Hillingdon Voluntary Sector Health & Social Care Forum

Hillingdon Voluntary Sector Health & Social Care Forum (VSH&SCF)

The Hillingdon Voluntary Sector Health & Social Care Forum (VSH&SCF) acts as a collective voice for the voluntary sector on all matters related to health and social care in Hillingdon and enables its membership to become actively involved, as an equal partner, in the planning and development of the local health and social care economy.

AIMS:

• To raise the profile, promote the value and strengthen the capacity of voluntary sector health and social care organisations in Hillingdon.
• To provide a mechanism for forum members to exchange information, ideas and good practice and to raise any issues affecting their organisation.
• To act as the principal body through which consultation with Hillingdon’s voluntary sector health and social care organisations will occur on the activities, strategies and commissioning intentions of local and national statutory agencies.

In order to achieve these aims, the VSH&SCF has developed two separate workplans, a Strategic Issues Workplan and a Health & Social Care Issues Workplan, through which all forum activity is channelled.

• Click here to open the VSH & SCF membership pack which includes the Forum Workplans, Terms of Reference and governance arrangements for the Forum.

• Click here to open the Hillingdon VSH & SCF Resource page which includes all Forum Agendas, Minutes, Newsletters and related paperwork.

MEETING DATES:

VSH&SCF meeting dates for 2011 are being advised by Hillingdon Link. Please see Events Diary for details

BECOME A MEMBER:

Full membership is open to all voluntary, community and not-for-profit organisations with an interest in health and / or social care. Interested parties that do not meet the membership criteria or who do not wish to be full members are able to sign up to a mailing list to receive updates and the minutes of forum meetings, as well as attend meetings as an observer where relevant. Observers from other sectors are welcome subject to giving 24 hours notice of attendance.

If you are interested in becoming a member, would like more information about the forum, or are a statutory agency wishing to work with the forum, please contact the forum’s manager on the details below:

vpeck@havs.org.uk

Click here to go to Hillingdon Voluntary Sector Health & Social Care Home Page