We have begun our new financial year at LEYF with tightening of budgets, forecasts for cuts and a likely diminution of the services we offer to children in need. We are being asked to target the services, but how do you target if children are not able to attend universal sessions where well-trained early years professionals can identify children and their families presenting a problem, which could then require targeted help and support?
We are trying to be inventive with our use of funds to ensure that we can continue our work in a multi-generational centre. However, if, as the communities LEYF is based in find, you are also trying to hold down a job, make ends meet in your own house and look after your own family, it can all start to sound a bit 'pie in the sky'.
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