The Voluntary Sector Children’s Services Forum (VSCSF) provides an opportunity for Third Sector organisations that work in, or have an interest in, services for children and young people to work together and share knowledge, skills and resources to support children, families and communities in the Falkirk Council area to reach their full potential.
We want to hear from you! We’ve launched an online survey to gather your feedback, and ensure the Falkirk third sector forums are relevant and useful to our sector.
We’re looking to hear from all members of the sector, particularly those who have attended forums before, on what you would like to achieve and learn from them. The survey should only take 5 minutes to complete, and is open until 11:59pm on Sunday 31st March.
To submit your response, please visit the SurveyMonkey page.
If you have any questions regarding this survey, or any of the forums, please contact Scott Malcolm by email: scott.malcolm@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
The Third Sector – comprising community groups, voluntary organisations, charities, social enterprises, co-operatives and individual volunteers – plays a vital in providing services for children and families in Falkirk, and this forum allows their voices, issues, concerns and views to be raised within Community Planning and the priorities and outcomes of the Strategic Outcomes and Local Delivery (SOLD) Plan.
Terms of Reference
Terms of Reference will be available soon.
Online Discussion Boards
Alongside the 4 forum meetings a year, we now facilitate an Online Discussion Board to support the work of the forum. The purpose of this discussion board is to allow colleagues to share information, raise issues and ask questions between the quarterly meetings. These discussions will be used to help to influence the agendas of upcoming meetings, with outcomes of conversations being fed back to the discussion boards. You can access the discussion board for this forum by clicking on the following link: Voluntary Sector Children’s Services Online Discussion Board.
The Online Discussion Boards are publicly accessible, but you will need to register, and be logged in to be able to contribute to the discussions.
The forum continues to support “virtual” membership through the Online Discussion Boards. We realise it is not always possible to attend a meeting in person. As a virtual member of the forum you will have the opportunity to access the agendas and minutes of meetings through this page, engage with other forum members and take part in the discussion boards, raise issues and influence the work of the forum.
We hope you enjoy using the online discussion boards. If you do have any queries, or have any issues accessing or using the discussion boards, please contact Laura Jamieson by phone: 01324 692003, or email: laura@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
Dates of Future Meetings
- Thursday 28th February 2019, 10am – 12pm
- Thursday 30th May 2019, 2pm – 4pm
- Thursday 29th August 2019, 10am – 12pm
- Thursday 28th November 2019, 2pm – 4pm
Unless stated above, all meetings will be held at the CVS Falkirk office, Unit 6 The Courtyard, Callendar Business Park, Callendar Road, Falkirk, FK1 1XR.
Upcoming Agenda
Agenda for next meeting: Thursday 28th February 2019.
If there are any issues, speakers or areas of interest you would like added to the agenda of future meetings, please contact Scott Malcolm, Development Officer – Championing the Sector and Volunteering at CVS Falkirk by email: Scott.Malcolm@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
Minutes of Previous Meetings
- Minutes of Thursday 29th November 2018 (available soon), Agenda 29.11.18
- Minutes of Thursday 30th August 2018 (meeting cancelled)
- Minutes of Thursday 31st May 2018, Agenda 31.05.18
- Minutes of Thursday 1st March 2018 (meeting cancelled), Agenda 01.03.18
Contact
Scott Malcolm: 01324 692010, Scott.Malcolm@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
Falkirk Children’s Commission
Falkirk Children’s Commission is a sub group of Falkirk Community Planning Partnership. The Commission is a multi-agency collaborative that leads and supports agencies to work together to improve outcomes and meet the needs of children and young people. Falkirk Children’s Commission has representatives from all services, statutory and voluntary, working within Children’s Services in Falkirk.
The Commission oversee the work on Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) in Falkirk. Further information about the Commission, GIRFEC, the Integrated Children’s Services Plan and other useful resources can be accessed on the For Falkirk’s Bairns Practitioner Pages.
GIRFEC
Named Person
A briefing document on the Named Person Service and information sharing is available on the Falkirk GIRFEC webpage. The briefing seeks to address concerns regarding information sharing, raised as a result of the recent Supreme Court ruling earlier in the year.
For further information, including on the Named Person Service, please visit the Falkirk GIRFEC webpage.
An Introduction to Wellbeing Card Game
Developed by Children in Scotland and The National Third Sector GIRFEC Project, the Wellbeing Card Game is designed to help community groups, clubs and other organisations to understand how their work contributes to the wellbeing of children and young people, using the 8 SHANARRI indicators.
The game is free to use, and comes with an introduction leaflet that gives a little background and instructions on how to play the game. To download the resources, please visit the Children in Scotland website.
CVS Falkirk now have 6 copies of the Wellbeing Card Game available for loan; for further information, please contact Laura Jamieson by phone: 01324 692003, or email: laura@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
