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Communities Fund

The Department for Communities and Local Government will provide funding up to approximately £70,000 to local authorities working with community groups to deliver solutions to entrenched social issues for example relating to:

  • Early intervention and high cost individuals- people falling through gaps in statutory services perhaps because they do not meet individual service criteria or thresholds
  • Adult social care– for example: tackling social isolation including via community transport schemes; projects aimed at safeguarding vulnerable people including rehabilitation and preventative work around domestic abuse; and/or; work aimed at increasing public health and wellbeing
  • Children’s Services– this could, for example, include work around disabled children’s support services or those aimed at helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds
  • Employment Support– we are particularly interested in proposals working with those furthest from the labour market and/or where the training is tailored to reflect opportunities in the local employment market and so more likely to result in sustainable outcomes

This will be through £2.5m funding over the next two years. They invite proposals from local collaborations between local authorities and neighbourhood or community organisations to bid by 16 January. Bids should be for new projects or to extend an existing project into another area but not to prop up an existing approach.

Funding would be provided in the form of a direct grant to a local authority during the 2016/17 financial year. We expect that work would start in 2016/17 and continue until the summer of 2018.

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Carers Network News 

H&F Carers Forum

A formal group to enable carers to have a stronger voice and influence local systems, supported by Carers Network.

The forum enables you to have your say on local issues for carers, informs the Tri-Borough Carers Partnership Board, and helps Carers Network plan future events and activities.

The next H&F Carers Forum will be on Friday 27 January 2017
1.30pm-3.30pm at Bishop Creighton House,
374-380 Lillie Rd,
SW6 7PH

Please call 020 7386 9417 to register.

Upfront: Online tool for carers

Upfront is a simple tool from Carers UK for carers who are new to the maze of benefits and entitlements.

Fill in your details, spend a couple of minutes answering questions and it will guide you to the information you need.

Visit Upfront here

Dementia: care, support and awareness

The Department of Health has launched its new Dementia 2020 Citizens’ Engagement Programme.

They would like to hear from people living with dementia, their families and carers as to whether policies on improving dementia care and support are making a positive difference and where further improvements may be needed to improve the delivery of local services and support.

Find out more and complete an online survey here

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CQC Inspection of London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. Our job is to check whether hospitals, care homes, GPs, dentists and services in your home are meeting national standards.

From 7th February, our inspectors will be undertaking a inspection to look at emergency and urgent care, emergency operations centre, and resilience at London Ambulance Service. In addition to the central London area and head office, we are aiming to cover ambulance locations in the north and south west, and north and south east. The teams will inspect a number of ambulance stations, and hospitals the patients are taken to in order to review all aspects of the service.

 

CCQ’s last inspection

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust  is rated as inadequate.

You can read the report from our last inspection, which took place in June 2015.

The feedback people gave us about their experiences of care before the last inspection was important and helped us to decide what to look at during our inspection.

 

Give us your feedback online by clicking on the link below

 

Tell us about other services

You can also tell us about care from other services in your area such as your GP, dentist or care home. We’ll use this information to help us to decide when to inspect and what we should look at on inspections.

Phone: 03000 616161 Email: enquiries@cqc.org.uk Online: Click here

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Joint Alert: Compliance with Data Protection Law

The Fundraising Regulator and the Charity Commission have issued a joint alert to all charities, reminding trustees that they must, in addition to following charity law requirements, ensure that there are systems in place at their charity to identify and comply with any data protection laws and regulations that apply to its activities.

Following data protection law is a critical compliance area for any charity that handles personal information. It includes, but is not restricted to, collection, use and storage of donors’ personal data. The Commission’s guidance – Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties (CC20) is clear that trustees are responsible for having systems and processes in place at their charity to ensure that its fundraising is compliant with this legislation.

This week, two charities have been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act and have been issued with monetary penalties by the Information Commissioner. Further charities are also under investigation.

The Commission and the Fundraising Regulator are therefore issuing this alert to support trustees as well as remind them of their legal duties and responsibilities in this area. This alert should be read in conjunction with our published guidance, the published guidance of the ICO and Fundraising Regulator alongside seeking professional advice where necessary. Below we also set out key steps as regulators we expect trustees and charities to immediately take;

  • Immediately cease any activity without explicit consent described and set out by the ICO notices of 5 December 2016 as being in breach of data protection law
  • Review and assess activities in the areas of data collection, storage and use to ensure it is compliant with data protection law – this should include reviewing fair processing statements to ensure they are explicit, clear, transparent and highly visible
  • Review and assess current data governance systems and processes to ensure they are fit for purpose and evidence sufficient oversight, control, are operating and effective – this includes ensuring there is a clear framework of ownership and accountability in place
  • Where breaches are identified ensure you review the requirements for reporting to the ICO and comply – where a notification of breach is required to also submit a notification to the Charity Commission under the reporting a serious incident process
  • Where breaches have occurred consider the risk to those whose data has been breached and any action required to mitigate risks to those individuals and their data – this should include notification to those affected if appropriate following a risk assessment by the data controller
  • Notify the Charity Commission about any investigation of their charity by the Information Commissioner by reporting a serious incident

You can find the full alert on our website. If you have queries regarding this or any other aspect of fundraising regulation, please send us an email at enquiries@fundraisingregulator.org.uk

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European Solidarity Corps

The European Commission have launched the European Solidarity Corps! This allows young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to make an important contribution to society across the EU. Young people will also have the chance to gain invaluable skills and experience at the start of their career.

