Issue - items at meetings - Power of Volunteering Action Plan

Report of the Acting Director of Public Health (copy attached)

38.1    The Committee considered a report of the Acting Head of Public Health which provided an update on the short term actions proposed by the council (appendix 1) to help deliver the commitments in the Power of Volunteering. The council is a member of the Volunteering Implementation Group (VIG), established under the City Management Board (CMB), to develop and oversee delivery of the Power of Volunteering action plan. All the key public sector organisations in the city were members of the VIG. Appendix 2 of the report included actions proposed by the other members of the VIG: University of Brighton, BSUH, and CCG. At time  the report was produced East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, Sussex Police, City College and Kent, and Surrey, Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company also members of the VIG were due to submit their plans. Also provided (appendix 3) was a diagram of the key groups/forums driving volunteering improvements in the city. 

32.2    RESOLVED – (1) That NCE committee approve the council’s actions to deliver against the commitments in the Power of Volunteering as set out in Appendix 1; and

(2)That NCE committee notes the actions proposed by the other public sector organisations in the Volunteering Implementation Group.