Networking
DGLG is in close contact with a number of statutory and voluntary bodies:
Derbyshire County Council - www.derbyshire.gov.uk
Derbyshire County Council and DGLG work together on the Traveller Needs working Group. In 2004 we produced the culture booklet A Better Road. This project had been identified as something to aim for across Europe. To support the work the Finnish Cale sent the guidebook that they had recently produced as a model - Please see Health publications page. "An Improved Path to a Better Road" updated a Better Road in 2009.
DGLG meets with the Derbyshire Gypsy and Traveller Needs Working Group four times a year. The group has worked on a Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Inter Agency Guidance. This is a working document and subject to review and change. Please see latest update July 2019 Download here
Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (Including East Staffordshire.)
Derbyshire undertook its first GTAA which was published in 2008. There is a now a new assessment published 2015
Please down load the GTAA Here
The 2008 Derbyshire Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment was commissioned by the Derbyshire Traveller Issues Working Group. The main objective of the study was to assess the need for additional authorised Gypsy and Traveller site provision within Derbyshire over the next five years. This study now has to be updated
Derbyshire County Council and DGLG work together on the Traveller Needs working Group. In 2004 we produced the culture booklet A Better Road. This project had been identified as something to aim for across Europe. To support the work the Finnish Cale sent the guidebook that they had recently produced as a model - Please see Health publications page. "An Improved Path to a Better Road" updated a Better Road in 2009.
DGLG meets with the Derbyshire Gypsy and Traveller Needs Working Group four times a year. The group has worked on a Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Inter Agency Guidance. This is a working document and subject to review and change. Please see latest update July 2019 Download here
Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (Including East Staffordshire.)
Derbyshire undertook its first GTAA which was published in 2008. There is a now a new assessment published 2015
Please down load the GTAA Here
The 2008 Derbyshire Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment was commissioned by the Derbyshire Traveller Issues Working Group. The main objective of the study was to assess the need for additional authorised Gypsy and Traveller site provision within Derbyshire over the next five years. This study now has to be updated
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BME Mental Health Community Scheme.
As part of their on-going commitment to address the equality agenda in mental health, Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group recently agreed to commission Links CVS to run a mental health community scheme to improve the mental health of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) people in Derbyshire. The project will connect BME communities with mainstream mental health services in Derbyshire. DGLG is a participating group in the scheme as we run both a drop in and a phone line service. Support sessions are culturally appropriate to our community and we can signpost to the relevant agencies to make sure families and individuals get the help that they need.
Three members undertook the mental health first aid training course and successfully completed the six week course and received a certificate on the 17th September 2013. Muzelley McCready, Bridie Page and Johanna Price. With thanks to Jenny Wizzard who has worked hard to coordinate the training days and support for the scheme. We find it an invaluable experience to work with all the BME groups and there is strength in us working together for training and forums.
We continue to attend the bi monthly forum meetings to undertake consultations for Derbyshire County Council on a number of topics working in conjunction with Mick Evans from Derbyshire County Council and James Lee at Links.
As part of their on-going commitment to address the equality agenda in mental health, Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group recently agreed to commission Links CVS to run a mental health community scheme to improve the mental health of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) people in Derbyshire. The project will connect BME communities with mainstream mental health services in Derbyshire. DGLG is a participating group in the scheme as we run both a drop in and a phone line service. Support sessions are culturally appropriate to our community and we can signpost to the relevant agencies to make sure families and individuals get the help that they need.
Three members undertook the mental health first aid training course and successfully completed the six week course and received a certificate on the 17th September 2013. Muzelley McCready, Bridie Page and Johanna Price. With thanks to Jenny Wizzard who has worked hard to coordinate the training days and support for the scheme. We find it an invaluable experience to work with all the BME groups and there is strength in us working together for training and forums.
We continue to attend the bi monthly forum meetings to undertake consultations for Derbyshire County Council on a number of topics working in conjunction with Mick Evans from Derbyshire County Council and James Lee at Links.
