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The Journey So Far…. Jane Hibberd Assistant Head of Community Services (Community Development) Sunderland City Council E-mail: jane.hibberd@sunderland.gov.uk Telephone: 0191 561 4621. Background. 2 existing Sunderland Compacts: Sunderland Partnership (c. 2000)
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The Journey So Far… Jane Hibberd Assistant Head of Community Services (Community Development) Sunderland City Council E-mail: jane.hibberd@sunderland.gov.uk Telephone: 0191 561 4621
Background • 2 existing Sunderland Compacts: • Sunderland Partnership (c. 2000) • Health & Social Care (c.2002) • Sunderland Partnership Community Development Plan consultation events • Issue of trust • Compact out of date • Not well known about or understood • Refreshing the Sunderland Compact launch event (November 07)
What’s been happening? • 5 Codes of Practice Working Groups with co-chairs: • Funding and Procurement: Alan Patchett (Age Concern Sunderland) & Janice Gregory (PCT) • Volunteering: David Curtis (Volunteer Centre) & Jane Hibberd / June Forster ( Sunderland City Council) • Voluntary and Community Groups: Steve Barna (SVSYF) & Vivienne Metcalfe (Sunderland City Council) • Consultation and Policy Appraisal: Ailsa Martin (Sunderland Carers Centre) & Lee Cranston (Sunderland City Council) • Equalities Codes of Practice: Dean Huggins (Sunderland BME Network) & Sal Buckler / Dawn Osborne (Sunderland City Council).
What’s been happening? (2) • Compact Officer Group & Forum established • Draft Compact text • Draft Codes of Practice commitments and action plans
Challenges • Engagement of organisations • ‘Been here before’ v ‘Buy in’ • Equalities Codes of Practice – deviation from the current national format • Time commitment • Maintaining the momentum
April 2008 onwards • Main Compact: • Finalise the draft text (Monitoring and Review / Compact Compliance) • Sunderland Partnership Board • Draft for consultation (April 2008) • Sign Off (September 2008) • Individual organisations consulted (May – July 2008) • Individual organisations sign up (September onwards) • Codes of Practice: • Development work to continue on Equalities Codes of Practice, Policy Appraisal and Consultation Code of Practice, and Funding & Procurement Code of Practice • Finalisation of action plans for Volunteering and Voluntary & Community Groups • Embedding a Compact way of working in organisations