Our commitment to working with the VCSE
The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership values the contribution of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector across all areas of our work and at all levels of decision making and delivery.
Our Power of Communities programme works with the VCSE sector, acting as a catalyst for change, facilitating new opportunities for organisations to better engage in co-creating and shaping services (including decision making), and challenging the ways we work in health and care to ensure greater inclusivity and accessibility in commissioning and service provision.
Our Associate Director, Jo Baker has written this blog about the research into the structure, dynamics and impact of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, in addition to discussing the contribution of the VCSE sector to health and care.
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13th September 2024
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28th February 2024
We work with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector partners across West Yorkshire. The sector is made up of thousands of organisations of different sizes and types, covering different geographies and tackling different issues.
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Following our review into the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities and the disproportionate effect on ethnic minority communities and staff, we launched an anti-racism movement with our partners at West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit. The movement is part of an ongoing commitment to tackling structural and institutionalised racism.
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In West Yorkshire we have higher numbers of adults with a learning disability receiving long-term support from Local Authorities compared to the rest of England. Recognising this inequality, our ambition is that people with learning disabilities will experience the best possible health care and have improved outcomes from their local health services.