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News for Local Authorities.
Greenwich Leisure centre ranked in UK top 25
Clissold Leisure Centre - one of 65 leisure centres within the M25 run by the mutual enterprise Greenwich Leisure
Limited - has become the first leisure centre in London to achieve the top ‘Excellent’ standard for Quest, the UK Quality Scheme for Sport and Leisure.
The Hackney-based centre is now ranked as one of the top 25 accredited leisure centres in the UK, following a rigorous three-day assessment, which took place on 15-17 June 2009.
The leisure centre was re-opened following a major refurbishment in December 2007. It currently has 4,500 prepaid members and over 6,300 ‘pay and play’ members. In addition to leisure facilities, it also runs a successful GP referral scheme in association with Hackney Council and during 2008 had more than 370,000 visits.
Greenwich Leisure is a mutual enterprise, owned and controlled by its members, which include its employees, customers and local residents. Its board is drawn from the membership and stipulates there must be representatives of a range of stakeholders - employees, customers, the local authority and the trade union.
The assessors commended Clissold on a number of areas including; staff commitment, good management, cleanliness, maintenance and facilities for the disabled.
QUEST is the leisure industry benchmark for good practice and high standards, recommended by the British Quality Foundation for Self Assessment and Sport in Leisure Operations.
Social Work Co-operative.
A unique scheme aimed at reducing the country’s current social worker crises is to be piloted in North East England.
Recent figures show that as many as one in seven social worker posts with local authorities may be vacant. But now an expert team, including a former social worker are planning to launch the Social Work Cooperative which will supply high quality, temporary staff to local authorities and also give social workers an opportunity to benefit from better terms and conditions and support.
Mutuality lies at the heart of the initiative, with social workers, local authorities, children and adult service users all set to benefit.
The Social Work Co-operative is a member of Co-operativesUK.
Source: (and full article) Co-operative News. www.thenews.coop
