News and reports

NSPCC have re-opened applications for the NSPCC school service volunteering role Speakout.Staysafe.

Get your thinking caps on for a night of quizzing at Darlington Rugby Club in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Children with Cancer UK are raising awareness this month for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

The theme of this forum is Research and Insight: Find Common Ground across public and voluntary sectors on research, insight and the evidence base used to inform policy and service design.

This suicide awareness and preventation event takes place in the Studio Room of the Dolphin Centre.

In the past week, the Care Quality Commission published 115 reports on services which have been inspected by specialist teams of inspectors.

Do you live with or care for someone with a long-term condition and want your voice to be heard?

TEWV child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in County Durham and Darlington offer free online training for anyone who works with children and young people and parents/carers.

NEPACS have a range of virtual training courses taking place over the next few weeks for anyone working with children or families inc health care, local authorities, criminal justice, education and the voluntary sector.

This workshop will explore ways VCSE organisations and their members are, and can be, involved in research on topics that matter to them – from local bus services to young people’s mental health or the climate crisis.

The results of the latest annual survey of hospital inpatients published by the CQC show patient satisfaction levels have remained largely static since 2021, but indicate a longer term decline in most areas compared to previous years.

NHS covid and flu vaccination programmes, which had been due to commence in October, will now start immediately. Health leaders say the change was needed due to the risks presented by the new BA.2.86 covid variant.