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- see inside A TINY piece of engraved ochre was found in Blombos Cave in South Africa Image by Dr. Christopher Henshilwood

SCIENTISTS believe that Africa is the The piece is carved with a pattern of We would like to welcome home to the world’s first artwork. Two tiny crossed lines, showing that humans had a you to the second issue of pieces of engraved ochre( see one piece capacity for abstract thought, and the use above) are the oldest works of art ever of symbols, tens of thousands of years ago. For Families Magazine. discovered. The art work was found in Blombos Cave in We hope you find this issue South Africa. Scientists have dated the uplifting, engaging and piece to around 77,000-years ago. entertaining. www.forfamilies.uk DANCERS from the Paraiso School of Samba float at the Notting Hill Carnival, London. CONTENTS Image by Clive Chilvers

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#2 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #3 ¢ DYING FOR A BABY Foster Africanand African-Caribbean women are more likely for to diein pregnancy than white women Bromley in the UK

DEATHS DURING pregnancy are on the rise again. Medical Can YOU keep these siblings together? researchers believe that the increase can be accounted for by a hike in obesity rates and increase in the age of 0208 461 7701 Help a Child expectant mothers. Some 225 women died during www.bromley.gov.uk/fostering Smile Again or just after pregnancy between 2014 and 2016. WOMEN who are aged 40 or over have three times the risk of dying during or after pregnancy Image by Andrae Ricketts Heart disease remains the Women who are aged 40 or leading cause of women dying over have three times the risk during pregnancy or up to six of dying during or after weeks after giving birth. pregnancy compared to Can I still breastfeed Could you provide a women in their early 20s and stable home and a Maternal suicide is the fifth although cancer in pregnancy when I go back where children and carers matter sense of belonging for Childhood most common cause of is uncommon, women and to work? women’s deaths during their doctors and midwives a child from a black First pregnancy and its immediate need to be aware that it can or ethnic minority aftermath, but is the leading happen. background? healing cause of death over the first year after pregnancy a recent The report also found that I can help Do you have a spare you answer hurt report found. black women are five times that room? and Asian women two times minds “It is time to start challenging more likely to die as a result of our assumptions when faced complications in pregnancy with women with more than white women. Experts complex health issues. Blood are calling for urgent research iTF clots, particularly venous and action to understand INTEGRATED thromboembolisms, remain these disparities. THERAPEUTIC the biggest cause of death Change lives and create FOSTERING during pregnancy. These clots “We know from the women are particularly a problem who come to our helpline and among the overweight, and those whom we work with that a rewarding career as At Childhood First, integrated Therapeutic Fostering the risks also rise with age, ” there is poor care throughout we provide professional and academic training to the authors of The fifth the maternity service, our foster carers. MBRRACE-UK collaboration’s particularly for those women The support available is of a high standard and annual report Saving Lives, from black and ethnic minority a foster carer in 2017 Improving Mothers’ Care. backgrounds, where we know The Baby Buddy app will answer quality and is not time limited. there is institutional racism in your personal questions about your Call today We offer a best competitive rate of pay to our carer’s The report highlights the risk many wards from obstetricians pregnancy, birth and beyond. as testimony of our appreciation and their of blood clots, particularly and midwives,” says Recommended by significance to the delivery of our service. among women who are Association for Improvements health professionals and parents 020 3397 3332 overweight or obese, and in the Maternity Services Download the award winning FREE app on: [email protected] If you would like to discuss fostering, emphasises the importance of responding to the report’s awareness of symptoms, such findings. Unit 3, Office Village,4 Romford Road please contact: [email protected] as leg or buttock pain and Stratford, London E15 4EA or telephone: 02079287388 and ask for Liz Fleet. breathlessness even in early bestbeginnings.org.uk/baby-buddy pregnancy. Best Beginnings is a Registered Charity No. 1120054

#4 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #5 ALBINO PEOPLE ARE BEING HUNTED FOR WITCHCRAFT RITUALS

East Africa is the global centre forcrimes against people withalbinism .TheUnited Nations is attempting to turn this situation around

