Health and Wellbeing Boards have a duty to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for their area. The JSNA identifies health and social care needs, how well these are being met and opportunities for improvement to inform decision-making.

Read the full resource here: Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (cheshireeast.gov.uk)

There is a widely held perception that volunteering is a ‘good thing’ and that this confers benefits to both the beneficiaries and to the volunteers themselves. This includes a considerable amount of emerging evidence on the potential health and wellbeing benefits from volunteering.

However, Volunteer Scotland is aware that this evidence can be contradictory, and this has resulted in considerable uncertainty around what we mean by wellbeing, the nature of the benefits, who benefits, the possibility of losers as well as gainers and the invidious causality problem.

Today we’re releasing the 2020 edition of the UK Civil Society Almanac. It provides a comprehensive overview of facts and figures related to the voluntary sector, including its: