BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme - Family Fund [UK WIDE]

About this event and organisation

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.

What are Emergency Essentials?

Emergency Essentials grants are for children and young people living with severe poverty as well as having additional exceptional pressures or crisis.

We can deliver or fund critical items such as:

• Gas or electric cookers

• Essential household items

• Furniture and kitchen equipment

• Children’s beds and bedding

• Washing machines

• Fridges and freezers

• Baby equipment

• Clothing in an emergency (including school uniform)

Who is leading the session?

Emma Walton and Gemma Walker

Learning Outcomes

Practitioners who attend the event will learn:

Eligibility and who can we help?

• Children from birth to 17

• Vulnerable children and young people who are experiencing a crisis or emergency

All grants are discretionary, subject to meeting eligibility criteria and available funding.

Vulnerability

By exceptional difficulties or crisis, we mean an unexpected occurrence outside of the child or young person’s control. The following are not exhaustive, but are to give examples of the events and circumstances that could be considered:

• Domestic abuse

• Mental health or behavioural difficulties

• Bereavement

• Alcohol or substance misuse

• Estrangement or abandonment

• Disability, serious or chronic illness

• Abuse or neglect

• Family member of household is in prison

• Homelessness/unsettled way of life

• Trafficking or exploitation/gang involvement

Registering as a Referrer/Making an application:

The grant programme is a referrer only programme and you can find out more information about what being a referrer for the fund means in these guidelines:

https://www.familyfundservices.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0755_FFBS_CiN_Guidance_for_Referrers_Oct22-NEW-1.pdf

You can also find more information via the website:

https://www.familyfundservices.co.uk/emergency-essentials/

If you would like any help, advice or support, please get in contact by using the following details:

Registering as a referrer: cinofficial@familyfundservices.co.uk

Partnerships Team: cinpartnerships@familyfundservices.co.uk

Emergency Essentials Helpline: 01904 550011

Who should attend?

This course is designed for frontline staff working in a range of organisations who support young people and children across the UK.

All money guidance practitioners are welcome to attend this free event. This could include staff who are supporting service users with difficult conversations about the need for essentials and anyone offering guidance to improve the financial wellbeing of their service users.

Links to the Money Guidance Competency Framework

From the framework we will be covering Foundation knowledge and compliance: Signposting Customers. Technical Doman 4 – Welfare and benefits: Knowledge of other government and non-government sources of support (e.g. Budgeting loans and advances, local welfare assistance funds, grants and discounts etc.)

Accessibility

If you have accessibility requirements, please inform us when you register by emailing moneyguidersni@reed.com and we will do our best to meet them. Participants should always remember to keep their own client and customer details confidential and not disclose personal information about them.

Keep Up to Date with the Money Guiders UK Network

• Register with the 4 UK Money Guiders Network Newsletters: here

The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is a programme run by The Money Pensions Service MaPS, which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.