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At last night's Bristol Youth Links (BYL) Board meeting, the Board was keen to ensure that the provider market understands the following points.

1) Clarification of requirements for completion of PQQ (quoted from BCC's procurement team)

It has been a long time coming, lots of work has gone into it and Bristol's VCS is keen to get on with... I am pleased that the Bristol Youth Links tender documents are being released today.

Further to my last blog post (12/12/11, Bristol Youth Links - Call-In Panel confirmed), the Overview and Scrutiny Management Call-In Panel took place yesterday afternoon (4.30pm, Wednesday 4 January 2012).

Further to my last blog posts (12/12/11, 'Bristol Youth Links - Call-In Panel confirmed'; 5/12/11, 'Bristol Youth Links 'called to scrutiny''), the papers for the Overview and Scrutiny Management Call-In Panel have now been published.

Further to my last blog post (5/12/11, Bristol Youth Links 'called to scrutiny'), the date and time of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Call-In Panel has been confirmed. The public meeting will be held at 4.30pm on Wednesday 4 January 2012. Papers for the meeting will be published on Thursday 22 December 2011.

Bristol Youth Links' plans were discussed by the Bristol City Council (BCC) Cabinet meeting, 24/11/11. Following that meeting, two councillors (Peter Hammond and Mark Bradshaw) have submitted a paper requesting that the Bristol Youth Links plans be 'called in to scrutiny'*.

Further to the recent news item (Consultation: Homelessness Prevention High Support Services, 31 Oct 2011), the Preventing Homelessness Board has published Plain English versions of commissioning documents.

Follow this link for an interesting news piece about NHS contracts not going to a social enterprise.

Organisations involved in commissioning may be interested in a series of free seminars from The Learning Curve. The sessions will address:

I heard a very interesting programme the other day (15 Sept 2011) and thought that people would want to hear it.

Entitled 'What will be the fate of the Government's Work Programme?' this Radio 4 programme explores the first 3 months of "the most ambitious programme of back to work support this country has ever seen".