The Government is to establish an independent panel to give victims of the riots a chance to “have their voice heard”. The panel will produce a report within six to nine months to be presented to the leaders of all three main political parties.

The Government has appointed Alan Milburn as Independent Reviewer of Social Mobility and Child Poverty pending the establishment of a statutory Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission next year. The call for evidence will help inform the first report to parliament spring 2012. Closing date 16 Oct.

The 2012 Call for Proposals for participation in the Lifelong Learning Programme has been published and is available on our website. Updated guidance documents and application forms will be available soon. Read more. Good news and congratulations: We have approved a total of seven Grundtvig Assistantships and 20 Learner Workshops for the 2011 call. Well [...]

NCVYS is seeking your views to help us shape a number of key products and services we are developing to support workforce development. Your input is vital to helping us ensure what we develop meets your needs. From 2011-2013, NCVYS’s workforce development activity is funded through the Catalyst consortium, a NCVYS-co-ordinated partnership funded by the [...]

Changes are proposed that risk losing UK wide co-ordination and active engagement of the youth work sector in determining how it should be represented in the future for Sector Skills Activity; and Along with partners across the UK, we are conducting a brief survey to gather views that we will use in our discussions with [...]