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Gateway Family Services is recruiting…

September 23, 2020
by Alun Severn
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It’s good to see positive news at the present time — Gateway Family Services CIC is recruiting to the following positions: Link Worker Vacancy – Birmingham: Social Prescribing Link Worker A rewarding opportunity for a Social Prescribing Link Worker to focus on ‘what m
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Gateway Family Services…how to bring together evidence, personal stories, outcomes and value

May 03, 2013
by Alun Severn
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There’s an interesting post over on the Gateway Family Services blog…. We wanted to share some of the work we have been doing with some really interesting partners. We are hoping this is the start of a really exciting collaboration led by Birmingham.. We have presented our
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Gateway Family Services – new volunteering programme responds to need for work experience

October 05, 2012
by Alun Severn
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This just in from Vicki Fitzgerald, chief exec at Gateway Family Services… Here is our latest Friday story – Our volunteering programme has really taken off and we are delighted with the initial outcomes.   We too were cautious about volunteers taking away paid roles and being s
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Why investing in the needs of pregnant women needs to be the focus of family policy

September 14, 2012
by Alun Severn
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There’s an interesting post over on the Gateway Family Services blog by Vicki Fitzgerald, Gateway’s chief exec. Vicki argues that their experience in providing pregnancy outreach services reveals numerous gaps in services and that these service failures contribute to exclu
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A new voice on the blog scene

January 31, 2012
by Alun Severn
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I love the 60s retro-chic of the Chamber of Commerce — mainly because I have a soft spot for its architect, the gloriously named John Hardcastle Dalton Madin, who died earlier this month. Anyway, that’s really neither here nor there… I was at the Chamber to have brea
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Gateway Family Services CIC celebrates fifth birthday

February 10, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham-based social enterprise and Community Interest Company, Gateway Family Services CIC is celebrating its 5th birthday today and would like to say a big thank you to all of its service users, clients and commissioners for all of their hard work and support over those years. Si
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