UK Workforce Hub is responsible for developing and maintaining National Occupational Standards (NOS) for the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). They have NOS for:

• Managing Volunteers
• Trustees
• Fundraising

and are about to start developing NOS for:

• Campaigners
• Development Workers.

Apart from these "VCS-specific" NOS, there are, of course, NOS relating to different sectors - such as health, care, justice, sport and leisure, arts, culture, heritage, environment and so on - available from the relevant Sector Skills Council.

UK Workforce Hub's website has case studies (these can also be found in the "Files" section of this Yahoo! Group):

• Chest, Heart and Stroke - Scotland
• Warrington Volunteer Centre
• Learning Skills Wales.

I am sure there are many more organisations in the Voluntary and Community Sector using NOS to good effect. If you are using NOS, please share your experiences - good or bad - with us.

If you have access to any other case studies, or research into the use of NOS in the VCS, please upload them onto the "Files" section of this Yahoo! Group, so we can all benefit from it.

Regards

Trevor Boutall
Do NOS work? Moderator
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