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G:up has commissioned Midlands Youth (an alliance of 14 West Midlands youth associations) to investigate the

• · training needs
• · use of quality assurance schemes

across the West Midlands children and young people’s voluntary sector. 

Find attached a short questionnaire about each area, designed to capture the experiences and needs of the sector.  We value your input to gain accurate insights and help raise organisational and workforce standards for the benefit of young people in the region.

Please complete the questionnaires and return them to us by Wednesday 26^th May 2010.  Please forward to any of your relevant contacts and networks.  Training Needs Questionannaire and Quality Standards Questionnaire

What is G:XL? 

G:XL is a three year project within G:up, designed in partnership with 40 organisations, to improve how infrastructure organisations support the children and young people’s voluntary sector across the West Midlands.

How will this information be used?

Midlands Youth will:

• Collate and analyse the results
• Produce an audit and review of infrastructure standards
• Develop a self-assessment toolkit, a training and development action plan, and events calendar

All the work and resources will be freely available for G:up members on the G:up website.  Join G:up by visiting:

http://growingupinthewestmidlands.info

Many thanks for your time and support.

George Turvey

G:up Information and Communications Coordinator

c/o bayc, Hilda Simister House, 581 Pershore Road, Selly Park

Birmingham, B29 7EL

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Total Place is an ambitious programme that has the potential to transform landscape of local public service delivery.

In response to the budget 2010 announcements, OTS has drawn together examples of third sector contributions from the 13 Total Place Pilots and other areas demonstrating Total Place ways of working.

The economic climate is driving severe constraints on public finances. We need to find ways of working that enable us to address serious economic and social issues while at the same time delivering more efficient services. Total Place is about drawing on the frontline experience to find solutions that meet people’s needs and which deliver better value for money.

The third sector has a key role in Total Place through:

• Facilitating community engagement and empowerment of citizens to be involved in design of their services
• Using the sector’s own aggregated expertise on needs of individuals and communities and the solutions
• As a service provider in their own right, making a practical contribution in redesigning and delivering services to be more efficient as well as more effective, and responsive to user needs.

Many of the examples in the report are from Total Place areas, many are not but demonstrate a ‘Total Place way of working’ – cutting across service or sector lines to design and deliver a holistic, efficient service around the needs of communities and individuals. We can learn from all these examples. 

Further information

The full Total Place report on the findings of the 13 pilots can be found at:

• Total Place report [external link]

Discuss Total Place at the online Communities of Practice:

• Total Place [external link]
• Third Sector [external link]

Find out more about Total Place:

• The Third Sector & Total Place