PEOPLE LIVING with albinism largest city in Tanzania. But taken from her home in The joint action plan focuses EMMANUEL FESTO RUTEMA is a are being hunted for their body albino people are still being Malawi. on ensuring accountability as 13-year-old albino boy from Tanzania, posing for a portrait with parts. Some people mistakenly attacked on the island. The two-year-old disappeared well as support for victims. believe that if they get hold of Criminals attack PWA then The plan aims to use legal and a soft toy that he says makes him on the night of 3April 2016, feel safe at night albino body parts then they will escape by canoes to from her home in Chiziya policy frameworks to deter automatically become rich. neighbouring islands where village, Kasungu District. practices of witchcraft and REUTERS/Carlo Allegri In 2017, there were 206 they disappear. Whitney’s mum alerted the trafficking in body parts. people living with albinism “People with albinism continue neighbours and they set about Ms. Ero stressed that persons killed in Africa and a further to live in a very fragile searching for the toddler, but with albinism also face 366 people attacked. situation, as the root causes of Whitney was nowhere to be significant barriers restricting The campaigning organisation the attacks against them found. The mother reported their equal participation in Under The Same Sun also remain rampant, and the her missing daughter to the society, impacting their rights found that attacks on albino effects over a decade of police. to enjoy physical and mental people included; rape, violations have taken their On 15 April, baby Whitney’s health and their ability to mutilations, violence, and toll,” says Ms Ikponwosa Ero, skull, teeth and the clothes access adequate health care, attempted abductions. the UN independent expert on she had been wearing were education, social services, the enjoyment of human rights discovered in a nearby village. legal protection, and redress Albinism affects the production by persons with albinism, at for abuses. of melanin, the pigment that The police arrested Whitney’s the end of her 11-day visit to To go a long with the action colours skin, hair and eyes. It's Tanzania. father and another man for her a lifelong condition, but it disappearance and murder. plan, the UN General Ms. Ero, however, praised the Assembly has designated 13 doesn't get worse over time. "My childhood memories are a People with albinism have a government of Tanzania for its June as the International work to tackle the issue. mixed bag of the pain that Albinism Awareness Day to reduced amount of melanin, or society can cause when they no melanin at all. This can Some progress on tackling draw attention to the stigma don't understand a condition, and violence that persons with affect their colouring and their mistaken beliefs that body but also the power a family eyesight. Albinism is caused parts of people with albinism albinism everywhere in the can have when they choose to world face. by faulty genes that a child have value in witchcraft love a child unconditionally," inherits from their parents, practice is being made in says Ms Ero who also lives As long as there’s massive states the NHS website. urban areas but not in rural with albinism. income inequality across East It is believed that one in areas. Body parts can fetch Africa, people with albinism over £7,000 in a region where Albino people are living under will get very little succour from 20,000 people live with constant fear. albinism and the highest annual incomes can be as low the international day of concentration of PWA are as £1500. Even after death, their bodies recognition. And much more living in East Africa. Cases of kidnapping, killing are subjected to grave work needs to be done in rural and dismembering of bodies robberies. Their bones are areas to tackle poverty and People with albinism face stolen and sold for use in superstition or people with entrenched prejudice and often involve the person living with albinism family members. witchcraft. albinism will continue to live in death in Tanzania. Some fear. people have fled to the remote The global human rights United Nations is partnering island of Ukerewe for safety, organisation Amnesty with East African governments which is three hours away International reported the case to tackle the crisis facing from Mwanza, the second of baby Whitney Chilumpha people with albinism.

