WCVA Newsletter

Volunteers week kicks off this Friday 1 June - it's a great time for you to recognise, reward (and recruit!) your hardworking volunteers. Across the country there will be celebrations, award events, recruitment fayres and exhibitions taking place to promote all the amazing benefits of volunteering. We've got logos, certificates, posters and more available over at our website - remember to share your festivities with us on Facebook and Twitter! WCVA has updated its privacy notice in line with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can view the new privacy notice on our website to find out how your information will be used, who can access it, the legal bases on which your information is held and your rights in relation to this information. You'll be getting an email from WCVA over the next few weeks as we move your data onto our new robust database - and you may be asked to confirm your subscription preferences, so please keep an eye out! Thanks for reading, we'll see you again next week.

Volunteering Volunteers’ Week - 1-7 June 2018 Volunteers’ Week is upon us and what a great way to celebrate the fantastic contribution volunteers make across the UK. The new Volunteering Wales Platform - Help! Where do I start? Fiona Liddell, Volunteering Development Manager at WCVA, offers some tips on using the new Volunteering Wales website, which will be launched early in June.

WCVA general Top tips for nonprofits building digital services On the WCVA blog: Ellie Halle, Digital Fellowship and Communities Lead at CAST, outlines some tips for charities that are looking to develop their digital services.

Third sector general Creating new local Energy Community Cooperatives Learn how European funding is empowering communities in Wales through locally owned energy…

Funding Funding to support the development of small charities and social enterprises The Fore Trust has announced that the next funding round to support the development of small charities, social enterprises and community interest companies will open for registrations on the 23 July 2018 at 10 am. Grants to support children’s health and education The next deadline to apply to the DM Thomas Foundation Central Grants Programme is 24 July 2018.

Training and events Helping Nature Work For Your Community Events Could your community benefit more from the natural environment? Or do you have an environmental project that needs more funds and support? Then this event is for you! 19, 21, 22 June 2018 Webinar: National Development Framework Consultation Do you want to shape the National Development Framework in Wales? Find out about responding to the public consultation from our webinar 02.07.18 Webinar: A Clean Air Zone Framework for Wales Do you want to shape the Clean Air Zone Framework in Wales? Find out about responding to the public consultation from our webinar 08.06.18

Policy and politics Help shape the work of the Auditor General The Wales Audit Office has launched a survey, asking the public and public sector workers to have their say on the themes that the Auditor General should look at.

Building a Co-operative Country Conference - June 26th.

What are some of the main issues
posing challenges to young people today?

Would you count housing, education, wellbeing, employment and the environment among them? If you do, and want to find out how co-operatives and mutuals can help address these issues, come to the Building A Co-operative Country conference.

The event is being held at Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Cardiff Bay, on Tuesday 26th June. A number of inspirational young people will be joining us as keynote speakers on the day including Huw Richards and Polly Robbins, while others will feature in our interactive workshops.

The event is for:

• Young people who are already involved in the co-ops and mutuals sector in some way, or benefiting from such a business or organisation.
• Young people that have a wider interest in this area of work, possibly because they are studying relevant issues or want to work for a co-op or mutual in the future.
• Co-op, mutual and other organisations that support young people.
• People and organisations that could potentially join the membership of the Mutuals Alliance as a result of the event.

Details of the conference programme will be published at wales.coop as they become available. We’ll also be tweeting about the event from @WalesCoopCentre, using the hashtag #BACC18.

The conference is being organised on behalf of the Mutuals Alliance and is sponsored by Arup Group, Cartrefi Cymru, Merthyr Valleys Homes, the Co-operative Group, Wales Co-operative Centre, Co-op Party and ProMo Cymru.

The Mutuals Alliance brings together leading co-operative and mutual organisations across Wales. It works towards growing the sector in Wales and creating a greater level of awareness about mutuals and the benefits they bring.

You can choose to attend up to two out of five workshop options at the conference. The sessions will be run twice, either side of lunch, and will be an hour long in duration. Please make us aware of your workshop choices when booking.

