The Voluntary Sector

The voluntary sector is a key stakeholder to ensure that the children’s trust board is able to deliver the outcomes it needs, with particular experience and skills in engaging families who statutory agencies find hard to reach.

The voluntary sector already has a key role in the children’s trust in Medway through effective representation on the six strategic partnership groups developing outcome focused services to improve, for example, emotional well-being and youth support.

Through the Council for Voluntary Services (Medway CVS), and the Voice, voluntary sector organisations are able to feed in to the trust issues that affect service provision for children and young people in Medway. The closeness of these groups to communities in Medway demonstrates the often unique perspective voluntary organisations can provide. Importantly voluntary sector presence at board level and in the Commissioning Group will ensure strong and robust delivery of evidence-based services including and building on valuable work already delivered by local voluntary organisations.