There are an increasing number of 'care ratings websites' being provided by a variety of organisations, including the Social Care Institute for Excellence [ 16] and a care home sector led voluntary compact [ 17].
The voluntary sector often leads the way when engaging younger people, who are particularly effective at scrutinising programming, public engagement, organisational culture and fundraising.
My proudest achievement at work was... achieving my career goal to be chief executive of a voluntary sector-led organisation that has a practical focus to its work and really does put patients at the heart of everything it does.
The Healthy Communities programme supports community volunteers to work in partnership with primary care staff and other specialist cancer service providers, in both statutory and voluntary sectors, to lead improvement locally.
Voluntary sector organisations must be led by people who thrive in such complex systems; people who are adept at overcoming silos (through charm and challenge), to work across disciplines and sectors to create shared value.
Fourth, community networks, led by the voluntary sector and faith groups, should be supported to deploy volunteers and 'good neighbours' to tackle loneliness and social isolation.
Councillor Paul Convery, voluntary and community sector lead, Islington council: "We've asked the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association to stop this kind of fundraising in our streets because … it is becoming out of hand.
GCA works in partnership with academic centres of excellence, commercial organisations, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and providers, the voluntary sector and fellow social enterprises on what we call experience led commissioning (ELC).
Joint work by the local authority, police, health and the voluntary sector in Blackburn with Darwen's Engage team, for example, has led to a total of 700 years in custody for perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.
David leads NCVO's involvement in research to classify voluntary sector organisations and in open data.
I never intended to go into the voluntary sector.
