13-11-08 FUTUREBUILDERS Confirmation

Our vision to develop a social enterprise combining a therapeutic residential unit with our growing range of day services, has taken a gigantic leap forward with confirmation of Futurebuiders funding support. Plans are already under way to make this much-needed facility a reality. Watch this space.

23-10-07 Charity workers selected for India Trip

Managers from award-winning Merseyside charity ‘Safeguarding Children Services’ have been invited to join a team of experts who are visiting Southern India in November.

Jaci Quennell, one of the managers, explains ‘We will be sharing our expertise in working with traumatised and exploited children, with projects that work with street children and children from slum areas This trip follows the international lecturing that we did for the Baltic States last year.
We will be fundraising before we go so that we can give some practical help to the projects as well.’

Elaine Allison is the other project manager selected to join the trip. She says ‘We were chosen for this trip on the basis of a national award that we have won for our work with socially excluded young people. We are hoping that by visiting projects in India that run on very limited funding, we can gain some perspective on the funding problems that we face – as a small charity we struggle for funding and we tend to forget how much we can achieve with limited resources. Our most important resource is our skilled and qualified staff team’.

For more information about Safeguarding Children Services, or to donate funds for the India projects, contact Jaci Quennell on 0151 203 0777

15-09-06 Influencing Europe

Jaci Quennell and Elaine Allison SCS's CEO's visited Brussels on September 13th in partnership with several international organisations who are lobbying MEPs to improve the co-ordination of child protection services across Europe. SCS has been invited to be part of these discussions following their successful inaugural conference ‘Who’s Paying the Price? - Internet Abuse and Child Trafficking’ that took place in October 06.

Jaci and Elaine met with Save the Children Brussels staff and the staff team of MEP Arlene McCarthy – Arlene has taken a lead role in the European Parliament with regards to safeguarding children against trafficking.

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