Third Sector News
The following news stories were published within the last 30 days and are taken from a number of different websites.
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Asda has 'no plans' to extend Health Lottery ticket sales to all of its stores
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Supermarket will not say whether decision was influenced by pressure from Acevo or adverse publicity
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Asda has 'no plans' to extend Health Lottery ticket sales to all stores
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Supermarket will not say whether decision was influenced by pressure from Acevo or adverse publicity
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Redundancy on the agenda at West Berkshire Mencap
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Local council plans to cut its funding by 15 per cent to £417,000
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David Miliband and Acevo taskforce to unveil report on youth unemployment
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Document will suggest ways for the public, private and voluntary sectors to tackle the issue
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Trial of single government website
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The 'beta' (trial) version of the proposed single government website (which would eventually replace Directgov) is now live at https://www.gov.uk and feedback is welcomed at http://getsatisfaction.com/govuk. News release at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/beta-government-single-domain-released. |
Evidence review of sector delivering employment services
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The author of a Third Sector Research Centre review says that "There is a tremendous lack of evidence about the third sector in (delivering employment services)." It questions whether the current Work Programme's framework will allow them to fulfil their potential in this area. |
Volunteering and Citizen Involvement in Wales
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'Volunteering and Citizen Involvement in Wales - Looking to the Future' is a paper written by Wales Council for Voluntary Action in consultation with volunteer centres, county voluntary councils and others. In Word format, 233KB, via http://www.wcva.org.uk/news/dsp_news.cfm?newsid=1788. |
Good practice in working with young people
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The Big Lottery Fund has produced seven good practice guides for organisations working with young people, based on projects it has supported. Titles include Encouraging active citizenship, Actively involving young people and Working with young carers. http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/er_yp_gp.htm. |
Charity training on a budget, online
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Martin Baker from Charity Learning Consortium discusses the role of e-learning, including via social media, in ensuring that charity staff get adequate continuing professional development (CPD) every year. On The Guardian's Voluntary Sector Network. |
NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference: Call for papers
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Data protection advisory visits
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Charities as well as small businesses are being encouraged to invite an 'advisory visit' from the Information Commissioner's Office to provide advice on issues relating to data protection. This is an alternative to a full-blown audit, and involves a one day visit from a member of ICO's good practice team to see what they do with data and how they do it. |
Work accident reporting change
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From 6th April, subject to parliamentary approval, the requirement under RIDDOR to report any accident which results in incapacitation of over three days will change to only reporting if the incident results in over seven days' incapacity. Employers and others with responsibilities under RIDDOR must still keep a record of all over-three-day injuries (if the employer has to keep an accident book, then this record will be enough). RIDDOR = Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. |