North Derbyshire Voluntary Action NDVA www.ndva.org.uk
NDVA supports and represents health related voluntary organisations across Derbyshire. Membership and services are free of charge.
NDVA supports organisations through the following services:
· Health & Social Care Voluntary Sector Forum
· Mental Health Liaison Service
· Network Newsletter
· E-bulletin
· Discussion Forums
· Information Updates
· Small Grants Scheme
· User Involvement Fund
NDVA represents the health related voluntary sector at a strategic level, through attendance at, and the provision of feedback from, the major consultative and decision making meetings of local authority and NHS bodies.
NDVA supports and represents health related voluntary organisations across Derbyshire. Membership and services are free of charge.
NDVA supports organisations through the following services:
· Health & Social Care Voluntary Sector Forum
· Mental Health Liaison Service
· Network Newsletter
· E-bulletin
· Discussion Forums
· Information Updates
· Small Grants Scheme
· User Involvement Fund
NDVA represents the health related voluntary sector at a strategic level, through attendance at, and the provision of feedback from, the major consultative and decision making meetings of local authority and NHS bodies.
Southern Derbyshire Voluntary Sector Mental Health Forum
SDVSMHF www.sdvsmhf.org.uk
Provides a platform for voluntary agencies delivering mental health services to come together to discuss matters of common interest and to inform and influence strategic planning in mental health. The Forum feeds into the county-wide commissioning arrangements for mental health in Derbyshire.
SDVSMHF have a membership of over 50 voluntary sector organisations in Derby and Southern Derbyshire who work with individuals and their families who have mental health needs. They range from small and volunteer only support groups to large national employers with a local operation. Some organisations are mental health specific providers, others support people with mental health needs within their broader remit.
Types of Services
SDVSMHF www.sdvsmhf.org.uk
Provides a platform for voluntary agencies delivering mental health services to come together to discuss matters of common interest and to inform and influence strategic planning in mental health. The Forum feeds into the county-wide commissioning arrangements for mental health in Derbyshire.
SDVSMHF have a membership of over 50 voluntary sector organisations in Derby and Southern Derbyshire who work with individuals and their families who have mental health needs. They range from small and volunteer only support groups to large national employers with a local operation. Some organisations are mental health specific providers, others support people with mental health needs within their broader remit.
Types of Services
- Support, liaison and co-ordination for representatives involved in local service planning and mental health development;
- Regular voluntary sector forum meetings;
- Visiting speakers of interest;
- Training on key service areas including Delivering Race Equality and Mental Health Awareness;
- Feedback and support sessions for representatives;
- Involvement in service development and improvement at a strategic level.
DGLG have had an increasing workload regarding health issues, basically this comes down to many people not having a safe base to be and the stresses around planning problems. At the moment we are working on updated health information on Cancer and offer support through the BME Mental Health phone line support scheme and the volunteering Fund Heath and Social Care funded project for elders and carers. Visit http://www.volunteeringfund.com/localproject/health-life
Derbyshire Police
Moving Forward National Police Training Project
We have been awarded the Queens Award for Innovative Police Training in conjunction with Derbyshire Polic
CRE
EHRC 2010 - Visit Website http://www.lcil.org.uk/news.asp download/files/Wheels_of_Change_Report.pdf
European Dialogue Regional Workshop - Gypsy and Traveller Communities and their relationship to Policing
We have been awarded the Queens Award for Innovative Police Training in conjunction with Derbyshire Polic
CRE
EHRC 2010 - Visit Website http://www.lcil.org.uk/news.asp download/files/Wheels_of_Change_Report.pdf
European Dialogue Regional Workshop - Gypsy and Traveller Communities and their relationship to Policing
The situation in Eastern Europe is not improving as can be seen in the neo-nazi violent marches happening in Czech and Hungary, a history of segregation and racism, which all lead to increasing the likeliness of new arrivals in the UK. Thus the need for advocacy work to help improve, educate and support life in Derby city. Please click on following link for information about Roma in Derby.
http://romacommunitycare.org
http://romacommunitycare.org
