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Child Sexual Exploitation Review - Opportunity for VCS groups to contribute

Manchester City Council has commissioned an independent review of arrangements for dealing with Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).

It will be conducted by Sheila Taylor of the National Working Group.

The aim of the review is to identify where things are working well and what needs to be improved.

Sheila is keen to ensure that the voluntary and community sector have input into the review.

Discussions will focus on your understanding, experiences and approaches to CSE

The event will be on 8 December at Manchester Town Hall.

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Today We Are Angry, Tomorrow We Must Talk

A lot of people in the local voluntary sector are going to be very angry today. They’re going to feel threatened, undervalued, rejected and hopeless. The Council’s budget proposals will make horrible reading for many people who’ve been working very hard for a long time to make a difference in the city. For some groups this will mean cuts to services and activities. For many it will mean many job losses – the sector is an employer too, after all. For some this may be the last straw and we may see the end of a number of organisations that have made a great contribution to the city.

Manchester City Council budget cuts and options for consultation

Manchester City Council have released the following information on their budget cuts:

‘The Council’s difficult financial situation has seen us make £250million of cuts in the last few years.

This year our overall budget is just over £560m.

The latest financial indications from the government show further reductions are required. The Council has therefore produced options to address an estimated funding shortfall of £59m in 2015/16, possibly rising to £91 million in 2016/17.

Since 2010 the amount we have to spend on services has dropped by over 40%.

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Voluntary Youth Manchester Campaign to keep the Youth Fund

Voluntary Youth Manchester (VYM) is running a campaign to retain the youth fund for the benefit of young people and the VCS organisations that work with them.

Write to your local Councillor
You will be aware that Manchester City Council is facing another round of massive cuts to its budget over the next two years, and that youth services in the city have already faced savage, disproportionate cuts since 2010-11, leaving funding for direct delivery at a mere 13% of what it was only 4 years ago.

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Consultation on Welfare Provision Closes 21st November

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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State of the Nation 2014 Report

This is the Commission’s second annual State of the Nation report to be presented to Parliament. The Commission was created by the UK Government in 2012 as an independent and statutory body to monitor and report on what is happening to child poverty and social mobility in the country.

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Manchester's school nursing service consultation for future commissioning.

Commissioning the School Nurse Service/ Schools Health Partnership

The school nursing service is a public health service for every child of school age. It aims to make sure children and their families receive a core programme of preventative health care and additional care if they need it.

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Manjeet must stay in the UK

Join the lobby outside the Appeal Tribunal Manchester

Date & Time: Thursday 16 October 2014, 9am-10am
Venue: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, Piccadilly Exchange, Piccadilly Plaza (top of Mosley Street just before Piccadilly Gardens), Manchester M1 4AH

Human Rights campaigner and wheelchair user Manjeet Kaur urgently needs your help as she appeals a Home Office eviction decision.

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New Housing Strategy for Older People – ‘Living Longer, Living Better - Housing for an Age-friendly Manchester’

This is a key strategy for Manchester – the UK’s first Age Friendly City. It sets out how housing for older people will develop over the coming years and what action is needed to be taken now. It links to how care and health services will be provided for the older population. It describes how Manchester can build to make the city an attractive place for people to grow older, living as independently as possible.

All of the documents relating to the consultation are available on the website to be read or printed.

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