Resident in Gosport or Havant? 

Join us for a free four-week skills, health and wellbeing programme

Your Future, Your Health are providing a skills, health and wellbeing programme in partnership with Hampshire Achieves Adult Skills team particularly for residents of Gosport and Leigh Park, Havant.

Designed for adults aged 19+, these sessions aim to provide you with new knowledge and skills to help grow confidence, discover local opportunities and improve your health and wellbeing. Whether you are looking for job advice, local volunteering opportunities, to meet new people or would like to develop life skills such as managing and budgeting money, these sessions will give you practical tips and information on where to go and what to do to support your choices.

Topics covered in these sessions include:

• Life skills, money and budgeting
• Food and eating well
• Walking for fun and planning routes
• Movement for health and wellbeing

Registering with the programme will sign you up for all four sessions, one a week over four weeks. They are being held in local venues. 

If you are interested in taking part in one of the programmes in either Gosport or Havant, you can check available dates and register your interest by clicking below.

Sign up for the programme

Skills, Health and Wellbeing Programme | Health and social care | Hampshire County Council

Child Poverty Strategy

Parents will be supported to have important conversations with children about the challenges facing families in poverty, as the government publishes a child-friendly version of its landmark Child Poverty Strategy.

The new tool has been designed to give children a clear, reassuring and age-appropriate explanation of what poverty means, why some families struggle, and the concrete steps the government is taking to help.

With around 10 children in a typical classroom of 30 growing up in poverty, the child friendly strategy will give children the language to make sense of their own experience and help reduce stigma by enabling them to better understand the experience of their peers.

It is intended to support parents and teachers who want to prompt those sometimes difficult conversations and encourage any child who feels worried to speak to a trusted adult.

Deepfake & AI Scam Factsheet

Technology continues to develop at speed and there are many examples of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to assist us in our work, home, and in education.  However, even if you’re not on social media, even if you never go on the internet – these evolving technologies can still be used, by criminals, to defraud you. 

Friends Against Scams (National Trading Standards) and the Deep Truth Project have put together a factsheet to help us understand how deepfake and AI are being used in fraud / scams, and more importantly, how we can all protect ourselves from fraud.

How to get help

If you wish to report a fraud that has already happened, please report it to Report Fraud either by phone 0300 123 2040 or online at: https://www.reportfraud.police.uk/ 

If a fraud or other crime is in progress, and / or you are in fear for yourself or someone else, and / or there is evidence in situ that could be damaged / destroyed, please phone 999 immediately. 

You can report non-fraud crime online at: https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/

If you would like to report a crime anonymously, please contact: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ or phone 0800 555 111

If you’ve received a phishing email please report it to your email provider and / or forward it to report@phishing.gov.uk