Downloads Area

This area is a list of all the documents from the last two years that we think might be of use to you.

Volunteer Centre

Resources

• Example Volunteer Expenses Claim Form (29 Kb)
• Example Volunteer Role Description (31 Kb)
• Example Volunteer Induction Checklist (28 Kb)
• Example Volunteer Review Form (42 Kb)
• Example Volunteer Exit Letter (24 Kb)
• Example Volunteer Agreement (31 Kb)
• Organisations new to the Volunteer Centre - please complete this form:Organisation registration form - (382 Kb)
• All organisations - please complete this form to register each opportunity you may have:Volunteer opportunity registration form - (229 Kb)

Partnership and Representation

Policy Review

Policy is not just an abstract - it affects the services which your members may receive from public bodies, how public money is spent and much funding for voluntary and community groups can be shaped by local and national policy.

The first step is to know, the second to understand and the third to change policy.

Here are a range of briefing on a wide range of policy issues that affect you. Generally the most recent are at the top, the oldest at the bottom.

Briefings on Local policy

• LBB 2012-13 budget setting
• Children & Young People Partnership draft strategy 2012-15
• Mental Wellbeing Strategy 2011

• LBB Adult & Community Services Portfolio Plan
• LBB Adult & Community Services Consultation on charging
• Summary of decision following consultation  
• LBB Proposed spending reductions
• Voluntary Sector Reference Group response on LBB expenditure reductions

The New Government

• Open Public Services White Paper
• Localism Bill, Right to Bid, Right to Challenge
• Comprehensive Spending Review
• Big Society overview and resources
• Big Society briefing
• Coalition Programme Published
• Queen’s Speech
• A look at the party election manifestos

Health Reforms

Public Health White PaperBriefing

Funding And Commissioning Route

• Health & Social Care Bill 2011
• Healthy Lives Outcomes Framework
• Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS – White paper summary
• Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS briefing  

Briefings on Equity and Excellence accompanying consultations

• Bromley Voluntary Sector Reference Group response to the consultations 
• Commissioning for patients
• Local democratic legitimacy in the NHS
• Regulating Healthcare providers
• Transparency in outcomes- a framework for the NHS

Mayoral Strategies

• London Plan including Transport Strategy & Economic Development Strategy for London
• Health Inequalities Strategy
• Mayor’s housing strategy
• Mayoral strategy on violence against women
• Equality  and Other Mayoral strategies

Archive Policy Review items - still current

• Second Laming report - Child Protection in England a progress report
• Personal budgets in health
• A look at some data on poverty and unmet needs
• Local Authorities - Duty to Involve

Comprehensive Spending Review

Read the report prepared by Stephen Blann,CLB's Policy Officer.

Bromley Compact

If it’s working together it’s Compact and if it’s Compact, it’s working together. if it’s good practice it’s Compact  and  if it’s Compact, it’s good practice

• Making it more than a document
• Bromley Compact Steering Group  
• Compact Steering group minutes
• Bromley Compact Champions Network – your chance to play your part

Bromley Compact Champions resources

• The Bromley Compact  The Bromley Compact - full version - 58 KB
• Compact Champions Launch - Presentation PowerPoint 3.9 mg or available as PDF I.9 Mb
• Model presentation for Compact Champions - PowerPoint 114 Kb or available as a PDF 62Kb
• What does a good compact look like?  A simple “Crib-sheet”
• Some handy tips on consultation  - “consultation road map”
• Make sure  we  record our successes  - fill in the reporting template for the LSP
• Bromley Compact Champions Network newsletters

Other resources from Comapct Voice and others include:

• The Renewed Compact  and Accountability and Transparency Guide
• Local Compacts - a User Guide
• Local Compact Champions Pack
• They are the  Champions – Role and impact of local Compact champions
• “What makes a successful local Compact”  report
• Working Better Together: Implementation Guide for Community Groups and Local Public Bodies
• Commissioning and Procurement law Compact guidance
• Commissioning Guidance for Public Bodies
• Independence Matters
• Best Practice Guide for Local Authorities and the VCS
• Better Together: Preparing for local spending cuts to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
• Commission for the Compact's final report

Commissioning

Commissioning is essentially a structured way of deciding how and on whom public money should be spent. Commissioning is a cycle that involves assessment (or reassessment) of need Identifying resources; Planning how to use the resources;Arranging service delivery through a procurement process; and Monitoring and reviewing service delivery. Further reading

• What is commissioning and why is it important
• LBB Adults Commissioning
• LBB Children & Young People
  • this includes a Draft Children's Strategy 2012-15 (to be adopted early2012). ther is also a CLB briefing on this.
• NHS Commissioning change and uncertainty
• NOTE: a number of the above links are now out of date - new material to be added soon.

Recently a key part of commisioning has been local Joint StartegicNeeds Assessments . Here are soem useful respources

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment background (2008 CLB briefing)
• Bromley JSNA 2010 briefing
• Bromley JSNA 2011 breifing
• Llink to 2011 JSNA (external link)
• Draft Guidance on Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Health & Wellbeing Strategies (Departmetn of Health 2012)

Personalisation

Personalisation is the name to describe the way funding and delivery of social care is changing. If you are a voluntary or community sector organisation, interested in social care you need to read this page personalisation

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