3 wishes consultation - DCP are carrying out a public consultation throughout July as part of the development of a new vision for Derby in 2026. Complete a wish card or wish online by visiting the DCP website.  For more information call Jane Harrison on 01332 256906.
 
Inspiring Derby Week - successful and sunny week of over 90 events, about 26% of which were put on by voluntary and community sector groups.  Many thanks to everyone who put on an event or attended to make it such a great week.
 
Cultural City
Held visioning session for 2026;
On-going work on 2017 UK City of Culture bid with the county.
 
Healthy City
Held visioning session for 2026;
Supporting People - developing new strategy for 2010-2013; 
Derek Ward will chair the executive with Cath Roff as vice chair - they will agree strategic lead role membership and governance going forward;
Adult Safeguarding Board will report directly to Healthy City Executive;

CQC inspection of adult safeguarding in September this year.
 
City Growth
Agreement for structure of the new Derby Renaissance Board;  Further work on governance is on-going. 
Cityscape has been wound down;
Visioning session held for 2026;
Economic Futures Conference delivered.
 
City for Stronger, Safer and Cleaner Communities
Youth Offending Board established; 
Alcohol and the night time economy is still a key issue; 
Visioning session held for 2026
 
City for Children and Young People
Visioning session held for 2026;
Executive agreed a draft action plan to be taken forward following the previous joint meeting of the Executive and the Derby Safeguarding Children Board;  
Executive agreed a new report template along with a new agenda format to improve information and decision making.  This supports the statutory responsibility of the Executive, acting as the Children's Trust Board, for managing the Children and Young People's Plan. 
 
 

NAVCA has published an independent report that looks into the value placed on NAVCA's voice work.  Voice work is what NAVCA do to represent the views of its members and the local voluntary and community sector to national bodies and help national bodies communicate with local groups.  Kevin Curley, NAVCA Chief Executive, said: "The most important part of this report is seeing how we can improve further. The public spending cuts will mean it is more important than ever that NAVCA puts forward the case to government for supporting voluntary and community action."  For more information visit the NAVCA website.

 

Skills Third Sector want to make sure that the importance of skills and learning are understood and supported effectively, so that the sector can meet the rising demands about what it can and should deliver.   They would like you to contribute to the development of a national skills strategy for the voluntary sector.  The online consultation will be available from 9 July for more information or to take part in the consultation visit the Skills Third Sector website.

Volunteering England have launched two volunteer management initiatives, a Volunteer Management Portal and the Value Volunteer Management Campaign.  This means that, for the first time, information on support, training and development opportunities for people managing volunteers is available to view in one single place. 
 
If you work with volunteers, or know someone who does, this invaluable new resource will help you locate a wide variety of training providers and consultants, support and development opportunities.
 
You can also find out more information about volunteer management from Skills Third Sector which links to the 'Management of Volunteers' National Occupational Standards.  Visit the Skills Third Sector website

for more resources.