Leicestershire Together Challenge Process and the VCS

Leicestershire Together partnership is currently deciding what services it wants to commission across Leicestershire and the Districts in the future, and the VCS has been invited to be a part of this process.

The partnership has recently changed its structure to better reflect its role as a commissioner of services, and has five main commissioning boards:

• health and wellbeing
• children and young people
• enterprise partnership
• safer communities and environment, and a number of cross cutting theme groups or sub-boards.

The main boards and some of the other boards will be producing plans in January, which will be discussed at VAL¹s Stand Up For Communities event on 17 January. Following this, VCS Strategy Group representatives will take forward the views of the VCS to a series of three meetings that are being convened by Leicestershire Together.

Timeline

• 10 January Deadline for Boards to have submitted their plans
• 17 January Meeting at VAL for all VCS groups to find out about commissioning priorities and to discuss our response
• 2, 9. 15 February Leicestershire Together Challenge workshops to discuss the priorities and to identify commonalities and differences between plans
• Beginning of April Final plans to be published and implemented 

Leicestershire VCS Strategy Group members

• Olivia Pitt Catch 22
• Becky Nixon VAL
• Richard Evans South and West Leicestershire CAB
• Ian Terence Watts Toys on the Table
• Mark Grant Communities in Partnership
• Chris Shaw Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire

More information about the challenge process is available from the Leicestershire Together website at: http://www.leicestershiretogether.org/index/strategy_and_delivery-2/inte...

List of expected plans:

• Health and wellbeing
• Children and young people
• Families with complex needs
• Sport and physical activity
• Rural
• Safer communities
• Enterprise / economic development
• Transport

Book your place on VAL's January Challenge Meeting

Contact  Dave Cliffe, dave.c@valonline.org.uk or 0116 257 5025 to sign up for VAL's Challenge meeting event 1-3pm on 17 January to find out more and to have your say.

Let us know if you would like copies of any of the plans and watch the VAL website for feedback after the Challenge meetings.