Tameside Third
Sector Coalition

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service are running a Prince’s Trust Team programme in your area.  

To successfully complete this 12 week course, the group of 12 young people who are 16 – 25 years old must complete two challenges that will benefit their local community.

Are you a voluntary or community group that is interested in any of the following:

• Need a hand with rubbish removal, gardening or clearing out of spaces?

• Transforming a piece of spare land?

• Identified resources that you would like that you have been unable to secure?

• Got a room or building that needs a lick of paint?

• Would like a scheme of activities or a project to run with your members? 

• Expanding your services or the amount of people that you reach?

• Have any other ideas about how a group of young people could benefit you? 

There will be no cost to your organisation as the young people have to fundraise enough money to cover the cost of any resources and any work that they complete.

This is an ongoing opportunity so please feel free to contact us any time and we will see how we can work together.

Could you host a 2 week work placement for a Team member?

All of the young people we work with are unemployed and are trying to improve their future prospects.  They are carefully selected from large numbers of applicants and many of them just need the 1st step on the ladder.

85% of young people who complete the Team programme go on to further education, employment or training within 3 months of completing this course.

For more information about the Team programme: click here

If you are interested or would like any more information contact the Team Leader, Emma Sercombe: email sercombee@manchesterfire.gov.uk or call on 07973 966407

Faiths United Tameside (http://www.t3sc.org/Your_networks_your_voice/Inter_faith_network) is a network represents the Faith Communities across Tameside. Many people recognise that a religious faith can support the well-being of individuals and of communities, particularly in times of trouble.

As people who live in Tameside, we want to draw attention to the generally peaceful way in which different people can get along in the towns where we live.  We are committed to moving forward, and learning how to understand each other’s way of life. We believe that the vast majority of us care, even for the person who is different from us. 

We believe that all members of society have the right to representation and respectful dialogue and would urge the whole of the local community to use this opportunity to declare peacefully their opposition to any form of extremism and the promoting of any political agenda which is not rooted in the local community. As people of faith we want to state clearly that violence and extremism of any form is contrary to the principles of our faiths.

Despite the problems that we will always face in our daily lives, and the things that are bound to go wrong, what divides us and makes us fearful of each other will always be weaker than that which unites us, that is, our common humanity.

We call for calm, for people to support our life together in Tameside in simple friendly ways, and for a commitment of all people of goodwill to do their bit to mend and promote community relations in Ashton-under-Lyne.

'Faiths United Tameside' represents the different people of faith who live in Tameside. We work together with people across the voluntary sector to promote the wellbeing of all who live in the Borough.

Contact: Mohamed Seedat at CVAT

Tel: 0161 339 4985 ext 2020

Email: mohamed.seedat@cvat.org.uk

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to the provision of high quality services to enable people to have maximum control over their own care and support and achieve the best outcomes in their everyday lives.

Direct Payments are an alternative to traditional care and support services.  The Council provides cash payments for individual Service Users to purchase services that meet their assessed care needs.  This gives the person receiving services more choice and control over how their care needs are met.  Recipients of Direct Payments can choose to employ their own care workers known as Personal Assistants (PAs) or to buy services from a provider or a mixture of the two.   

In providing Direct Payments, local authorities are also expected to provide an adequate service to support those who need assistance in managing their Direct Payments. 

We are looking to establish a list of providers of approved services for:

A. Standard Payroll service

B. Managed Accounts service with Payroll

C. Managed Accounts service without Payroll

There will not be a guaranteed number of accounts but commissioners, care co-ordinators and Service Users and their Representatives will have access to the list of approved services from which to choose services required.

Tameside MBC is inviting organisations, via a completed Organisational Questionnaire (OQ), to be included on the list of approved providers. This will be an open list, re-advertised on an on-going basis.  

Information from the OQ will be included in the contract and be used by care-coordinators and service users to inform decisions.

Providers interested in applying to be placed on the list of approved day services should complete an OQ. All OQ and supporting documentation must be completed and submitted electronically by using Pro Contract by the due date of 29 July 2013 @ 12.00 hrs.  

Documents are available via Pro Contract 

If you are interested in submitting for inclusion on the list of approved Direct Payment support services but are unsure about the electronic tendering process, please contact in writing: 

Kim Greeves, Joint Commissioning and Performance Management Team, Council Offices, Wellington Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6DL 

or email: kim.greeves@tameside.gov.uk

IKEA are currently offering free eco tours to children, young people community groups and schools. These can vary from a recycling tour, a tour of products to find out more about how they're made, sustainable design workshops, tree/seed planting etc.

If you are interested in working with IKEA to promote sustainability and to assist children and young people you support to become more eco-friendly, please contact Ashlie Tottle or Naomi Sampson at Tameside 4 Good on 0161 339 4985 or email: Ashlie.tottle@cvat.org.uk or naomi.sampson@cvat.org.uk 

 

The Centre for Mental Health has published the report - A need to belong, which argues young women who associate with gangs are three times more vulnerable than other children in the system. The report analysed data gathered during screening assessments of 8,000 young people at the point of their arrest. The database identified 80 young women with gang associations from the sample of 8,029 young people, with a mean age of 15.

Key findings from the report include:

• Girls in gangs had a significantly higher average number of vulnerabilities (9.5) than boys in gangs (7.0), female entrants (3.7) and general youth justice entrants

• Nearly 40% of girls with gang associations showed signs of behavioral problems before the age of twelve

• Girls with gang associations were more than three times more likely to have a history of running away and exclusion from school, to have experienced sexual abuse, violence and neglect at home

• Just over a quarter were identified by workers as having a suspected diagnosable mental health problem. 30% were also identified as self-harming or at risk of suicide. 30% also identified having sleeping or eating problems

To view the report click here

On 17 June 2013 the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) launches a new service, called the Update Service. 

Government priority

The Update Service is one of the government’s top priorities. It will put individuals in greater control of their own information; allow DBS certificates to be reused when applying for similar jobs; and reduce bureaucracy. 

The new service should save the customer time and money and improve the overall safeguarding landscape. 

For more information: click here

The Welfare Reform Act 2012 is bringing major changes to the benefits system. It is mainly aimed at reforming the benefits system for people of working age, but some of the changes will affect older people too. 

 

For more information: click here 

Regional Voices has produced a summary of the main changes brought about by the Health & Social Care Act highlighting key considerations for the voluntary and community sector- covering all relevant new structures from the local to the national. 

For more information: click here

The Department of Health has also produced an explanation of the new Health and Care system, to view click here  

NCVO and Serco have published a new ‘Code of Practice’ which aims to support prime and subcontractors in the private and voluntary sectors in working together. The code provides advice on how the relationship between prime and subcontractors can be improved, with particular emphasis on how problems faced by subcontractors, such as being used as ‘bid candy’ and being exposed to significant financial risk, can be avoided.  

For more information: click here