East Midlands
Mapping of the key contacts for the children,
youth and families VCS in each Local Authority area can be found
here [doc 32kb].
Partnership meetings
Key representatives
from the children, youth and families VCS meet together with Local
Authority staff from across the region, in order to share
information and best practice and identify gaps where additional
work may be needed.
Black and Minority Ethnic VCS
A
comprehensive research and mapping of the needs of the BME VCS has
been carried out and can be found here [doc 166kb].
The partnership group are looking to help develop some of the
actions from this work to support more effective involvement of the
BME VCS.
Additional support
As in other regions,
focused support is going to three areas, where Local Authorities
will complete a Self Evaluation Tool (SET) to establish how
effective their engagement with the VCS is, in order to develop an
action plan for development. The areas involved are:
- Nottingham City – would like to improve practice and review
early stages.
- Lincolnshire – would like to improve practice and review early
stages.
- Northamptonshire – would like to take part to learn the ground
rules and principles.
Good practice
Examples of good or emerging
practice will be added to this section:
Derbyshire GRID [doc 31kb]
Commissioning
The East Midlands Centre of Excellence has developed a regional
commissioning framework. Information can be found
here.
RDMs are supporting the local VCS in engaging with
commissioning, and looking at how else they can support the sector
with this challenging agenda.