Public Sector and Government

The community and voluntary sector interacts with statutory agencies across the city and beyond, at all sorts of levels and in many different ways.  Some organisations receive grants from statutory bodies or provide services through a contractual arrangement.  Many community and voluntary organisations are well placed to advocate on behalf of their service users, providing guidance to statutory partners on what services should be provided where, how and so on.  Relationships are complex but important to ensure that the support provided by the sector and its experience in meeting the needs of hard to reach groups is embedded within citywide strategies and programmes.

The 2020 Community Partnership, Brighton and Hove's Local Strategic Partnership, brings together representatives from different sectors in the city and aims to develop a strategic vision for Brighton & Hove and to oversee that vision's implementation, monitoring and review.  Within this overarching framework sits a number of strategic partnerships, such as the Learning Partnership, Healthy City Partnership and Stronger Communities Programme Partnership.

Following the lead of central Government, the local Community and Voluntary Sector and all aspects of local and regional Government have come together to develop a Compact for Brighton & Hove.  Increasingly both sectors are required to work together to establish more co-ordinated planning and action to deliver solutions, innovation, continuous service improvement and renewed local democracy.  Our local compact provides the basis for developing and creating new approaches to partnership working and play a central role in supporting the development of constructive working relationships.

Key local / regional statutory bodies include:
Brighton and Hove City Council
Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust
Brighton and Hove Children and Young People Trust
Learning and Skills Council
Sussex Police
Government Office for the South East
South East Development Agency

Key central government departments include:
Office of the Third Sector
Communities and Local Government

A list of key European Contacts can be found on the Vol Resource website

Published by Community and Voluntary Sector Forum

Published by @ctive Student

Published by Project V

AVECO briefings on good practice in procurement and negotiation, to help ensure that the need for services to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector are aligned, and improve the relationships between third sector organisations and statutory commissioners:

• Tendering and Bidding Briefing: Give your tender a winning chance
• Impact Briefing: Putting impact at the heart of the tendering process
• Negotiation Briefing: Effective negotiating to secure better outcomes
• VAT Briefing: VAT made simple when working in partnership

http://www.acevo.org.uk/index.cfm/display_page/Sucessful_Procurement2

Published by Working Together Project

The Compact is an agreement between Government and the voluntary and community sector in England. It recognises shared values, principles and commitments and sets out guidelines for how both parties should work together.

On The Compact website, you can find out about the work of the key partners associated with the Compact, read about current policy and research work and the latest news, download useful documents and guidance, and share examples of good practice taking place in Local Compacts in England.

http://www.thecompact.org.uk/

Published by Working Together Project