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#14 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #15 She is wearing a dark blue world outside of fashion. What jumper and a pair of blue I try to do is to find fulfilling jeans. She stands at her fabric things for the family to cutting table with the Sound of participate in no matter how London Radio on in the small,” exerts Erzumah. QUEEN OF background. Bestow Elan which Erzumah We hear a gentle knock on the kindly tells me is a door and she shouts, “come combination of vigour and in”. In enters a mini version of style where Bestow means “to Erzumah in school uniform. give” and Elan means “vigour, They instantly get chatting. It’s style”. a beautiful Apart from one- AFRICAN moment so I wait off small for a natural ❝I’m so excited amounts of break. money invested I thought of a fun to see where the into the label, question, What’s Erzumah has your favourite TV path leads to remained an FASHION programme”? independent next. I got Erzumah ❞ self-funded thinking. She had fashion the answer but business. couldn’t remember the exact Since winning the BEFFTA name of her favourite show award for the best until 12-year-old Nuru pipes womenswear label in 2011, IN THE UK up “Being Mary Jane”. Erzumah has diligently built up Being Mary Jane is a big hit a loyal following of women for BET in the USA staring who are not afraid to experiment with colour or Gabrielle Union. The drama FASHION DESIGNER Erzumah Ackerson Erzumah Ackerson speaks explores how Union’s lead textiles. Ackerson’s unique character Mary Jane Paul silhouettes and style is often juggles her successful cable described as having a exclusively to For Families sculptural quality. You can places. More importantly, I’m Producing outfits for sisters news anchor career with always humbled by the hasn’t put the 49-year-old off starting a family. often see Erzumah wearing her designs around south gratitude I receive from them,” designing. She has been Magazine about building an I can see why Erzumah likes London. says Erzumah. designing bridal dresses for this show as it illustrates the some time now for mainly People say that making I’m not being critical but some eternal battle many women sisters I see walking around black women. face. dresses for African or African- independent fashion brand Caribbean women can be Brixton in outfits that look odd. You make so many beautiful Trying to rest back some of difficult because of their body “The one thing I sometimes wedding dresses for other her attention I ask her a shapes. notice with certain black women. Have you never guilt-laden question. thought about producing your while bringing up a “No not at all. I’m women is they buy into “How do you fashions that aren’t own wedding dress I ask her? manage to run your always blown away when I necessarily for their body “Making wedding dresses is young family fashion label as shapes. The things they do new to the brand. I love how well as having a design a garment for a get right however is not being each client brings out young family”? afraid to experiment with something unique during the Interview by Sundjata fuller woman “I think you have and it colour and print,” replies design process. I AM RUNNING late as usual I pretend to be making notes to consciously accentuates in Erzumah. (continued on page #18) so I phone ahead to inform my but I’m really trying to listen to remind yourself all the right interviewee the award-winning her conversation. I ask that there is a fashion designer Erzumah quizzically, “Was that a male Ackerson that I’m definitely on customer”? my way. “Oh! Yes I make tailored shirts I was hoping to gauge her for men now”, she replies mood but I just get an engaged causally. signal. I finally get to her petite And here I was labouring basement studio at the under the impression that Eurolink Business Centre on BESTOW ELAN focuses Effra Road next door to the big exclusively on, “timeless, Halfords. feminine chic”. ❝I think every woman I compose myself and knock “It just took off by word of on her door and wait. No mouth,” Erzumah explains. thinks about that answer. I knock harder and a I can see why men are flocking voice comes back, “come in”. I special day, immaterial to her door. Erzumah is tall enter. Interviewing people with big hair and even bigger never gets any easier. of whether they dazzling smile. She’s got that Erzumah flashes me a smile jet black beauty thing going while she carries on chatting intend to get married on like the supermodel Alek on the phone. I move some Wek but without the attitude. fabrics to one side and I sit on or not. ❞ a blue two-piece sofa and wait If a woman can be charming HIGH END designs for my second audience with then Erzumah is charming and are worth paying for the queen of African fashion in elegant. She radiates an inner the UK. stillness that attracts people to her. CROPTOP from BESTOW ELAN

#16 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #17 MENSWEAR is now big business ❝Erzumah has diligently built up a loyal following of women who are not afraid to experiment with colour or textiles. ❞

(Continued from page #17) “I think every woman thinks Boohoo, Missguided and Asos about that special day, ramped up the product range immaterial of whether they and at the same time they intend to get married or not. I pushed down the price to shift will definitely design my dress their fast fashion lines. The big if I choose to get married one online fashion stores have day,” says Erzumah. been a blessing for shoppers Seven years ago Erzumah but bad news for the high attracted international street and independent attention when she was fashion designers. selected to represent the Erzumah is now working on a Ghanaian diaspora at the new strategy to cope with the glamorous Arise Magazine big boys. She is planning to fashion show. Mum of one return to selling mainly off line was competing for the first and focusing more on time with 50 of the world’s menswear, bridalwear and of best African designers in 2011. course on womenswear. In “There was a selection other words Erzumah is process so I was so happy to returning to her high end be selected,” she says fashion roots. humbly. “Having sold my products on Erzumah has won celebrity an online platform for last 7 approval from the likes of years, I have decided to take Thandie Newton but she the brand offline and align it would love to dress Tracy Ellis with what I think is the correct Ross. market for my designs. “I would love to dress Tracy “It was nigh impossible to Ellis Ross, simply because create fast fashion without the she’s so fly and is shaped like infrastructure to compete with a real woman,” replies the big brands. I would need a Erzumah. large amount of investment to do so properly. I’m so excited As a little girl Erzumah always to see where the path leads to wanted to be a fashion next - new beginnings are not designer and got inspired by to be feared, but embraced, ” glossy women’s magazines. Erzumah says firmly. “My older sister always bought Many independent designers Ebony magazine and would have put away their Essence,” recalls Erzumah. sewing machines by now Afew years ago many but not the queen of African independent fashion designers fashion in the UK. Erzumah is launched online boutiques and reorganising to return as a placed their garments with high end fashion label and you other small online retailers. can be sure that she will make Erzumah took the plunge too. a success of her new venture. Things were going well for a while for many independent designers then one day the big guns arrived on the scene.

