Policy briefings
A key aspect of T3SC’s work is to provide our members with information and support that will enable them to engage effectively with the local public sector. This is both to make sure that the local public sector gains from a voluntary and community sector better placed to help meet local priorities and also to see that the voluntary and community sector is, in turn, able to influence local policy making and demonstrate its value.
We will continue to take every opportunity to make a strong case for the sector in our discussions with local decision makers, and to support the sector to do this as well.
A key part of this is providing up to date and easily accessible policy briefings – the latest of which you will find here.
Areas:
National
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Equality Act is a piece of Parliamentary legislation which aims create a more equal society in Britain as it requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as public and private services regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, belief and age.
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Funky Lizard - Families, children and young people
2020 Children and Young people's Workforce Strategy
Every Child Matters - What's it all about?
Health and Social Care Briefings
White Paper on Public Health - Nov 2010
White Paper (Department of Health, 30 November 2010)
The consultation questions on which Government has asked for
comments and the full paper can be found at www.dh.gov.uk
This paper builds on the vision for the National Health Service (NHS) that was set out in ‘Equity and Excellence – Liberating the NHS’ but focuses on the need to improve Public Health (population health whether that be of the
country or of a local area such as Tameside).
DRIVE Briefing
Delivering Real Improvement, Value and Efficiency (DRIVE) is a programme to increase efficiency across Tameside Council. One of the themes of which is Joint working and Collaboration. T3SC has been asked to set up a reference group with Voluntary Community and Faith groups commissioned to deliver services in Tameside so that they can help commissioners to ‘Develop an Independent Provider Market – with particular emphasis on the CVF sector’.
White Paper - Equity and Excellence Liberating the NHS - briefing
(Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, 12 July 2010)
The Coalition Government’s White Paper on health – Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS has been delivered to parliament and sets out the most dramatic whole system changes the NHS has seen since its inception. From abolishing Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s), expanding the creation of Social Enterprises to unprecedented proportions, to the future of Local Involvement Networks (LINks) the next few years is set to be very different and challenging for all health providers including those from the third sector, but will undoubtedly bring many opportunities too.
Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010. This policy briefing is a strategic review of the health inequalities in England, and looks of the key areas of recognising and reducing health inequalities, the briefing also provides recommendations and policy objectives in regards to health inequalities.
Volunteering – Involving People and Communities in Delivering and Developing Health and Social Care Services. This document outlines the Department of Health’s (DoHs) strategic vision for volunteering "Of a health and social care environment in which volunteering is encouraged, promoted and supported wherever it has the power to reduce inequality, enhance service quality or improve outcomes for individuals and communities.” The document pays particular attention to strategic aims in regards to volunteering, how best to go about achieving change and the next steps for the future.
T3SC and Health and Social Care network Green Paper response
'Shaping the Future of Care Together' Green Paper. Presented by the Secretary of State for Health to Parliament, 14 July 2009.
This briefing discusses what Social Prescribing is, its values, who is it for, and what they will be prescribed, the outcomes, key elements of commissioning and the delivery of Social Prescribing.
