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THE VCS COMMISSIONING BOARD

The Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Commissioning Board gives the voluntary sector an opportunity to meet regularly with key Cornwall Council directors and commissioners, enabling the sector to advise on the design of public services in Cornwall.

Click here to read more about how the board was established and what it can do for the voluntary sector.

The voluntary sector is represented on the board by ten ‘theme leads’, who are specialists in areas such as Environment, Community Development and Public Health.  Click on the menu on the right to read about the Themes most relevant to your organisation.

If you are struggling to get your head around the VCS Commissioning Board or want to know how you can contribute, contact Mark Richardson at mark.richardson@cornwallvsf.org, or call the office on 01872 241584.

If you would like to find out how to get your news stories, reports and information on the Commissioning pages, contact Claire Sabey at claire.sabey@cornwallvsf.org.

 

 

 

 

 

The latest version of The Voice, a guide to the Commissioning Board is now available to view online.
The Voice is set out as a question and answer piece which will help explain the Commissioning Board and all the different themes that are involved.

Click here to view The Voice.

Latest Posts

Lescudjack Centre seeks partner organisation

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Mark Richardson in Children, Children & Young People, Commissioning, News

The Trustees of the Lescudjack 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.  They are looking for a partner organisation who could help:

  • Fundraise
  • Strengthen and develop their programme of community activities
  • Assist with managing the centre building.

The Lescudjack Centre is a spacious, well maintained building by Treneere estate in Penzance, with a ten year track record.  It offers a wide range of services and includes a variety of current community serving tenants. Current tenants include a nursery, a local dentist, the charity Cornwall People First and a Children’s Centre operated by Cornwall Council.  The organisation has a strong balance sheet ... Read more »

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Children and Young People VCS Theme Group – documents and notes

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Claire in Board papers, Children

Documents & notes from the last meeting of the Children and Young people VCS Theme Lead group.

Notes from meeting 30th Jan 2012.

Advisory Board Consultation Presentation – This deal with the proposed commissioning of Children’s Centres in Cornwall, which was a major item at the meeting. Dates for the provider days and consultation sessions are contained within at slide 24.

The date of the next meeting of the Theme Group is Wednesday 23 March 2012, at Volunteer Cornwall, Acorn House, Heron Way, Newham in Truro from 2.00pm – 4.00 p.m.
Directions can be accessed at http://www.volunteercornwall.org.uk/offices/

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Cornwall Council publish Equalities information

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Claire in Commissioning, Equality, News, Policy

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 and to view a table of the published information, click here.

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