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The April edition of NCVYS Nectar - news from the sector is available online at www.ncvys.org.uk/UserFiles/NCVYSNectar_April2013.pdf. To contribute your organisation's news, research, campaigns, events or vacancies to the next issue email dominic@ncvys.org.uk and put 'For Nectar' in the subject title.
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The March NCVYS’s monthly Funding Update is available online at http://ncvys.org.uk/UserFiles/Funding_April13.pdf. For further information visit the Funding Update page on the NCVYS website at www.ncvys.org.uk/funding_update.html.
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The special 50th edition of Snippets, NCVYS's workforce development e-bulletin, is available to download from www.ncvys.org.uk/Workforce.html. Alongside news, the e-bulletin bring you facts about Snippets, provide highlights of the team's work over the past seven years and explain changes to the team moving forward.
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The British Youth Council has published A Guide to Working with your Local Authority to Improve the Provision of Activities and Services for Young People, which includes details of statutory guidance for Local Authorities and explains how it affects young people. To download the guide visit
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http://byc.org.uk/resource-download-log.aspx?doc=/media/204021/young_person_s_guide_to_local_authority_responsibilities.pdf.
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The NSPCC has produced a briefing summarising the main findings and recommendations of the Youth Justice Board commissioned report Young people and the secure estate: needs and interventions' has been published on NSPCC Inform. The briefing can be viewed at www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/briefings/Young-people-secure-estate_wda95343.html.
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance on best practice for the health and wellbeing of looked after children and young people. The standard, which can be viewed at http://publications.nice.org.uk/quality-standard-for-the-health-and-wellbeing-of-looked-after-children-and-young-people-qs31, applies to all settings and services working with looked after children from birth to 18 years and care leavers.
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Young Minds has published Improving the mental health of looked after young people: An exploration of mental health stigma. The report, which can be downloaded at www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/563_im_not_like_tracy_beaker, examines the particular perceptions and experiences of mental health stigma amongst looked after young people. It will be used to inform policy makers and the professionals who work with them.
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The Prison Reform Trust, in partnership with other organisations, has published a briefing on the role of adult social services in supporting vulnerable offenders with multiple problems. The briefing, whose recommendations include adult social services providing co-ordinated support to young offenders aged between 16 and 24 to assist them in the transition to adulthood and prevent them from re-offending, visit www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Making%20the%20difference.pdf.