Publications

This section allows you to easily access both VCS Engage publications and publications produced by other organisations relating to the VCS and children, young people and family services.

Navigate to a report by clicking on a subject area within the Publications  Index below.

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Publications Index

• Working with children's trusts
• Collaborative working
• Commissioning
• Cross-sector engagement
• Differentiated markets
• Evaluating VCS Engagement
• Extended schools
• Social enterprise
• A multi-ethnic perspective
• * Programme Evaluation Literature Review *

 

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Working with children's trusts

• Engaging Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations:  Best practice case studies by Andrew Brooker, Jill Varndell, Sue Wade
  • Introduction
  • Summary
  • Blackburn with Darwen Case
  • Bradford Case
  • Durham Case
  • Nottingham Case
  • Richmond Case
  • Tower Hamlets Case
• VCS engagement in the development of Children and Young People’s Plans 2006/07 by Sue Wade and Community Action Hampshire for NAVCA
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Collaborative working

• Collaborative working: building a consortium by ICAN/Anita Kerwin Nye
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• Joint working to meet the needs of young people at risk of exclusion from mainstream education by Francesca Pollard, Head of New Business Development, Rainer Wendy Prichard Smith, Operations Director (South), Rathbone
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• Vertical Integration: a version of voluntary and community sector collaboration in delivering services for children, young people and families by Hilary Barnard
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• Creating exceptional partnerships: working together to build on our success by Linda Joy Mitchell, Julie Barnes, Lena Holmberg
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• The cooperate sector - Evaluating partnership approaches in the voluntary sector by James Murray, Children's Centre Project
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• The dynamics of partnerships - Exploring an inter-organisational collaboration project by Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo and Mr Thorsten Roser, Children's Centre Project
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Commissioning

• Commissioning:  Contracting and service delivery of children’s services in the Voluntary and community Sector by Dave Packwood
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Cross-sector engagement

• VCS Engagement in the development of Children and Young People’s plans 2006/07:  current status and good practice by NAVCA
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Differentiated markets

• Impact of market forces on the operation and capacity of the residential child care sector by NCERCC
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  • Click here to read the summary
  • and appendices
• Raising the Standards – A Guide to Quality Systems in the Youth Sector by National Youth Agency NCVYS
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Evaluating VCS Engagement

• Assessing Engagement with the Voluntary and Community Sector:  A Mini Self-Evaluation Toolkit 
  • Click here for the pdf toolkit
  • Click here for the Microsoft Word version of the toolkit
  • Click here for the EXTENDED Self-Evaluation toolkit
• Assessing Engagement with the Voluntary and Community Sector: Self-Evaluation Toolkit (SET) REPORT,  gauging the current level of engagement between local authorities and VCS organisations by Celia Watson and others  
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Extended schools

• Voluntary and Community Participation in Extended Schools by Rob Smith
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• Extended School Guide: Engaging the third sector in the extended schools programme - 4 Children
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Social enterprise

• Applying Social Enterprise approaches to services for Children, Young People and Families by Emma Strang France
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• Rising to the Challenge:  Social Enterprises delivering services for children, young people and families by Family & Parenting Institute/Social Enterprise Coalition
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A multi-ethnic perspective

• Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups: communicating and collaborating with the BME
  and faith-based VCS
  by Annette Leader 
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Programme Evaluation Literature Review

• VCS Engage Programme – Literature Review
  by NCB

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