Voluntary & Community Sector Reference Group

The Reference group is made up of Community and Voluntary representatives. In the first year of the group forming they developed a Communication Strategy and agreed a terms of reference.

The main function of the Reference Group is to address communication, publicity and Equality Impact Assessments.

The group have been responsible for developing SRCGA website and agreeing all publicity material which includes approving information leaflets and all newsletters before SRCGA distribute to the sector.

•    Equality Impact Assessments
A commitment, within the 2008-11 Council Plan and Service Improvement Plans for each service to carry out equality impact assessments,

Each impact assessment covers all six equality and diversity strands (race, religion, disability, age, gender and sexual orientations). It is essential that the community are involved in the Equality Impact Assessments process and we have now made progress by including EIA within our Reference Group.