Health, housing and social care
Voluntary Action Sheffield’s Health, Housing & Social Care (HHSC) team works to help voluntary and community organisations play a full part in designing, developing and delivering health, housing and social care services in Sheffield.
* Planning and partnership work
* Supporting people user engagement project
* Children and young people's partnership network
Contacts
- Jane Anslow, Health Housing & Social Care Manager, 0114 2536640, j.anslow@vas.org.uk
- Sharon Bromley, Planning & Partnership Officer, 0114 2536642, s.bromley@vas.org.uk
- Jasmine Warwick, Planning & Partnership Officer, 0114 2536647, j.warwick@vas.org.uk
- Pauline Lord, Administrator, 0114 2536644, p.lord@vas.org.uk
- Kaltum Rivers , BME Communities Development Officer (Children and Young People), 0114 2536645, k.rivers@vas.org.uk
- Liz Clayton, Planning & Partnership Officer (Children and Young People), 0114 2536646, l.clayton@vas.org.uk
Planning and partnership work
- Promoting and supporting the role of the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in the range of partnership bodies in health, social care and services for children & young people.
- Channelling information relating to planning to VCS organisations
- Promoting and supporting the role of service users and carers in service development.
- Facilitating communication between VCS groups and with their statutory partners
- Producing newsletters and bulletins
- Providing support to voluntary supported accommodation projects.
- Supporting the participation of those projects in the planning and delivery of services.
Supporting people user engagement project
Supporting People is a working partnership of local government, service users, health, probation and support agencies. It delivers planning, monitoring and funding for housing related support services.
It is a Government requirement of Supporting People that all service users have an opportunity to be involved and consulted about their service.
The role of this project is to encourage and support good practice by providers of supported housing in involving service users in the planning and delivery of their services.
The project also makes recommendations to Supporting People on developing structures to enable user involvement in Supporting People planning mechanisms.
Supporting People - User Engagement Project - Report, August 2003
Service User Consultation on Sheffield Supporting People - 5 Year Strategy
Sheffield Supporting People - Service User Involvement Strategy
Children and young people's partnership network
The Children and Young People's Partnership Network is a network of voluntary, community and faith organisations working with children and young people in Sheffield and Voluntary Action Sheffield supports this growing network in a number of ways including:
* representation and consultation on issues of local and national significance
* organising Children and Young People's Network meetings for voluntary, community and faith groups
* providing training
* providing networking and linking opportunities
* regular mailings of relevant information on policy, practice and funding
To find out more visit the Children and Young Peoples' Partnership Network pages