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Dear All

We hope you are well and coping with where we all find ourselves.

You may have seen that sadly, Laura Payne is moving on from 4in10 to a great new post at the end of January. This means we have an exciting new vacancy for our team leader. Can you see yourself running our amazing 4in10 network, championing London's diverse and tireless anti-poverty organisations, maintaining, creating and developing contacts with decision makers and those who influence and inform them while leading a small and diverse team? Do you have excellent people skills and experience of campaigning and collaboration? Job description is here and the closing date is midday on the 18th January. Please do share as widely as you can.

As before a return to full lockdown means the danger of yet another increase in Domestic Violence. This is an updated list of the help available:

• Childline has a 24 hour helpline for children 08001111 and web based support including a dedicated page for deaf children.
• Galop offer specific LGBT+ DV support and advice. Helpline 0800 999 5428 available 10 – 5 Monday – Friday and until 8pm on Wednesday and Thursday.
• Hestia have an app that can be downloaded to a mobile phone and safely hidden. The content is also available on line.
• Ikwro offer DV support for Middle Eastern and Afghan Women. Languages spoken are Farsi, Kurdish, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, and English. Mon to Fri 9.30am-5.30pm 020 7920 6460 For out-of-hours emergencies call: Kurdish / Arabic / English 07846 275 246 Farsi / Dari / English 07846 310 157
• Karma Nirvana support victims of honour-based abuse and forced marriage. They run a helpline from 9-5 Monday to Friday on 08005999247
• NSPCC has advice for anyone worried about a child.
• Refuge offer advice and information for both women and men experiencing DV and now include information on dealing with Tech Abuse. They have a 24 hour free emergency number 08082000247.
• Sign Health offer support for deaf people suffering DV.
• Silent Solutions in an emergency Dial 999. Listen to the questions from the 999 operator. Respond by coughing or tapping the handset if possible. If prompted press 55 – this lets the operator know it is a genuine emergency and you will be put through to the police who can trace the call. For more information.
• Southall Black Sisters this is not an emergency help line. Mon to Fri from 9am-5pm 0208 571 9595 or email info@southallblacksisters.co.uk
• Stonewall DV advice and information for the LGBT+ community.
• Surviving Economic Abuse have updated their information in relation to Covid.
• Women's Aid have a covid specific section on their website

From our members and friends:

• Big Issue asked a range of anti-poverty campaigners what progress they thought had been made in 2020, and what must be done in 2021 to lift people out of poverty for good.
• Child Poverty Action Group are collecting evidence on how social security changes have affected the wellbeing of children and families. They are looking for information both from individuals themselves and those providing services or advice.
• Education Policy Institute have published a report finding a positive impact from graduates working in early years setting on children's long term outcomes, the report also demonstrates that their presence is not a "silver bullet" for improving young children's attainment.
• High Pay Centre has published research claiming that by January 6th 2021, the top 100 paid CEO's will have earned as much in the year as the average annual full time worker's wage.
• Home-Start Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow are currently offering support to isolated families with a child under 5. This includes regular telephone support, help with financial worries, housing or relationship issues and guidance on parenting in the early years including Ideas and activities to keep children active at home.
• The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities New Year Message is a stark reminder of the danger of ignoring inequality.
• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants want to learn about the experience of migrants during the Covid19 pandemic in relation to keeping themsleves and their families safe.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published their 2020 Poverty Report and Findings.
• Red Card are running a free gambling awareness workshops for professionals and parents on 5th February from 6.30 – 8.30.
• Refugee Council are looking for signatures for a petition to allow child refugees parity with adults in sponsoring close family members to join them.
• Right to Remain have added two new sections to their 'tool kit'. The new Asylum Inadmissibility rules and an update to their EU Nationals pages.
• Shelter have updated their Covid19 webpage to take into account housing and rent related changes in relation to the national lockdown.
• TUC are arguing for employers to proactively offer furlough to working parents affected by school closures and for immediate access to SEISS for the self-employed.

4in10 and a group of our frontline medical members are planning a Webinar on the impact of poor housing on children's health and safeguarding and what practical steps that can be taken to change this from a health practitioners perspective. The provisional date for this is the 29th March 1 – 2.30. If you feel you have something you would like to contribute please get in touch. More details will be available next month.

Local Authority and Statutory Updates:
Many London Local Authorities have developed an elibrary service. This gives access to online books, magazines, comics, homework help and more. Examples below of what is available from some individual boroughs but do check your own borough's library website for more details:

• Barnet
• Brent
• Croydon
• Ealing
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Waltham Forest
• Hounslow have launched a swop shop for residents for children's clothes and toys and have created a way for families to give away items and request things they need. Send an email with the items to give away or needed.
• The Department of Culture, Media and Sport are hosting webinars on Winning Central Government Contracts and the New Social Value Model from 2pm-4pm, on the 20th January 2021, 3rd February and the 17th March.
• The Department for Education has confirmed it will go ahead with previously announced plans to increase the number of free laptops and 4G routers made available to disadvantaged children.
• Ofcom estimates that 9% of children in the UK (between 1.1 million and 1.8 million) do not have access to a laptop, desktop, or tablet at home and that more than 880,000 children live in a household with only a mobile internet connection.
• ONS state that only 51% of households earning between £6,000 and £10,000 have internet access.
• The DofE also updated their guidance on safeguarding children on the 30th December. It now includes homelessness or potential homelessness as a safeguarding concern and requires public bodies to refer families to a housing authority.
• GLA have a London Learning from Home resource site for parents and children to access resources and help.
• London Boroughs Faiths Network, the GLA and London Plus are running the pan-London Volunteering Summit 14th January 1.30 – 3.30. Free and online, this will address ways to support volunteers and volunteering in London.
• The Prime Minister stated that children eligible for free school meals would now receive supermarket vouchers similar to those provided during the first lockdown and during the summer and Christmas holidays. There is currently no information on how this is to be administered while schools are closed. Check individual local authority websites for updates.

Funding Opportunities:

• Local Connections Fund. The new round of this Big Lottery funding has just opened and is for projects tackling loneliness.
• Paul Hamlyn along with Comic Relief have launched a new Tech for Good digital development fund.
• Screwfix Foundation quarterly funding round ends in February. Bids should be in over the next two weeks for building or maintenance bids.
• Trust for London funding round ends on the 2nd February. Bids should be in very soon.
• Volant Charitable Trust has launched a new Covid19 response fund.

Very best wishes and as always please keep sharing information with us so we can share on...

Laura, Keisha and Liza

PS: Did you see the Member Spotlight in our last newsletter? Do let us know if you'd like to feature your work here too.

by Liza Dresner