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Towards Another Policy Culture in FlandersAn English Perspective on Participation24th September 2010
Oli Henman
UK & International Campaigns Manager
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A ‘Map’ of Civil Society
Within Civil Society we can track the ‘core’: general charities
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Economic value of Civil Society • Over 164,000 general charities• £31 billion income for charities• 611,000 paid employees
• 865,000 civil society organisations• £109 billion income for all civil society groups• Estimated 0.5 - 1million voluntary and community groups
• 29% of people volunteer at least once a month • Contribute 2% of UK GDP
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Participation & Government relations
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Sector and Government: Key InfrastructureFollowing recommendations of Nicholas Deakin
Report of 1996, significant changes to architecture of voluntary sector:
• Compact Codes of Conduct (1998)• Updated Charities Act (06) & Charity
Commission• Improved tax regime, Gift Aid (updated 2000)• Office of the Third Sector (06)
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Participatory democracy- National
• Common law allows for flexible development of ways of working with government
• Increased practice of consultation at national level
• Consultation: No 10 Petition, Citizens Summits• Expert engagement: DWP stakeholder group on
ESF, OCS roundtables on Big Society
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Participatory democracy- Local
• Local engagement & joint decision-making- eg. participatory budgeting
• Regular basis of partnership on services at local level- eg. health Primary Care Trusts, youth centres
• Shared decisions are REAL at local level, eg. Your decision on the street cleaning!
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Key Parliamentary targets
• Cross-party to reach all parts of debate
• Select Committees as the point of in-depth analysis in Parliament
• Office for Civil Society & ‘Big Society’ champions
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The Compact: a brief history
• Compact agreed in 1998, sets out relationship between government and the voluntary sector in England- roles and responsibilities of each
• broad consultation across the sector• cross-party support, includes opposition parties so policy
is embedded • mechanism for measuring effectiveness• established right for organisations to campaign even if in
receipt of government funding• All local areas covered by Compact across England
(around 300)
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Compact “wins”
In its first decade the Compact has given the voluntary sector:
• improved funding processes (3 year funding standard, payment in advance, full cost recovery),
• clear consultation standards (12 week standard),
• enforceable rights (Compact advocacy, legal action)
• better relations with government at local and national level, leading to mutual gain (efficiency, cost savings)
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Case study – Local Compact Suffolk County Council • The Problem: A local housing charity had its funding cut by the local council
but was very poorly informed of this information.
• The Breach: Local Compact - 9.2 Funders should be consistent and transparent and Principle of discussion and dialogue
• The Action: CAP wrote to Suffolk Council, raised the concerns, outlined the change the group and local infrastructure body wanted to see.
• The Outcome: – Council apologised for the breach, accepted poor handling of the process.– Committed to being Compact compliant in future. – Agreed to pay £5,000 compensation for mismanagement of the process.– CAP and the group attended a meeting with the council to embed the
learning and explore other possible funding for this project.
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Refreshing the Compact in 2009
• Updating after 10 years to ensure continuing relevance
• Wide consultation in government and voluntary sector
• Compact Voice leads on voluntary sector feedback
• Slimmer document principles + implementation guidelines
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Changing political climate for NCVO and sector• New government proposals for voluntary sector
– Voluntary Action Green Paper before election• Big Society policy engagement• Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd & Cabinet
Office policy lead Oliver Letwin, regular speakers at NCVO events
• Dialogue with all major parties on their priorities in preparation for General Election
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Big Society
• Local Empowerment including democratic engagement
• Building skills of the sector
• Long-term innovative funding, by social enterprise and co-production
• Enabling voluntary action & reducing bureaucracy
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NCVO Campaigns & Communications
Oli Henman
UK & International Campaigns Manager