Use of child protection volunteers sees risk levels fall
A pilot using volunteers in child protection cases has seen risk levels for children decrease in more than three quarters of cases new research has shown.
29 November 2011
Using volunteers to support people on personal budgets
Live-in volunteers are helping people with disabilities pursue independent lives, reports Daniel Lombard
16 September 2011
Is social care ripe for volunteering?
The coalition government is pushing for more volunteering in social care, but will this encroach on the domain of the paid workforce? Sally Gillen reports
27 May 2011
Risk Factor: A volunteer engages with a single mother
A volunteer in Southend achieves a good outcome with a young mother with learning disabilities who rejects involvement with statutory services
30 March 2011
Bridging the generation gap to help people with dementia
Natalie Valios reports on how both young and old benefited from a project to improve the well-being of residents with dementia in a nursing home
24 March 2011
Bromley poised to axe volunteer child protection scheme
Bromley Council's Volunteers in Child Protection (ViCP) scheme may come to an end as the council has proposed axing its £38,000 annual funding.
07 February 2011
Letters to Community Care, 25 November 2010
We are glad Karen Reeve (Letters, 18 November) enjoyed this year's NCAS Conference in Manchester. The social care sector has had its fill, in the past, of set piece head-to-head arguments between ministers and audiences publicly at our annual conferences. Whenever it has happened it is incontrovertibly true that nobody - citizens who use services, ministers, politicians or professionals - has benefited a single jot from the confrontation.
23 November 2010
Good Practice: Thrive gardening project in Battersea Park
A variety of social services’ clients are referred to a large-scale garden project that looks to build physical and mental strength, reports Natalie Valios Project Profile ● Project name : Thrive Battersea Garden Project ● Manager : Susan Stuart - susan.stuart@thrive.org.uk ● Location : Battersea Park, London. ● Aims and objectives : To use social and horticultural therapy to improve the health and well-being of people with disabilities or long-term conditions. ● Annual cost : £449,000 for 2010-11 ● How it is funded: A mixture of local authority, primary care trust, mental health trust and charitable trust funding. ● Timescale: While time-limited programmes are run at the park, Atheldene ga
10 September 2010
Review of vetting and barring scheme to be announced
The government will announce its review of the vetting and barring scheme tomorrow, Community Care has learned. The voluntary registration aspect of the scheme, due to start at the end of July, will be postponed until after the review has been completed.
14 June 2010
Gary Vaux on volunteering and benefits
Jobcentre Plus has recently agreed to a scheme encouraging volunteering among claimants. Gary Vaux assesses this stepping stone back to work
07 June 2010
Fair play for kinship carers
Whether a child is "placed" with a carer or simply "enabled to live" with them can make a big difference to remuneration.
07 June 2010
Interview: Lemn Sissay – poet, playwright and careleaver
Poet, playwright and careleaver Lemn Sissay tells Judy Cooper why children in care should aspire to be anything but social workers
12 February 2010
Elisabeth Hoodless warns over vetting scheme form-filling
The head of the Independent Safeguarding Authority was wrong to conclude that additional paperwork and background checks attached to the new vetting and...
15 December 2009
Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund launched
A new funding model designed to broaden and strengthen investment in volunteering in health and social care was unveiled today.
14 December 2009
Catholic Church faces increase in abuse allegations
The Catholic Church faced an increase in abuse allegations in 2008 compared with the previous year, the church's safeguarding watchdog said in its first annual report today.
23 September 2009
Peter Beresford: My best and worst career decision
The worst and best decision I ever made A poor move that eventually came good Peter Beresford had a good job and an enjoyable...
02 April 2009
Gordon Brown announces £42m boost for charities to fight downturn
Charities will receive more than £40m to support families in the most deprived areas of the UK through the recession, ministers announced today.
09 February 2009
Volunteering with Platform2 helps young offender turn life around
Anthoney Williams was a small-time teenage crook. Now he is a Prince's Trust award nominee. He tells Andrew Mickel how he walked the path from one to the other after volunteering in the UK and Ghana
09 January 2009
Your guide to volunteering in 2009
During the festive season many of us think about those who are less fortunate and consider volunteering. Natalie Valios considers the options
31 December 2008
Take pity on chuggers
Abused by drunks, spat at and called obscene names, street fundraisers, or "chuggers", have a lot more to deal with than public prejudice. But do they deserve your charity, asks former chugger Jake Tupman
12 December 2008
