A NATIONAL campaign to find parents for the children waiting longest to be adopted is being backed by the regional adoption agency for the south east.
‘A Life Less Ordinary’ has been launched to find families for children aged five or over, children with additional and/or complex needs, brother and sister groups, and those from an ethnic minority background.
RESIDENTS across the county are being urged to consider becoming foster carers during Foster Care Fortnight.
With more than 70 children currently waiting for a family, East Sussex County Council is using this year’s national awareness campaign, from May 9 to May 22, to encourage more people to consider joining the fostering community.
Foster carers can transform the lives of children and young people by offering a safe and loving home.
FROM THE beginning of April the Substance Misuse Service in East Sussex will be available to young people up to the age of 25.
Following successful treatment activity and positive outcomes last year, extra funding has been secured to enable the service to provide advice and treatment to more young people and their families.
A NEW REMOTE reading programme has been launched to support struggling young readers across the county.
East Sussex County Council is supporting the roll-out of an innovative reading scheme to help improve the reading skills of pupils in three primary schools in Hastings, Eastbourne and Newhaven.
Sixty 5- to 7-year-olds at Ore Village, Oakwood and Harbour primary schools are now receiving weekly online reading sessions as part of the UK-wide TutorMate programme, which is run by the charity Innovations for Learning UK.
