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NCVO principally use charities’ accounts to estimate the sector’s finances, as well as survey data to understand rates of volunteering and the sector’s workforce.
Greater Manchester has led the way on ‘devolution agreements’ that move decision-making on crucial public services like local transport, housing, health and skills training closer to local people.
Greater Manchester made the UK’s first English ‘devolution deals’ with central government in 2014, March and July 2015, and March 2016, showing how Greater Manchester’s 2.8 million people could benefit from a new kind of local control of vital aspects of their region’s life, economy and future.
The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) have just announced a new programme of learning events and think times. All the events draw directly on CLES’ experiences supporting localities across the UK to deliver the best possible social, economic and environmental outcomes, as well as their comprehensive knowledge of European, national and local policy agendas.
Charities across Greater Manchester that support women offenders and those at risk of offending are celebrating after being awarded £375,000. Greater Manchester Women Offenders Alliance made a bid for money from the Governments £12 million ‘Tampon Tax’ Fund, which is an amount equivalent to VAT receipts from sanitary products each year.
Janet Linacre, Chief Officer of Manchester Care and Repair has written an article for Public Finance where she discusses the benefits and disadvantages of Health and Social Care devolution in Greater Manchester. Her major concern is that "in attempting to achieve universality of services across Greater Manchester we will see a race to the bottom rather than an improvement in provision across the board".
If you want to learn how to use data more effectively in designing services, in monitoring and applying for funding, then you will want to attend a set of free training events put on by Manchester University in association with Macc.
Recognising the inter-dependent and mutually-beneficial relationship between the University and its neighbouring communities, The University of Manchester is currently developing a new strategic framework for community engagement to better focus, target and measure its activities.
These activities range from research partnerships, teaching programmes, culture and the arts, student volunteering, schools-liaison, sustainability, employment and skills support through to engagement with charities, businesses and the public sector.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is consulting businesses and civil society organisations (CSOs) on the Better Regulation Executive’s approach to reducing regulatory burdens.
In detail, NAO are interested in your insights and evidence on the following:
• What, in your experience, are the costs and benefits of regulations?
• How does regulation impact on your organisation?
• Do departments and regulators consult your organisation when measuring and evaluating the actual impact of regulation?
The consultation will inform an ongoing study into reducing regulation.
This is an invitation to take part in a new online workshop to shape the new way that community health and social care services will be delivered across Manchester.
A team health and social care professionals from the NHS and the Council, and the voluntary and community sector have been working together to develop a draft operating model that sets out how all community based health and care professionals will work together to provide proactive joined up care as ‘One Team’.
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Could you give us 10 minutes to talk about health?
As part of Greater Manchester’s Devolution agenda, for the first time Greater Manchester is taking control of £6 billion of public funding for health and social care from April 2016.
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