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Volunteer Rights Inquiry
19 November 2009
The Volunteer Rights Inquiry will be a short, focused exploration of the issues and potential solutions around the subject of volunteer rights.
The Inquiry sets out to examine a broad range of issues including, but not limited to, the legal rights of volunteers and to consider potential options for redress when things go wrong.
After a series of high profile cases and campaigning by a number of people, concerns have been raised that volunteers have no rights in dealing with volunteer involving organisations when problems occur, be they rights in law or in procedures for redress.
The Volunteer Rights Inquiry will provide a comprehensive overview of the issues, concerns and possible solutions. It is hoped that these will be of interest to stakeholders in volunteering (e.g. policy makers, volunteer involving organisations, Volunteer Managers, volunteers themselves).
A good summary of the Inquiry is avaiable through the following presentation from Rob Jackson, Director of Development and Innovation at Volunteering England:
Further details of how to contribute will be released in December. However, fuller details about the panel which will be chaired by Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs are available from Volunteering England's website
Featured Event
Open Public Services - Passage of a bill workshop
This VSNW/Parliamentary Outreach Service event will explore the stages that the bill would go through, their relative importance and ways to engage and influence
Featured News
Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund results announced
The beneficiaries of the £30 million fund to help transform and modernise local charity support services have been announced by Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society.
Relaunch of Voluntary Sector Cuts Website
The Voluntary Sector Cuts website has now been relaunched with additional functionality to enable VCS organisations to records cuts to funding and their effects
Views sought on Department of Health draft statutory guidance
VSNW are requesting your views on draft statutory guidance as support for joint strategic needs assessments and health and wellbeing strategies
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
