Tuesday 4 May 10-11am Much-needed additional money for the Local Offer for SEND Children might not be enough to ‘fix’ mainstream schools which off-roll and persistently exclude children who ‘don’t fit the box’. Instead, CQ says, the SEND Local Offer could be made co-operatively between schools and communities. Join the Zoom chat online to look…Read moreRead more
Cooperative
New Local SEND Offer
Develop Local Potential to Serve SEND Children Right
Councils are working out how to spend an increase in the higher needs block funding they get to provide education to SEND children. In Birmingham, the Council is encouraging mainstream schools to improve the way they serve vulnerable children through partnerships aimed at developing local potential. In the light of widespread off-rolling of SEND children…Read moreRead more
Welcoming New Members!
Warm welcomes to new members joining the Children’s Quarter co-operative this month: Highbury Orchard Community, the Inclusive Sports Academy CIC; and Charlotte Slater of Urban Heard CIC. Highbury Orchard Community is a community interest company which aims to bring people into contact with Nature through projects, including Forest School, working together and underpinned by Permaculture…Read moreRead more
Adventure Play for Children with Additional Needs Takes Off!
Adventure play for the over-8s with additional needs in Birmingham and Solihull takes off this Summer thanks to Meriden Adventure Playground Association (MAPA), other Children’s Quarter member groups and CQ’s Inclusion Fusions scheme that has enabled them to work cooperatively on the scheme. Adventure play offers children and young people opportunities to play ‘for real’ –…Read moreRead more
How the Co-op Works Training 16 April, Kings Heath
Join us 6-7.30pm Tuesday 16 April Upstairs at All Saints Centre, Kings Heath to look at Co-op Values and Principles in practice and how to get involved in the Children’s Quarter. Children’s Quarter is a co-operative of member organisations committed to Co-operative Principles: Voluntary and Open Membership Democratic Member Control Member Economic Participation Autonomy and Independence…Read moreRead more
AGM Notice for Members
The Children’s Quarter company Annual General Meeting takes place at 10am on Friday 10 May 2019 in the Deloitte Room at Midlands Arts Centre, Edgbaston B12 9QH. The formal business for members is to consider the accounts and directors’ report; elect directors to serve for the year ahead; agree audit arrangements; and consider any resolutions…Read moreRead more
Children’s Quarter AGM 19 April 2018
Launched in November 2017 and served by an interim Board of Directors, it’s time for Children’s Quarter to have its first Annual General Meeting. The chance for Members to choose who they want to act as Directors, guiding the development of the Co-op between Members’ Meetings. The AGM will start at 10am on 19th April…Read moreRead more
Help Mould Children’s Quarter
Children’s Quarter participants are meeting on Thursday 9 Feb to take the next step in setting it up. Representatives from 20 groups are expected to come to the meeting at Birmingham City University’s Seacole Building in Edgbaston. They will discuss principles of equality and cooperation and aim to agree the basis for Children’s Quarter which will…Read moreRead more