Bulletin 4 June 2010
Independent Safeguarding Authority – Latest guidance (Courtesy of our friends at Northumbria Youth)
The Government has produced comprehensive guidance on the Vetting and Barring Scheme. The guidance provides information on when ISA (Independent Safeguarding Authority) registration does and when it doesn’t apply to services and activities with children, young people and vulnerable adults. Organisations will have a legal duty to check people’s ISA registration before they start to work or volunteer in new positions with children or vulnerable adults from November 2010. If an individual or an organisation doesn’t comply with the ISA they may be committing a criminal offence, leading to a fine or imprisonment.
The guidance sets out the background, scope and key dates for the scheme which aims to prevent unsuitable people from undertaking certain paid or volunteer work with children or vulnerable adults.
It’s a must for all those organisations in the sector who want to keep on top of the requirements. Download a copy.
Particular matters to note include that “all new workers and volunteers who start or move into new regulated activity roles after 1st November 2010 must register with the ISA (Independent Safeguarding Authority) before they start in that new role.” They will be able to register with the ISA from 26th July, with new disclosure application forms (for CRB disclosures and ISA registration) introduced that month – current CRB application forms won’t be accepted after 26th July”. Northumbria Youth are awaiting their new CRB disclosures and ISA registration application forms to arrive and we hope they will be available from the end of June 2010.
REMEMBER:
• To try and keep children, young people and vulnerable adults safe you’ll have to continue taking up references, carry out CRB checks, use risk assessments etc……
• If you or your organisation is trying to identify loopholes or ways around implementing ISA registration so will those people who are barred or should be barred!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doxford Youth Project urgently need mobile youth work vehicle!
Doxford Youth Project are urgently in need of a used or new vehicle which is tailored for use as a mobile youth work unit and can comfortably hold around 12 people for group work purposes. (Not for transporting young people). They are looking to purchase a vehicle which is no larger than 7.5 tonnes (gross payload) and can be driven using a driver’s license with a C1 addition, (or standard license pre 1997).
They are looking to hear from any projects that may be coming to a close and are in possession of any vehicle suitable for hosting youth work sessions, or from anyone who has any knowledge of any suitable companies that could meet our vehicle requirements at reasonable cost.
If anyone could help, or point us in the right direction than please send an email to joe@doxford-youth.co.uk or alternatively call Doxford Youth Project on 01670 713077 (Office hours Monday – Friday)
Eat – Festival of Food and Drink
EAT! NewcastleGateshead, now in its fourth year, returns from Saturday 12th – Sunday 27th June 2010.
EAT! is the region’s foremost festival of food and drink, celebrating our finest producers, restaurants, retailers, artisans and chefs. They would love you to be part of the festival experience by helping us to run the events over the Big EAT! Weekend on Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th June.
Please see www.EatNewcastleGateshead.com for more information.
Callout for Volunteers:
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to support the festival. This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable experience in event management, working closely with the production team. We are looking for volunteers to help out in a variety of roles. The event takes place in various locations across Newcastle and Gateshead.
For further information please contact Eleanor Forsyth by emailing eleanor.forsyth@ngi.org.uk or calling 0191 440 5744 with your contact details and your availability across the Big EAT! Festival Weekend of Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th June.
Channel 4 housing programme
This new series is a major high-profile project for Channel 4. The aim is to highlight the fact that in Britain there are an estimated 800,000 people currently homeless or living in inadequate housing for their needs. This could be down to overcrowding in families, physical disabilities, homelessness, and so on.
The first location is set to be Gateshead and they looking to find families and groups of people through local community groups whose housing conditions are far from ideal, hence contacting yourself as a potential avenue of accessing these types of cases. If we can get something in the newsletter today that would be great, you never know what it might come back with.
Parents: Is your home inadequate for you and your family’s needs?
Do you live in temporary accommodation or in overcrowded conditions? Perhaps your home is unsuitable as a result of illness or mobility issues within the family?
Whatever your story, the makers of a new Channel 4 documentary series would like to hear from you.
Do you live in temporary accommodation or in overcrowded conditions? Perhaps your home is unsuitable as a result of illness or mobility issues?
Whatever your story, the makers of a new Channel 4 documentary series would like to hear from you.
Contact Sam on 07827 240 601 – She will call you straight back.
Email: sam.windsor-phillips@rdftelevision.com
Freelance workshop facilitators
There are opportunities for freelance workshop facilitators in the North East.
One or more facilitators or organisations are needed to work with a total of 13 schools in the region between now and next Easter. Campaigns within particular schools should start and finish within the same term. They are working to a budget of up to £375 (inclusive of VAT) per school for facilitation fees.
You should have:
• A respect for equality and non-discriminatory practice.
• A current (last 12 months) enhanced CRB disclosure.
• Willingness to sign up to our behaviour contract for working with young people.
• Public liability insurance (if not a member of school staff)
• Teaching and/or youth work qualifications and/or experience
• A track record of delivering similar project-based work with small groups.
• An entrepreneurial attitude and a network (large or small) of contacts in NE secondary schools (state or independent), PRUs and/or special schools. You will be booking your workshops in yourself, so ideally you’ll already know people who’d like you to work in their schools.
• The ability to work with a student-led ethos, while respecting the school setting you will be working in.
• The ability to meet deadlines and achieve set outcomes, while keeping it fun for the participants.
• The ability to relate well with school staff and local council officers, as well as with young people!
• Sympathy towards the broad objectives of Living Streets: ‘safe, attractive, enjoyable streets, where people want to walk’, and the ability to represent them well.
• Basic IT skills : transferring digital photos to computers, emailing etc
To apply:
Send a CV and referees’ contact details, plus a covering letter (one side of A4 max), detailing the school/s you plan to work in (or how you’d go about booking them, and any geographical preferences, if you have no particular schools in mind) and how you’d schedule your time there. School staff are very welcome to apply to facilitate the programme in a school where they already work. If commissioned you will need to provide a copy of your CRB disclosure and evidence of your insurance.
