Community development and training current projects

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So far, so, so?

• National ChangeUp Strategy
• The West Sussex Steering Group
• Your views from the March 2005 Voluntary Sector
  Forum
• Next steps

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National strategy

• The fundamental aim of Government ChangeUp
  strategy is to define good practice and seek
  local co-ordination of locally funded services to
  voluntary organisations.
• Government started off being primarily interested
  in VCO delivery of public services
• Future support for the Consortium and key
  projects in the next financial year
• A new Agency established by Government Capacity
  Builders will take up the reins and manage
  central governments financial commitment

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Getting started in West Sussex

• Proposals developed by AirS, VOLG and other local
  infrastructure organisations around last
  Christmas
• Proposals discussed at the last Voluntary Sector
  Forum as work in progress
• Steering Group set up following the Forums

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West Sussex Steering Group

• Initial Steering Group drawn together from
• frontline voluntary organisations that deliver
  services
• the statutory sector, through the West Sussex
  Strategic Partnership
• the West Sussex infrastructure organisations ie
  CsVS, VBx, County Orgs. Etc..
• Voluntary organisations re-imbursed, albeit
  modestly, for time spent at meetings of the
  Steering Group

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Your views from March

• Confirm lead organisations for each part of the
  programme, including an additional, specific
  initiative with BME and faith-based organisations
• Sustainability get on with it, need everyone on
  board on the review group
• Quality there is a key link to training,
  pooling resources and identifying the right
  standards
• Communications Prospectus good, must maximise
  effectiveness and invest in a robust network
• Sector promotion plain english needed, services
  must be dynamic a relate to what the sector
  really needs

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Your views from March contd..

• Rural physical infrastructure clarify for the
  whole community and link to other infrastructure
  ie transport, information, link person etc..
• Young people this should be a major focus
  especially training, transport, mentoring and
  physical space
• Sub-district link with Parish Councils and
  District LSPs, share information and focus on
  what local front line organisations need.
  Geography is a major issue in a rural county.
• ICT Vol Orgs need to know what to know as well
  as practical help, the resources may be out there
  but need to be made accessible
• Workforce development Define strategic
  requirements, requires a gap analysis for staff
  and volunteers of frontline organisations,
  delivery of learning must be planned around
  capacity, expertise and resources.

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Next steps in West Sussex

• Preliminary discussion of some key issues today
• Discussion paper to be issued before Christmas
• Draft Infrastructure Development Plan to be
  published for 12 week consultation in March

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Preliminary issues

• What is the best balance between economies of
  scale and localness that will achieve the
  maximum impact?
• What do those who invest in support services want
  to achieve and how can their investment and
  commitment be consolidated? Is there a key role
  for Local Strategic Partnerships?
• What impact do we want our support services to
  the voluntary and community sector to have? Have
  we analysed this correctly?
• Will we be able to ask Trustees of individual
  organisations to sign up to a final plan that
  could seek to co-ordinate their activity with
  that of others?
• Our initial analysis suggests that short term
  project funding is a counterproductive way of
  providing support services to voluntary
  organisations and contributes more to inefficient
  use of resources than duplication or overlap. Do
  you agree

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