Faith and LSPs: The National Empowerment Partnership in Yorkshire and Humber has now published online its study on Faith communities contributing to LSP partnerships , looking at work by faith communities in Sheffield which contributes to the social and economic wellbeing of communities and therefore to Local Strategic Partnership plans.

http://www.yhep.org.uk/uploads/files/Faith%20Communities.pdf

What are Local Area Agreements? is an information leaflet by NAVCA, which explains the plans for Local Strategic Partnerships, including: how local area agreements (LAAs) work; why and how third sector organisations should engage with them. It is now in an updated second edition which includes information on multi-area agreements (MAAs) and on how LAAs work in two-tier authorities.You can order up to 500 copies to give to your members for free! There is also a companion leaflet, "Local area agreement - what's it got to do with me?" which is aimed at citizens who are engaged in community action. It provides a simple introduction to LAAs, making the links between community activity and how people can influence decision making in their local area with support from LIOs. You can go to the NAVCA website to read them here.

http://www.navca.org.uk/publications/laas/Home.htm

The Yorkshire and Humberside NOMS (National Offender Management Service) have published their September bulletin. It includes information about the first NOMS Yorkshire & Humberside Open Forum with the Voluntary and Community Sector.

The Equality and Human Right Commission has recently published their first guide to Human Rights 'Ours to own.' This looks at what human rights mean in everyday life, how these rights have affected real people and why they are so important.

The guide also looks at some of the general criticisms that are made about human rights and how accurate these actually are.

Download it for free at:
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publicationsandresources/Pages/orderable_publications.aspx

The CBI and TUC, supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has published a guide to workplace diversity: 'Talent not Tokenism: the business benefits of workforce diversity'.
Download the guide at: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/forbusinessesandorganisation/Documents/Talent_not_Tokenism.pdf