Young Carers Support (Forthcoming Tender)
Manchester City Council has responsibility to support carers of all ages, including young carers. Young Carers are children and young people under 18 who provide care, to another family member who is disabled, or has some chronic illness, mental health problem or other condition connected with a need for care, support or supervision. They carry out, often on a regular basis, significant or substantial caring tasks and assume a level of responsibility, which would usually be associated with an adult.
Tender documents for providers to be included on a Young Carers Services Framework, are about to be advertised on an e-procurement website The Chest (see link below). A letter that introduces and explains the e-procurement website in more detail is also attached at the end of the document.
Before the tender goes out the City Council is inviting comments/views about the specification. Any feedback to be returned by 13th November 2009 to v.quinn@manchester.gov.uk.
BBC Children in Need Funding
BBC Children in Need have two further deadlines for applications in 2009: July 15 and September 15. They welcome applications from groups within the voluntary and community sector that work to positively change the lives of children and young people in the United Kingdom. Children must be aged 18 years and under, living in the UK and meet one of the definitions of disadvantage:
- illness, distress, neglect, abuse
- any kind of disability
- behaviour or psychological difficulties
- living in poverty or situations of deprivation
BBC Children in Need's regional staff can advise on types of projects and organisations we can fund. They highly recommend that you discuss your application with a member of the North Regional team before applying. To discuss your application, please call Philip Jeffery on 0161 244 3442 or e-mail Philip.Jeffery@bbc.co.uk and they will respond to your query within 48 hours.
Improving Safeguarding for Adults
A consultation on the review of No Secrets guidance for safeguarding adults has been launched. How can the voluntary and community sector contribute to the development of better tools to safeguard adults from abuse and improve our own processes and procedures? Reconciling safeguarding with the personalisation agenda was discussed at the Manchester Older People's Network meeting in October and voluntary sector organisations agreed to meet to discuss the review in more detail in late November.
Parenting Fund - Round Three now open
Round 3 of the Parenting Fund is now open. Here are the headlines:
- The total grant fund is just over £16 million over a two-year period (£8 million per year)
- It can only be used in the 23 English local government areas listed below
- Grants can cover more than one area
- It is open to “not for profit” organisations but excludes statutory services
- The grants will be for 24 months and the first payments will be made in April 2009.
- The amount applied for must be at least £50,000 for the two-year period but there is no upper limit.
- Organisations can apply to work in more than one area
- Funded projects are expected to deliver learning and outcomes that can be picked up nationally.
- Threre remains a focus on promoting social inclusion and improving access to services and support for less well-served communities.
- The localities are: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Blackburn with Darwen, Liverpool, City of Manchester, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Stoke on Trent, Birmingham, Peterborough, Norfolk, Croydon, Greenwich, Hackney, Southwark, Slough, Southampton, Cornwall, Bristol.
- Completed applications must be submitted by noon on Friday December 12th 2008.
- Assessment, decisions and award making will take place between December 2008 and January 2009.
UPDATE - See Dates for Your Diary for details of a meeting to discuss joint working on bids to the Parenting Fund
Parenting Fund - Round Three now open
Round 3 of the Parenting Fund is now open. Here are the headlines:
- The total grant fund is just over £16 million over a two-year period (£8 million per year)
- It can only be used in the 23 English local government areas listed below
- Grants can cover more than one area
- It is open to “not for profit” organisations but excludes statutory services
- The grants will be for 24 months and the first payments will be made in April 2009.
- The amount applied for must be at least £50,000 for the two-year period but there is no upper limit.
- Organisations can apply to work in more than one area
- Funded projects are expected to deliver learning and outcomes that can be picked up nationally.
- Threre remains a focus on promoting social inclusion and improving access to services and support for less well-served communities.
- The localities are: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Blackburn with Darwen, Liverpool, City of Manchester, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Stoke on Trent, Birmingham, Peterborough, Norfolk, Croydon, Greenwich, Hackney, Southwark, Slough, Southampton, Cornwall, Bristol.
- Completed applications must be submitted by noon on Friday December 12th 2008.
- Assessment, decisions and award making will take place between December 2008 and January 2009.
UPDATE - See Dates for Your Diary for details of a meeting to discuss joint working on bids to the Parenting Fund
What future for the Compact?