Workshop 1 – Housing – Find out how housing co-ops are helping young people through significant challenges, while equipping them with essential life skills
Workshop 2 – Education – Explore the ways in which the Welsh Bacc, and other educational opportunities, can help schoolchildren gain a better understanding of co-operatives
Workshop 3 – Environment – Renewable energy and recycling projects are getting more and more young people involved, to help them learn how green issues can be addressed through co-ops
Workshop 4 – Employment and Skills – In times of zero hours contracts and students graduating with high levels of debt, find out how co-ops can provide the solution to youth unemployment and skills
Workshop 5 – Wellbeing – Find out more about the links between the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act and co-ops, and the subsequent link between co-ops and young people

Make sure you attend the biggest co-operative conference in Wales and lend your voice to the debate.

Beth yw rhai o’r prif faterion sy’n achosi heriau i bobl ifanc heddiw? A fyddech chi’n cyfrif tai, addysg, lles, cyflogaeth a’r amgylchedd yn eu plith? Os byddech ac yr hoffech wybod sut gall cydweithrediadau a chwmnïau cydfuddiannol helpu i fynd i’r afael â’r materion hyn, dewch i’r gynhadledd, Adeiladu Gwlad Gydweithredol. Cynhelir y digwyddiad yn Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Bae Caerdydd, ddydd Mawrth, 26 Mehefin. Bydd nifer o bobl ifanc ysbrydoledig yn ymuno â ni fel prif siaradwyr (Huw Richards a Polly Robbins), a bydd rhai eraill yn cymryd rhan yn rhai o’r gweithdai a gynhelir yn ystod y dydd. Mae’r digwyddiad ar gyfer: Pobl ifanc sydd eisoes yn ymglymedig â’r sector cydweithrediadau a chwmnïau cydfuddiannol mewn rhyw ffordd, neu sy’n elwa ar fusnes neu sefydliad felly. Pobl ifanc sydd â diddordeb ehangach yn y maes gwaith hwn, oherwydd eu bod nhw efallai’n astudio materion perthnasol, neu eisiau gweithio i gydweithrediad neu gwmni cydfuddiannol yn y dyfodol. Cydweithrediadau, cwmnïau cydfuddiannol a sefydliadau eraill sy’n cefnogi pobl ifanc. Pobl a sefydliadau a allai ymuno ag aelodaeth o Gynghrair y Cwmnïau Cydfuddiannol, o ganlyniad i’r digwyddiad. Cyhoeddir manylion am raglen y gynhadledd ar cymru.coop, wrth iddynt ddod ar gael. Byddwn ni’n trydaru ynghylch y digwyddiad hefyd o @WalesCoopCentre, gan ddefnyddio’r hashnod #BACC18. Trefnir y gynhadledd ar ran Cynghrair y Cwmnïau Cydfuddiannol a chaiff ei noddi gan Grŵp Arup, Cartrefi Cymru, Cartrefi Cymoedd Merthyr, Co-operative Group, Canolfan Cydweithredol Cymru a’r Co-op Party. Mae Cynghrair y Cwmnïau Cydfuddiannol yn dod â sefydliadau cydweithredol a chydfuddiannol at ei gilydd o bob cwr o Gymru. Mae’n gweithio tuag at dyfu’r sector yng Nghymru a chreu lefel uwch o ymwybyddiaeth am gwmnïau cydfuddiannol a’u buddion. Gallwch ddewis mynychu hyd at ddau allan o bump gweithdy yn y gynhadledd. Cynhelir y sesiynau ddwywaith, naill ochr i amser cinio, a byddant yn para awr yr un. Gweithdy 1 – Tai – Darganfyddwch sut mae cydweithrediadau tai yn helpu pobl ifanc trwy heriau arwyddocaol, wrth roi iddyn nhw sgiliau bywyd hanfodol. Gweithdy 2 – Addysg – Archwiliwch y ffyrdd y gall Bagloriaeth Cymru a chyfleoedd addysgol eraill helpu plant ysgol ennill gwell dealltwriaeth o gydweithrediadau. Gweithdy 3 – Yr Amgylchedd – Mae prosiectau ynni adnewyddadwy ac ailgylchu yn cael mwy a mwy o bobl ifanc yn gysylltiedig, i’w helpu nhw ddysgu sut gellir mynd i’r afael â materion gwyrdd trwy gydweithrediadau. Gweithdy 4 – Cyflogaeth a Sgiliau – Mewn cyfnod o gontractau dim oriau a myfyrwyr yn graddio â lefelau uchel o ddyled, darganfyddwch sut gall cydweithrediadau ddarparu ateb i ddiweithdra a sgiliau ieuenctid. Gweithdy 5 – Lles – Darganfyddwch fwy am y cysylltiadau rhwng Deddf Llesiant Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol a chydweithrediadau, a’r cyswllt dilynol rhwng cydweithrediadau a phobl ifanc. Gwnewch yn siŵr eich bod yn rhan o'r gynhadledd gydweithredol fwyaf yng Nghymru er mwyn cyfrannu at y ddadl.

