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As we have highlighted previously, the application process for the protective security measures for places of worship is now open and will close on the 15th August 2023. The Home Office is holding three online engagement events to promote the launch of the two schemes. […]

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published an invitation to tender for their ‘Tell us about your care’ programme. The Tell us about your care partnerships with national charities, or a consortium of voluntary and community sector organisations with national coverage, that represent people who […]

The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first […]

The Association of Mental Health Providers (AMHP) have created an app with the purpose of highlighting the disparity of mental health service access between areas of England. The mapping contains CQC-registered mental health services, as well as the branches of AMHP member organisations, and AMHP […]

Trustees of the Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation were delighted to award the prestigious and unique Sternberg Interfaith Gold Medallion to The Rt. Hon. Baron Richard Chartres, Dr Harriet Crabtree OBE, of the Inter Faith Network, and  The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Timms, Chair of the […]

Clinks, fellow members of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, commissioned the charity Hibiscus to conduct research exploring the gendered experiences of Black, minoritised, and migrant women in contact with the criminal justice system. Based on focus groups and analyses of existing literature, evidence, and […]

Age UK have published a new report this week on the impact of the cost of living on older people: Tackling the cost of living crisis for older people: What the Government must do. They report that it’s clear that for millions of older people […]

The National Academy of Social Prescribing (NASP), along with other partners including NHS England, have published a new toolkit, following the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Programme launched in April 2021. This toolkit is designed to help communities, organisations and health professionals who are […]

The Inter Faith Network (IFN) has recently updated the resource section of its document Looking after one another: The safety and security of our faith communities. This document was originally created in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and […]

Clinks, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published ‘The State of the Sector Survey’, which aims to get a picture of the current challenges facing voluntary sector organisations and some independent practitioners working with people in contact with the criminal justice system […]