The LINKs Annual Report has to be with the Secretary of State by the end of June and the newsletter offers guidance on how to do this and a template to follow.

Other news gives a link to all the LINk websites that the National Centre for Involvement (NCI) has tracked down so if you want to go comparison shopping and tell us how you think the Wandsworth site compares, look here and let us know.

There are a couple of interesting blogs and forum discussions. Tim Gilling from the Centre for Policy Studies says goodbye and gives his views after 14 months working with the NCI delivering advice and help to nearly 100 LINks. His advice to LINks is to get facing outwards as fast as possible and do not let organisational matters get in the way of getting involved with the community as early as possible. He draws attention to some uncertainty on the future of NCI involvement in the LINks work.

There is a discussion with 37 posts on the need for CRB checks for LINks Steering Group or in the Wandsworth context the Executive Committee – the majority view is that only those doing Entry and View visits need this clearance. To see what Wandsworth LINk has been doing in this area of future work, check out the paper C3 on the agenda for the last Executive meeting on 20th April.