VCS Engage Archive

NCB's involvement in VCS Engage has now come to an end, but the programme continues on a regional basis, managed by Children England who were one of the original consortium members. The documents produced are available here and from the Children England website.

For more information about the continuing VCS Engage work and contact details for regional managers please visit the Children England website.

1. Applying social enterprise approaches to services for children, young people and families [PDF 134KB]

2. Assessing Engagement with the Voluntary and Community Sector: A mini self-evaluation tool [PDF 150KB]

3. Collaborative working: building a consortium [PDF 139KB]

4. Commissioning, contracting and service delivery of children’s services in the voluntary and community sector [PDF 427KB]

5. Creating exceptional partnerships: working together to build on our success [PDF 535KB]

6. Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups: communicating and collaborating with the BME and faith-based VCS [PDF 247KB]

7. Evaluating engagement with the VCS: A self-evaluation toolkit [PDF 393KB]

8. Joint working to meet the needs of young people at risk of exclusion from mainstream education [PDF 218KB]

9. Local authorities and voluntary and community sector engagement: good practice case studies and summary [PDF 273KB]

10. Raising the Standards: a guide to Quality Systems in the Youth Sector Rising to the challenge Social enterprises delivering services for children, young people and families [PDF 539KB]

11. Rising to the challenge: Social enterprises delivering services for children, young people and families [PDF 883KB]

12. The impact of market forces on the operation and capacity of the residential child care sector [PDF 363KB]