Bristol (Children and Young People)
Please note these pages will be updated in due course
Champions learning scheme 2009-10
- The Care Forum has been selected as a "Learning Champion" by the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA).
- With funding from the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) our Bristol and South Glos CYP networks are able to host a learning visit to share our experience of supporting third sector organisations to engage in workforce development through VCS representation.
- If you are a local or sub-regional third sector infrastructure organisation and are planning to support third sector organisations and would like to learn from our experiences contact louisehudson@thecareforum.org.uk or lucyrowe@thecareforum.org.uk ( 0117 958 9337.
- You will be offered a grant of £500 to participate in a learning visit. Visit http://www.navca.org.uk/stratwork/children/cwdc/grants/ to find out more about the scheme.
Another element of the grant will fund the development and piloting of a robust framework for the monitoring and evaluation of The Care Forum's management of and support to the children and young people voluntary and community sector (VCS) representatives on the multi-agency partnerships in Bristol and South Gloucestershire
Seeking nominations: VCS Representatives for Bristol's Locality Executives
- We are seeking nominations for a second Children and Young People's Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Joint Representative for the Locality Partnership Executive Boards for North 3, East &Central 1, 2 &3 and South 1,2,3 & 4.
- The Chairs of the Executives have asked for two VCS representatives to sit on each of the 10 Executive Boards. We currently have representatives for the North 1 & 2 Localities but have one vacancy on each of the other Locality Executives with two vacancies currently available in North 3.
- Download a localities map at:http://www.bristol-cyps.org.uk/schools/pdf/ES-locality-map.pdf
- Nominations will only be accepted on the nomination form and you must state on the nomination form which Executive you are nominating a member to sit on.
- These elections are open to members of The Care Forum, Voscur and the Black Development Agency's networks that either work within the localities or provide city-wide services that are relevant.
- The Locality Executives are providing an important function across the city looking at local needs, issues and gaps in service provision; allocating resources and commissioning services alongside the Joint Commissioning Unit and overseeing the development of CAF Panels.
The following documents can be downloaded:
- 1. Covering letter
- 2. Nomination form
- 5. Locality Partnerships Terms of Reference
- 6. Locality Partnerships Meeting Dates
- 7. Locality Partnerships and Priorities
- 8. List of current Locality Partnership Executives VCS representatives
- You may be eligible for Participation Payments if elected. The payments are funded by CWDC and Bristol City Council. Scroll down for further information and downloadable documents.
Bristol and South Glos VCS CYP Participation Payments Protocol for Reps 2009/10
The time has come round again for VCS representatives to be rewarded for your time and energy on the groups where they represent the voluntary sector. The Care Forum hopes that this stage of the pilot will encourage more organisations to nominate staff to stand as representatives in the elections that it holds.
We have amended the backfill protocol - it is now called the Children and Young People VCS Participation Payments Protocol, and the hourly rate has increased to £50.00 per hour. Other changes are explained in the letter [click here] and the protocol [click here]. Attached also are the amended attendance and claim forms [click here] and [here].
This year we are restricting the pilot to those of who are elected or invited representatives of the VCS, and changing the threshold for organisations that can apply to those with a surplus in their organisation's 2008/9 accounts of less than £500,000. There are some other eligibility criteria which are all explained in the protocol.
Reps will be able to make their claims for the period from April to September at the end of September 2009 and the those for the period from October to March at the end of March 2010.
When you have read them, if you have any queries before you complete your agreement forms and send them back, please contact kateoliver@thecareforum.org.uk
Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) Partners Programme 
The Care Forum is receiving funding over three years from 2007-10 to strengthen the capacity of the third sector in Bristol to engage in the national children's workforce development agenda.
Already new VCS local networks are established in North 1 (Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Lawrence Weston and Coombe Dingle) and North 2 (Southmead, Upper Horfield, Henbury and Brentry).
North 1
Ash Bearman, Community Development Officer for Shirehampton Community Action Forum (SCAF) will be the local network coordinator for North 1. She has worked for SCAF since 2001 and has worked to strengthen the ties and build partnership working between statutory agencies, private enterprise and voluntary and community groups. She has experience of working with agencies who provide services for young people having set up a youth support sub-group within SCAF and she support the work of SCAF action groups on youth and young people and local play areas.
For more details on and to join the North 1 local network contact Ash Bearman, 0117 982 9963, email: ash@shirecaf.org.uk.
