Personnel and Volunteers

The "experience route" for the Diploma in Charity Accounting has been relaunched by accountancy professionals body ICAEW with Cass Business School.

With another football summer to kick off shortly, personnel professionals body CIPD has published specific guidance for employers on absence management. While there is no obligation to provide special consideration, it can help with morale and forestall problems.

The latest Charity and Social Enterprise Law Update from solicitors Bates Wells and Braithwaite has a range of useful articles. These include issues around the new Equalities Act, the European Commission's review of procurement legislation, social (enterprise) franchising and updates on the Vetting and Barring Scheme.

Research to gain a clearer understanding of the nature and scale of voluntary involvement in archaeology across the UK has found that the numbers have doubled since 1987.

'Community Archaeology in the UK: Recent Findings' via http://www.britarch.ac.uk/news/100430-community.

(Source: UKVPMs)

From 1st October 2010, the adult minimum wage rate starts at age 21 rather than 22 and there is a new minimum wage for apprentices. The adult rate will be £5.93 per hour, with £4.92 per hour for 18 to 20 year olds and £3.64 per hour for 16 to 17 year olds.

Sandy Adirondack's legal update has more at http://www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#minimumwage.

The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services has produced the second edition of its 'Careers guide: An introduction to working and volunteering in the voluntary and community youth sector'. Download in pdf, a large 7.23MB.

(Source: Voluntary Arts England newsletter)

The City of London has produced 'Volunteering - The Business Case: The benefits of corporate volunteering programmes in education', looking at the learning and development of employees from City firms in schools and colleges across the UK. Pdf, 655KB.

The 'volunteer leaders' website Energize Inc has an article discussing the concept of The Self-Directed Volunteer, where an agency initiating a project publicises the need, provides clear and useful resources, and loosely monitors the impact (but doesn't manage the volunteer directly).