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The Big Society - the Sector's response

This paper from SCIPP points you to the responses from the major organisations in the VCS to the Coalition Government's Big Society agenda.

Register of Representatives for the Sector published

We have updated the register showing all the representatives from the Voluntary & Community Sector on Local Strategic Partnerships in Somerset.

Open Letter to the Voluntary & Community Sector from Francis Maude & Nick Hurd

Cabinet Ministers Francis Maude and Nick Hurd have written an open letter to the VCS in the light of the deficit reduction, asking for ideas and suggestions on where savings can be made.

Somerset Compact Summary available

A two page introduction to the Compact is now available - download below.

Refreshed Somerset Compact published - includes how to resolve differences

The Somerset Compact, the guiding principles of how the Voluntary and Community Sector and the Public Sector work together, has been refreshed.

Radical changes to NHS proposed in White Paper

The NHS in England is to undergo a major restructuring in one of the biggest shake-ups in its history, the government has announced.

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