The future of the Compact is now being discussed. Are you representing a voluntary and community organisation? Any change may affect you and your relationship with government, including key issues such as funding and consultation. Jurgen Grotz is a researcher who has been asked by Compact Voice to collect views on the issues discussed in the Compact debate. If you would like to talk to him about your views on the Compact just email your name and number to j.grotz@roehampton.co.uk or call him on 07737 223 639 and he will call you to ask what you think about the Compact and what you would want it to look like. There’s also an online consultation at where you can fill in the Compact Voice questionnaire.
Consultation on new legal form for charities
The Office of the Third Sector and the Charity Commission have released a proposal for a new legal structure for charities: the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). There is now a consultation on the details of the new form might look like and the rules it will have to follow. The next step in developing the CIO is to consult with the charity sector and those who will do business with these new organisations. The deadline for responses is 10th December. Follow the link below for more details.
National Survey of the Third Sector
The Office of the Third Sector (in the Cabinet Office) is to ask third sector organisations to share their experiences. This will help give local government the information it needs to ensure an environment for a thriving third sector - a new national performance target on which Local Authorities will be assessed. In Manchester, MACC and others are campaigning to have this target included in the Local Area Agreement as a commitment by the Manchester Partnership. In order to put together a picture of the starting position nationally (i.e. "baseline data"), from 22 September, 104000 charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises will receive the National Survey of Third Sector Organisations (NSTSO) questionnaire from Ipsos MORI. This will be the biggest ever survey of the sector and will ask about local and national funding relationships, advice and support services and the state of relations with local government. MACC has receieved notification that we will be included in the survey - so if you want to send us your views to feed in, please do so.
Every Organisation Matters
The National Council of Childcare Voluntary Organisations (NCCVO) and the National Countil of Voluntary Youth Services have published the results of a research they have been working on with the University of Hull into the size of the children and young people's voluntary sector in England. An important finding is that the children and young people's voluntary sector makes up about a third of the total voluntary sector workforce - MACC's own figures of the number of groups in Manchester would certainly agree that this is by far the biggest part of the local sector.
Every Organisation Matters
The National Council of Childcare Voluntary Organisations (NCCVO) and the National Countil of Voluntary Youth Services have published the results of a research they have been working on with the University of Hull into the size of the children and young people's voluntary sector in England. An important finding is that the children and young people's voluntary sector makes up about a third of the total voluntary sector workforce - MACC's own figures of the number of groups in Manchester would certainly agree that this is by far the biggest part of the local sector.
Every Organisation Matters
The National Council of Childcare Voluntary Organisations (NCCVO) and the National Countil of Voluntary Youth Services have published the results of a research they have been working on with the University of Hull into the size of the children and young people's voluntary sector in England. An important finding is that the children and young people's voluntary sector makes up about a third of the total voluntary sector workforce - MACC's own figures of the number of groups in Manchester would certainly agree that this is by far the biggest part of the local sector.
Technology Innovation Awards
TalkTalk Innovation in the Community Awards invite charities and community groups to apply. 30 winners will receive cash grants of £2,000 for technology related projects as well as technology equipment. Applications are invited from 1 July to 30 September 2008. Winners will be notified by 25 October 2008. The awards ceremony at the House of Lords and one-to-one workshops with Martha Lane Fox (for five categrory winners only), will take place in November 2008. Categories are:
- Work &Training
- Play & Sport
- Learning & Knowledge
- Creativity & Culture
- Body & Soul
Entries close on 30 September 2008
Technology Innovation Awards
TalkTalk Innovation in the Community Awards invite charities and community groups to apply. 30 winners will receive cash grants of £2,000 for technology related projects as well as technology equipment. Applications are invited from 1 July to 30 September 2008. Winners will be notified by 25 October 2008. The awards ceremony at the House of Lords and one-to-one workshops with Martha Lane Fox (for five categrory winners only), will take place in November 2008. Categories are:
- Work &Training
- Play & Sport
- Learning & Knowledge
- Creativity & Culture
- Body & Soul
Entries close on 30 September 2008
Technology Innovation Awards
TalkTalk Innovation in the Community Awards invite charities and community groups to apply. 30 winners will receive cash grants of £2,000 for technology related projects as well as technology equipment. Applications are invited from 1 July to 30 September 2008. Winners will be notified by 25 October 2008. The awards ceremony at the House of Lords and one-to-one workshops with Martha Lane Fox (for five categrory winners only), will take place in November 2008. Categories are:
- Work &Training
- Play & Sport
- Learning & Knowledge
- Creativity & Culture
- Body & Soul
Entries close on 30 September 2008
Third Sector Survey
The Office of the Third Sector is carrying out a Third Sector Flexibility Survey addressed to third sector organisations that are currently delivering public services or have been involved in their delivery in the last 12 months. The survey is a follow up to the Cabinet Office publication “Excellence and Fairness: Achieving world class public services”. Through it the Office for the Third Sector aims to improve its understanding of what supports and drives innovation in Third Sector public service delivery. If your organisation is currently involved or has been involved in public service delivery in the last 12 months, please take the time to complete the survey and return it by 8 September 2008. Click here to complete the survey. Please return this survey even if it is incomplete. All answers are valuable.
