Advice agencies in South London are working together to develop new ways of organising advice services. MBARC are providing ongoing support and evaluation to this project and will provide and interim report later this year. ... more information
This is the Accreditation Service for all Information and Advice Services in Scotland and to read more, please visit our dedicated page on this website. ... more information
MBARC have launched a programme of research to assess LGBT FE students’ needs. We are using a team of LGBT students as researchers The research will lead to both a detailed report and practical guidance for FE Colleges so that they can meet these students' needs. We are making extensive use of www.weknowbest.co.uk as a research and consultation tool. This research is well underway and will report this summer. ... more information
The London Sexual Health Programme has developed an ambitious plan to secure a positive legacy for sexual health from the 2012 Olympics. MBARC are working for the LSHP as their delivery agents for this work. This legacy is presented under three key themes: Resilience - Safeguarding sexual health services during the games, ensuring lower cost interventions and minimizing the call upon NHS resources; Transformation – Using the development of resilience to transform services and relationships between partners and stake holders for lasting benefit in line with QIPP principles; Engagement - Maximizing public participation, particularly from young people and raising awareness of personal responsibility ... more information
The FESH Community of Practice will go live later this this month and will run through until 2013. The CoP will provide colleges with best practice examples and peer to peer support to develop sexual health services for their students. It will also provide a gateway to the resources of partner agencies (including Brook, Living Well, THT and the SRE Forum). If you would like to register your interest in becoming part of the CoP, please contact Bisi Alimi whose details you can get from our contacts page. ... more information
FESHyouthNET was set up in November 2010 to provide a voice for London's 450,000 FE college students. As well as overseeing the weknowbest website, FESHyouthNET took a leading role in organising London's first sexual health Showcase for Young People and will be working closely on the development of our Olympics Legacy project. For more details on the work of FESHyouthNET and how to get involved, please contact Bisi Alimi whoe details are on our contacts page. As well as drawing young people from colleges FESHyouthNet works closely with the Mayor of London's Young People's Team and other young people's groups including ... more information
In 2010 we developed the Going All The Way Service Specification for Sexual Health Services in FE Colleges. For the past year, three colleges have been running multi-sector partnership pilots to test the specification. This Summer the Pilots will complete their work and MBARC will publish the evaluation of what they achieved. ... more information