Children First Project

The main aim of Children and Young People First project is to raise awareness of workforce development issues in Kingston for voluntary, community and private groups working with children and young people.

The project aims to enable those groups to access training opportunities in the borough and to build their capacity through training, advice and support for their staff, volunteers and trustees.

The project also aims to support third sector representatives on the committees of the Children's Trust.

Child Poverty

Approximately 5,000 children are living in poverty in Kingston and child poverty has a huge impact on every aspect of a child's life. As voluntary and community groups are often one of the first contacts for families affected by poverty, KVA is currently working on this issue as part of the Children & Young People First Project, which will include training and research.  Read more about our work on child poverty.

Training

Training for people working with children and young people is run by various departments in RBK, mainly Learning and Children's Services and Early Years. Their training programmes are on the Royal Borough of Kingston website. There are usually two places reserved for people from voluntary and community groups at each event.

KVA also runs our own seminars on topics which have been highlighted as useful by groups in the third sector. To date these have included Safer Recruitment, South London Learning Consortium, Developing a Training Plan, Participation, and Making Referrals.

Presentations and handouts from the previous seminars.

Notes from Participation Seminar - July 2009
Presentation on Training Plans - March 2009