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Welcome to Macc’s Policy and Influence Team’s August newsletter.
In this edition, you can read about the work that the team has been doing to improve access to health and wellbeing services for Manchester residents, embed social value in to the city's work and make sure people's lived experiences are taken in to account when planning services for the city.
At the time of writing, the UK looks more likely than ever to leave the European Union on the 31st October without having a deal in place. We are working with a partnership of organisations including NPC, the Lloyds Bank Foundation, the Brexit Civil Society Alliance and 10GM, who are organising a conference in the city to look at the role and mission of the voluntary and wider social sector through, and post, Brexit. Speakers include Mike Wild, Macc's CEO, and Alison Page, CEO of our sister organisation Salford CVS. We also look below at some of the sector's messages to the new prime minister, and you can read Mike's recent blog.
We hope you enjoy our new-look newsletter. We'll also be starting a series of P&I shorts, with more regular information about opportunities to get involved in policy, influence and decision making in the city. We'll be hosting some guest blogs in the run up to the next Voluntary Sector Assembly, and developing new briefing notes and information for our website. If you'd like to write for us, or if there's a topic you'd like to see us cover, do get in touch.
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| What have we been working on? |
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| Active Signposting |
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We’re currently working with Manchester Health and Care Commissioning to support Primary Care admin and reception staff around Active Signposting. This involves providing clear information about the range of services available both inside and outside of the GP practice, which enables people to go straight to the most appropriate service or activity each time. An external training provider has been appointed to deliver this, but we will be working alongside them to make the most of the local relationships, organisations and services that will help this make a real difference.
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| Our Manchester Funding |
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Two new funding streams will be coming soon, both for approximately £1 million. The first is aimed at creating, across the city, a consistent infrastructure of support for older people. The second is focussing on supporting women with young families to build their social networks and to use services. In both cases, the lead bidder must be an organisation already funded by the Our Manchester Fund, the Young Manchester Fund or the Arts and Cultural Partnership. However, there is a strong emphasis in working with and passing on funding to other VCS organisations.
Macc has played a key role in facilitating co-design processes, involving VCS organisations in the development of the funding and in ensuring the funding processes are simple and clear. Both funding streams are out for consultation as this article is written.
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| Primary Care Networks are coming! |
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The Primary Care Networks are part of the NHS Long Term Plan and their aim is to connect general practices locally so they can work together. They will cover a local population of around 30,000 to 50,000 patients. This generally already happens in Manchester with the GP Federations and the Neighbourhood Partnerships that work alongside the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, but Primary Care Networks put a more formal structure around this way of working.
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| Developing Neighbourhoods |
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In each of the 12 neighbourhoods in Manchester, there is a Health Development Co-ordinator (HDC) whose role is to support statutory health and social care services in joint work with neighbourhood services. Each team of HDCs reported on their work at the recent Prevention Steering Group and they are making excellent progress showing the importance of taking a community development approach. The list of projects they are involved in is far too long to cover here but includes joint planning meetings, workshops, training and consultation forums.
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| Social Value Network Gathering |
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Greater Manchester Social Value Nework (GMSVN) is holding a network gathering at the Co-op building in Manchester city centre on Tuesday 10 September. Five years ago, a small group of people, including Nigel Rose from Macc, with an interest in Greater Manchester, its people and social value developed GMSVN. Constituted on a voluntary basis, the Network has sought to draw together the public, commercial and social sectors to put social value at the heart of everything Greater Manchester does.
Since that beginning, the network has grown and has achieved a lot including: showcasing social value practice; developing training; influencing policy and practice; and creating a movement for social change. However, there is lots more to do to meet our vision of 'embedding social value into everything that Greater Manchester does'. More info -
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greater-manchester-social-value-network-gathering-tickets-63971990947
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| Health and Wellbeing Leaders Group |
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As part of the ongoing representation work we are undertaking here at Macc, we are happy to announce that we have convened the first meeting of the Manchester VCSE Health and Wellbeing Leaders Group. This group will become a coalition of the willing, leading on behalf of the wider sector and accountable back to the sector. Senior representatives of voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations will form the group's membership. The ultimate aim is to provide VCSE sector organsiations with the opportunity to consider and engage with the work of key public sector bodies in Manchester. This work also involves acting as a critical friend to the wider health and care system across the city.
