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Volunteering Conference Report
A conference report has been produced for the recent partnership event on volunteering. One East Midlands and England Volunteering Development Council (EVDC) would welcome further comments on the regional priorities that the conference identified. To read the full article on the One East Midlands website click here. |
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Regional Health Network
One East Midlands have issued a document to outline the need for a Regional Health Network to deal with health inequalities in the East Midlands. The document details what the network could offer and how it would be developed. To read the article by One East Midlands click here.
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Earned Citizenship Response
The East Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership (EMSMP) have created a draft response on the Earned Citizenship Consultation. For further information and to read the full article on the One East Midlands website click here. | |
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Hello,
Welcome to the November issue of Your City, Your Voice, the policy update from Community Action. We have lots of news and information relating to the 3rd Sector, locally and nationally, including a report on commissioning and details of the upcoming 3rd Sector Network Meetings
We hope you find this ebulletin useful and welcome your comments and suggestions.
If you have any news or articles that you would like us to include in the bulletin please email
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 The Future of DCC Grants - Have Your Say
Derby City Council is carrying out a review of its policies and
practice in awarding grants to voluntary and community organisations and the way it monitors how the grant is spent.
A four week consultation to gather views was launched at the Annual Compact Forum on 3 November. The responses received will be used to develop a report and recommendations with a further opportunity to comment on these in January 2010.
The aims of the review are to:
- get consistency in process and practice across the Council;
- see if there is a need to simplify the system;
- cater better for applications for grants from new organisations;
- support voluntary and community organisations to develop; and
- make sure the Council's processes and practice meet the requirements of the Derby Compact, which is the framework for how voluntary and community organisations and the Council work together.
To complete the survey please click here. Paper copies are also available by contacting Olwen Wilson, Room 156, Derby City Council, Council House, Corporation Street, DE1 2YL email or telephone 01332 255508. It is very important that you take part in this survey and give your views as what you say will influence the way in which Derby City Council develop their policies and practice for awarding grants.
More information is available on the Derby City Council
Please note that the deadline for completing the survey is Friday 4 December 2009.
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Revised Compact Launch Postponed
 The revised Compact document was to have been launched during Compact Week, 2 to 8 November. The Cabinet Office, however, has announced that "some particularly interesting and complex issues arose during the consultation" with the consequence that the launch will now take place "before the end of the year". For more information please click here |
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Equality and Human Rights Commission Transgender Report
 The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a new review of evidence that captures the experiences and challenges facing transgender people in Britain. The Trans Research Review highlights that some transgender people experience transphobia including bullying and discriminatory treatment in schools, harassment and physical/sexual assault and rejection from families, work colleagues and friends. The review highlights significant gaps in knowledge about key areas of life for trans people and the need for improving policies and practices designed to reduce discrimination. To read the full report click here | |
 3rd Sector Network Meetings - Get Involved!
The 3rd Sector Participation Project network meetings, run by Community Action are taking place over the next two weeks. The network meetings enable third sector groups to link in to the Derby City Partnership. If you would like to be involved in the networks or kept informed of further developments please click on the link below and let us know which network you wish to be involved in, your name, and the organisation you represent. The networks are an opportunity for your voluntary or community group to have its voice heard and help shape the future of Derby.
Culture
For groups involved with sports, faith, arts or learning.
9 November 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
Women's
For groups involved with women's issues.
9 November 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Growth
For groups involved in social enterprise, worklessness or the environment.
16 November 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
Safer and Stronger Communities
For groups involved in criminal justice, community empowerment or community cohesion.
10 November 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
All network meetings will be held at Community Action, 4 Charnwood Street, Derby.
Refreshments will be provided. An interpreter for Punjabi and Urdu speakers is available if required. Please advise us if you require this service at least one week before the meeting.
To book a place please email or telephone 01332 227710. For further information about the 3rd Sector Participation project please visit the Community Action website
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Voluntary Sector Soft Target for Cuts - NCVO
The NCVO has launched a new report,The State and the Voluntary Sector, warning that the Government could see charities and voluntary organisations as a soft target for cuts. About one third of the sector's income (£12bn from a total of £33bn) comes from statutory sources and about 25,000 agencies get more than three-quarters of their income from the state. Voluntary organisations that provide social services receive more state income than any other sub-sector, followed by employment and training organisations, according to the report. To read the report in full click here.
Taken from National Coalition for Independent Action Newsletter, to see more click here |
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New Member Links to Third Sector
 Following a recent reshuffle in Derby City Council, Councillor Ruth Skelton is now the responsible officer for Adult Services and Health. Areas of responsibility include: older peoples social services; adult learning; health improvement planning, disability and sensory services for adults, learning disability and mental health services for adults; and support for carers and third sector adult support including Derby Compact. To contact Councillor Skelton about third sector issues email
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Say No to Commissioning
One of the principal ways - perhaps the main way - in which the Government is mounting its assault on the voluntary sector is through the peddling of its latest 'fad' for Procurement and Commissioning. Statutory services of all sorts have been told - explicitly or implicitly - to develop strategies for this. There has been an unseemly rush to comply, despite the reality that in many places no two people seem to have the same idea of what 'procurement and commissioning' means exactly. One council officer asked why the authority was moving to commissioning told us, "because everyone else is doing it". So many VCS organisations are, and will be, affected by this phenomenon, that it is a major preoccupation of the National Coalition for Independent Action and its members. We are already working to resist the damaging effects of commissioning in a London borough - with some success.
If you want to work with us to create alternative models to resource voluntary action, please email.
Taken from the National Coalition for Independent Action website, to read the full article click here. | |
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We hope you found this ebulletin useful and informative. |
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Thanks for reading,
Matthew Allbones
Deputy Chief Executive Community Action |
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