Quality Assurance Systems

Stepping Stones: A Quality Assurance System for Haringey Voluntary and Community Organisations

A summary report of Haringey’s Equalities Impact Assessment

Background

A 2007/8 Equalities Impact Assessment on the Grant Aid Standards highlighted a number of areas around organisational quality that may have prevented some voluntary and community organisations from successfully securing grants and contracts from the Council and from other sources.

Way forward

The CVST is now developing a quality assurance toolkit called the Stepping Stones Quality Assurance System to help improve organisational policies and practices and to improve the chances of under-represented groups in successfully winning grants or contracts.

Additional benefits

Stepping Stones will also be used as an additional tool to help identify areas where an organisation may be weak and need support to put things right.

Stepping Stones will also:

• assist the development of robust and effective organisational policies and practices that will enable an organisation to be ‘grant or contract ready’
• help organisations to provide a good quality service for the residents of Haringey
• provide organisations with more credibility in fundraising as a competent, robust, quality organisation
• provide external verification of an organisation’s quality standards

Consultation

The CVST consulted widely during the preparatory stages of Stepping Stones, including the following organisations:

• HAVCO
• HPA (Haringey Play Association)
• Age Concern
• The LB Haringey Corporate Voluntary Sector Officers Group
• Various Children and Young People organisations at a 2008 CYP event
• Organisations funded by the CVST

More information

A copy of the full impact assessment can be obtained from Jennifer Layne, Corporate Voluntary Sector Team, by emailing voluntary.sectorteam@haringey.gov.uk.

Full report is attached below.

Attached Files

Filename	Filetype	Size
equalities impact assessment on stepping stones qas completed by cvst 2008.doc	Word	108K

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