London Councils is inviting councillors from across London to put forward their suggestions and ideas for improving life in the capital. The proposals are now available to read online on the London Councils' website. All councillors are welcome to contribute and can comment on published proposals online.
The Government is committed to ensuring that third sector organisations are not subject to unnecessary or disproportionate regulation and administrative burdens.
The new pages include information about changes to charity law and regulation, including the implementation plan for the Charities Act 2006 and the Plain English guide to the Act. However, they also provide links to useful information on other websites, such as:
• the Simplification Plans all Government departments to produce that outline their achievements in reducing the burden of regulation on businesses, charities and voluntary organisations
• the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills new Employment Law Organiser, which is intended to help all employers, including third sector organisations, manage the key legal obligations they are required to fulfil
The new law and regulation pages will be regularly updated to highlight the latest developments in cutting red tape for third sector organisations to help them to keep up with changes that help them.
Volunteering in the Recession is the outline report from Volunteering England which went to the Recession Summit on 21 January 2010
There are widespread reports from volunteer-involving organisations (VIOs) of major increases in enquiries about volunteering and in numbers of volunteers taken on. The public awareness, press coverage (notably, advice columns) and political profile for volunteering are substantially raise
The focus on volunteering in relation to employment has produced a number of advances in policy, practice and institutional relationships.
The increased demand for services are producing major stresses in volunteering systems and, as funding has remained level or been reduced, a range of negative development
A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions.
In this report NEF calculate the value to society of a number of different jobs and advocates a fundamental rethink of how the value of work is recognised and rewarded.
Download a copy here A Bit Rich
The Challenge of Co-Production
How equal partnerships between professionals and the publlic are crucial to improving public services
Download a copy here The Challenge of Co Production
The Audit Commission have launched a new website which contains descriptions of how public services in every area in the country are performing. Its easy to use and could be potentially useful for VCS groups arguing their case in terms of outcomes / funding etc.
you can access this website here
A consultation on preparing the NHS and social care in England for the age requirements in the Equality Bill that affect the provision of services and exercise of public functions
The consultation ends on 15 February 2010
You can download a consultation document here
Consultation on The Spatial Development Strategy of the London Plan, Transport Strategy and Economic Development Strategy has now closed.
CamdenCEN has produced a number of factsheets around the LSP, Community Strategy and other strategic structures. You can download them from the Briefings and Factsheets page.
If there are any other titles you would like to see please let us know
At the Local Strategic Partnership meeting on 23 April 2009 the Compact for Camden Revised Action Plan was approved.
You can download a copy of the Action Plan here
This guidance is for commissioners in national and local public sector bodies. It is designed to help commissioners. It identifies relevant Compact principles and demonstrates where and how they can be applied to commissioning. It also highlights those Compact principles relevant for third sector
You can download a copy of this guidance here
Don't understand the jargon?
Try our Glossary & Jargon Buster here
The Audit Commission have published a framework for implementing and monitoring the Comphrehensive Area Assessmentas from 1 April 2009. This document can be downloaded from the Audit Commission site
www.audit-commission.gov.uk/caa/framework.asp
The Voluntary and Community Sector can use Public Law to challenge the bad behaviour of public bodies - such as the council or PCT - and propose better working practices that are fair to you and your service users.
The session will cover the key principles and how to spot
By the end of the session you will have ideas of what remedies are open to you and how to go about getting a fair decision!
Check out Voluntary Action Camden's Training Calendar to find when sessions are being held. You can access the training calender here :http://www.vac.org.uk/support/training
Check out our updated Jargon Buster on the Jargon Buster page
Want some facts and figures on the added value of the Voluntary and Community Sector to support your funding application ? Click here for the OPM report
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