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Helen Oparinde, Development Officer in VAL’s Voluntary Sector Support team marks International Women’s Day by highlighting the contribution that women make to the local VCSE sector.

Read how Susanne found a role through our website working as a Volunteer Receptionist for Menphys.

Roots HR Community Interest Company describe themselves as the UK’s specialist consultancy for human resources and health and safety services for social sector.

On 23 February 2021 the Cabinet Office and Chloe Smith MP released a press release explaining that individuals who need to self-isolate because of coronavirus will still be able to vote in the local elections, following a planned amendment to emergency proxy voting rules published in Parliament.

The advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) remains that adults with severe and profound learning disabilities, and those with learning disabilities in long-stay nursing and residential care settings, should be offered the vaccine in priority group 6 (people with Down’s syndrome are included in group 4).

A record number of people in the UK are living with Type 2 diabetes.

Anti-slavery charity Unseen is launching a new campaign to raise awareness and reporting of labour abuse among clothing workers in the Leicester area.

On 24 February 2021 the Cabinet Office published the new “re-opening businesses and venues in England” guidance.

The closing date for applications is 10 March 2021