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Eke-Out Project,
c/o EVOC
14 Ashley Place
Edinburgh
EH6 5PX
tel: 0131 555 9100
fax: 0131 555 9101
email:
eke-out [at] evoc [dot] org.uk -----The Eke-Out Project works within Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations' Council. Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations' Council is a company limited by guarantee - No 173582 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC 009944

What’s new

Working Together? - Full Impact Report of the Cuts / Savings Proposals Agreed at the Full Council Meeting on 20th September 2007

At the AGM on 18 December 2007

Maureen Martin, Senior Manager at the Action Group, resigned as Chair of the Network owing to pressure of work.

We are very grateful for all her hard work on our behalf. We are very pleased to announce that Stuart Mair, Project Co-ordinator at Canongate Youth Project, has been elected as the new Chair of the Network and Ella Simpson, Director, the Rock Trust, has been elected as Vice-Chair.

In Edinburgh partners from the statutory and voluntary sectors came together to deliver an integrated Children and Young People's Services Plan. Over the summer a group of young people considered this plan and came up with a young people's version. To read the leaflet please click here and to download the young people's shortened version of the plan please click here

Implementation of Project Outreach Strategy

Strategy and framework documents
The interim report on the outreach visits can be accessed in the Outreach section

Interim Report

Child Protection Action Plans and Progress Reports for

January 2008

March 2008

are available on the Edinburgh Child Protection Committee page of the website..

What’s New for Members

Introducing more new Network reps for strategic partnership working

Pauline Colles has resigned as the Network Rep on the Edinburgh Child Protection Committee Training Sub-Group. We would like to thank her for her hard work and wish her well in her motherhood. We are now currently recruiting for this group and anyone who is interested should get in touch with Paula on 0131 625 9145.

Celine Sinclair, Director of the Scotland Yard Adventure Centre has joined as our second Network rep on the Disability Sub-Group.

New Database Search Options -

Six new categories have been added to the Search Services by Service Focus option. They are Food and Cooking, Social Inclusion, Education, Victims of Crime, Farming and Agriculture & Newspaper / Newsletter.

The Eke-Out Project

Welcome to the Eke-Out Project website. The Eke-Out Project is the staff resource of the Edinburgh Network for Children, Young People and Families, the voluntary sector forum which the Project created, develops and supports. This website contains information about both the Project and the Network.

Click the links embedded in the text or on the buttons on the left margin to access information about the Network, partnership working, publications of interest and Eke-Out Project services.

If your organisation is already a member of the Network, you might want to visit the members’ area of the site where you can read about strategic partnership groups, consultations and Network news.

You can also search the Eke-Out database of Network members.

There is a site map to help you find your way around, and a page explaining how to use the site. There is also a page with information for site users with particular access needs.

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