LBRuT Draft Priorities: Generic Voluntary Sector Infrastructure and Capacity Building
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Community Plan
Priority
Tackling disadvantage
Key Targets
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Building capacity in the local voluntary and community sector
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Working together to tackle the multiple causes and impact of
disadvantage and ensure that all our communities are able to access
quality services
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National Indicator 6 – Participation in Regular Volunteering
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National Indicator 7 – Environment for a Thriving Third Sector
Service Description
A professional support, development and promotion service for the
voluntary and community sector, to enable it to become more
sustainable, effective and strategically engaged with local agendas.
Outcomes and activities will include:
Giving a voice to the local voluntary sector, and strategic
representation and negotiation on behalf of the voluntary sector
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Effective engagement and consultation with local voluntary
agencies
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Participate in the local strategic partnership and associated
thematic partnerships at an appropriate level
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Develop and facilitate the LSP Voluntary Sector Forum
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Ensure representation and strategic involvement of sector specific
lead agencies in local planning and decision making process
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Dissemination of information from statutory partners to the
voluntary sector
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Lead in establishing clear roles and process for community and
voluntary sector involvement at a strategic level.
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Ensuring effective voluntary sector engagement and
representation in health agenda’s, including
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Develop the capacity of the voluntary sector to respond to
the Expert Patient programme
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Develop the capacity of the voluntary sector to respond to
community engagement and ensuring local communities
are able to contribute to shaping local health priorities and
service delivery models
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Ensure voluntary sector engagement and representation
in the development of emerging health strategies
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Share and use best practice to enable the further development and
growth of the local voluntary and community sector
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The Compact is adopted and implemented by voluntary and
statutory agencies
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Achieve NAVCA Quality Mark or equivalent
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Facilitate clusters/ mergers and partnerships between voluntary
agencies in the Borough
Develop the physical and virtual infrastructure required to support
the Borough’s vibrant and diverse voluntary and community sector
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Facilitate an IT and Information Hub for the local voluntary sector
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Participation in voluntary sector property strategy
Develop the sector’s skills base and resources and build trust and
confidence in its capacity to deliver high quality services
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Deliver a Funding and Sustainability Advice Service offering the
following advice and support services:o
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One-to-One funding advice
Sustainability, business planning
Loans
Social enterprise
Grant funding
Income generation
Commissioning and contracts
Self directed support and individualised budgets
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Accountancy Advice service
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Governance and Business Planning advice
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Quality assurance advice
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Training and information on outcomes, monitoring and evaluation
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Increase awareness amongst statutory partners on voluntary
sector activity and issues
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Contribute to the LSP's aim of tackling disadvantage by reducing the
gap between the most disadvantaged residents and the borough
average by focusing on the five areas where disadvantage is
concentrated.
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Information dissemination and signposting service for the public and
voluntary agencies
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Maintain database on local voluntary agencies
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Provide a welcoming and accessible open door service to voluntary
sector organisations and public to access information about
voluntary sector and volunteering.
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Promote a vibrant and diverse volunteer marketplace that adds value
to the local community
Do you agree with the service description outlined above? Are there any other services that
you think should be included in the above description? Please include any additional
comments or feedback you may have regarding the above service description
Performance Indicators
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Regular attendance at strategic partnership meetings and forums
(Year One)
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A representative Voluntary Sector Forum meets quarterly and a biannual sector wide forum event
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Compact Working Group to meet 4 times a year
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Annual consultation with the voluntary sector on local needs and
issues affecting the local voluntary sector and their beneficiaries.
Minimum of 50 representative organisations participating.
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Publish in accessible formats a leaflet(s) that clearly describes the
role of the various voluntary sector and service user forums,
consultation bodies, LINks, Joint Consultative Groups etc. and how
they relate to each other. It should be targeted at users, carers and
voluntary agencies.
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Increased capacity/activity for organisations working with
marginalised communities, including the 5 areas of relative
deprivation
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Participation in the Community Development Executive and Advisory
Groups.
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Support the establishment and development of Working Together
Groups in each area.
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Develop specific voluntary sector projects in the 5 areas as required.
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Encourage and monitor funded voluntary organisations contribution to
tackling disadvantage in the 5 areas
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Additional resources of £450,000 levered into the borough through
funding and sustainability advice service
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30 organisations per annum supported to develop good governance
and/or business plans
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10 organisation per annum have robust sustainability plans in place
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10 organisations per annum adopt an appropriate quality assurance
framework
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15 organisations per annum attend training on outcomes and/or
monitoring and evaluation
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Monthly information updates to the sector including funding, quality
assurance, governance, national and local statutory agendas sent to
a minimum of 300 voluntary agencies
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Up-to-date online and had copy database of local voluntary agencies
publicly available (minimum 300 organisations).
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A breakdown of numbers of equalities groups (organisations and
individuals) reflected in all the above indicators
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2 clusters/ mergers facilitated between voluntary organisations per
annum
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Customer care plan in place
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Achieve NAVCA Quality Mark or equivalent
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Manage a Volunteer Centre
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Increased number of volunteers by 5%
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50 organisations to register on the Volunteer Centre recruitment
database
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Annual satisfaction survey of volunteers placed through the Volunteer
Centre
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Event held exploring the impact of self directed support and
individualised budgets on the voluntary sector
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Bi-annual input into the JSNA
Do you agree with the performance indicators identified or are there others that you think
should be included? Please include any additional comments or feedback you may have
regarding the above performance indicators