CORNWALL COMPACT Voluntary

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CORNWALL COMPACT Voluntary Public Sector
Agreement
Cornwall Compact

• A new way of working together
• Including...
• Charities, councils, police, probation, courts,
  fire brigade, health trusts, hospitals,
  community groups networks, volunteer centres,
  clubs, schools colleges, advice centres,
  employment training agencies, pressure groups,
  equality disability organisations
• Are you signed up? www.cornwallcompact.org

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Cornwall Compact
Why do we need a Compact?

• The local voluntary and community sector...
• reflects the views and actions of local people
• makes a vital impact on their lives
• delivers a wide range of local services
• supports individuals communities where it
  matters
• The public sector....
• has a duty to improve social, economic
  environmental wellbeing
• and to meet the needs and aspirations of local
  people in the most effective way
• delivers a wide range of local services
  directly and in partnership with others
• And now more than ever the two sectors need to
  work together....
• Local Strategic Partnerships
• Local Area Agreement
• Restructuring of public sector
• Government emphasis on the Third Sector

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Cornwall Compact
So whats in the Compact?

• Shared principles undertakings
• Codes of Good Practice
• Policy Development (Participation
  Consultation)
• Funding Procurement
• Volunteering
• Diversity, including Black Ethnic Minority
  Groups
• Community Groups
• Learning Skills (National Award winner)
• Resolution of Disagreements Procedure

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Cornwall Compact
But its more than a document...
Its a guide we can follow and use to hold each
other to account...

• ...and a way of building relationships and
  exploring more effective ways of working together

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Cornwall Compact

• So what difference does it make?

• New ways - Old ways
• equality respect - control power
• acceptance understanding - defensiveness and
  blame
• open, flexible creative - entrenched roles
  behaviours
• listen share - tell ignore
• work together from the start - draft consult
• longer term funding full cost recovery - short
  term project funding
• clear robust governance - unaccountable
  inconsistent

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Cornwall Compact
...and what are the benefits?

• Greater understanding of each sector (make up,
  expertise, practices, issues etc)
• Greater understanding of the needs of people in
  Cornwall
• Better relations better decisions better
  services
• More supportive public bodies
• Voluntary and community organisations having a
  greater say
• More sustainable funding arrangements
• A framework for sorting out differences
• More examples of the sectors working
  innovatively together for Cornwall
• Increased prospect of attracting external
  funding to Cornwall

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Cornwall Compact
What can you do?

• Get to know whats in the Cornwall Compact
  Codes of Good Practice
• Make them part of your day to day work
• Develop a Compact way of working in how you
  relate to colleagues and other
  organisations...
• e.g. whether you are...developing policy,
  planning a piece of work or project, working in
  partnership, tackling new issues, assessing
  whats needed, commissioning services, putting
  forward a proposal, offering assistance
• Tell others about the Cornwall Compact

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Cornwall Compact
How has the Compact been developed?

• Balanced participation from the VCS and public
  sector
• Guided and overseen by Cornwall Compact Steering
  Group
• With a wider involvement via Cornwall Compact
  Partners and Code working groups
• Under the auspices of Cornwall Strategic
  Partnership
• Who needs to know about the Compact?
• councillors, local authority and other public
  sector officers, volunteers and staff of
  voluntary organisations, community workers...YOU!
• Get your copy from...
• www.cornwallstrategicpartnership.gov.uk

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