 

The Commission is presenting a series of actions to boost youth employment, improve and modernise education, more investment in skills of young people, and better opportunities to learn and study abroad.

 

The main goal is to improve opportunities for young people so join here and share the message!

 

To find out more click here.

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Carers Network are expanding the Time Bank into H&F

There are now just 11 days remaining in our challenge to raise £2,500 by 19 Dec so that we can expand the Carers Time Bank into Hammersmith & Fulham and also secure a permanent place on the Global Giving crowdfunding platform, which will help Carers Network raise more money for carers in the future!
http://bit.ly/carers-time-bank

To succeed we still need to raise another £800 in 11 days!

Thank you if you have already donated or shared the project link, but if not, we need your support to help us get DONATIONS and SPREAD THE WORD so we can succeed in the challenge!

You can see the project page by clicking here.

Can you help us? You can do this by:

If you are able to help us it would be greatly appreciated! It really would make a big difference.

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Free support and recognition for healthy workplaces

Do you want to get support and recognition for your commitment to employee health and wellbeing in your organisation? Register your interest in the London Healthy Workplace Charter today.

The London Healthy Workplace Charter is a free framework for action and accreditation scheme that helps organisations to review and develop all that they do to create an environment in which employees can flourish and give their best.

What are the benefits?

The London Healthy Workplace Charter and local support programme offers:

  • A clear structure to develop employee health and wellbeing plans
  • Support from Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s healthy workplace business advisor to address some of the biggest challenges organisations face, including recruitment and staff retention, sickness absence and productivity
  • Free employee health checks
  • Heavily subsidised mental health & wellbeing training for managers (pdf 306KB)
  • Prestigious Public Health England endorsed accreditation which lasts for 5 years and helps to strengthen your organisation’s brand and reputation

How to find out more                                                                      For more information, please see www.lbhf.gov.uk/healthyworkplace, or contact Anna Brown, Healthy Workplace Business Advisor, Hammersmith & Fulham Council:
t: 07584 389 249      e: anna.brown@lbhf.gov.uk

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H&F CCG Health & Wellbeing Small Grants Programme Information

The H&F CCG Health and Wellbeing Grants programme managed by Sobus commenced in April 2016. £100k was made available by the H&F CCG and Sobus managed the application process including the promotion of the initiative. The programme was hugely oversubscribed, with over 40 applications totalling £460k plus. The grants panel consisted of CCG staff & Board members plus a voluntary sector representative from outside the borough. Grants awarded range from £3k to £14k per project. The current CCG programme comes to an end in March 2017 and we are waiting for confirmation if the programme will run again however, the programme has been very well received by the CCG.

Sobus will alert the sector as soon as a decision is made and any news will put on our website as well as the next funding bulletin. To get all the latest information please check the news section of our website and follow us on twitter @Sobus_H_F

For more information about this years grants programme click here.

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Youth Partnership Co-production

The council commissioned Sobus to deliver the co-production of a Youth Partnership for Hammersmith and Fulham. The partnership engaged young people, businesses, funders, and providers to develop a shared vision and service model for young people’s services in Hammersmith and Fulham and ways of working in partnership to deliver this vision and ensure sustainability for the future. The hard work from everyone has enabled this report to be brought together but more importantly a strong partnership of stakeholders that can continue working together collectively.

On Tuesday 29th November the report was formally launched by the Youth Mayor – Aminata Koroma. There was great attendance and engagement by young people, youth providers, funders and statutory organisations.

The main recommendations included:

  1. Further develop a broad group to ‘own’ the needs and opportunities of young people in H&F, ensuring they are addressed holistically and be a reference point for commissioners and researchers such as public health.
  2. The Youth Partnership is seeking to apply for funding from John Lyons and wishes to pursue match funding from LBHF to become the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation.  The Foundation would make the work of the Youth Partnership sustainable in the long term and take forward key parts of the recommendations of this report.
  3. Establish a system that all providers use and young people refer to ensure clear communications between partners and with service users.
  4. Groups work together to apply for large funding pots and commissioning opportunities to deliver work.

For a full copy of the report click here.

In our January newsletter there will be an update on the progress of the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation. If your organisation has not been involved with the partnership then please register your interest by emailing info@sobus.org.uk

 

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