'Bye 'Bye Ruth
MACC's Children and Families worker Ruth Craven is to leave us in mid-August. She's going to work for a organisation that provides support to the Vietnamese community in Cambodia. I know I speak on behalf of all of us at MACC that she will be greatly missed both as a colleague and a friend. During the last three years she has done a great deal to increase the participation and influence of the voluntary and community sector in the children and families agenda and has earned the respect of colleagues in both the voluntary and statutory sectors. We wish Ruth all the very best for the future and the exciting challenges which lie ahead.
Mike Wild, Director of MACC
Manchester Infrastructure Support Survey
Manchester City Council has launched a consultation survey on the support services currently available for voluntary and community sector organisations. These are currently being provided by Novas Scarman Trust The information provided will identify how the current service is being used and gaps in provision - which will shape the tender for the new contrct for this work. MACC strongly encourages all local voluntary sector organisations to take part in this survey: there is a clear need to develop the range of support available to the sector and this is the big opportunity to communicate that message to the people who commission the service. Follow the link below to take part. The deadline is 30th September 2008.
A hard copy of the questionnaire can be downloaded from the City Council website or is available from: The Third Sector Team, Corporate Performance Group, Manchester City Council, PO Box 532, Manchester M60 2LA tel: 0161 234 3141.
Manchester Infrastructure Support Survey
Manchester City Council has launched a consultation survey on the support services currently available for voluntary and community sector organisations. These are currently being provided by Novas Scarman Trust The information provided will identify how the current service is being used and gaps in provision - which will shape the tender for the new contrct for this work. MACC strongly encourages all local voluntary sector organisations to take part in this survey: there is a clear need to develop the range of support available to the sector and this is the big opportunity to communicate that message to the people who commission the service. Follow the link below to take part. The deadline is 30th September 2008.
A hard copy of the questionnaire can be downloaded from the City Council website or is available from: The Third Sector Team, Corporate Performance Group, Manchester City Council, PO Box 532, Manchester M60 2LA tel: 0161 234 3141.
Manchester Infrastructure Support Survey
Manchester City Council has launched a consultation survey on the support services currently available for voluntary and community sector organisations. These are currently being provided by Novas Scarman Trust The information provided will identify how the current service is being used and gaps in provision - which will shape the tender for the new contrct for this work. MACC strongly encourages all local voluntary sector organisations to take part in this survey: there is a clear need to develop the range of support available to the sector and this is the big opportunity to communicate that message to the people who commission the service. Follow the link below to take part. The deadline is 30th September 2008.
A hard copy of the questionnaire can be downloaded from the City Council website or is available from: The Third Sector Team, Corporate Performance Group, Manchester City Council, PO Box 532, Manchester M60 2LA tel: 0161 234 3141.
Towards a strategy to support volunteering in health and social care
"Consultation Workshops” at the Gujarat Centre (GHS Enterprise Ltd), Preston on the 8th September 2008. The Department of Health recognises that volunteering plays a huge potential role in the context of more flexible, responsive and patient-focused health and social care services. This consultation exercise is designed to discuss and debate the five key elements of the “Towards a strategy to support volunteering in health and social care document”
- Support for individual volunteers
- Effective management within organisations
- Commissioning environment and infrastructure
- Promoting partnership
- Leadership
This is one of nine regional workshops being held across England by the Department of Health in conjunction with CSIP NW. The consultation will end on 30th September 2008. To access the consultation on line click on the link below. If you are able to attend please complete the attached booking form and returning to philip.jones@csip.org.uk Alternatively, you can fax the form to 0161 351 4936.