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#18 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #19 UR HILDREN O C Monthly

We are looking for volunteers to spare a couple of hours to help young families and give emotional, practical and non-judgemental support GETTING MEN PREGNANT We look at what men need to do to start a family ADOPTING A BABY Fostering to adopt in an www.croydon-homestart.co.uk alternative way of becoming a parent Image by Andre Adjahoe

www.forfamilies.uk #21 first visits the family at their crucially they don’t offer because what we do is real ❝Our volunteers home to talk through the type medical advice. and life changing,” says Jean of free support on offer. Once a volunteer at Home-Start Volunteers really find this way are usually parents the family agrees that they Westminster. of working very rewarding and PARENTING POWER would like support from who choose to many volunteers stay for Home-Start’s local approach the scheme then a volunteer is years. seems to be paying off; matched to the family. support other according to the “We ask for a minimum of 12 Home-Start volunteers usually charity’s survey it found A national parents, months commitment as this ❞ have some experience of around 95% of families felt says Derek Terrell allows a family to parenting. their children’s emotional and build a relationship with a physical health and well-being “Our volunteers are usually volunteer. Some of our charity seeks had improved as a result of “We developed Bump-Start parents who choose to volunteers stay on with its work. where we have specially support other parents; us for a number of years, 2 or to harness trained volunteers we want to be there, we’re not 3 or even 8,” delights Margaret Harrison launched supporting families through part of “the establishment”. Thienhuong Nguyen. Home-Start back in 1973 in that vital time during Our volunteers don’t have a Leicester to help equip Local schemes usually ask pregnancy and their baby’s caseload of families to families to learn to cope with volunteers to commit just 2 the wisdom first year,” says Thienhuong support, they usually only the many difficulties of life. hours each week supporting Nguyen manager of Home- support one family at a time,” one family and they reimburse Cuts to children’s services is a Start Westminster. explains Derek Terrell. of other any travel costs. massive issue struggling Bump-Start volunteers are Volunteers offer advice and families are coping with but at Building up a close there to complement the work support in a non-judgmental least these families have the relationship between the of health professionals such way and can help with breast- chance of receiving free parents inan volunteer and the family as midwives, health visitors feeding support, support from their local helps to makes the difference. and perinatal mental health accompanying the family to courageous Home-Start team. professionals. the GP or the “I see the difference Home- aim to cafe. Really anything that Start makes and five years on, Before a volunteer gets helps the family’s health and I am still really proud to be a involved with a family, the wellbeing but small part of the team transformthe local Home-Start team

#BOOST which stands for Building Our Opportunities and lives of local Successes Together is Home-Start Croydon’s community families

VOLUNTEERS offer advice and support in a non-judgmental way Image by Frank McKenna, Unsplash

GOVERNMENT cuts in being called upon to pick up no one Home-Start scheme better places to live,” says children’s services are causing some of the slack. offers the exact same range of scheme operations manager more vulnerable families to be services. Each charity Derek Terrell. With an army of 16,000 well- referred to local charities for tailors its services to meet the trained and highly motivated The Croydon team also runs a help. needs of its local community. volunteers working at 260 young mum’s group called According to Local Home-Start’s schemes they In addition to their traditional #BOOST which stands for Government Association are able to support 30,000 home visiting based support, Building Our Opportunities children’s services are facing families and 60,000 the Home-Start Croydon team and Successes Together. It’s a £2 billion funding gap by children across the UK. runs a number of community the first of its kind in the 2020, despite the growing based projects allowing borough, and it aims to Volunteers form the backbone demand from families. them to regularly meet local support young women with of Home-Start’s work and with residents. coming to terms with Pioneering charities like a greater call on its services motherhood and dealing with Home-Start are increasingly there’s an even bigger “Our Community Builders and the effects of isolation that it demand for new volunteers to Parent Champions meet with can cause. ❝Iseethe get involved locally. members of the public every day of the week, talking to The Westminster team has Each local Home-Start charity them about the services we developed an initiative to help difference Home- is independent from the main provide and encouraging them women before they even give national charity. What’s Start makes..., ❞ to seek help or to get involved birth with mental health exciting about this says Westminster with providing that help and support along with practical organisational approach is that

