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Voluntary and Community Sector Capacity and the Warwickshire Compact
The voluntary and community sector has a crucial role to play in delivering public services and in building strong and cohesive communities. Partners share a vision of a strong and vibrant voluntary and community sector which helps to connect people and enable them to shape their communities.
There is a clear expectation from all partners that the sector should be a genuine partner in the LAA and that the sector has a key role to play in planning and delivering activities across all blocks of the LAA.
It is however recognised that the capacity of the sector in underdeveloped at this stage. If it is to play a key role in planning and delivering services, a substantial long-term investment is needed in its infrastructure and capacity, together with a more coordinated approach to resourcing.
Every effort is being made to ensure that Block Leaders take full cognisance of the role that the Sector can play in delivery arrangements for the LAA.
The further development of the Warwickshire Compact is seen as being of crucial importance to this ambition.
The original Warwickshire Compact was signed in January 2002 by 18 organisations that represented both the public agencies and the voluntary and community sectors.
The purpose of the Compact is to improve working relations by setting out the principles and standards that public agencies and voluntary and community organisations can expect of each other when working in partnership for the benefit of local people and as such is of fundamental importance to the development and delivery of the Warwickshire LAA.
Download the Warwickshire Compact (PDF, 235K)
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