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NICVA's Centre for Economic Empowerment (CEE) held a major conference on Wednesday 28 May 2014, on Working Poverty looking at the extent and causes of in-work poverty in Northern Ireland and potential solutions.

Information on salary levels in the community, voluntary and charity sector.

NICVA would like to invite you to participate in a round table discussion on Shaping the Peace Programme and Role of the voluntary and community sector.

With internet security vulnerabilities, malicious software and hacking on the increase, the security of our personal information and exactly what information is being held on us, is being thrown into the spotlight once again.

NICVA is currently seeking nominations for voluntary and community sector representatives on the Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Consultative Forum, linked to the Criminal Justice Board. The Board’s membership consists of Chief Executive l

Social Development Minister, Nelson McCausland, has addressed the Joint Government Voluntary and Community Sector Forum at NICVA this morning.

Tuesday 9 October saw the debate about welfare reform carry on late into the night as members deliberated over the proposed amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill by Sinn Féin.

Because of the way many projects are funded in the voluntary and community sector, a question that can arise for employers in this sector is one that relates to fixed term contracts and redundancy.

New session – new members! 

In a new series of articles published in NICVA's weekly eNews Colm Burns, Policy Officer with NICVA’s 

NICVA is currently seeking nominations for voluntary and community sector representatives on the Department of Justice’s Regional Steering Group on Community Safety.

Assembly Monitor is changing! 

In this paper Professor Alisa McKay proposes that the discipline of economics has a gender bias towards men; examines the impact this has on current policy agendas and explores the potential and need for change.

As part of the welfare reform agenda changes will be made to the Rates Rebate Scheme in Northern Ireland. This will become an important issue for the voluntary and community sector as the reality of the welfare reform changes becomes clear.

NICVA has been involved in a number of voluntary and community sector consultation events across Northern Ireland on the development of a Childcare Strategy for Northern Ireland.

It is critical that organisations correctly determine whether the individuals providing services are employees, self-employed or volunteers.

NICVA brought together the statisticians and the sector to see what the Census has to offer, what information can be mined from it and how it might help form evidence based policy positions.

Transforming Your Care (TYC) has been described as the biggest change in health and social care delivery in a generation and will have a massive impact on the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland.

NICVA's Centre for Economic Empowerment (CEE) held a major conference in Belfast on Friday 31 January, looking at issues faced by Generation Y – people born after 1979.

NICVA has become one of the first registered charities in Northern Ireland.

The Social Security Agency (SSA) has recently released news on the passage of the Welfare Reform Bill (NI) 2012 through the NI Assembly.

Following on from NICVA's recent seminars on data protection, we have produced a new guide to data protection with the aim of helping voluntary and community organisations get to grips with this aspect of their information management strategy.

The Minister for Social Development recently launched the second annual report on the Concordat between the Voluntary and Community Sector and the Northern Ireland Government.

For those who missed our seminar on auto enrolment, see below some key facts and some contact information to get you started.

This briefing gives an overview of the key issues relating to Payment by Results. It is part of the Public Sector Reform series of papers.