Home-Start volunteer Jean making their communities support. Image by Tregg Mathis, Unsplash #22 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #23 FOSTERING BEFORE YOU ADOPT COULD BE THE WAY FORWARD

People must beaware of the roller coaster ride Fostering for Adoption has been In 2012, Mrs Justice Hogg in the identified as an appropriate plan. family division of the High Court These children are highly unlikely ruled that little Ellie must be involved with taking part in this new scheme to live with their birth families so returned to her mother and father we urgently need suitable families Ben Butler even though her who can offer them permanency. grandparents had been looking “There would be very definite after her due previous episodes of BABIES FOSTERING TO adopt isn’t experience of bringing up your informed about potential looked advantages to placing these Ben shaking ARE MORE without its own risks but for some child from a tiny age, it’s definitely after care children going before ❝The court process babies early on. It Ellie as a baby. likely to be would-be adopters these early a risk worth taking,” says a the courts. A tiny child could be would avoid any The local permanence schemes can be a contributor writing on placed with them at short notice. involved in seemed slow and issues caused by authorities local blessing for new parents hoping to mumsnet.com. It’s essential for would-be terminating ❝I think both protested and the authorities’ accelerate their chance of Once foster-to- adopt carers have adopters to get as much was not without its temporary foster grandparents also receiving their potential adoptive been approved to take part in the information about the child care placements FTA and protested to judge Foster-to- Adopt child. We investigate the key scheme, their social worker will they are going to be fostering. ups and downs, and would allow but to no avail. scheme to avoid issues. keep them Their social worker can only tell the early months adoption come Ellie was returned long term Government thinking about how them so much about the child and court dates being and years of their to her parents and damage to children should be treated in local his/her birth parents and family as lives to be what with some risk, in within a few short vulnerable most children need weeks Ellie’s father authority care has evolved over other information is likely to be put back. children the past decade. Foster to restricted by the court. ❞ and expect. In one way or battered her to turn, prospective death. Image by Adopt is one of the While the court decide on Kiana Bosman government’s newest second child, Jude, as a baby via adopters can whether or not to return the fostering for adoption scheme another. ❞ Maybe for the sake initiatives to speed up the the looked-after child establish bonds of children, society decision making process through Derbyshire County and provide a to its parents, the Council. has to act with determining the future child is cared for by loving family at the caution and in so doing place of vulnerable children the adopters under “Instead of Jude going into a earliest possible stage.” greater importance on protecting in public care. the scheme. foster home after he was born he These babies that come to the children. Under the Foster to came straight to us. We were paid attention of local authorities are This can be an allowance to foster him. Babies are extremely Adopt scheme difficult for the often coming from chaotic homes. vulnerable and would-be adopters are would-be adopters For the first four months of These babies’ parents are the required to seek to cope with as fostering Jude, he had contact struggling with drugs and alcohol government is clearance to adopt and they are trying with his birth parents three times a issues. The authorities go the determined to foster. Once they have to establish a week. During that time he was extra mile to explore with these give looked been approved they bond with the unsettled because it was difficult babies’ extended birth families if after children can then join the child even to establish a routine. It was a there’s any possibility for them to the best scheme. though the stressful time. Sometimes the take the children. possible start so There are clear risks child can be parents did not turn up for contact If all else fails then the court make the scheme for people who going returned to and poor Jude had to travel for the order for these vulnerable Foster-to- down FtA route. And the parents. nothing, which made us angry,” children to be adopted. The Adopt some critics of the Also the says Richard. process can take weeks and even looks like scheme believe that parents have Professionals in the sector claim months, and all the while the it’s here to the government is the right to that there’s a higher chance that potential adoptive parents are stay. playing on the emotions see the child courts are more likely place growing close of people wanting to during the babies up for adoption than return and close to the child that they become parents. If would- court them to their birth parents. might have to give up. be adopters find themselves proceedings. Sarah Callaghan, Kirklees “Normally adopters do not get to in this situation they need to Richard and Council’s Director of Children’s know all this and we felt that we have their eyes wide open. Nicola Services, said: “Fostering for got to know a lot about birth “I think both FtA and adopted Adoption is a national scheme and parents during that time which we adoption come with their since it was introduced, Kirklees hope will help in the future when some risk, in one Council has successfully placed we tell Jude his adoption story. way or another. 13 children with loving families At last, when Jude was 10 months But if it’s who are now reaping the old, the court made a placement important to benefits of being placed order. We went to panel and you and you with their adoptive became Jude’s adopters. Ten want the parents at the earliest weeks later we applied to the opportunity. We court to adopt him and finally, just currently have after his first birthday, the adoption seven babies order was made,” says Richard. coming into our care for whom The debate around where parent’s rights to be parents and the rights of the child to grow up in a warm and caring home if not perfect is alive. People believe that parents do have a right to be experience parenthood and do have rights over their children but the tragic case of six-year-old Ellie Butler seems to support the state’s hard line approach. Image by Chris Benson

