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Manchester City Council Advice Tender

30 Oct 2013 - 17:39 by Nigel Rose

A new tender from Manchester City Council has been advertised on The Chest. The tender is for advice services and is in 3 parts. Part 1 is for City-Wide Advice Services. Part 2 is for Targeted Individual/Family Advice Services. Part 3 is for a Framework Agreement for the Provision of Innovative Advice Solutions. All the tenders are for 1 year with the possibility of an extension for another year.

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Healthwatch Manchester quick survey on personal health budgets

29 Oct 2013 - 09:17 by michelle.foster

Healthwatch Manchester is aware that there is a limited amount of information available to people around Personal Health Budgets.

This survey seeks not only to provide them with more detailed information about this issue but also to provide you with some basic facts about Personal Health Budgets.

To complete the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VS3KWYC

This survey will close on 30 November 2013.

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A confusion of health structures



If you’re a new Health minister in a new coalition government then the first thing you do is reorganise the Health Service. During the transition period there is a point where nothing really functions and no-one know who’s responsible and the person that you needed to talk to has moved, and no-one knows what their telephone number is. In short there is chaos. It takes a while to sort out….

Search is on for Manchester’s next wave of women social entrepreneurs

25 Oct 2013 - 15:14 by michelle.foster

Manchester is seeking a group of fifty women to become the city’s next wave of social entrepreneurs.

Manchester City Council has agreed to support Make A Wave, which aims to train 250 women UK-wide to become social business leaders and start their own projects to bring significant benefits to their communities. Manchester will host a fifty-strong cohort and women over the age of 18 are invited to apply by Sunday 15 December.

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Manchester Policy Week

25 Oct 2013 - 11:15 by michelle.foster

Manchester Policy Week runs from 28 October – 1 November at The University of Manchester.

Events include debates and discussion on;
• zero hours contracts and proposed policy changes
• how local policy can help migrants feel welcome
• understanding spatial issues in public policy
• transportation policy issues surrounding ageing
• young men as perpetrators of domestic abuse
• current changes to public health policy
• Labour’s record on education
• policy intervention in domestic heating provision

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Communities of Interest Report 2013: Gender Chapter - consultation respond by 7 Nov

25 Oct 2013 - 09:30 by michelle.foster

The Equalities Team at Manchester City Council is currently in the process of refreshing the annual Communities of Interest (COI) report for 2013. Within the report it will include a chapter on Gender. It's essentially a summary of what's happening in Manchester in 2013 with regards to equality as well as issues that need to be highlighted.

The gender chapter from the last Communities of Interest Report (COI) report is attached to give you an idea of what has previously been included.

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Lobbying and Transparency Bill

24 Oct 2013 - 19:01 by Mike Wild

At our Spirit of Manchester awards event last month one of the categories was for Most Successful Campaign. We wanted to acknowledge campaigning work because we’ve always believed that it’s the job of charities not just to meet needs but to drive change for the longer term. The history of social change in this country has been driven by the campaigning efforts of groups for centuries.

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