Candidates in Daventry [Region: East Midlands]
Mr Paul Corazzo
1. How important is the charity and voluntary sector to your constituency?
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2. What efforts will you make - if elected - to work with local charities and voluntary sector organisations in your constituency?
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3. Will you champion the Compact in your constituency, to encourage better partnership working between the local public sector and the voluntary and community sector?
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4. Additional comments:
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Mr Christopher Heaton-Harris
1. How important is the charity and voluntary sector to your constituency?
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2. What efforts will you make - if elected - to work with local charities and voluntary sector organisations in your constituency?
-- No Answer Provided --
3. Will you champion the Compact in your constituency, to encourage better partnership working between the local public sector and the voluntary and community sector?
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4. Additional comments:
My Party (and I!) support the aims of the Compact Voice campaign. The Compact – the shared guidelines for effective partnership working between government and the third sector – has an important role to play in enabling Government to engage with and support the voluntary sector.
We agree that supporting the Compact, and the work of the voluntary sector more generally, is a good way for MPs to serve the interests of their constituents. However, while we support the Compact, we think it is not achieving all that it could, or should.
Under Labour, the Compact has sometimes risked becoming just another bureaucratic exercise, ignored by Government when it does not suit its interests. We Conservatives strongly criticised the Government for recently breaching the Compact by abruptly withdrawing funding from agreed projects. We see a robust and properly enforced Compact as an essential component of our vision for a strong and independent voluntary sector.
In our 2008 green paper, Voluntary Action in the 21st Century, we proposed editing the Compact to improve enforcement and put more pressure on Government departments to honour it. We would seek to amend the Compact so it includes more practical measures – such as model contracts and standardised multi-year funding agreements – aimed at designing Compact compliance into the everyday workings of the public sector. We would seek to strengthen the role of the Compact Commissioner to ensure they can remain a strong advocate for the third sector in Whitehall. We would also amend the Compact to make it clear that the norm should be that when public services are commissioned from the voluntary sector, they will be paid in line with commercial practice; letting charities earn a profit on public service delivery in the same way that private providers already do.
David Cameron recently confirmed that a Conservative Government would put the voluntary sector at the heart of our plans for building a Big Society – see http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2010/03/David_Cameron_Our_Big_Society_plan.aspx .
Further details of Conservative policies to support the voluntary sector are available at: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Big_Society.aspx.
We agree that supporting the Compact, and the work of the voluntary sector more generally, is a good way for MPs to serve the interests of their constituents. However, while we support the Compact, we think it is not achieving all that it could, or should.
Under Labour, the Compact has sometimes risked becoming just another bureaucratic exercise, ignored by Government when it does not suit its interests. We Conservatives strongly criticised the Government for recently breaching the Compact by abruptly withdrawing funding from agreed projects. We see a robust and properly enforced Compact as an essential component of our vision for a strong and independent voluntary sector.
In our 2008 green paper, Voluntary Action in the 21st Century, we proposed editing the Compact to improve enforcement and put more pressure on Government departments to honour it. We would seek to amend the Compact so it includes more practical measures – such as model contracts and standardised multi-year funding agreements – aimed at designing Compact compliance into the everyday workings of the public sector. We would seek to strengthen the role of the Compact Commissioner to ensure they can remain a strong advocate for the third sector in Whitehall. We would also amend the Compact to make it clear that the norm should be that when public services are commissioned from the voluntary sector, they will be paid in line with commercial practice; letting charities earn a profit on public service delivery in the same way that private providers already do.
David Cameron recently confirmed that a Conservative Government would put the voluntary sector at the heart of our plans for building a Big Society – see http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2010/03/David_Cameron_Our_Big_Society_plan.aspx .
Further details of Conservative policies to support the voluntary sector are available at: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Big_Society.aspx.
Mr John Lathan
1. How important is the charity and voluntary sector to your constituency?
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2. What efforts will you make - if elected - to work with local charities and voluntary sector organisations in your constituency?
-- No Answer Provided --
3. Will you champion the Compact in your constituency, to encourage better partnership working between the local public sector and the voluntary and community sector?
-- No Answer Provided --
4. Additional comments:
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