#24 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #25 GETTING MEN PREGNANT When a couple starts thinking about having a baby the spotlight usually falls rightly or wrongly on the woman’s role but we investigate the man’s role increating a child

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#30 www.forfamilies.uk www.forfamilies.uk #31 7 KEY THINGS TO ASSESS YOUR A-LEVEL PROVIDER ON

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Schedule Location amount of study space there student union for the list of is. Check out the bookshelves student clubs and activities. To get three good A-level The length of time spent to see if they are fully stocked. Also see if the A-level provider grades scheduling is travelling to and from college Also see if there are enough has good sports and leisure important. At sixth form can be crucial to exam librarians working in the facilities. colleges this will be much success. Students need to space. Obviously there’s got easier but at further education factor in the time spent to be good broadband and University colleges many courses are travelling, sleeping, doing online services. Also a key Destinations oversubscribed. You might homework and relaxing. The thing to find out is if the library This is a key question for most have some courses clashing closer the students are to is open through holidays, in parents, carers and students during the college daytime college the less wear and tear the evenings and on is where previous A-level schedule. Check that you can they will have to suffer. weekends. students have ended up in do all your A-level courses at terms of university one college before signing up. Facilities Extra-curricular destinations. Most colleges have new Activities modern building and canteen All work, and no play makes facilities but what about their Jill a dull girl. If young people library resources? On college are looking to do activities that open days people should fall outside the realm of their check out the library to see if it normal curriculum then get in All gay and bisexual men should test for HIV at least once a year. Sexually active gay and bisexual is well-resourced. Student touch with the college’s men should consider getting tested more often, for example, every 3 to 6 months. Early diagnosis of should pay attention to the HIV enables better treatment for youand reduces the risk of transmitting the infection to others. www.forfamilies.uk #33 Support RUSSELL GROUP TOP A-LEVEL* Cuts in education and further education colleges over the past 10 years have been Biology painful. If you are a student that needs a lot of additional SIX support then you need to English literature contact your A-level provider well in advance as the support you need might be limited. History SOLID Preferred A-Level Modern and classical languages Subjects The Russell Group universities Chemistry use to encourage students to REASONS study at least two facilitating A- level subjects if they want to Geography do a degree course with one of their members but things have changed. Students are Physics TO DO AN encouraged to contact their prospective university. Maths Further Maths APPRENTICESHIP

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SOME JOB categories will be relatively immune from robots and artificial intelligence Image by Chris Benson Hardly a monthgoes by without an alarmist report claiming a massive loss of jobsdue to roboticsand AI. blakewells Homecare Workers Needed Expert Creative industries can save the day Immigration SOME JOB categories will be transition to new occupational Lawyers relatively immune from robots categories and learn new skills, For You and artificial intelligence and in the event of rapid automation others will be enhanced by the adoption. If their transition to We aim to meet new technology. Jobs in the new jobs is slow, unemployment all your legal needs creative industries are set to could rise and dampen wage flourish during the transition. growth. Family Personal Residential McKinsey Global Institute’s Jobs “The evidence suggests that, at Law Injury Property Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce least for the foreseeable future, Law Transitions in a Time of the impact on employment is Are you a caring person? Automation reports that the what should worry us,” says workforce transitions ahead will Martin Ford author of Rise of the be enormous. We estimate that Robots: Technology and the Earn up to £11.50 per hour suppor�ng vulnerable people in Wills Landlord Civil as many as 375 million workers Threat of a Jobless Future their own homes in the Su�on and Richmond areas. & Tenant Litigation globally (14 percent of the global speaking on CNN. Full-�me, part-�me, evening and weekend work available. workforce) will likely need to