North 2
For the past 5 years Maria Damsell has worked for the Upper Horfield Community Trust, a charity in Upper Horfield that manages a community centre and offers a range of support and activities to the residents in Upper Horfield. Their services include an Ofsted registered Out of school care for 5 - 14's, youth sessions for 8yrs and above, family trips, fundays, distributing a quarterly community newsletter, adult lifelong learning, social activities for the elderly and the introduction of a new exciting project ‘The Eden Market'.
She has lived in Upper Horfield for the past 16 years with her family of 3 sons. She spends some of her spare time being the Chair of Governors at Upper Horfield Community School.
For the North 2 network contact Maria Damsell, 0117 969 0011, email:maria@uhct.co.uk.
Representatives
Representatives from both the city-wide and local networks of children and young people voluntary and community organisations are sitting on more and more strategic planning groups in the area including on the workforce development strategy group, the locality governance groups and the Safeguarding Board.
Training
Training sessions on outcomes-led commissioning have been held across the city. Surgeries and further training in the three targeted localities will be available later in the year. For more information contact Voscur, mailto:cheryl@voscur.org
Bristol and South Glos VCS CYP Participation Payments Protocol for Reps 2009/10 ( see info above)
CWDC Partners Programme - Bristol Plan 2009/10
For this year's action plan click on CWDC Partners Programme 2009/10
For more details on the work of the CWDC work click on http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/
CWDC Partners Programme in Bristol
To read the three-year plan click on CWDC Partners Programme and for this year's action plan click on CWDC Partners Programme Action Plan 2008/9.
For more details on the work of the CWDC work click on http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/
Joint Commissioning Framework: VCS Event Feedback
Please click on the link to read the feedback produced from the consultation meeting on the 22nd May held for the VCS by the Joint Commissioning Unit of the Children and Young People's Services Directorate at Bristol City Council. If there are any further additions from the meeting that people would like to make, please contact Nicola Waterworth, nicola.waterworth@bristol.gov.uk
This feedback will feed into the review of the Framework and information on what that review process will look like will be available soon. It is also worth noting that headlines from the meeting on the 24th were taken to CYPS Directorate the following day for discussion and they will also receive this paper. The actions listed are being followed up. If there are any further additions from the meeting that people would like to make, please contact Nicola Waterworth, nicola.waterworth@bristol.gov.uk
Bristol Children and Young People's Voluntary Sector Network
This is open to all voluntary sector agencies working with children and young people in Bristol and meets quarterly.
Click for forthcoming meetings
If you would like to be added to the mailing list or want any further information please complete the enquiry form
Information
We produce In Contact our regular monthly newsletter. We also produce regular ebulletins for people working in Bristol. We are always keen to include voluntary sector information in our publications. If you have any news or views to share please put the details on our enquiry form
Representation
In Bristol we provide representation on a variety of groups, including:
- Attainment Workstream Group
- 14-19 Workstream Group
- Bristol Children’s Hospital Disabled Children's Group
- Bristol North Somerset & South Glos Children's Clinical Network Board
- Bristol Young Parents Partnership
- Children and Young People's Partnership
- CYP Executive Board
- Emotional and Wellbeing Stakeholder Group
- Children Looked After Strategy Group
- North 1 Locality Working Group
- North 2 Locality Governance Group
- Maternity Review, Bristol Health Services Plan
- Prevention and Early Intervention Workstream Group
- Safeguarding Board
- Teenage Pregnancy Partnership
- Tyndall’s Park Children’s Centre Child Disability Team Strategy Group
If you would like more information or a current reps list or are interested in becoming a rep please click here and complete an enquiry form. If you would like a full list if reps please click.
Joint Reps
Some reps are elected jointly from the Voscur, The Care Forum and the Black Development Agency children and young people networks. Each of these joint reps is supported by one of the infrastructure organisations. The information supplied by the reps is shared amongst the three organisations for the benefit of all three network members. The Joint Reps also meet regularly with the network co-ordinators to discuss issues relevant to the sector. Please use the reps to get your views heard and to find out what is going on.
3 Workstream Groups - Children & Young People Partnership Three workstream groups have been established for the Children and Young People Partnership. The reps to these workstream groups were appointed following a joint nomination and voting process for Voscur, The Care Forum and BDA members.
The Reps to the three workstream groups are:
Educational Attainment Workstream Group Jendayi Serwah, Shakti Imani/Barnardo's, supported by BDA
email: jendayi.serwah@barnardos.org.uk
ChangeUp
ChangeUp is a government initiative to strengthen the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors. The Care Forum is a member of the ChangeUp consortium covering Bristol. Click here for more information on ChangeUp
Contact Us
We want to hear from you. If you have any thoughts about our services, would like to be a rep, have information you would like included in our information service, or would like to meet up to find out more about what we do, contact The Care Forum
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