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Volunteers play a vital role in enhancing the lives of vulnerable people. Recruiting or bringing new people into the organisation, whether as volunteers or into paid roles, is an opportunity to take a preventative approach to check whether they are safe and suitable to join you.

This means organisations have to adopt sound practices to help minimise risk. Good recruitment and selection practices include the use of application forms and checking references and qualifications, which should be detailed in your organisation's policies and procedures.

The use of Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks plays a part in your overall approach to safeguarding and your organisation's safer recruitment policy. There are rules about when it is appropriate to use DBS checks and if you’re not sure whether to carry out a check, you can use the DBS eligibility tool.

The Disclosure & Barring Service offers ‘identity checking guidelines’ on:

  • how you can establish the true identity of an applicant through the examination of documents
  • the documents required for volunteers from the UK, and those from overseas, and
  • what you must do as part of the ID-checking process

We will be hosting an online ‘Safer Recruitment’ workshop with Carol Eland from the DBS Outreach Service on Tuesday 18 June 2024 at 1 pm, which is free to attend. If you are interested in attending this workshop please email safeguarding@wcva.cymru to register your interest.

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INFORMATION SESSION: Living with arthritis and weight management.

Thursday – 18th July 2024 Online via Teams 12pm – 1pm

Join us for a talk on Living with arthritis and weight management.. There will be an opportunity for questions. Everyone is welcome!

Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-with-arthritis-and-weight-management-tickets-919931368487

Room opens at 11.45am presentation starts at 12pm. Please be on time.

The session will be delivered by Rachael Smart, Clinical Lead, Cardiff and Vale Weight Management Services

 During our online session we will be discussing arthritis and healthy eating using the Eat Well Guide, reasons why we may eat such as pain and discuss coping strategies. We will discuss realistic weight loss expectations and alternative diets including the Mediterranean diet.

 

Our colleagues at New Horizons Mental Health are undertaking a questionnaire regarding the need for a mental health & wellbeing Women’s Group in Merthyr Tydfil and RCT.

Could you please complete the questionnaire via the link below.

https://forms.office.com/e/X707ahsfeU

The Newid project (https://www.newid.cymru/), delivered by WCVA, Cwmpas, and Promo Cymru aims to support the Welsh Third sector and social enterprises better embrace the digital world we live in.

They offer fully funded 1:1 coaching and mentoring to any community group or social enterprise that has an annual turnover of over £20k… from community centres to social landlords.

With a new financial year upon us, they are now in a position to support more clients. 

If your organisation is interested, please contact Paul Stepczak paul.stepczak@cwmpas.coop directly or Samina (samina.ali@cwmpas.coop).

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