Capacity Building Support to develop partnerships
Are you a voluntary and community sector organisation that works with children, young people or families? Would you like to improve your sustainability and increase your profile? Do you currently work collaboratively with other VCS organisations or would you like to develop closer working with other organisations? If you answered YES to all these questions then please read on....
MACC is offering practical, tailor-made capacity building support to voluntary and community organisations that wish to work together and develop their collaborative working. We recognise that developing partnerships and making them work effectively can be challenging and time-consuming. We have a Business Improvement Budget, with which we can buy in expertise and practical support to help you to develop your partnership ideas.
We will be offering this service for the remainder of 2008-09. Due to the limits this places on our time and resources, we will only be able to offer this service to groups who have already identified potential or existing partners that they wish to develop their relationship with. For further details contact Alison Tansey at MACC for further information (alison@macc.org.uk or call 0161 834 9823).
Children's health, our future: A review of progress against the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services 2004
This report from the National Clinical Director for Children to the Secretary of State for Health provides an overview of progress to date towards the standards in the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services. It highlights problems such as the UK's relatively high infant mortality within the EU and rising child obesity, as well as health inequalities in UK society. It welcomes increased spending on child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
The report can be downloaded from the Department of Health website.
Access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers
The Home Office and the Department of Health are currently undertaking a review of access to NHS services by 'overseas visitors'. The review will be completed next month and will be followed by a 3 month consultation period.
The Home Office is proposing that ('Enforcing the Rules: a strategy to ensure and enforce compliance with our immigration laws', March 2007):
- health professionals should carry out immigration checks on clients before providing them with health care
- refused asylum seekers and undocumented migrants should be charged for Primary Care (e.g. GP services and prescriptions)
- Primary Care Trusts should enter into partnerships with the Border & Immigration Agency and share information with them about 'immigration crime'
The
Refugee & Migrant Forum Manchester (
http://www.mrsn.org.uk) is working with a coalition of organisations led by Medact (
www.medact.org) to campaign against the above proposals. Please see websites for more detailed information.
An Early Day Motion has been submitted for debate by Neil Gerrard MP - please support this campaign by writing to your local MP and asking them to support this Early Day Motion. In the event that we can attract 100 plus signatures (about a sixth of the membership of the House) by the time of the review publication in December it will be a sign to the Government and the media that there is serious concern among MPs about the impact of these proposals.
EDM 220 - ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE 13.11.2007 - Gerrard, Neil
That this House notes the commitment by the Home Office and the Department of Health to a joint review of overseas visitor access to the National Health Service, now due for publication in December 2007; recalls the findings of the Joint Committee on Human Rights' Tenth Report of Session 2006-07 that the current arrangements for overseas visitor access deny healthcare to vulnerable individuals, including asylum seekers and their children, resulting in various breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights; applauds the Trade Union Congress's NHS Together campaign to defend the achievements of the free NHS; and supports the charity coalition campaign co-ordinated by the charity Medact against any measures that would compel general practitioners, and other primary care staff, to be forced to charge refused asylum seekers or other vulnerable foreign nationals for NHS care.
You can find out who your MP is by going to
www.theyworkforyou.com
A template letter has been put together but this will be more effective if you write it in your own words.
Children and Young People's Plan - final version (June 2007)
The finalised Review of the Children and Young People's Plan has now been submitted to Ofsted and GONW. Please find below the final version of the main plan and associated annexes. The next steps will be to produce a summary version, a children and young people's leaflet and posters summarising our key actions and priorities. The Plan will also be communicated to staff, schools and published on the internet and intranet.
Successful Parenting Fund Projects for 2006 in Manchester
The following organisations have been successful in receiving Parenting Fund money to provide projects in Manchester. You can download details of the projects they will be delivering <here>
- Contact a Family
- National Childbirth Trust and Sowing Seeds
- Barnardos Health through Action
- Henshaws Society for Blind People
- Salford Foundation
- Depaul Trust
