Consultations

At a local level The Alliance is a recognised and increasingly used interface between the children and young people's voluntary sector and Hampshire Children's Trust partners. The Alliance supports Hampshire Children’s Trust Partners to consult effectively with the children and young people's voluntary sector by arranging, marketing and facilitating voluntary sector-specific consultation events.

Local Consultations

Hampshire County Council

Draft Hampshire Autism Strategy for Adults

The Hampshire Autism Strategy for Adults is the first of a two part ‘across the lifespan’ autism strategy. The second part, the Hampshire Autism Strategy for Children, is expected in 2013.

Read more about the draft strategy and how to express your views at http://www3.hants.gov.uk/autism-strategy-consultation

Closes 18 May

National Consultations

Department for Education

Draft Revised Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities on Services and Activities to Improve Young People's Wellbeing

The government is consulting on draft revised statutory guidance on local authorities' duties to secure sufficient educational and recreational leisure-time activities for 13 to 19 year-olds to improve their wellbeing. This duty also requires local authorities to ascertain and consider young people's views and to publicise all activities aimed at these young people. The aim is that the consultation results in guidance that is “much shorter and focused more strongly on essential principles rather than prescriptions for the nature or level of youth provision”.

Closes 25 May 2012

Consultation on Revised Sure Start Children's Centres Statutory Guidance

The Department has revised the Sure Start Children's Centres Statutory Guidance for local authorities, commissioners of local health services and Jobcentre Plus when exercising their functions under the Childcare Act 2006.

This consultation invites views on the revised statutory guidance. The revised guidance seeks to make it clearer what local authorities and statutory partners must do because it is required by legislation, and what local authorities and partners should do when fulfilling their statutory responsibilities.

Closes 1 June 2012

Department for Business Innovation & Skills

Dealing with Dismissal and ‘Compensated No Fault Dismissal’ for Micro Business

Call for evidence. The Deptartment wants to know whether employers and employees, and other interested parties, think current dismissal procedures are too onerous, too complex and whether or not there is a lack of understanding in their application. Views are also requested on the idea of compensated no-fault dismissal for micro-businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Under such a system, a business would be able to dismiss a worker from a micro-business, where no fault had been identified on the part of the employee, with the payment of a set amount of compensation.

Closes 8 June 2012