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| Poverty Truth Commission |
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Manchester’s Poverty Truth Commission had its formal launch on 25 July. It starts with the question ‘what if people who have directly faced poverty were involved in making decisions about the best ways to tackle it?’ The Commission brings together people from the public, business and voluntary sectors with people with a range of lived experiences of poverty, which may also include issues such as housing, drug or alcohol use, debt and long term illness or disability. Over the course of a year, the Commissioners meet monthly, creating a safe environment where they can draw on each other’s experience and knowledge to identify actions and make recommendations as to ways that the concerns of people living with poverty can be addressed. Examples of actions taken as a result of Poverty Truth Commissions in other areas include dealing with the high costs of bailiffs’ fees, improving services for people with mental health issues and changing the documents used for identification so people weren’t paying for a passport or driving licence they didn’t otherwise need.
Mike Wild, Macc’s CEO is one of the Commissioners. The process is being coordinated by Cheetham Hill Advice Centre, and supported by Manchester City Council and Manchester Health Care Commissioning. It will report in Spring 2020. For more information, follow @TruthPoverty on Twitter.
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Sharing Our Wellness
We are continuing the Sharing Our Wellness Campaign this year. MHCC are funding this and we want to invite a range of people across Manchester to get involved in a conversation about what keeps them well. There are opportunities to apply for a mini-grant and also some free training to support this work. Click here to find out more. DC
Come along to Community Explorers
Community Explorers is a cross-sector network that meets on a regular basis in North, Central and South Manchester. The aim is to bring together anyone with an interest in health and wellbeing. You might want to come along to promote a service or project. You are welcome to have an agenda item at our next round of meetings. Here’s all the information you need to get involved.DC
Living Wage - how does it affect your organisation and the people you work with?
Macc recently hosted a visit from members of the Low Pay Commission, who were spending time in Manchester visiting a variety of organisations to look at the impacts of the living wage on different sectors of the economy. The discussion with Macc and Citizens Advice Manchester was wide-ranging, and included the impacts of waiting periods and poor administration for universal credit claimants, zero hours contracts and the gig economy, and the difficulties of enforcing your rights even when you know them, especially if you feel your job will be at risk. We stressed how low pay is just part of the picture for people struggling with low income, and how it links to other issues such as housing, mental health, disability and food poverty. The Low Pay Commission want to hear more from the VCSE sector, so we will be working with them to produce a survey which will be sent out shortly. Contact karen@macc.org.uk for further information, or follow @lpcminimumwage on twitter.
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| What we've been reading |
Community Life Survey 2018-19
The Community Life Survey is a household self-completion survey of adults aged 16+ in England. The survey is a key evidence source on social cohesion, community engagement and social action including volunteering and charitable giving.
Above and Beyond: How voluntary sector providers add value to communities
The Voluntary Organisations Disabilities Group represent leading not-for-profit providers of services and support to disabled people.This newly published report explores how innovative not-for-profit organisations consistently and proactively meet gaps in support, particularly as austerity undermines existing provision.
Leading the way: on HEY100 and a radical new path for leadership development in the social sector
HEY100 was a place-based leadership programme that ran in Hull and East Yorkshire throughout 2018. This review looks at the achievements of the programme through the experiences and reflections of a range of people involved in different aspects of the programme.
A citizen-led approach to health and care: Lessons from the Wigan Deal
This report from The King's Fund provides an independent critique of the Wigan Deal drawing on in-depth research, including interviews with key stakeholders, focus groups with members of the public and evidence from data analysis. It explores what local authorities, NHS organisations and others can learn from Wigan’s journey of transformation.
Unequal Regard, Unequal Protection 2 - Spotlight on Manchester
By publishing this report, Sisters For Change and The Manchester Maya Project partners seek in the short term to inform the development of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Violence Against Women and Girls strategy, and Manchester City Council’s current review of its approach to commissioning domestic abuse services and in the longer term to improve and strengthen responses to BME women victims of violence by local authorities and statutory agencies across Greater Manchester.
Charities tell new prime minister Boris Johnson what they want
A recent article in Civil Society gives a summary of the responses and requests by a range of charities to the new prime minister.
GM Good Employment Charter
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme which has been created to help deliver good jobs with opportunities for people to progress and develop, along with a thriving and productive economy. The Charter aims to improve employment standards across all GM employers regardless of size, sector or geography.
New leaders must be rule breakers
A new blog from Sam Conniff, the award winning author of Be More Pirate, explains the power of the Be More Pirate way in shifting the culture of health and care. He mentions the work of Claire and others within the Systems Leadership programme to give more people permission to say no: I will not do it this way anymore because it doesn’t work.
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