Membership Benefits
Informing, Influencing and Networking
Members receive outstanding information through:
- Regular news, policy e-briefings and updates, these offer short summaries, with useful further links, of topical issues targeted at members’ interests.
- An inside track and advance notice of forthcoming change.
- Detailed information on key topics.
- Expert advice.
- Opportunity to meet with key sector leaders.
Members influence the sector through:
- A combined and expert voice that is authoritative and based on applied experience- reinforced by research.
- Effective partnerships with central government, key social care agencies, local government and the NHS.
- Representation, via collective consultation responses.
- Access to sector leaders through seminars, conferences etc.
- Provision of a unique voice: pan disability, not-for-profit, national and collective.
- Having unique access to information on people who use services, their families and carers, and the social care workforce.
Membership offers exceptional networking opportunities and peer group support through:
- Facilitation of topical discussions suitable for general attendance or specific to Chief Executives, or other Directors (Finance, Operations, HR, etc).
- Informal networking at meetings and sharing learning and intelligence.
- An annual dinner and away-day, which provide unparalleled opportunities for Chief Executives to meet sector leaders and consider strategic and policy issues in a conducive and facilitated way
- Participation in any of the VODG’s thriving networks (for Finance Directors; Operations Directors; Marketing Directors; HR Directors; and Quality Managers)
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