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BCC has now begun its Consultation process for the Budget and Business Planning 2012+.
This year, that consultation process includes a number of public meetings in local centres.
ACEVO has established a commission on youth unemployment, to be chaired by Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP with the aim to produce a report on tackling youth unemployment in winter 2011.
The questionnaire sets out six key questions and asks for your views, you can answer as many or as few as you wish, and can also email any other thoughts/documents to policy@acevo.org.uk This initial call for evidence is open until 23 September.
For further information and to make your response http://vcsmatters.org/commission-youth-unemployment
NCVYS is seeking your views to help us shape a number of key products and services we are developing to support workforce development. Your input is vital to helping us ensure what we develop meets your needs.
From 2011-2013, NCVYS's workforce development activity is funded through the Catalyst consortium, a NCVYS-co-ordinated partnership funded by the Department for Education.
The Summer Workforce Challenge e-survey will be open until the end of September 2011.
To complete, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9P992JV
Community Toolkit is a new online information resource for people who want to get involved in organising smaller, straightforward community activities.
Created by Zurich Insurance to address barriers to community volunteering, it provides guidance on some legal, health and safety, insurance and planning issues.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister launched the long-awaited White Paper, Open Public Service, delayed from last autumn. The Office for Civil Society will be organising consultation events in the next few months and will be publicising these shortly.
You can read the National Council for Voluntary Organisation’s statement on the White Paper here: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/news/public-services/our-statement-public-services-white-paper
Ed Mayo, General Secretary of Co-operatives UK, has urged caution over the contents of the Paper: http://www.uk.coop/press-release/co-operatives-uk-urges-caution-over-open-public-services-white-paper
