Welcome to this edition of Inter-action
The e-newsletter of Redcar and Cleveland Voluntary Development Agency.
Have you signed up for the weekly funding update from the local authority. If not contact Adrian Harris, The External Funding Lead who provides a weekly report of the latest announcements across the funding world. This can be sent to your inbox on request, just email adrian.harris@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk and ask to be added.
Government Publishes Civil Society Strategy
The government has published its Civil Society Strategy today, promising that it will “build stronger communities by bringing together businesses, charities and the public sector”.
Key announcements include plans to unlock £20m from dormant charitable accounts and distribute it to community trusts and commitments to support corporate social responsibility, improve the take-up of the Social Value Act, and renewed commitments to grants and the principles of the Compact. For more information Click Here.
Plans for £165m of dormant assets funding
The strategy also includes plans to establish two new institutions to give away £145m of money from dormant bank accounts. That money will be spent on youth services and financial inclusion. It was originally announced last year, but the government has now provided more details on how it will be spent. For more information Click Here.
National Youth Advocacy Service
NYAS is a leading children’s charity providing advocacy services for children and young people from 0-25, across England and Wales for over 30 years. Their work helps make a difference to the lives of the most vulnerable children and young people when they are in desperate need of help.
They are looking to recruit to the following vacancy:
Independent Visitor (Volunteer) Coordinator – Darlington/Redcar and Cleveland
Part time: 11 hours per week
Salary: £6,720pa (pro rata of £21,381pa)
Benefits: (pro rata of 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays, group stakeholder pension, cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership)
Home based
The IV Co-ordinator will take responsibility for recruiting, screening and training volunteers to become Volunteer Independent Visitors for children and young people who are looked after by the Local Authority. You will be responsible for the matching and allocation of appropriate volunteers to children and young people and for the professional management and support of the volunteers. Experience of face to face work with children and young people is essential.
For more information, please visit www.nyas.net
Closing date for applications: 24th August 2018
Interview date: 4th September 2018
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NYAS is an equal opportunities employer
Early help for young people and families
6th National Early Help Conference
CYP Now is bringing together a stellar line-up of expert speakers and innovative practitioners for out 6th annual national Early Help conference, taking place on Wednesday 19th September 2018 in central London. For more information about this conference Click Here.
The conference is designed for:
- Managers, directors and practitioners across children and young people’s services
- Commissioners of services
- Early help teams
- Charity chief executives and directors
- Policy makers and officers
- Early support co-ordinators
- Troubled families teams
- Public health professionals
- Health and wellbeing boards
- Children’s centre managers
- Health visitors
- CAMHS professionals
- Quality and performance managers
- Heads of evaluation and evidence
- The academic community
Health Intelligence for Everyday Practice
This training course is being delivered by the Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service for the North East, within Public Health England. It is aimed at anyone involved in population health and health improvement who is seeking a basic introduction to key concepts in health intelligence. It would be of benefit to people whose job or voluntary role includes a wider public health remit.
A one day foundation level training course
Thursday 25th October 2018, 10.00-16.00
Durham County Council, County Hall, Durham DH1 5UL (County Hall is a 10 minute walk from Durham station on the East coast main line)
The day is broken down separate sections covering:
- Introduction to health intelligence
- Using health intelligence to understand your population: an interactive approach using Fingertips
- Understanding a health issue: interpreting and acting on health intelligence
- A guided tour of a Fingertips profile: Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Exploring Health Profiles
- Self-directed exercises: tobacco, obesity or alcohol
- Linking intelligence with evidence of what works: Health Matters
- Conclusions, next steps and evaluation of the day
Environment Agency
Flood Awareness
It’s been just over a year since the Environment Agency appointed a team of Community Engagement Officers to help people prepare for floods, using funding from Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. Sarah Duffy is the Flood Resilience Community Engagement Officer for Cleveland. She has been working with schools, youth groups, communities and businesses to help them become more flood aware, and to know what to do before, during and after an event.
The project started in June 2017 and so far has achieved some fantastic outcomes for groups at risk of flooding across the North East. So far, the officers have engaged with over 6000 young people and 5000 adults, working with over 130 businesses and more than 50 schools.
If you have experienced flooding, would like to know more about how to prepare for floods, or would like to volunteer as a Flood Warden, then please contact Sarah Duffy on 07867441697 or sarah.duffy@environment-agency.gov.uk.
You can check your flood risk at https://www.gov.uk/check-flood-risk and sign up to receive Flood Warnings at https://www.gov.uk/sign-up-for-flood-warnings
You can also register by phone, to Floodline on 0345 988 1188.
