My Children's House

To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week, The Children's House is holding a Modern Apprentice Recruitment Event on Tuesday the 22nd May 2012 from 6.00pm-8.00pm. This event is open to young people aged between 16-19 years who are interested in a career in Childcare. This event is being held at The Hamilton School, 55-57 Queens Road, Aberdeen. If this is of interest to you please contact The Children's House Team on 01224317155 or email admin@childrenshouse.org.uk.

On Saturday 21st April 2012 The Children's House hosted a conference on "Mental Health and Wellbeing" in partnership with The Hamilton School.  This event was dellivered by NHS Grampian Public Health Team, the speaker was David Alexander.  

Mental health and wellbeing can mean different things to different people.  In general it involves the way in which we deal with everyday stresses, how we make decisions and set goals, our relationships with others and how we view ourselves.

This conference was greaty enjoyed by all the staff, We recieved guidance and a range of techniques to improve the way we think and feel. This conference was greatly enjoyed by all staff.

A representative of The Children's House team took part in a very worhtwhile training event sponsored by the Scottish Social Services Council with a focus on leadership.  Which  is a huge challenge for all social services leaders, especially where they operate in a culture where colleagues traditionally have expected answers from their leaders to the problems they face.  We in the childcare sector have a great deal of work to do.

(Edited by Laura Knox - original submission Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 05:08 PM)

On Saturday the  24th of March 2012 The Children's House hosted a conference on  'Getting it Right for Every Child' for the Hamilton School Staff. This conference was attended by all of the staff of The Hamilton School. The guest speakers for this event were Pam Simpson and Chris Aldred both  GIRFEC Multidisciplinary Training Officers, for Aberlour Childcare Trust.

This event was enjoyed by all staff furthering their knowledge on the importance of multi agency working in supporting the well-being of children and young people and their role within this. Staff engaged in a series of workshops which promoted in-depth discussion between staff from different disciplines

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The Children's House website and My Children's House will be unavailable on Wednesday 4th April at 6.30pm GMT to perform some scheduled maintenance on the server. The website will be available again at 7.30am GMT on Thursday 5th April.