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Thank you to everyone who took part in the consultation on Hackney’s Compact. Over 30 people from voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations joined us at our three consultation events organised by HCVS on behalf of the Community Empowerment Network.
All three events were very lively, productive and engaging sessions. We had interesting discussions around more equal and fair statutory contracts with the VCS, premises for community groups and for statutory funders to be more flexible on the monitoring data required on service users - particularly people from hard to reach communities such as young people and asylum seekers.
 The summary of feedback gleaned is available here (1 MB)
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Niall Sweby, Director of Programmes at HCVS, left, who sits on the Compact Working Group said: ‘The results from the consultation show that there is considerable interest amongst Hackney's VCS in the Compact and a strong desire to 'get it right', particularly the implementation and awareness raising.
While many of the comments on the draft were very positive, others highlighted big questions over the implementation of some areas such as full cost recovery and the importance of drawing in the hundreds of organisations in the borough so they not only know of the Compact but understand how it can help them. These will be the issues considered by the Compact Working Group when it next meets in October.’ |
What happens next?
On top of the feedback from our consultations, 13 written responses were received by the Compact Working Group: from three statutory organisations, nine third sector organisations and one staff group (trade union representatives) from a statutory organisation.
The Group have revised the text of the Compact resulting from this and they are meeting in October to agree the new draft. Once it’s been agreed, it will be available on our website.
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