Issue - meetings
Volunteering Policy
Meeting: 26/09/2013 - Finance, Policy and Resources Committee (Item 29)
29 Volunteering Policy (CG/13/015) 
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Additional documents:
- Volunteering Policy Appendix One, item 29
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- Volunteering Policy Appendix Two, item 29
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Decision:
(i) to endorse the Making the Difference: Volunteering in Aberdeen Volunteering Service Pack and the Making the Difference: Volunteering in Aberdeen Volunteering Policy Guidance;
(ii) to note that local arrangements would be developed for volunteers to be properly inducted to the organisation and ensure they operate within the principles and behaviours agreed by the Council; and
(iii) to agree the responsibility for coordinating and monitoring volunteering opportunities within the Council would be taken by Corporate Governance, Customer Service and Performance and linked into the Community Planning Aberdeen Volunteering Strategy
Minutes:
With reference to article 18 of the minute of the meeting of the former Corporate Policy and Performance Committee of 1 December 2011,the Committee had before it a report by the acting Director of Corporate Governance which sought approval of the Volunteering Policy Guidance and Service Pack.
The report recommended –
that the Committee
(a) to endorse the Making the Difference: Volunteering in Aberdeen Volunteering Service Pack and the Making the Difference: Volunteering in Aberdeen Volunteering Policy Guidance;
(b) to note that local arrangements would be developed for volunteers to be inducted properly to the organisation and ensure that they operated within the principles and behaviours agreed by the Council; and
(c) to agree that the responsibility for coordinating and monitoring volunteering opportunities within the Council would be taken by the Corporate Governance, Customer Service and Performance Service and linked into the Community Planning Aberdeen Volunteering Strategy.
The Committee resolved:-
to approve the recommendations.