| Derby CVS Community Conference |
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We will be holding a Community Conference on 13 November, which will also include our AGM.
This is a daytime event, between 10.00 am and 3.00 pm, which we've packed with useful seminars and forums.
We will then conduct the important business of our AGM. We will be in contact soon about nominating someone from your organisation to the CVS Management Board of Trustees. It is vital that as many CVS Members attend as possible. This is a real opportunity to feed back what support you need and how we can support you better.
There will then be a tasty lunch, then the following Forums will start:
- Volunteer Co-ordinators.
- Self Help.
- Health and Social Care.
- Leadership.
- Management.
We are holding the conference at the Riverside Centre in Pride Park and look forward to seeing you there. More information will be sent to you in the next couple of weeks. |
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| Derby Compact Annual Review |
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Wednesday 5 November 2.00 to 4.00 pm in the Mayor's Reception Room, The Council House
You are invited to the Annual Review event for the Derby Compact to celebrate another successful year of partnership working.
Find out about the challenges and successes of the past year and share your views on the national debate, the new Agreement and the priorities and action plan for next year.
Contact Sam or Julia by 4 November. 01332 255669
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Dear Member
Welcome to issue 11. Do you know other people who would be interested in this e-newsletter? If so, why not forward this to their email address? It's a simple process - just click on the Forward email link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions.
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Get involved in your health and care!
If you have something to say about health and care in Derby, why not join us at the Darwin Suite, Derby Assembly Rooms, and find out how?
Derby LINk is here to ask you what you think of local health and social care services. We can look into issues and request information from the people who run and plan these, with a view to improving services for all.
Join us on Wednesday 8 October between 11.00 am and 2.00 pm to find out how you can get involved. You could become a member, have a free healthy lunch and find out more about health and care in the city. There will be nearly thirty stands, where you can find out more about your hospitals, healthy eating and how voluntary and community groups are involved in health and social care.
Contact 01332 346266 Email us! Or, visit our website: www.derbylink.org.uk |
Need help with computers?
Get help from the University of Derby
Every year, at the beginning of the new academic year, the faculty of computing looks for computing and IT projects which students can undertake as part of their degree assessment. Projects can include:
Website design
PC database creation
E-commerce (setting up internet based shops)
Interactive CDs
If your organisation requires any of the above or similar projects doing please get in touch with the lecturer Dennis Parkes via email or 01332 591155 |
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Safeguarding Disabled Children
Tuesday 18 November 2008. 8 places available.
For practitioners who are in contact or work with children and young people and/or with their parents and carers
This is a Foundation/Level 1 course.
Safeguarding Children: Core Groups and Protection Planning
Tuesday 21 October 2008. 13 places available.
For practitioners who participate in Child Protection Conferences or Core Groups and work in partnership with other agencies in the delivery of protection plans.
This is a Level 2 course. Participants should have suitable knowledge and understanding of the Definitions, Signs and Symptoms of Child Abuse and a knowledge of the Assessment Framework
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National Minimum Wage From October 2008 the rates of the National Minimum wage will be:
Adult rate (workers aged 22 and over) will increase to £5.73
18-21 year olds rate will be increased to £4.77 an hour
16-17 year olds rate will be increased to £3.53
Employer's Liability Insurance
Employers will be able to make the certificate of employer's liability insurance available to employees in electronic form (rather than having to display it physically) and certificates will no longer have to be retained for 40 years
For any support with this area of employment, please contact Rachel our HR specialist on 01332 227714 or send Rachel an email. |
Maternity Leave
In April 2008, the law was amended to allow the same types of claim during Additional Maternity Leave, or AML (weeks 27 to 52), as during Ordinary Maternity Leave (weeks 1 to 26). This applies to women whose expected week of childbirth falls on or after 5 October 2008.
The main effects of this will where company cars or mobile phones are provided to a woman who subsequently goes on maternity leave. Contractual annual leave (over and above the statutory minimum) will also be affected. From October it will also need to be paid during AML.
Agency StaffFrom 27 October 2008 agency staff on short term contracts will be entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). They will be eligible in the same way as other employees, whether they are indirectly or directly employed and regardless of the length of their contract. However, they must still meet all other qualifying criteria for SSP purposes. They must, for example, be an employee for National Insurance purposes in order to qualify and be absent from work for 3 days or more. Further guidance will be produced by the Revenue (HMRC) in early 2009. It is however expected that as many as 63,000 agency workers could benefit from these changes. For any support with this area of employment, please contact Rachel our HR specialist on 01332 227714 or send Rachel an email. |
Department of Health: Change4Life
Millions of children face a much increased risk of diabetes, cancer and heart disease because of the way we live our lives today. Change4Life is a nationwide movement which needs the support of people like us to meet a simple but crucial goal: to help every family in England eat well, move more and live longer.
You're already doing great work and getting involved in your local community, and it's the experience and energy of people like you that Change4Life needs. By joining you become a member of one of the biggest movements this nation has ever seen.
Change4Life will be launched to the general public early in 2009 and thousands have already joined the movement.
The support you can give to help our kids and families is vital. If you'd like to get involved and become a local partner, please call 0300 123 3434* and say that you are a NAVCA member if you are one, or visit www.nhs.uk/change4life for more information.
Together, we can help to change the lives of millions of children.
*Calls to 03 numbers should cost no more than geographic 01 or 02 UK wide calls, and may be part of inclusive minutes subject to your provider and your call package. |
FREE Professional Advice Surgery Tuesday 11 November 2008 12.30-17.00
(including lunch)
Pegasus Business Park, off J24 M1
ProHelp is a group of professional firms who have formed to provide free professional services to voluntary and community organisations in their local area.
ProHelp is offering the opportunity for community projects to book half hour consultation periods with selected professionals to discuss any concerns or queries they may have with regards to their organisations.
The expertise available on the day will include a range of solicitors, accountants, architects, surveyors, PR and Marketing Consultants.
If you don't have the funds to pay for professional advice, please call Ann Hilton at Business in the Community on 0115 924 7408 for an event booking form or email ann.hilton@bitc.org.uk |
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Writing successful tenders
for Children and Younger
Adult Services.
Please note that this course is about writing tenders, not funding bids as previously stated.
Various Derbyshire locations on 3, 4 6 and 13 November. Please contact The Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire Council for Voluntary Service and Action. Ground Floor, Blenheim Court, 17 Newbold Road, Chesterfield, S41 7PG, Tel/Fax 01246 274844 linkscvs@btconnect.com | |
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Thanks for reading!
Sincerely,
Susannah Towne
Derby CVS |
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