Compact Guides – todays Need to Know resource
Concise Compact Guide
Why is this a resource? Because the principles laid down in the various guides are something to lead both our behaviour and that of our partners and those who contract with or work with us. By understanding the Compact codes and by helping others to understand them we improve the quality of the work we all do together.
If we want others – in the public sector and elsewhere – to abide by the Compact, then we too as Third Sector Organisations should adhere to its principles.
Some of these guides are newly rewritten. The “Funding and Procurement Code of Practice” is now a joint code between North and North East Lincolnshire. And to make it simple, a new “Concise guide” has been recently written.
The Third Sector Hub has developed a website dedicated to our local Compact here – www.vanel.org.uk/compact.
All of the guides can be downloaded from the site in .pdf form, or printed copies of most of the guides are available from VANEL offices in Grimsby.
Nick Triplow is the local Compact Consultant – contact him on compact@vanel.org.uk.
Are you signed up to the Compact? (list here)
Do you understand and follow the codes?
Do you promote the Compact to others?
Don’t forget that decisions public bodies make are governed by public law. The Compact forms guidance for public bodies and thus an understanding of the Compact helps strengthen decision making across the board.
Related resources:
Information about the Compact nationally.
Compact Voice website.
A “Compact Bulletin” is posted regularly to the Compact website.
The Third Sector Hub helps encourage understanding of public law – see our articles here.
We occasionally run training courses or briefings on public law and Nick Triplow speaks regularly at events around the region about the Compact.
If you have something to ask or say about the Compact, you can discuss it in the legal forums on the Hub discussion boards here.
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