News about county-wide projects and services
Health & Social Care Changes
The Health and Social Care Bill is currently going through Parliament. There are several changes to the Health and Social Care system which are part of the Bill.
There are changes to the orignal proposal envisaged due to a "Pause, Listen, Reflect, Improve" activity.
Please visit Health & Social Care Changes page where you can find the recent updates and links to relevant websites.
East Sussex Equalities Coordination Group
SpeakUp Forum is providing Secretariat role for the Group in 2011.
The main purpose of the Groups is:
- To be centred on service improvement and to identify and develop good practice and disseminate information at a local level to those involved in implementing equality work and equality action plans.
- To identify how public authorities, statutory partnerships and the third sector across East Sussex can work together to meet their individual and collective responsibilities to their communities and equalities legislation.
- There will be particula
ChangeUp 2005 - 2011
2010/11 marks the final year of CapacityBuilders funding for the East Sussex ChangeUp Consortium. Going forward, to quote Ernest Rutherford, ‘We haven’t got the money so we have to think.’
ChangeUp has achieved much. It has embedded collaborative working and partnership – a culture of working together between the statutory and voluntary sector and between voluntary sector partners that will help us enormously to meet the challenges we now face.
Capacitybuilders publishes Consortium Development Grant Learning Paper
The Consortium Development Grant Learning Paper is a report about Consortia, voluntary sector-led partnerships, which were a key feature of the ChangeUp programme.
It is envisaged that this report will be of particular interest to two main audiences:
- voluntary sector partnerships
- funders wishing to explore setting
Government consultation on improving support for frontline civil society organisations
The Office for Civil Society has launched a consultation on future programmes to support civil society. For more information on the consultation and how you can be involved, visit www.strongercivilsociety.org.uk from 18 October.
The consultation will run over 12 weeks from 14 October to 6 January 2011. Responses in relation to question nine only should be submitted by 25 November 2010, prior to the main consultation deadline.
Sector bodies fall victim to the bonfire of the quangos
By Kaye Wiggins, Third Sector Online, 14 October 2010
Commission for the Compact, the Office for Civil Society Advisory Body and Capacitybuilders are among the organisations to be axed
The Commission for the Compact, the Office for Civil Society Advisory Body and the voluntary sector infrastructure body Capacitybuilders will be abolished as part of the government’s review of quangos, the Cabinet Office has confirmed.
A docume
Ten Big Questions about the Big Society and ten ways to make the best of it
Views from the New Economics Foundation: The Coalition Government wants to build a ‘Big Society’. The Prime Minister says ‘we are all in this together’ and building it is the responsibility of every citizen as well as every Government department. nef welcomes the broad vision but recognises that everything depends on how the vision is translated into policy and practice. We offer these questions and proposals to help fill in some of the gaps and bring out the best in the idea of a big society.
East Sussex budget and cuts
Do you want to be kept up-to-date with the East Sussex County Council budget and expected cuts? Visit our website which will direct you to all the news as and when they become available:
http://www.askcasper.org.uk/speakup/esccbudget
For more information on how the cuts could affect the voluntary and community groups contact Miriam Miklaszewska at SpeakUp Forum on 01273 483 832 or e-mail: speakup@3va.org.uk
Changing Face of ChangeUp in the South East
Report from ‘The Changing Face of ChangeUp in the South East: Moving things forward’ event that took place on 4th February in Guildford, hosted by Capacitybuilders, RAISE and the Regional Strategic Cross-sector Partnership (RSCP).
The Big Society
James Ilott from the Office for Civil Society and Lesley Nicholas from the Government Office for the South East attended last week’s RSCP meeting - please find attached Lesley’s presentation on Big Society which outlines the context, the proposals and an approximate timeline for implementing the Big Society. (pls. note, all graphics and pictures have been removed to reduce size of document).
