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josephine.mcmeeking
Communities and Equalities Scrutiny Committee
Date: Tuesday 9th of January
Time: 2pm
Location: Council Chamber, Level 2, Town Hall Extension
On Tuesday the 9th of January the committee scrutinised the following public reports:
Crime and Policing Report of Greater Manchester Police
During the meeting, Chief Superintendent Rick Jackson, commander for the City of Manchester, spoke about the report (…
josephine.mcmeeking
The committee discussed the Compliance and Enforcement Services - Performance in 2022/23 report. This report provides an update on demand for and performance of the Compliance and Enforcement service during 2022/23. The report also provides a forward look at on- going and new challenges as a result of changes to legislation, policy and areas of growth that will have an impact on the work carried…
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By Anna Tate
The cost of living crisis is now well underway and has now impacting all communities across Greater Manchester. Unfortunately, the longer a crisis exists the more normalized it becomes. However, the recent headlines that some families have been forced to access loans to pay for baby formula and baby milk for their very young children is and continues to be shocking.
In August…
josephine.mcmeeking
By Anna Tate
The current Conservative Government has introduced changes to current sentencing guidelines as part of the new Criminal Justice Bill 2023. The new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was introduced to parliament in November 2023 and states that there is a presumption that sentences of less 12 months, received for low level offence would be suspended for some offenders…
josephine.mcmeeking
By Anna Tate
This meeting of the Health Scrutiny Committee focused on several main reports including Health and Homelessness. The Health and Homelessness report was delivered by David Regan, Director of Public Health, who is one of the co-chairs of the Health and Homelessness task group alongside Bernie Enright. The report sets out the efforts of the task group, which focus on collaboration…
josephine.mcmeeking
The November cost of living payment happily resulted in a substantial decrease in food bank referrals from CA, however rereferral numbers have now risen to match the levels we saw this time last year..
Debt, especially in energy and council tax, has sharply risen once more, with approximately 50% of CA debt clients now in a negative budget The interconnected nature of debts is evident, with many…
millie.brown
Ethical fundraising and due diligence on donors
Millie Brown, Macc – April 2022
A guide for charities when considering whether to accept a donation.
For a full list of ethically dubious activities to look out for, as well as a checklist for conducting due diligence and where to find the information you’ll need to inform this difficult decision, see this factsheet Ethical fundraising: how to…
Nigel Rose
On July 14th Macc is holding a voluntary sector assembly about social prescribing, where we will be helping the VCSE sector to write a manifesto about what we collectively want from social prescribing. This article is my personal take on some of the issues.
I was heavily involved in the planning stages of social prescribing in Manchester 4? Years ago, and have kept touch with it ever since,…
guest.blogger
I was sitting at home in January after losing my job several months prior and being very bored watching too much Netflix. After a chat with my father-in-law I thought I would try and volunteer to be a driver helping those less able to go to their vaccination appointments. I couldn’t find anywhere how to do this but instead came across a link for volunteer marshals at vaccination centres…
guest.blogger
I have been volunteering as a marshal at the Wythenshawe, Fallowfield, Beswick, Cheetham Hill and Newton Heath sites.
My wife, Sheila and I have been volunteering since early January, after she read about the opportunity in the Volunteer Centre email.
All of the centres are very well organised and volunteers are well supported. We are given lots of flexibility over which…
stuart.vaughan
On 8 March the country began its journey out of Coronavirus lockdown restrictions towards a ‘new normal’ where society is back to something approaching the life we remember from 2019. Tentatively, restrictions are being lifted, and 8 March saw the first of these, with the resumption of education – with some continuing limitations such as use of face-masks, social distancing etc.
12 April saw us…
guest.blogger
I volunteered to be a marshall at the Wythenshawe vaccination centre in December when my friend's daughter, who is a local GP, told him they were looking for volunteers.
I am usually on car park duties, which is the first point of contact for most people coming for vaccination.
As there are only a limited number of accessible spaces it is essential that they are reserved for those who…