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• Responding to the ‘Big Society’

  December 22nd

  Feedback from our policy workshop

• A user-centred approach to problem drug use

  December 14th

  Peer support useful at all levels of recovery

• Survey of prison youth states a mentor would stop re-offending

  December 13th

  1000 young men and women aged 15-18 took part in HM Inspectorate of Prisons report

• Leave No Veteran Behind report

  December 13th

  Mentoring with armed forces veterans in prison shows success rate in reducing re-offending

• End of life care and befriending

  December 13th

  ‘Dying for Change’ report recommends use of volunteer befrienders

• Guardian Jobs’ dedicated volunteering recruitment section launched

  December 6th

  Free volunteer advertising

• Independent Review reports on strategy to raise children’s life chances

  December 3rd

  Government commissioned report has two overarching recommendations

• New Public Health strategy

  December 3rd

  Befriending is one approach suggested for local authority grant funding

• 40,000-strong network of business mentors announced

  November 25th

  Vince Cable made the announcement at the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week and called on more businesses to join up – link

• Big Society in Action Awards announced

  November 24th

  Prime Minister hopes to illustrate the ‘big society in action’ with monthly awards to organisations that show they are participating

• Check progress of Government in new departmental business plans

  November 11th

  Each department’s plans for the next four years published

• A new Government employment programme for disabled people launches

  November 11th

  ‘Work Choice’ to support around 23,000 severely disabled people each year

• Read the Government’s open letter to civil society organisations following the Comprehensive Spending Review

  November 11th

  Opportunities and challenges for charities, social enterprises and voluntary and community groups outlined

• Canadian research finds telephone based peer support effective in preventing postnatal depression

  November 11th

  80% were satisfied and would recommend peer support to a friend