Manchester City Council (MCC) is holding an event on 17th Sept from 11-1pm at Manchester Town Hall to discuss the extension of Shared Lives services. MCC is seeking an organisation to deliver services for adults with a learning disability and adults with mental health support needs.
Four weeks to go and the Spirit of Manchester Festival is building up nicely.
Manchester City Council is holding meetings on Tuesday 2 September 2014 and Friday 26 September 2014 to consult on proposals for a new Advocacy Hub.
The Care Act 2014 requires the City Council to provide independent advocacy for those who may have difficulty understanding and participating in the assessment process. An advocate provides support to an individual to help them express their needs and wishes, secure their rights, represent their interests and obtain the care and support they need
One of the things I love most about working in the voluntary sector is that if you have a really good idea you can generally find a way to make it happen. It might take a while – things like our State of the Sector and Civil Economy work were on my wishlist for years before we were finally able to publish the finished work. But sometimes you can be taken by surprise at how fast you can go from the idea to it actually happening.
TUPE (Tranfer of Undertakings, Protection of Employment) is the complex set of regulations that governs how employees are transferred from one organisation to another when a publicly funded contract changes hands, and it has recently been updated.
The 2014 EU Procurement Directives were adopted by the EU on 28 March 2014 and the UK government is intending to put them into operation in the UK as quickly as possible. Manchester City Council and other public bodies are beginning to assess their impact. The new rules remove the distinction between Part A and Part B procurement and are intended, on the whole, to open up the market, especially to small and medium enterprises.
Nigel Rose, Strategic Lead (Commissioning) has published the second part of his two-part blog which proposes a solution to the thorny problem of including evidence of past performance in decision-making about funding. How can we ensure that organisations that perform well continue to be funded and those that are perform badly are decommissioned?
In part 1 of this article I sketched out some issues to consider when taking into account evidence of past performance in decision-making about funding. In part 2, I attempt to provide some answers.
Could Manchester be Europe’s answer to America’s hippest city - Portland, Oregon?
Manchester has enjoyed solid economic success, there is now an opportunity for a ‘new wave’ to Manchester’s future. A new report A Civil Economy for Manchester, prepared for Macc by the think-do tank the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) demonstrates how this new wave is about unleashing the power of citizens, social and voluntary group.
Macc, together with VYM and Manchester City Council jointly carried out an evaluation of Manchester City Council's Youth and Play Services Commissioning (2014/15) which has, as yet, not been published. The statement explains the position of Macc and VYM who want to see the evaluation published as soon as possible, and the steps that have been agreed with Manchester City Council to make this happen.