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Sandwell Council

sandwell council

Sandwell Family Information Service offers free, impartial information to families with children aged 0 to 19 years (or up to 25 years with a special educational need or disability), young people and professionals. We are the principal service for information to parents/carers for the Local Authority (LA) Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council What we do We support Sandwell Council's Vision 2030 Ambition 4 Best Start in Life. We are an early help service and our information helps families to find childcare and local support services. The Family Services Directory includes information on children’s centres, money and benefits, education, health and wellbeing as well as local activities and things to do. We also manage and maintain the Children and Young Adults with Disabilities/Special Educational Needs Register. Statutory Duty Local authorities are bound by statute. Their functions are set out in Acts of Parliament and many of these functions have associated legal duties. 'Statutory' means duties and functions that a council must perform, provide or do. Councils rely on their different teams and services to deliver specific duties, and together, meet all their statutory duties. Find out more on statutory duties placed on local government Sandwell Family Information Service delivers these statutory duties for Sandwell Council: CHILDREN ACT 1989 - SCHEDULE 2 CHILDCARE ACT 2006 - SECTION 6 CHILDCARE ACT 2006 - SECTION 12 CHILDCARE ACT 2016 - SECTION 5 What we offer We provide information on a range of topics relating to family life including: Childcare all Ofsted registered childcare providers in Sandwell Free funding for 2, 3 and 4 year olds 15 and 30 hours Children’s Centres How to become a childminder Family Services including health and wellbeing, money and benefits, education, leisure and family support Things to Do - including school holiday activities, camps and courses Parent/carer advice and support including one to one brokerage

Abbeydale Training

abbeydale training

Barnsley

UK based training providerWe work with businesses, schools and the wider public sector. Over the years, our aims and ethos have remained constant – all of the training we deliver has to be relatable to the workplace and add real value. Our packages are created to deliver the training our clients need and are delivered where and when they need them. This customer first approach has ensured that our clients use us time and time again. We believe that training should not be a box ticking exercise, nor that one size should fit all. It is vital that delegates leave us with knowledge, ideas and enthusiasm and that every programme has a lasting and positive impression on both the individual and the organisation. Our interactive and practical methods are the key to helping our learners to make real changes in the workplace and to become more effective. We hope you agree and look forward to working with you. We pride ourselves in practising what we preach. As providers of customer service training, customer satisfaction is very important to us. This approach has resulted in 95% of our clients using us again and again: Princes Foods since 2009 The Houses of Parliament since 2011 DLA Piper since 2006 Penk Insurance since 2004 Excalibur UK since 2001 The list goes on and on. Our clients keep coming back to us (some for whom we have become their sole training provider) and here are some of their reasons: We are easy to work with. We take the fear out of the learning environment. We adapt the courses to their needs. Our training always means something in the real world. What we teach can be put into practise straight away. We make a difference.

British Council Europe

british council europe

Although we receive a government grant in aid, the British Council is operationally independent from the UK government. All our work contributes to our purpose and Royal Charter (PDF 180kb) aims: '[to] advance, for the public benefit, any purpose which is exclusively charitable and which shall (a) promote cultural relationships between the people of the United Kingdom and other countries; (b) develop a wider knowledge of the English language; and (c) encourage educational co-operation between the United Kingdom and other countries, support the advancement of United Kingdom education and education standards overseas, and otherwise promote education.' Subsidiary undertakings The British Council has a group structure which, in addition to the British Council charity, includes subsidiary undertakings in the UK and overseas. See a list of all British Council group entities (PDF 120kb) . Information about these separate legal entities is in the governance statement and notes to the accounts sections of the British Council’s annual reports. Accountability and regulation We are held to account both as a charity and as a non-departmental public body. Corporate reports Download our annual report, corporate plan, gender pay gap report, management statement and financial memoranda. Code of Conduct This Code of Conduct reflects our commitment to cultural relations work that is ethical, has integrity, and has the well-being, inclusion and fair treatment of our colleagues and the peop Finance Where our income comes from, and how we spend it. How we work with government We strategically align our work to the long-term international priorities of the UK government and the devolved governments. How we work with parliament We keep MPs and peers informed about our work, and draw on their support. Global Policy Statements Our policies ensure that we meet the highest standards across all our areas of work. Services for UK education, English teaching and exams providers How we develop contract opportunities for the sector, and the services we offer providers in each country.

