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The 2013 round of The People’s Millions is open.

The Peoples Millions is an annual TV competition run by Big Lottery Fund and ITV which awards Lottery funding to community projects that will improve the lives of local people. This year there are four awards of up to £50,000 on offer in each of the 19 ITV regional news areas across the UK.

The competition is open to voluntary and community sector organizations, schools, local authorities, health bodies and social enterprises.

Senior occupational physician Dr Paul Litchfield has been appointed to carry out the fourth independent review of the Work Capability Assessment, the Department for Work and Pensions announced 26/02/13.

The review aims to continue a process of ensuring the assessment is as fair and accurate as possible in helping people back to work if they are able, while giving financial support to those who need it.

Dr Paul Litchfield will continue as Chief Medical Officer and Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing for BT, a post he has held since 2001, while carrying out the review. His fields of expertise include mental illness and the impact it can have on work prospects. As a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council, he has also played a key role in raising the profile of the economic impact of chronic disease.

Does your work help to improve offenders' relationships?

Overview

NPC is developing a new toolkit with NOMS to measure the outcomes of work to improve offenders' relationships. The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes, and the deadline for responses is 13th March. Please click here to take part in the survey.

Who should take part in this survey?

NPC are surveying all organisations who work to improve the family and peer relationships of offenders, whether you work with offenders directly or with their families. They are interested in viewpoints from different staff members (from frontline staff to senior management) so do forward the survey to any relevant colleagues or organisations.

The Social Innovation Tournament established by the EIB Institute in 2012 is the flagship initiative of its Social Programme.

The Tournament seeks to promote the generation of innovative ideas and identify/reward opportunities promising substantial societal benefits or demonstrating best practices with tangible, scalable outcomes. It targets the creation of social value in relation to the fight against social exclusion.

It thus covers projects in a wide range of fields, from education and health care to natural or urban environment, through new technologies, new systems, and new processes. Improvements in these fields are critical to business success, and social innovation could have a substantial social impact.