{"id":18784,"date":"2018-03-23T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:21:56","slug":"governanceweekly-22mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/03\/governanceweekly-22mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance weekly for 22nd March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>The weekly roundup from VANEL on good governance, charity trusteeship and non-profit leadership. News, information, resources and ideas. Complemented by our &#8220;aboutgovernance&#8221; online discussion space for leaders and trustees and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aboutgovernance\">@aboutgovernance<\/a> Twitter feed.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The monthly Governance blog article from NCVO is out for March. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2018\/03\/21\/governance-round-up-march-2018\/\"><span class=\"s6\">Read it here<\/span><\/a>. It includes news about the ongoing takeup of the new Charity Governance Code, lessons from a charity merger and some news related to safeguarding. A quick read but worth a look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s5\">GDPR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">If you\u2019re sharing this with your board\/committee, remind them that they need to be marching on towards compliance with GDPR. 25th May &#8211; \u2018GDPR Day\u2019 will soon be upon us. So are you on top of GDPR? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/01\/data-protection-and-gdpr-your-challenge-for-2018\/\">Read my original blog article here about GDPR<\/a>. We\u2019ve put <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/resources\/gdpr-resources\/\">a page of useful resources about GDPR together here<\/a>. Latest news about GDPR is all tagged on this blog so <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/tag\/gdpr\/\">read them here<\/a>. And don\u2019t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/03\/gdpr-training-opportunities-coming-soon\/\">I\u2019m running GDPR basics training sessions<\/a> soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s5\">Safeguarding<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The Charity Commission says safeguarding should be a priority for all charities, not just those working with groups traditionally considered at risk. It comes as the charity regulator publishes a report showing safeguarding concerns are an increasing feature in its regulatory compliance case work with charities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/safeguarding-is-a-key-governance-priority-for-all-charities-regulator-reminds-trustees\">See here for more information in the Charity Commission\u2019s 5th <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">February<\/span> press release<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>As always, more governance news from next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Karl Elliott, Development Manager<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:karl@vanel.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">karl@vanel.org.uk<\/a> \/ 01472 287548<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/big-issues\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vanel.org.uk\/governance<\/a> &#8211; for an overview of our resources and information<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.vanel.org.uk\/trustees\">www.vanel.org.uk\/trustees<\/a> &#8211; for the Trustee Network blog and information<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.vanel.org.uk\/aboutgovernance\">www.vanel.org.uk\/aboutgovernance<\/a> &#8211; private discussion space for trustees<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aboutgovernance\">@aboutgovernance<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-18784\" data-postid=\"18784\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-18784 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekly roundup of news related to governance, trusteeship and leadership:  this week &#8211; governance blog from NCVO, update on GDPR for trustees and an important note from the Charity Commission about safeguarding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,391,11],"tags":[139,516],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4SY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18830,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}