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Child poverty: everybody's business

12 October 2010
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Empowering the Voluntary Sector resources

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The EVS project has produced many news articles and resources that have been produced during the project and we wanted to make them easily accessible on one page.

We have split the resources into different sections to make it easier to navigate and also included all the news stories featured in each of the newsletters as separate news items.


News articles

The news articles have been arranged in date order, starting with the most recent articles:

2010 Compact and Full Cost Recovery (pdf, 1.49MB)
2010 Judicial Review (pdf, 1.49MB)
2010 Thurrock CVS uses Compact to challenge cuts (pdf, 1.49MB)
2010 EVS successes for 2009-10 (pdf, 1.49MB)
2010 The Ombudsman Service (1.50MB)
2010 EVS and Voice4Change working together (1.48MB)
2010 Compact Refresh (pdf, 952KB)
2010 Housing Challenges (pdf, 950KB)
2010 NAAN Compact Challenge (pdf, 946KB)
2010 ILP advice line (pdf, 951KB)
2010 National Training Awards (pdf, 952KB)
2009 LawWorks Electronic Advice (pdf, 749KB)
2009 Using the advice team (pdf, 737KB)
2009 Compact Voice (pdf, 0.98MB)
2009 Monitoring Officers (pdf, 0.97MB)
2009 Colchester Challenge (pdf, 0.97MB)
2009 Using Compact in the economic downtown (pdf, 999KB)
2009 Praxsis Compact challenge (pdf, 998KB)
2009 EVS years 1-3 summary (pdf, 0.97MB)
2009 Leicester Tenants Association Case (pdf, 0.97MB)
2008 Harrow disability judicial review (pdf, 0.97MB)
2008 Southall Black Sisters 1 (pdf, 0.97MB)
2008 Southall Black Sisters 2 (pdf, 0.98MB)
2008 Private law (pdf, 997KB)
2008 Age Concern Cumbria 1 (pdf, 999KB)
2008 Age Concern Cumbria 2 (pdf, 999KB)
2008 Protecting your organisation (pdf, 994KB)
2008 Warrington CVS (pdf, 999KB)
2007 Negotiating Service Level Agreements (pdf, 999KB)
2007 Making a complaint (pdf, 0.97MB)
2007 Equality duties (pdf, 999KB)
2007 Norwich and Norfolk Voluntary Services (pdf, 999KB)
2007 Local Strategic Partnerships (pdf, 997KB)
2006 What does it mean when a public body says it will consult? (pdf, 995KB)
2006 Lone Ranger in Salford (pdf, 997KB)
2006 Freedom of information (pdf, 997KB)
2006 The Cardiff case (pdf, 785KB)

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Resources on the Compact

The Compact and its legal status in relation to dispute resolution (pdf, 782KB)

The Compact and Public Law PowerPoint presentation (pdf, 17.4KB)

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Consultation resources

Age Concern case overview (pdf, 766KB)

Age Concern case - effects on the organisation (pdf, 766KB)

Age Concern case - the judgement (pdf, 86.2KB)

Notes on consultation processes (pdf, 253KB)

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Equalities resources

An introduction to the Disability Equality Duty (pdf, 788KB)

An introduction to the Gender Equality Duty (pdf, 781KB)

An introduction to the Race Equality Duty (pdf, 808KB)

Harrow disability case - the judgement (pdf, 132KB)

Southall Black Sisters - the case against Ealing (pdf, 775KB)

Southall Black Sisters - the judgement (pdf, 69.6KB)

The Equality Duties table (pdf, 627KB)

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Legal updates

Legal update - emerging themes and new ideas - PowerPoint presentation (pdf, 17.5KB)

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Resources on Local Area Agreements (LAA)


LAA PowerPoint (pdf, 20 KB)

Local government and public involvement in Health Act 2007 (pdf, 769KB)

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Tendering and procurement resources


Charities and local authority procurement (pdf, 44.4KB)

Guidance note on European procurement directives (an outlineby the Public Law Project for VCS groups) (pdf, 789KB)

Note on law from Pinsent Masons website (pdf, 261KB)

Tendering and procurement PowerPoint (pdf, 24.9KB)

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Resources for disputes


Resources for preventing and managing a public law dispute (pdf, 607KB)

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