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Consultation on Blue Badge Scheme - Disabled Parking

Do the families you work with use the Blue Badge Scheme disabled parking? Powys County Council are running a consultation on the proposal to reduce the scheme.

To have your say :
http://www.powys.gov.uk/en/corporate/find-out-about-consultations-in-powys/blue-badge-consultation/

Your views are wanted about Hospital services for the north of Powys

ABOUT NHS FUTURE FIT

NHS Future Fit is about improving the hospital services provided at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal Hospital Telford to meet the needs of our communities across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

After listening to the views of thousands of local people over the last four years, our doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff have developed a proposed new model of hospital care – for one hospital to become an Emergency Care site and the other hospital to become a Planned Care site, with a 24-hour Urgent Care Centre at both hospitals.

Encourage the children, young people and families you work with to make their voice heard and have their views included. There is a website dedicated to this consultation:

https://www.nhsfuturefit.org/about-nhs-futurefit

Two Funding Opportunities

The DM Thomas Foundation

Offers grants to support Children's Health adn Education. Deadline 24th July.

For more information:

https://www.wcva.org.uk/funding/funding-latest/2018/05/health-and-education?src=newsletter

The Fore Trust

Offers funding for the development of small charities, social enterprises, and community interest companies.
The next round opens 23 July.

For more information:


https://www.wcva.org.uk/funding/funding-latest/2018/05/the-fore-trust?src=newsletter

Signs of Safety Child Protection Fora - a few places are left!

The following Signs of Safety CP Fora event is now available to book with further events planned.

Date: Monday 4^th June 2018   

Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm

Venue: The Media Resource Centre, Oxford Rd, Llandrindod Wells LD1 6AH

We are running a special CP fora event which will be focusing on the Signs of Safety model. The Signs of Safety is an innovative strengths-based, model of care, which Powys County Council’s Childrens Services will  be applying to their child protection casework in the first instance. The approach focuses on the question “How can the worker build partnerships with parents and children in situations of suspected or substantiated child abuse and still deal rigorously with the maltreatment issues?”

This strengths-based and safety-focused approach to child protection work is grounded in partnership and collaboration. It expands the investigation of risk to encompass strengths and Signs of Safety that can be built upon to stabilise and strengthen a child’s and family’s situation. A format for undertaking comprehensive risk assessment — assessing both danger and strengths/safety — is incorporated within the one-page Signs of Safety assessment protocol.

Please book places via Trent Self-Service or email pwbotu@powys.gov.uk or telephone 01597 827330

Summer Network dates for those working with Children, Young People and Families

Come and join us at one of the Summer Networks, meet colleagues from all sectors and catch up with the latest news.

The Summer topic is Children's Rights and Participation. Find out about the renewed Participation Standards and the New Children's Charter for Powys.

Consultations on Fostering Services , Advocacy Services and Adult Placement Services

Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyhoeddi tri ymgynghoriad yn ymwneud â Chyfnod 3 o roi Deddf Rheoleiddio ac Arolygu Gofal Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2016 ar waith. Mae'r Ddeddf yn sefydlu system newydd ar gyfer rheoleiddio ac arolygu gofal cymdeithasol sy'n amddiffyn hawliau dinasyddion Cymru i gael gofal a chymorth diogel, perthnasol, gydag urddas.  Rydym yn ymgynghori ar welliannau i’r ffordd y rheoleiddir gwasanaethau maethu, gwasanaethau lleoli oedolion ac, am y tro cyntaf, gwasanaethau eirioli mewn perthynas ag eiriolaeth statudol i blant. I gael rhagor o fanylion gweler y tudalennau ar y we ar gyfer pob ymgynghoriad: ·         Gwasanaethau Maethu ·         Gwasanaethau Lleoli Oedolion ·         Gwasanaethau Eirioli Mae’r Gweinidog Plant, Pobl Hŷn a Gofal Cymdeithasol wedi cyhoeddi datganiad ysgrifenedig, sydd ar gael yn: https://gov.wales/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2018/phase3/?skip=1&lang=cy Rydym yn trefnu sesiynau gwybodaeth i gynorthwyo’r ymgynghoriadau: ·         Wrecsam, dydd Gwener 20 Mehefin 2018 ·         Caerdydd, dydd Iau 19 Gorffennaf 2018 Er mwyn bod yn bresennol, cysylltwch â RISCAct2016@llyw.cymru erbyn dydd Gwener 8 Mehefin (digwyddiad Wrecsam) neu ddydd Gwener 6 Gorffennaf (digwyddiad Caerdydd). Mae nifer y lleoedd yn gyfyngedig ac yn dibynnu ar argaeledd.  Mae'r ymgynghoriadau yn dod i ben ddydd Iau 16 Awst 2018. Edrychwn ymlaen at glywed eich safbwyntiau.  A fyddech cystal â rhannu'r neges e-bost hon yn eich sefydliad a gyda’ch rhwydweithiau.

The Welsh Government has published three consultations relating to Phase 3 of implementation of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.

The Act establishes a new system of regulation and inspection of social care that upholds the rights of Welsh citizens to dignified, safe and appropriate care and support.

We are consulting on improvements to the regulation of fostering services, adult placement services and, for the first time, of advocacy services in respect of children’s statutory advocacy.

For further details please see the webpages for each consultation:

·         Fostering services

·         Adult Placement services

·         Advocacy services

The Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care has issued a written statement which is available at:

https://gov.wales/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2018/phase3/?skip=1&lang=en

In support of these consultations we are holding information events:

·         Wrexham, Wednesday 20 June 2018

·         Cardiff, Thursday 19 July 2018

To attend contact RISCAct2016@gov.wales by Friday 8 June (Wrexham event) or Friday 6 July (Cardiff event).  Spaces are limited and subject to availability. 

The consultations close on Thursday 16 August 2018.  We look forward to hearing your views. 

Please cascade this email within your organisations and networks.

Thanks and regards,

Social Services and Integration Directorate

Welsh Government

Brecon Networking Meeting with Community Connector

Just a quick reminder that the next Brecon networking meeting is next Thursday (31st May) at 2pm in St John's Family Centre, Brecon.

For those people who have not attended before, each organisation gets 2-3 minutes to inform the rest of the group about their organisation. 

Afterwards, there is time for people to network more fully with organisations that are of particular relevance to them.

The meeting lasts for 1.5 hrs, with a brief break after the networking round.

Please disseminate this invite to your colleagues.

While this meeting is for services that work with adults, those organisations that work with children would be welcome and those working with teenagers around the transition ages 16 + may find it useful.

For more information contact  Matt Bailey Community Connector for Brecon  Mathew.bailey@pavo.org.uk or call 01597 822 191

Volunteer Recruitment, Selection and Induction

Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th July 2018 - two day course - Llandrindod Wells

Cost: £40 (PAVO members), £80 (non PAVO members), £120 (All other/individuals)

Content:  Attracting volunteers can be a challenge. Attracting a broad diversity of volunteers can be an even greater challenge. The course will help you to plan recruitment and to think about materials and approaches that will reach the volunteers you want. It looks at different steps in the recruitment process, including ‘vetting’, interviewing, and matching volunteers to volunteer roles.

Learning outcomes:  By the end of the session, participants will:

· be familiar with a range of methods to attract a diversity of volunteers
· recognise ‘selection’ as a two way process and be familiar with a range of selection tools
· understand the purpose and nature of a) volunteer agreements and b) volunteer induction
· recognise ways in which volunteering can be made more accessible to all

Who this course is for:  Those responsible for the management of volunteers and volunteer programmes in Wales.

To book onto the courses please click here.