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When new opportunities to take part in consultations, workstreams or reviews details will be published in the "Current News" section, however, while they are still live details will be available here.
Child Poverty Unit Consultation
The Child Poverty Unit are looking to obtain maximum engagement and voice from voluntary and community organisations at all levels in their latest consultation, details of which can be found at http://www.education.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?action=consultationDetails&external=no&consultationId=1737&menu=3
They have produced a series of short films and a Facebook campaign. The child poverty short films can be found on this link and the facebook campaign launched this week can be found at http://www.facebook.com/educationgovuk?v=app_162033873819891
Participation Works National Confidential Feedback Service
The National Confidential Feedback Service is a diverse group of young people aged 12-25. The aim of the feedback service is to ensure that (participation) resources are continuously improved based on their impact on children and young people themselves.
The service was established in 2007 after young people, members of the Participation Works advisory group, highlighted the need for such a service. Members of the group found it difficult to decide which resource was suitable to meet their needs, and with a large amount of replicated resources and guides they felt a way of rating them and improving them was needed. Working in partnership originally with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now Department for Education) the advisory group decided to take this work on board and from there the challenge began. Since the beginning the project has been led entirely by young people, with support from workers.
"It has been a great experience for me and all other members of the advisory group having leadership over the project and highlighting what we as young people felt we needed to see in this service, and how we can help the improvement of the documents and resources. I feel working with his has helped me to gain more confidence and has given me the skills to get my opinion across in a more constructive manner." (Jack)
"Recently we have evaluated Terrence Higgins Trust’s advice on relationships leaflet. The feedback allowed us to evaluate a number of things such as: was it appealing enough? Is the language accessible? Is it clear to understand the purpose? This allowed us to give recommendations with our better judgment on improvements to create a more young person friendly leaflet." (Farah)
http://www.participationworks.org.uk/news/participation-works-national-confidential-feedback-service
Participation Works enquiries: enquiries@participationworks.org.uk
Gateway: www.participationworks.org.uk
VCS engage national work around parenting this year
The Voluntary and Community Sector historically have provided a wide range of essential parenting support services often reaching the parts of the community that statutory services traditionally found hard to reach.
Since 2006 the parenting sector has undergone radical reform and received some substantial investment. This project aims to develop an overview of some of the needs and challenges facing the sustainability of the VCS parenting sector and within this to focus specifically on the issues relating to commissioning and workforce development.
In particular we aim to:
- To review the regional and national challenges and support needs of the VCS parenting sector in engaging with the workforce and commissioning agenda
- To support the engagement of the voice of the VCS parenting sector in the planning of emerging parenting qualifications
- To use the findings to inform other stakeholders in their future planning of provision, support and capacity building.
http://www.smart-survey.co.uk/v.asp?i=13028ufmyj
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and each organisation participating will receive a copy of the final report and be entered into a prize draw – 1st £ 200 2nd £100 and 3rd £50
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