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New resources to support volunteering
Find out more about the new guidance and support we have produced to help volunteers and their managers.
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Policies to support volunteering
These templates will help to ensure that you have clear and robust volunteering policies available.
Guidance
How to engage with people who are not online
This training will help give a good overview of engagement techniques that can be used to help you gain insight from people who are not online.
E-learning
Working with partners and maintaining Healthwatch independence
Find out the things you need to consider when working with partners on research projects.
Guidance
Annual report template 2020-21
Download this year's annual report template to showcase how your work has made a difference to services and your local communities.
Guidance
How we help you
We understand the time and funding constraints you face, which is why we’re here to step in and lend a hand. Here we highlight how we're doing this, resources available and key dates to be aware of.
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Volunteer role descriptions
Take a look at these role descriptions and amend or adapt based on the volunteering needs of your Healthwatch.
Guidance
Complaints policy template for local Healthwatch
If we make a mistake, it’s important that we work quickly to put things right and learn from what has happened. This resource provides a template policy you can adapt to use in your work as a local Healthwatch.
Guidance
Transforming how we work online
Find out more about our plans to test and build new tools to help you better engage with people and share what people are telling us.
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Helping you to create a robust conflict of interest policy
Find out more about why it’s important your conflict of interest policy is robust, how it can help you to demonstrate your independence to the public and support you in measuring your effectiveness within the Quality Framework.
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