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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaJanet Linacre, Chief Officer of Manchester Care and Repair has written an article for Public Finance where she discusses the benefits and disadvantages of Health and Social Care devolution in Greater Manchester. Her major concern is that "in attempting to achieve universality of services across Greater Manchester we will see a race to the bottom rather than an improvement in provision across the board".
If you want to learn how to use data more effectively in designing services, in monitoring and applying for funding, then you will want to attend a set of free training events put on by Manchester University in association with Macc.
Recognising the inter-dependent and mutually-beneficial relationship between the University and its neighbouring communities, The University of Manchester is currently developing a new strategic framework for community engagement to better focus, target and measure its activities.
These activities range from research partnerships, teaching programmes, culture and the arts, student volunteering, schools-liaison, sustainability, employment and skills support through to engagement with charities, businesses and the public sector.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is consulting businesses and civil society organisations (CSOs) on the Better Regulation Executive’s approach to reducing regulatory burdens.
In detail, NAO are interested in your insights and evidence on the following:
• What, in your experience, are the costs and benefits of regulations?
• How does regulation impact on your organisation?
• Do departments and regulators consult your organisation when measuring and evaluating the actual impact of regulation?
The consultation will inform an ongoing study into reducing regulation.
This is an invitation to take part in a new online workshop to shape the new way that community health and social care services will be delivered across Manchester.
A team health and social care professionals from the NHS and the Council, and the voluntary and community sector have been working together to develop a draft operating model that sets out how all community based health and care professionals will work together to provide proactive joined up care as ‘One Team’.
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Could you give us 10 minutes to talk about health?
As part of Greater Manchester’s Devolution agenda, for the first time Greater Manchester is taking control of £6 billion of public funding for health and social care from April 2016.
Working class young people from across Greater Manchester share what they believe is needed for the future of their county.
RECLAIM Project’s Powerhouse Pioneers have released their manifesto, highlighting the issues Greater Manchester’s working class young people feel are key to their future.
The idea behind RECLAIM Project’s Powerhouse Pioneers programme is to amplify Greater Manchester’s young voices and ensure their desires for the future don’t go unheard.
Macc and over 130 other voluntary sector organisations from across the country have signed a letter to the Prime Minister protesting at the Government's announcement of an anti-advocacy clause to be added into all voluntary sector grant agreements from central Government.
FareShare FoodCloud is a new scheme which helps charities and community groups like you to access the free, unsold, surplus food from a day’s sales at your local Tesco supermarket. Using the simple mobile technology FoodCloud, FareShare have already helped 60 UK charity groups to access over 20 tonnes of fresh, good quality, free food.
The right to justice is as important as a right to health or education. For many, law centres provide the only means for free, high-quality legal advice and representation. Quite simply, no representation means no access to justice.
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