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Up: a ten year plan for the borough’s voluntary sector |
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Infrastructure organisations in Waltham
Forest need to work better together if they are to effectively support
voluntary and community groups in the borough to deliver front line
services.
This is the key message emerging from a 10 year Local Investment
Development Plan recently completed locally by a multi-agency ‘Core
Group’ set up under the Change Up government initiative.
Change Up has operated in every part of the country to facilitate
an analysis of the needs that front line organisations have if they
are to take a greater role in delivering services which are traditionally
the realm of central or local governments.
According to the plan, so-called infrastructure or umbrella groups
need to:
- agree their respective roles and activities
and how organisations refer and signpost
- agree to develop a joint marketing
and access strategy to complement the agreed roles and activities
- develop a collaborative approach to
their work, i.e. rationalise the number of infrastructure organisations
- provide leadership for the voluntary
and community sector
support groups in being fully inclusive
The Waltham Forest Local Infrastructure
Development Plan (WFLIDP) seeks to map current infrastructure support
provided to the local Voluntary and Community Sector by the statutory,
voluntary and private sectors. It also aims to address how gaps
are filled in local provision, explore the sustainability of services,
investigate opportunities for collaboration and deal with duplication
of services where this exists.
The Plan was developed by a Core Group made up of Voluntary Action
Waltham Forest (lead agency); the BME Alliance; Volunteer Centre;
Community Empowerment Network; Waltham Forest Council; Primary Care
Trust; Ascham Homes; WF College and O-Regen. The Core Group also
had the support of a wider reference group. Consultations involved
members of these groups and a number of other umbrella and front
line organisations.
The Plan was submitted to Government following detailed guidance
though it was submitted as ‘work in progress’ in recognition
that more work needs to be done.
For a copy of the Plan click
here
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VAWF,
which leads locally on Change Up, brought together a Steering Group
and Reference Group for this work.
... Consultants were employed to help both groups see that the 1st
phase of the local Change Up process be completed.
... For more details of the core and reference groups click
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ICT
Change Up for North London
An ICT Plan has
been drawn up to address the sub regional sector's ICT needs.
Click
here to see the plan
Change Up!
The Change Up programme seeks to enable
the development of a ten year investment plan to develop the voluntary
and community sectors’ infrastructure for the benefit of front line
organisations.
In the course of this year local, subregional, regional
and national
plans are being drawn up.
How is ChangeUp rolling
out across London?
A cross-sectoral London ChangeUp consortium has been set up by London
Voluntary Service Council to oversee the development of a regional plan
outlining how an initial £6.2million and any further investment
will be used. A 10-year strategy will be developed for the region, including
each of the five sub-regions, and every London borough.
Who is leading ChangeUp in each borough?
Generally, Council’s for Voluntary Service are leading on the development
of a Local Infrastructure Development Plan (LIDP) and have set up cross-sectoral
steering groups to put together proposals for consultation and delivery
of their LIDP.
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