YOUTH VOLUNTEERING FORUM (Leicestershire & Rutland) - TUESDAY 25th MAY 2010

A third 'Youth Volunteering Forum’ (Leicestershire & Rutland) was held on Tuesday 25th May 2010 at Parklands Leisure centre, Oadby, providing some valuable space and time to develop knowledge and underastanding abourt the 'Vetting & Barring Scheme' of the 'Independent Safeguarding Authority'.

COMMENTS RECEIVED 

• “Facilitator was excellent. Well informed and a skilled communicator. He was dedicated in giving information and ensuring we gained knowledge. He handled some difficult questions in a professional manner…Just very well done and thank you very much”.
• “Informative and interesting delivery from the facilitator. Good to discuss the relevancy to our organisation. Really useful session – made you think about the different scenarios”.
• “Clear, concise, informed information. Excellent facilitator. It could have been a very dry subject, but was made interesting by the delivery. Very good. Perhaps a follow-up next year”.
• “Gordon was very informative and knowledgeable about the subject matter and presented it in a clear, concise format. Very helpful. Thank you”.
• “Informative”.
• “Very good….Easy to understand”.
• “Comprehensive and appropriate to specific needs. Expected more on working with young volunteers”.
• “Very informative. Very useful. Thank you”.
• “Anything that helps to clarify ISA/VBS is useful. Gordon obviously knowledgeable. Very useful. Lots of relevant information”.
• “ISA has been explained. I feel much more confident. I have enough information to feedback to make things clearer”.
• “Very useful. Made things a lot clearer. Thank you. Seems a lot better system”.
• “Very informative presentation, clearly explained which has increased my knowledge and understanding of the new Vetting & Barring Scheme…ran over time – prefer to keep to timing”.
• “Good knowledge of subject”.
• “Relevant, straightforward and informative presentation. Invaluable. Thank you”.
• “Poor introduction but the content and presentation of the course was excellent. Very informative and helpful”.
• “Informative – made things a lot clearer”.
• “Too much information – sorry. A brave attempt to make a complicated subject more accessible. Thanks…Raised more questions than it answered. I need to do some homework”.

• “Great. Venue works well for me from Market Harborough”.
• “Reasonable venue”.
• “Good venue”.
• “Good venue. Easily accessible”.
•  “Suggest entrance looked at as left queuing with leisure centre users. Though I was late, made me later by another 3 minutes”.

• “More advice on self-employed providers of activities/services for children and young people/vulnerable adults, including directors of small companies engaged in this way”.
• “Keep updating group on any changes/amendments to ISA/CRBs”.
• “Would like a follow-up session October time to update and answer more questions”.