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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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