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Ice Cube

Millennium Square 17th Jan to 8th Mar 2009

The UK’s largest temporary outdoor ice rink, Ice Cube, Leeds returns to the stylish civic setting of Millennium Square for a ninth sell out season. With over 1200m2 of real ice, an adjoining nursery rink for those budding skaters of the future and a fully heated rink-side café, visitors of all ages are welcome.

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Peter Pan
West Yorkshire Playhouse

22nd Nov 2008 to 31st Jan 2009
Tel: (0113) 213 7700

Rachel Kavanaugh directs George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Willis Hall's festive musical production of JM Barrie's original play about the boy who never grew up.

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Children’s Scrapstore

‘TURNING WASTE THINGS INTO PLAY THINGS’

Our new shop and scrapstore continues to offer over 250 different arts & craft items from glue & glitter to feathers.

For more information Click here

Another New website for Dads!

Launched in June 2008, DadTalk aims to creat a new online community of fathers; and be a source of support information and ideas. DadTalk is for all fathers, bu we will target in particular fathers from African and Caribbean communities and fathers of teenagers. It aims to reach more fathers through the innovative use of social media, to champio and promote fatherhood through the web. It features a forum for fathers to support each other and reflect on the nitty gritty issues of being a dad, videos and podcasts from experts and fathers in society, and signposting to all things 'dad' on the web.
You can find the new website by clicking below
www.dadtalk.co.uk

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New website for Dads!

A brand new website has been launched, made by Dads for Dads, with survival guides and stressbusting tips
to help Dads through family life.
You can find the new website by clicking below
www.dads-space.com

Supporting Parents
of Disabled Children and Children with Health Problems

A free six session course for Parents and Carers

What does the course cover?

• Sharing feelings, experiences and learning from each other
• Coping with distressing thoughts and feelings
• Breathing exercises
• Making action plans which work for you
• Exercise and getting fitter
• Relaxation
• Healthy eating and nutrition
• Improving family communication
• Parenting approaches
• Dealing with tiredness
• Using problem solving skills in your daily life
• Making informed choices
• Working with health, social care and education Professionals

What does it involve?

• attending one 2 ½ hour session every week for 6 weeks (first and last sessions are 3 hours long)
• joining in group discussions and activities (as much or as little as you want)
• meeting people, having fun, feeling and coping better!

To register or for more information please
Phone: 0113 305 7591 or 0113 305 7582 or

Email: epp.account@leedspct.nhs.uk or download the application form by clicking here

Leeds Citywide Family Forum

The Leeds Citywide family Forum is now formed and has published its first information leaflets.
They now have a web site www.freewebs.com/lcff/ which will be updated and modernised as the forum evolves.

Contact; sueknights14@msn.com or cholme.lcwff@googlemail.com0113 368 0414

The North West Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre is fundraising for playground and sensory equipment. The target is £200,000. We are selling donated items and celebrity items on ebay.
To see all the items we are selling this week check out www.ebay.co.uk and follow these instructions

Go to www.ebay.co.uk
Click on the advanced search(blue text hyper-link next to the search tab)
Click on the view by seller
Type in nwspecialistinclusivelearningcentre
click on search

The items listed will change on a regular basis so please visit and make bids often.
If you have any items to donate for us to sell to help raise funds, then please contact Sue Knights by emailing her here

THIS IS NEWS

The second issue of This is news has been launched.
Just in time for planning things to do in the summer holidays, packed full of information about events,
services and activities in the Leeds area, ideal for all families with children who have a disability or a learning difficulty.

You can download the Summer issue by
clicking here
or you can download our previous issue (Easter 2008) by
clicking here

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4/04/2008

The Leeds Childcare Sufficiency Report is available to download.

Section 6 of the Childcare Act 2006 headlines the duty for
Local Authorities to secure, as far as reasonably, practicable,
sufficient childcare to meet the needs of working parents
in their area.In securing sufficient childcare,
Local Authorities arecharged with the duty to assess
the sufficiency of childcare provision in their area.

This report outlines the priorities Leeds City Council plans
to implement in order to address identified gaps and to
meet the needs of parents.

You can download the full Childcare Suffiency Report by
clicking here
(you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader
which you can install from here).