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Play Strategy  -  Play Strategy for Birmingham 2007-2012

Positive Activities for Young People  -  The Positive Activities for Young People programme is aimed at 8-19-year-olds who are at risk of social exclusion and community crime. http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/youthmatters/positiveactivities/

Practice-based commissioning  -  Practice-based commissioning is a policy intended to give more decision-making power over NHS resources to general practitioners (GPs), and allow them to design and deliver completely new services or commission others to do so. It has a number of underlying policy objectives including delivering more cost effective and convenient forms of treatment outside hospital. Practice-based commissioning is a key strand of recent NHS reforms.(BCYPP)

Prevention  -  Prevention refers to activity designed to stop predicted impairment to children and young people's health or development. The purpose of preventive services is to stop impairments before they occur. They can involve public health style or targeted approaches but they focus on children and young people who might be expected to develop an impairment.(BCYPP)

Primary Care Trusts  -  Primary care trusts (PCTs) cover all parts of England and receive budgets directly from the Department of Health. Since April 2002, PCTs controlled local health care while strategic Health Authorities monitor performance and standards.(BCYPP)

Public health strategy  -  Public health prevention strategies target the cases at the mean of the distribution (the average child) of an aspect of children and young people's health or development, with the goal of dragging the cases at the tail of the distribution (children and young people with serious problems) towards the mean in future years. A public health approach focuses on all children and young people in a particular geographical area, such as a country, region, community or school.(BCYPP)

Restorative justice  -  The term "restorative justice" has been applied to a wide range of programmes, with one common element: offenders doing something constructive to make the world a better place, rather than just being punished. Essentially, restorative justice is a conflict resolution technique but is not confined to incidents defined by law as criminal.(BCYPP) www.restorativejustice.org.uk  

Safeguarding  -  Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places a statutory duty on key people and bodies to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.(BCYPP) www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/socialcare/safeguarding - see also in depth page on this website at http://www.vcsmatters.org/safeguarding   

Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)  -  SEAL offers a whole-school framework for promoting the social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation, empathy and social skills. Primary SEAL is organised into seven themes which can be covered within a school year: New Beginnings, Getting on and falling out, Say no to Bullying, Going for goals, Good to be me, Relationships, and Changes.(BCYPP) http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/socialandpastoral/sebs1/seal  

Social prevention  -  Social prevention seeks to reduce the damage that those who have developed a disorder can inflict on others in a community and/or on themselves. Not to be confused with the prevention of social problems.(BCYPP)

Statement of Special Educational Needs  -  A school or parent can ask a local authority to carry out a Statutory Assessment of special educational needs. If, through the assessment, the local authority decides that a child or young person needs more help, it will write a Statement of Special Educational Needs. This describes all the child's needs and special help requirements.(BCYPP)

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities  -  Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is a parenting programme that aims to raise the consciousness of parents. In addition, the curriculum aims to help families develop or promote: strong ethnic and cultural roots; positive parent-child relationships; a range of life skills; self esteem, self-discipline and social competence; and an ability to access community resources. It is the UK version of the US programme "Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families".(BCYPP)  www.raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/sfsc