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Bulletin Contents - 12 January 2009Derbyshire Voice Community Development Worker Guide to Discipline and Grievance Draft Code of Practice Employment Law Summary for 2009 (and 2008) Sharing the Use of Under-Used Staff Sector Responses to Government's Action Plan Interim Leaders for Sector Skills Body Criminal Records Checks Supported No National Guidelines on Funding 'Single Identity' Groups Funding Sport in the Community Volunteer Fund to Link the Generations Developing a Supported Volunteering Toolkit | ||
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Derbyshire Voice Community Development WorkerDerbyshire Voice provides opportunities for people who have received mental health services to work alongside the commissioners and providers of those services at strategic level with the intent of influencing future developments in service provision. Community Development Worker – Delivering Race Equality (37.5 hrs weekly) Derbyshire Voice are seeking a new worker to join their current team and work with them to contribute towards the implementation of the Delivering Race Equality Action Plan in Mental Health. The post holder will specialise in involving service users from BME communities and will support them to develop and promote their skills, knowledge and expertise. They will work in partnership with black and minority ethnic communities, mental health service providers and service users to address inequalities and shape culturally appropriate services. The successful candidate will have at least two years experience of working with local black and minority ethnic communities and a commitment to improving mental health services as well knowledge and expertise of community development and training skills. As travel throughout the county is required, access to personal transport is essential for this post. To request an application pack please telephone Rachael on 01773 744537 or email Derbyshirevoice@aol.com Derbyshire Voice, 1 Park Road, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 3EF |
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College of the Peak CoursesCollege of the Peak has just launched its new programme of courses for Spring 2009 – and there’s something for everyone. If you like working outdoors and want to learn a new skill why not try hedge laying, woodland management or dry stone walling. If you prefer working indoors – why not have a go at willow basket making? All the tutors are recognised experts in their field and will offer you help and advice every step of the way. There are two types of hedge laying course. The weekend taster course (£72), which runs on February 14 and 15 and March 14 and 15, will give you a brief introduction to this ancient rural craft. If you want to take up hedge laying professionally there is the week long course which runs from February 23 to 27, cost £180. This course leads to a OCN Level 2 qualification, to date College of the Peak has a 100% pass rate. On Mally Gower’s basket making courses introduce you to the basics of basket making. One the one-day course (February 7, £36) you will make a small bread basket in willow, while on the two day course (March 7-8, £72) participants will make a shopping basket. Tony Allen’s Woodland Management course (March 6-8, £108) covers coppicing, felling small trees, charcoal burning, willow hurdle making and pole lathing. You will have the opportunity to use the wood you fell to make an object to take home with you. There are also still places available on the College’s popular professional dry stone walling courses. College of the Peak also offers a range of one and two-day courses in stone masonry, lime renders and mortars, traditional roofing, timber frame building, as well as DIY and straw bale building. For full details of all these courses call Vanessa Swetman or Caitlin Bisknell on: 01629 815749; email: collegeofthepeak@btconnect.com or visit their website at: www.collegeofthepeak.org.uk. |
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Regional Structures GuideOne East Midlands' has compiled a guide on some of the regional structures and organisations that work with the VCS and the third sector in the East Midlands. The guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list but a useful tool to build a picture of the regional structures working with voluntary and community organisations and the wider third sector in the East Midlands. To download a copy visit - www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/news.php. |
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Guide to Discipline and Grievance Draft Code of PracticeEmployment advisory body Acas has published a draft guide to go alongside their draft Discipline and Grievance Code of Practice, which is due to come into effect on 6 April 2009. This will replace the statutory code currently in force. The guide "provides more detailed advice and guidance that employers and employees will often find helpful both in general terms and in individual cases". |
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Employment Law Summary for 2009 (and 2008)Personnel professionals' body CIPD has updated its factsheet on current employment law developments to summarise the main changes in 2008 and a look ahead at those expected in 2009. www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/emplaw/general/legaldevs.htm |
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Sharing the Use of Under-Used StaffWork Wise UK, an organisation promoting smarter working practices, has created online facility StaffShare to allow businesses to offer the services of employees who are underused or in a redeployment pool for short or medium-term secondments with charities (but will be opened up to commercial secondments after the pilot stage). It is "a fully automated interactive system, which allows organisations to sell and buy the time of skilled professionals" – there are some commission or registration fees. See Charity News Alert at www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2446 or go direct to www.staffshare.co.uk/home/index.html |
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Sector Responses to Government's Action PlanUmbrella body NCVO has published its response to the Office of the Third Sector proposals for an Action Plan to support the voluntary and community sector during the economic downturn. |
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Interim Leaders for Sector Skills BodyThe new Third Sector Skills Body which is being created to lead the drive to improve the skills of volunteers and paid workers has acquired an interim Chair, Dame Mary Marsh, and a Project Director, Janet Fleming. Both take up their roles in early January for a period of around six months until the independent body is operational. |
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Criminal Records Checks SupportedResearch published on 7 January found strong support for the checks carried out by the Criminal Records Bureau on those working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults. And nine out of ten respondents agreed that they personally would be willing to be CRB checked. CRB news item at www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=5215 has link to the research report. |
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No National Guidelines on Funding 'Single Identity' GroupsRegen Daily Bulletin reports that the Government has given up on its attempt to produce national guidelines on when it is appropriate to fund groups with a single ethnic, religious or cultural identity, www.regen.net/bulletins/Regen-Daily-Bulletin/News/871652/ Sector support umbrella NAVCA has welcomed the change, |
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Funding Sport in the CommunitySport England has published its new funding strategy, with four open-access funding streams to deliver sport in the community. These will be open from April 2009 to sports clubs, voluntary and community organisations, local authorities and education establishments. News item, or download the strategy document 'Funding sport in the community' (pdf, 455KB) at www.sportengland.org/sport_england_funding_strategy_20090106.pdf |
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Volunteer Fund to Link the GenerationsA new Intergenerational Volunteering Fund, to recruit 20,000 volunteers across Britain who will link together the generations, has one and a half million pounds available in 2009/10 and 2010/11. Announced by the Government towards the end of December, details of how the fund will operate are due in the new year. See Cabinet Office news release. |
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Developing a Supported Volunteering ToolkitA Supported Volunteering Toolkit Project has an online home at Chances4Volunteering, www.chances4volunteering.org This is an embryonic attempt to develop a useful toolkit while fostering a self-supporting community of people with experience and/or interest in furthering supported volunteering in the UK. Their working definition of supported volunteering is "an organised effort to overcome the barriers to volunteering faced by a group of individuals with common support needs". |
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NCVO Annual Conference 2009
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Capacitybuilders Launch Evaluation of ImpactCapacitybuilders has commissioned a partnership to undertake the single largest evaluation to date of the impact of the government’s investment in third sector support services. The independent evaluation will assess what has happened to support services during the central government’s investment in them - starting with a look back at achievements from the first two phases of investment; April 2004 to March 2008. A summary report will be published by the Third Sector Research Centre in spring 2009 and will provide interim findings about the progress made during the first two phases of investment. For more information visit Capacitybuilders' Website. |
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The Future of Regional Development AgenciesThis report sets out options for a radical re-structuring of England's Regional Development Agencies after the next General Election. It proposes:
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