Regional Information and Communications Audit

Another requirement of G:XL, this audit of info and comms issues, barriers and solutions in the West Midlands children and young people's voluntary and community sector (CYP VCS) comprised a series of in-depth interviews with VCS Infrastructure Support Organisations (ISOs) across the region.

This methodology was chosen in order to dissect the subtleties of these complex areas and enable minute examinations of the different experiences of organisations throughout our diverse sector and diverse region. 

Participants were also carefully selected in order to represent this diversity so for example larger and smaller ISOs were selected, ISOs dealing with rural and urban areas, and regional and play ISOs.

As with the G:up marketing and comms strategy, the audit report makes various recommendations for future work and will hopefully prove a very useful document for the wider West Midlands children and young people’s VCS.  It reveals and publicises good practice and solutions across the sector as well as exposing needs, which G:up can address through its work or others in the sector might have already encountered and we can work together to meet through collaboration and information sharing or through discussion stimulated by this work.