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What is the
Compact
Latest Compact news
Draft
Compact document for consultation (01/04/03)
What
is the Compact
Since 1998 all local
authorities have been encouraged to get together with the voluntary &
community sector to put together an agreement about better ways of working
together in the future, in the form of a COMPACT.
Compacts already exist
at a national level with government departments, and over half the local
authority areas in England now have them, including Tameside, Stockport
& Bolton.
Manchester has been
slower getting off the mark, despite a series of consultation events two
years ago, culminating in a first draft and the election of a working
group in November 2001. That group has recently been reconvened, strengthened
by some additional nominations from the Community Network Strategy Group,
and has come up with a revised statement which was launched for consultation
at the Community Network Annual Forum on 17 March.
Comments and amendments
are now invited, and will be discussed at a special open meeting at Cross
Street Chapel on 15 May, at which the statement will being finalised and
the sector's reps for the Compact Group in the coming year will be elected.
The statement will then go to a meeting of the Executive for formal adoption
by Manchester City Council in June, and be publicly launched in early
autumn.
Progress on the Compact
will then be reviewed annually, with input from both the Community Network
Annual Forum and the Council's Community Regeneration scrutiny committee.
There will also be
working groups drawing up guidelines on important aspects of this relationship
between the Council and the sector, such as the five national priorities
of
- Funding
- BME communities
- Volunteering
- Consultation &
policy appraisal
- Community groups
What we need from
voluntary & community groups in the city:
- Endorsement of
the broad approach being taken
- Comments on the
text of the draft Compact
- Views on how the
Compact can be made most effective
- Priorities for
which guidelines should be worked on first (perhaps three in the first
year)
- Volunteers to serve
on the Compact Group
- Volunteers to serve
on the working groups to produce guidelines
Click
here to see the Draft Compact document for consultation (01/04/03)
Information provided
by Ian McHugh (VAM) - on behalf of the Compact Group (voluntary sector
reps currently Sylvia Sham, Ruth Osborn, Caryl Agard, Lianne Picot, Anita
Baishnab, Mrs Shahzada, Irene Pike, Thelma Tomlinson, Rob Barlow)
For more information about the Voluntary
Sector Compact, contact:
Rob Arnold on 0161 234 2929 or at rob@vamanchester.org.uk
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Latest
Compact news
Manchester Compact
Consultation Event
Improving relationships with the public sector: A consultation event about
the proposed
Manchester Compact. If
you'd like to find out more about the Compact, come to a consultation
event at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester on Thursday 15 May 2003 from
9.30am till 1.30pm.
Click here to see the Draft Compact document
for consultation (01/04/03)
(To download this
information, you need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which
you can download for free from the Adobe
website).
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