The Trustees of the Lescujack Centre Penzance are calling for other charities and social enterprises to submit expressions of interest in a partnership for long-term collaboration (3-5 years) or merger. Read more »
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Children and Young People VCS Theme Group – documents and notes
Documents & notes from the last meeting of the Children and Young people VCS Theme Lead group. Read more »
Cornwall Council publish Equalities information
Following the introduction of the new Public Sector Equality Duty part of the Equality Act (2010), Cornwall Council and organisations carrying out services on their behalf are legally obliged to publish information about its employees and those affected by the Council’s policies and practices (customers or service users for example) by 31 January 2012. Cornwall Council have been carrying out Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) on all policy decisions, projects and other proposals – these are public documents and can be found here. For more information … Read more »
Documents for the Children & Young People Commissioning Board Theme Group meeting
Documents for the Children & Young People Commissioning Board Theme Group meeting on Monday 30th January at 2pm. Read more »
Opportunity to deliver children’s centre services in Cornwall
Cornwall Council are holding four provider days for organisations who may be interested in potentially delivering children’s centre service in Cornwall. Read more »
Funding success for new campaign to help reduce winter deaths
Funding has been awarded to Cornwall Council and VCS partners for their Winter Wellness campaign to help reduce preventable winter deaths. Read more »
Cornwall Equality Objectives being finalised at Equality & Diversity meeting
The main discussion of the recent Equality and Diversity meeting on 22nd November at Disability Cornwall, was the Cornwall Equality Objectives. Read more »
Cornwall Council wants to work with VCS to co-design new Healthwatch
Cornwall Council have written to local voluntary sector leaders involved with the VCS Commissioning Board to say they want to negotiate to develop a new NHS and social care watchdog. The letter, from Carole Theobald, Head of Communications and Strategy, says that the reason for taking this route, rather than a competitive tender, to develop the new ‘Healthwatch’ service is to “maximise the benefits of our local infrastructure and to build on the experience of patient and public involvement already gained in Cornwall.” Read more »
Looking back on the first year of the VCS Commissioning Board
Reflecting on the first year of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Commissioning Board was the theme for the day when Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum held their ‘Our Voice’ event at Eden Project on Monday 12th December. Read more »
New Health and Wellbeing Reference Group documents
The agenda for the upcoming Health and Wellbeing Reference Group (VCS Commissioning Board) can be viewed here. Also available to view are the notes from the previous meeting on 13th September 2011.
