South Yorkshire Quality Project
The overall aim of the project is to offer training, mentoring and support to organisations in the implementation of appropropriate quality assurance systems as a tool for organisational development.
We are helping organisations across South Yorkshire with:
- raising awareness of Quality Assurance systems and their potential benefits;
- choosing most appropriate Quality Assurance system/s for their organisation;
- developing skills and expertise in the process of quality assurance self-assessment; and
- helping with implementation of quality assurance systems
We advice organisations on the following Quality Assurance systems:
- Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations (PQASSO);
- Leading system for organisations with 2 - 50 employees;
- Self-assessed on 12 management areas;
- Work at your own pace;
- Third Edition workbook costs £95 (+ P&P)
- Quality First;
- Suitable for very small voluntary and community organisations;
- Self-assessed on 9 areas;
- Work at your own pace;
- Can form the basis for adopting other systems;
- Workbook costs only £30 (+ £4 P&P)
- Investors in People (IiP); Matrix, Customer First, ISO 9000 and others.
For more information on the South Yorkshire Project, download our South Yorkshire Project Flyer or contact the Quality Team.
Quality Counts!
Quality Counts was the South Yorkshire Quality Project's one day conference for voluntary and community organisations, held in October 2008.
The Quality Counts conference comprised speeches, workshops, a Quality Question Time panel, information stands and a Quality Frivolity quiz. Through these varied activities, the conference provided participants with opportunities to:
1. Find out about policy developments on quality affecting voluntary and community organisations;
2. Learn about improving quality in their organisations;
3. Celebrate the quality achievements of South Yorkshire voluntary and community organisations; and
4. Find out about support available in each district.
The Quality Counts conference report is packed full of information on these issues, and is available to download here.
Contact
General enquiries and information please contact quality@vas.org.uk
* Capacity Building & Quality Manager
0114 2536639
* Quality Administration & Monitoring Officer
Eileen Owen, 0114 2536635, e.owen@vas.org.uk
* Infrastructure Quality Development Officer
Natalie Thompson, 0114 2536636, n.thompson@vas.org.uk
* Infrastructure Quality Development Officer
Pete Wilde, 0114 2536636, p.wilde@vas.org.uk
* Quality Development Officer - BME Communities
Ian-Paul Ashworth, 0114 2536637, i.ashworth@vas.org.uk
* Quality Development Officer
Vivienne Brown, 0114 2536638, v.brown@vas.org.uk
Email Bulletin
The QualityNet bulletin is a free resource which is intended for anyone in the voluntary and community sector in South Yorkshire who is interested in performance improvement issues. We aim to produce it each month. It will contain information under three broad headings:
- Quality assurance and performance improvement issues;
- Legal and policy issues;
- Training and other events.