The combined speaker presentations, notes and resources from the GM VCSE Assembly: Co-Production Assembly event that took place on Thursday 20th June 2019 are now available to view by clicking here.
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Welcome to our latest Health and Social Care e-bulletin which contains all the latest news relating to Health and Social Care Devolution agenda, together with information about related events, reports and surveys which we hope will be of interest.
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The combined speaker presentations, notes and resources from the GM VCSE Assembly: Co-Production Assembly event that took place on Thursday 20th June 2019 are now available to view by clicking here.
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 9.30 - 13.00 Manchester, M12 6FZ (Free)
To find out more or to book your place, click here.
The date of the next GM VCSE Co-Production Network event is Friday 6th September 2019, St Thomas Centre. If you are interested in playing a part in the planning and co-production of the content and agenda of this event, please come along to our planning meetings being held at the Central Library Café in Manchester City Centre on the following dates and times below.
Thursday 11th July 2019, 14.00 - 15.00
Monday 12th August 2019, 12.00 – 13.30
Please can you e-mail Maddy Hubbard if you would like to attend either/both of these meetings.
Monday 15 July 2019, 13.30- 16.00, Manchester M12 6FZ, (Free)
An opportunity for VCSE organisations to hear the GM vision to tackle serious violence in Greater Manchester, as well as for you to share examples of good practice and flag any issues or problems that you are seeing within your communities, partnerships and with your client groups.
To find out more to book your place, click here
Friday 17th July 2019, 10.00 - 12.00, Manchester M12 6FZ (Free)
This market engagement event provides an opportunity for VCSE organisations to help contribute to the GM Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy Support programme. If you are from an organisation that works with women and particularly those that are more likely to have an Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy, this is a great chance to influence and shape the design of the delivery element of the support programme
To find out more about the programme or would like to attend, please click here.
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Other Events
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Monday 1st July 2019, 13:00 - 16:00, Manchester, M4 4BF (Free)
To find out more or to book your place, click here.
Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 17:30 - 20:00, Manchester, M4 1HW (Free)
To find out more or to book your place, click here
Friday 19th July 2019 , 9.30 0 - 14.00, Manchester, M12 6FZ
To find out more or book your place, click here.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have launched the second spike of their #DeclareYourCare campaign focusing on people from a Black and ethnic minority (BME) background. They are highlighting how people from a BME background are less likely than those from a non-BME background to raise concerns about the standard of care they receive, especially mental health care.
To find out more, click here.
GMCVO have received a letter from the Executive Director of Adult Social Services at Manchester City Council advising of forthcoming changes to home care contracts.
To find out more, click here.
The Voluntary Organisations Disabilities Group (VODG) represents not-for-profit providers of services and support to disabled people. Their newly published report titled 'Above and Beyond: How voluntary sector providers of disability support add value to communities' explores how innovative not-for-profit organisations consistently and proactively meet gaps in support, particularly as austerity undermines existing provision
To find out more or to view the report, click here.
This year the Queen’s Award results were announced on the 2nd June - the anniversary of Her Majesty’s Coronation. Greater Manchester enjoyed another successful year with 35 organisations being awarded - click here to view the list. Congratulations to all awardees. Nominations for this year are now open with a deadline of 13th September 2019 for award in 2020. We encourage any groups doing volunteer work that provides a social, economic or environmental service to the local community to seek out nominations .
Further details about how to register and get nominated can be found at https://qavs.culture.gov.uk/ and www.gmqavs.org
DHSC has launched the Carers Innovation Fund. The fund aims to support accessible, carer-friendly communities and public services and also seeks to provide evidence on effective interventions to support carers. Applications to recieve funding are welcomed from a mix of sectors, including the voluntary and community sector, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
To find out more, click here.
On the 8th July 2019, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership is meeting with their GM wide patient reference group to provide an update of work undertaken so far in relation to Improving Specialist Care Programme across GM, to share next steps and provide an opportunity to answer audience questions. They would like to extend an invitation to the GM VCSE sector and have therefore reserved 10 places for organisations who work with Protected Characteristic Groups/Communities to attend.
To find out more or apply to attend, click here.
The University of Manchester are conducting a blueprint study which aims to develop a model for high quality service design for children and young people experiencing common mental health problems. Part of the study involves a mapping of all services across England and Wales that are currently delivered to establish current provision and the University is keen to ensure the map incorporates VCSE sector services involved in this work.
To find out more or to complete the survey, please click here.
The GM Health and Social Care Partnership wish to appoint an independent facilitator to provide support to the GM Adult Mental Health Service User Network and ensure that engagement into all ten GM localities is successfully coordinated into the GM Mental Health programme. The independent facilitator will be tasked with exploring forums and groups across GM to ensure engagement of experts by experience into the GM Mental Health programme is inclusive of the range of MH conditions across the ten localities.
To find out more or to register your interest in this opportunity, click here. The closing date for expressions of interest in this position is 4pm on Thursday 4th July 2019.
Third Sector Trends is a longitudinal study of the third sector in the North of England led by Durham University. The longest running aspect of the study is a biennial survey of the sector which is being done for the fifth time in 2019. The reports inform voluntary and community organisations, cooperatives, community businesses and social enterprise about the wellbeing and direction of the sector, and are also widely used by policy makers and funding bodies. Reports are available at: https://www.communityfoundation.org.uk/knowledge-and-leadership/third-sector-trends-research/
Please contribute to the survey to ensure we get strong data from Greater Manchester
To find out more or to take part, click here.
The latest Funding Bulletin produced by 10GM, a partnership of local support and development agencies in Greater Manchester has been produced.
The bulletin can be downloaded here.
Calling all cyclists, walkers, and fitness enthusiasts. Chris Boardman’s team at GMCA and TfGM are looking to create new ‘Parklets’ on the Bee Network and have set up an online consultation. Details can be found at https://mappinggm.org.uk/bee-network
To find out more or to take part, click here.
Remember to also check out:
Our Health and Social Care VCSE Engagement pages to access all of the latest news, events, event resources, documents and contacts relating to the Health and Social Care Devolution agenda across Greater Manchester.
To find out more about Health and Social Care Devolution in Greater Manchester and the opportunities for the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, click here.
If you would like to submit any related news stories or events, or wish to share success stories and/or examples of best practice please email details to kat.rado-barnes@gmcvo.org.uk.
The Health and Social Care VCSE Engagement project is funded by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.
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