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Review of Manchester City Council's Equality Funding Programme

21 Dec 2015 - 16:35 by Nigel Rose

Macc and Manchester City Council have jointly written a Review of Manchester City Council's Equality Funding Programme 2013/14 to 2015/16. It covers both how funded organisations met the objectives of the fund and how the fund was set-up, managed and monitored. Its full of examples of the work that funded groups carried out and highlights a number of issues that a future funding programme would need to address.

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RAPAR Press Release: Open letter: Deep sadness at another child’s death fuels our determination to extend solidarity with refugees

12 Oct 2015 - 15:00 by michelle.foster

Press release from RAPAR:

'The dead baby boy washed up on the the beach in Kos a few days ago -www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34479482 -is further strengthening Greater Manchester’s commitment to extending real solidarity to the people who are refugees.

This autumn, 169 people including 44 children are reported have been downed or missing in the Aegean Sea.
Next Saturday, 17th October, we will be taking our solidarity from Greater Manchester to Calais.

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Making Safer Communities Summit

4 Aug 2015 - 13:10 by michelle.foster

Macc and Salford CVS hosted the Making Safer Communities Summit for voluntary sector groups, with guest speaker Tony Lloyd, the GM Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and interim GM Mayor on 18 June 2015 in Central Manchester. The idea for this collaborative approach between Macc and Salford CVS around crime and community safety first arose as a response to the riots of 2011.

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It Could Be You

12 Mar 2015 - 16:19 by john.butler


“It Could Be You”, is a campaign that aims to tackle attempts by politicians and many in the media to create division between so called “strivers and scroungers”. Their aim is to demonise people who are receiving sickness benefits, in order to justify the unfair and inhuman treatment of disabled people, through the use of a deeply flawed assessment process known as the “Work Capability Assessment” (WCA).

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New mental health guidance published

13 Feb 2015 - 11:23 by john.butler

NHS England has set out guidance for how new access and waiting time standards for mental health services are to be introduced.
In October, NHS England and the Department of Health announced the measures in Improving better access to mental health services by 2020.
NHS England’s guidance, out today for CCGs, explains the case for change in four areas and sets out the expectations of local commissioners for delivery during the year ahead working with providers and other partners.

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Consultation on Welfare Provision Closes 21st November

6 Nov 2014 - 09:20 by john.butler

 Parts of the Department for Work and Pensions’ discretionary Social Fund, introduced in 1987, were abolished by the Welfare Reform Act 2012. This paved the way for the delivery of new local welfare provision by local authorities, replacing Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans. In Manchester this amounts to 2.7M per annum.
The DWP decided that this funding would cease from May 2014 however this decision was challenged in a judicial review (supported by CPAG) which resulted in a ruling that the DWP had to carry out a consultation process. 

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The Evidence for Person Centered Care

7 Aug 2014 - 11:44 by john.butler

National Voices, the health and care charity coalition, is launching a new set of take-away resources which set out the best ways to engage people and make person centred care happen.

Called Evidence for Person Centred Care, this rich set of resources is designed to make it easy for commissioners and providers to access, understand and make use of the best evidence for various approaches to involving people in their health and healthcare.

Five ‘simple guide’ booklets can be quickly downloaded to use in making value cases for patient and service user involvement

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Mental Health Act (1983) changes to code of practice Consultation

31 Jul 2014 - 14:07 by john.butler

The consultation ‘Stronger Code: Better Care’ is asking for your thoughts on a new draft Code which includes:
• 5 new guiding principles
• significantly updated chapter on how to support children and young people, on the use of restraint and seclusion and the use of police powers and places of safety
• new chapters on care planning, equality and human rights, links to the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and support for victims

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Alcohol Services Consultation

4 Jul 2014 - 12:13 by john.butler

Manchester City Council’s Public Health team is currently looking at how alcohol early intervention and treatment services are delivered within the city. They are looking at how the whole system can be redesigned, following a review earlier this year that identified ways the current system could be improved.

They want to take into account the opinions and views of a range of people. This includes current and ex-service users and their carers, people involved in providing alcohol services, providers of other services in the city, and members of the public with an interest.

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Work Capability Assessment Call for Evidence

30 Jun 2014 - 16:49 by john.butler

The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Dr Paul Litchfield to undertake the fifth independent review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), This is the final statutory independent review of the WCA, as required by section 10 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007.

Information about the call for evidence can be found here http://tinyurl.com/nhff9dm

Who this call for evidence is aimed at

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