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www.forfamilies.uk #39 Jobs in the creative industries are relatively more resilient to automation and artificial intelligence especially those jobs that involve workers’ higher levels of creativity and imagination. Creative industries are driving economic growth across the UK, and are on track to create one million new creative industries jobs between by 2030 according to the research group Nesta. African and African-Caribbean parents and grandparents need to take a fresh approach to the creative industries and help their children and grandchildren achieve their creative goals as the future will be all about creativity. Creative Industries Sectors Advertising and marketing Architecture Crafts Product design, graphic design and fashion design

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Mudchute Park & Farm sessions you will get chance Mudchute Park and Farm is to meet and learn about some located in the middle of the of their favourite farm yard Isle of Dogs. Care for the friends as well as some of the environment is at the heart of slightly more exotic residents Mudchute’s work. They have a now calling the urban farm wonderful 32 acre site which is home. If you ever wanted to open to the public and offers get close to a cuddly chick or fantastic views across London. meet a loveable lamb this is And where else do you get the place to be. chance to share your lunch The Hounslow Urban Farm with friendly furry and Faggs Road, Feltham feathered friends. Middlesex, TW14 0LZ hounslowurbanfarm.co.uk Mudchute Park & Farm Pier Street, Isle of Dogs London E14 3HP Vauxhall City Farm mudchute.org Vauxhall City Farm is the most centrally located farm in Hackney City Farm London. It is free to access For over 20 years, Hackney and open Tuesday-Sunday. MANY URBAN FARMS run workshops for children to take part in City Farm has been giving the Since 1977, the farm has local community the strived to provide for its local JJC Compu-Techies opportunity to experience community and going from farming right in the heart of the strength to strength. The farm Online suppor t city. The Farm offers children also provides educational, 020 8654 6541 and adults the opportunity to recreational and therapeutic get up close to a range of activities. PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE! farmyard animals; see, smell Vauxhall City Farm Grab your and plant vegetables and 165 Tyers St, Lambeth FREE other food plants. London SE11 5HS Hackney City Farm vauxhallcityfarm.org ONLINE SAFETY CHECK REPORT 1a Goldsmiths Row London E2 8QA Spitalfields City Farm •How safe is your computer? •Create your disaster plan hackneycityfarm.co.uk The farm offers many •What is your backup plan? •Work confidently online •How would you recover after a crisis? •Identify your weak spots opportunities to engage with. •How well are you protected? •Understand your online protection Deen City Farm Daily volunteering is possible •What is the real cost of poor protection? •For users who value their data Deen City Farm is an urban if you want to get involved farm with an educational focus working with animals and in the heart of the London helping out in the gardens. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE REPORT NOW! borough of Merton. The farm Spitalfields City Farm, JJC1.COM teaches the local community Buxton Street, about the rural environment London E1 5AR, and where their food comes United Kingdom from. The farm plays host to a spitalfieldscityfarm.org WIFREIGHT.com huge range of activities and shipping to the Caribbean & beyond events; providing educational Surrey Docks Farm visits to schools, riding Surrey Docks Farm is a lessons for people of all levels, working community farm in holiday schemes working in Rotherhithe that aims to £5 the farm yard and much more. OFF educate local people about YO URFI Deen City Farm where their food comes from SHIPM RST* 39 Windsor Avenue and promotes getting active ENT Merton Abbey outdoors. LONDON SW19 2RR They sell eggs, meat, fruit and deencityfarm.co.uk vegetables through our farm Hounslow Urban Farm shop. Surrey Docks Farm You can get a feel for the Rotherhithe Street farm’s passion for animals London, SE16 5ET 020 7511 3353 [email protected] *FORALIMITED TIME ONLY. TERMS& CONDITIONS APPLY through its Animal En- counter surreydocksfarm.org.uk sessions. During their

www.forfamilies.uk #57 ON MOST FARMS you can find sheep, donkeys, ponies, goats, rabbits and hens and much more Image by Jarren Simmons LONDON’S OPEN SPACES