Uk Finclusion

uk finclusion

London

Chris Pond (Chair) is also Chair of the Lending Standards Board and the Equity Release Council Standards Board and is an independent director with Current Account Switch Service (part of Pay.UK) and of Cape Claims Services, an asbestos compensation scheme. Chris is also a trustee of the Money and Mental Health Policy institute (for which he chairs the Mental Health and Income Commission) and is a member of the Treasury FinTech Development Panel. Chris has in the past been CEO of two national charities (Low Pay Unit and Gingerbread) and chair or trustee of many others, most recently The Money Charity and GambleAware. He was Member of Parliament for Gravesham between 1997 and 2005, serving as Work and Pensions Minister and as a ministerial aide in the Treasury. Sian Williams VICE CHAIR SIAN WILLIAMS Sian Williams is Head of National Services at Toynbee Hall in London’s East End. Sian has been responsible for Toynbee Hall’s local and national financial inclusion programmes since October 2009, including Transact (the UK’s national forum for financial inclusion), financial inclusion training, research, evaluation and strategic consultancy. Sian takes a whole systems approach to financial well-being, supporting organisations to develop policies and practice which make it easier for people to make the most of their money. She has co-led the Financially Inclusive Tower Hamlets programme, which adopts this environmental approach within one of the UK’s most deprived communities. Sian’s team have also created a ground-breaking needs and impact digital measurement tool for financial health, the MAP Tool, to fill the gaps around knowing “what works” in financial health interventions. Sian provides advice on financial inclusion to financial services providers, and is a member of advisory groups for the Payments Council, the LINK Scheme, the BBA, DWP, HMT and the Big Lottery. Sian is also a member of the new PSR Panel, and a trustee for the Money Advice Trust.

Cybersalon

cybersalon

Cybersalon is the trading name of Digital Liberties Limited for its UK-based collective and think-tank activities focusing on the process and effect of the digital revolution in industry, society and its emerging digital cultures. Its members and audiences include entrepreneurs, technologists, hackers, activists, government officials, business and community leaders, academics, artists, creatives, and designers. Originally founded in 1997, from 1999 to 2003 Cybersalon ran monthly events at the Institute of Contemporary Art. From 2003 to 2006 Cybersalon was housed at the Dana Centre at the British Science Museum. Cybersalon re-launched in 2013 at the Arts Catalyst in London, and was based at the DigitasLBi agency in Brick Lane, Shoreditch, in the heart of London’s Tech City before moving into its current home at NewSpeak House, Shoreditch. The size of the contributing, senior membership of Cybersalon varies year to year from a core team of a dozen to a management and logistics group of more than twenty. Cybersalon audience membership numbers in the hundreds. In addition to monthly meetings, Cybersalon curates real and virtual spaces for people involved in digital creativity to participate and feedback their knowledge, curiosity, and concern to the wider community through the running of workshops, presentations and special projects in research and education. The recent HyperHabitat series of events, projects, and presentations investigated the changing nature of our living environments. Besides other activities, the series included Cybersalon events, participation in the London Hackney Council’s “Hack-ney-thon: 24 Hours to Hack for Hackney”, and a study of data gathering for the retail industry which in turn led to presentations and workshops at the Hybrid Cities conference in Athens, Greece. In recent years Cybersalon has additionally contributed a Digital Citizenship Bill of Rights for debate in the British Parliament, presented member book launches on workplace surveillance and the results of research into the political use of social media.