Welcome to the Lewisham Children and Family Centre Website

The Community Groups Programme	The Freedom Programme
The Community Groups Programme is a twelve-week therapeutic programme for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. It seeks to enable the recovery process and aims to: • Validate the children’s experiences. • Reduce the self-blame that is commonly associated with children experiencing abuse. • Develop a child-appropriate safety plan. • Manage appropriate and inappropriate expressions of emotion. • Enhance the mother-child relationship. • Enable both the mother and child to heal together.	The Freedom Programme is for women who are experiencing or surviving domestic abuse. It usually runs for eleven or twelve weeks (but this may vary depending on your locality) and aims to: • Provide women who are experiencing or surviving domestic abuse with a safe, supportive and friendly environment. • Allow women to recognise the tactics and behaviours of ‘the dominator’ – that is, the tactics that typify a perpetrator of domestic abuse. • Give women the opportunity to build connections with other women.

“My child and I have really enjoyed coming to Little Explorers. It has helped my child to get used to see other babies and have interaction with them, which has been really important for him after the pandemic.”

“It's absolutely fab to be able to have access to all of the Domestic Abuse services in one place and to just click on a link to get to the website.”

“The Children Centre is our favourite place to come, we have been coming here since my child was 6 months old, he is now 4 years old and is still enjoying! Well done staff”

“I have just found the ‘taking care of ourselves’ section, which is massively important for us all, especially compassion fatigue.”

“The help and support that my family support worker gave me was above and beyond, she was always there to listen to me and make me feel like I was good enough and I was being heard.”

“The Outreach Team have such outgoing, friendly and fun personalities and made each Outdoor Learning session a great experience.”

“The Explorers session has helped my child a lot with his communication and his development. It’s really been impactful for him; we are really grateful to have this opportunity to attend the session and meet other parents as well.”

“The sessions help my daughter with speaking English, as well as helping her to listen and follow directions. I am very happy, my baby is very happy, and I feel relief when I come.”

“The Children Centre is very beneficial for my child, she has developed lots of skills e.g., sharing toys and naming colours. Also, the staff are very friendly and helpful.”

This website and Evelyn, Bellingham & Ladywell Children and Family Centres are managed by the Early Years Alliance and are commissioned and funded by Lewisham Council.

The Early Years Alliance is the trading name of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

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Registered as an educational charity with charity number 1096526
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Registered office: 50 Featherstone Street, London, EC1Y 8RT

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FIRST NAME	SURNAME	M/F	D.O.B	SCHOOL	CPP/CIN	ETHNICITY	RELIGION	NHS NUMBER

NAME	RELATIONSHIP TO FAMILY	ADDRESS and POSTCODE	TEL / MOBILE	E-MAIL	SAFE TO CONTACT?	SAFE CONTACT NOTES

Welcome to the Lewisham Children and Family Centre Website

Professionals Referral Form

Step 1 of 5

SECTION A: REQUIRED INFORMATION ABOUT THE REFERRER and the FAMILY BEING REFERRED

PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH FAMILY

SECTION B: REFERRAL DETAILS

SECTION C: REFERRALS FOR THE COMMUNITY GROUPS PROGRAMME, THE FREEDOM PROGRAMME AND/OR WHERE DOMESTIC ABUSE HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERPETRATOR/ALLEGED PERPETRATOR (IF KNOWN)

SECTION D: FAIR PROCESSING AND CONSENT FORM

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