Kentish Town City Farm Lee Valley Park Farms Newham City Farm The farm is situated on a four- Lee Valley Park Farms set in The farm opened in 1977 and as rabbits and guinea pigs and acre site, alongside two leafy Essex is a great day out! is home to a large collection of exotics, such as reptiles. railway lines in Camden. It has Kids will get to explore the farmyard favourites such as Avisit to the farm is a great sheep, goats, ducks, chickens, great outdoors and meet cows, horses and sheep - way to introduce children to geese, three horses, two farmyard friends along with alongside some less familiar new experiences, which aide donkeys, a pig and a cow. more exotic animals like our animals such as alpacas, birds in building confidence and There are animal pasture mischievous Meerkats. Let of prey and turkeys. There are physical skills. areas, community gardens their imagination (and their also many smaller animals Capel Manor College and a wildlife pond, plus a legs) run wild in our indoor such as rabbits, guinea pigs Crystal Palace Park Farm riding arena. and outdoor adventure play and ferrets. Ledrington Road SE19 2BS Kentish Town City Farm zones. The farm is all about providing capel.ac.uk 1 Cressfield Close, Lee Valley Park Farms the local community with off Grafton Road, Stubbins Hall Lane access to animals in a If you want to get away from the polluted streets of London NW5 4BN Waltham Abbey EN9 2EF countryside oasis that Belmont Children's Farm ktcityfarm.org.uk lvfarms.co.uk provides a unique learning Come along at 10am every experience. It is suitable for all morning and meet the farm then check out ourpick of spaces to visitthis autumn Stepney City Farm ages but especially young lovely herd of jersey cows and Residents in London’s East Freightliners City Farm children. their calves. During this End got together in 1979 to The farm’s gardens grow food Newham City Farm session the keeper will explain Epping Forest to interest every family This tranquil former deer park A much-loved rural idyll, the set up a community farm on a for the Strawbale café and to Main entrance to you a little about the dairy This forest is of national and member. And it’s easily is one of the few remaining park lies in a built-up area, derelict site bombed in World demonstrate food-growing Stansfeld Road industry and talk to you about international conservation accessible from London. estates that used to line the and some of the surviving War II, originally called techniques in an urban space. Beckton E6 5LT the lives of the cows at importance and home to over redbridge.gov.uk River Wandle during its estate buildings are used as Stepping Stones Farm. Belmont Farm. It's an amazing industrial heyday. workshops by local Visitors are encouraged to newham.gov.uk 50,000 ancient pollard trees time to learn a little more craftspeople and artisans. This year the farm will be explore the gardens, pick up and 100 lakes and ponds. The Morden Hall Park The river meanders through about cows, and where you expanding as an acre of land tips on food growing and find Crystal Palace Park Farm forest is made up of Apark at the heart of the the park creating a haven for nationaltrust.org.uk/morden- milk comes from, and if you hall-park used for Crossrail work will be out about seasonal produce. The farm has meet and greet community Morden Hall Park wlidlife. The snuff mills, which are lucky you may even get a more than 50 distinct areas of returned to the Farm. The Their potager garden models sessions, where the children is a green oasis in the city, generated the park’s income slobbery kiss from a cow. woodland, grassland and farm is open six days a week food growing alongside shrubs can meet, look at and touch other habitats which together giving you a taste of a country in the past, survives to this and is free to enter. and flowers, to create an some of the animals, including The Ridgeway span 2,400 hectares from estate with a glimpse of its day. Stepney City Farm ornamental kitchen garden. the usual farm animals, such NW7 1Q Manor Park all the way out to agricultural and industrial Stepney Way Heritage fruit trees line the as goats, chickens, Shetland belmontfarm.co.uk beyond Epping. history. London E1 3DG ponies and pigs, rodents, such walk to the paddocks. Epping Forest recommends stepneycityfarm.org Sheringham Road starting your visit at one of N7 8PF their visitor centres where they Brooks Farm freightlinersfarm.org.uk can help you start your day Brooks Farm is part of Capel out with maps, travel Manor College, is one of information, nearby car parks, London’s key places to study walking routes and ideas for land based courses. things to do while you’re there. Brooks Farm is situated in The forest is free to visit. Skeltons Lane Park and has visiteppingforest.org been a feature of community life in Leyton for over 20 Hainault Forest years. Along with a range of Country Park animals including sheep, Once a hunting forest donkeys, ponies, goats, providing venison for the rabbits and hens we offer a King’s table, this beautiful range of farm based learning ancient woodland is home to a activities for the wider wealth of wildlife and plant community. species. Adjoining Hainault Skeltons Lane Park Forest Country Park, with its Leyton E10 5BS lake, petting zoo and café, it’s brooksfarm.uk a destination with something

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