan to work on Children's Rights in Swansea in the future, and is open to anyone who wishes to give us their views on it. This includes school staff.
We have split work into five areas, and we need you to tell us if you agree or disagree with the work we plan to do. If there is something we haven't thought of, please also let us know, your opinion is very important.
The survey is available in English, Welsh, Easy Read and Widgit symbol, and versions are available for children, young people and adults at:
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/childrensrightsschemeconsultation
A Symbol version of the Children’s Rights Scheme Consultation is now available via this link:
https://transfers.widgit.com/Tom/swansea_council_childrens_rights_survey_v2.pdf.
This is also available on the consultation webpage too.
If you require support to complete this survey or would like to receive a copy in an alternative version, please let us know at uncrc@swansea.gov.uk
Closing date 31 July 2021.
Dear parents, carers and guardians,
Please see below a message from the Local Authority for you:
The Welsh Government has just announced their school uniform grant for the coming school year. The grant is available for children who are currently entitled to free school meals* and going into one of the following year groups in September 2021:
Reception, Year 1, Year 3, Year 5, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11**
The grant is for £200 for Year 7 and £125 for all other year groups. The money should be spent on school uniform, coat, shoes, sports kit etc. and receipts should be kept until August 2022 for spot checks on spend. The grant can also be used to assist with purchasing laptops or tablets to help children when learning from home; however we advise families to contact their child’s school/setting to discuss loaning equipment before purchasing any equipment.
Parents of free school meal children will need to log back into their Swansea Account (where they applied for free school meal payments during Covid) to apply for the funding*** https://account.swansea.gov.uk/
Applications can be made from 13 July 2021 and take up to 7 days to process.
*note that not all children in receipt of free school meals are entitled to the uniform grant. Some children have their meal protected by the Welsh Government’s transitional protection scheme, as their income would be above the new free school meal threshold applied to Universal Credit. You can find more information here www.swansea.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals
**all Looked After Children (LAC) are entitled to the grant from Reception to Year 11
***asylum seekers will automatically get the money added to their Home Office ASPEN card
If you need assistance please contact schooluniformgrant@swansea.gov.uk or phone 01792 636611.